Terence Crawford: record, next fight and profile →
Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach, who handles WBo welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, does not view Terence Crawford as a big enough name to do a major pay-per-view event. Pacquiao and Crawford, who are both promoted by Top Rank, appears to be a very viable fight. But for whatever reason the boxers appear to be heading in different directions for the moment.
Junior welterweight contender Sergey Lipinets will not get a mandatory crack at champion Julius Indongo, according to the Russian boxer's manager Alex Vaysfeld. Lipinets is the mandatory challenger under the International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the sanctioning body has ordered Indongo to meet his mandatory obligation.
It seems the possibility of a Terence Crawford vs Julius Indongo junior-welterweight super fight has got a second wind. The idea of such a match-up was born in the minds of boxing fans when IBF/IBO 140-pound champ Indongo (21-0, 8 KO’s) travelled to Glasgow, Scotland to unifiy with WBA titlist Ricky Burns (41-6-1, 14 KO’s) this last April.
New York - WBC/WBO world champion Terence Crawford (31-2, 22 KO’s) did what he normally does on Saturday night; take a formidable opponent and make him look like he doesn’t belong in the same ring. Felix Diaz (19-2, 9 KO’s) is an Olympic gold medalist and a very credible junior welterweight who many felt had defeated Lamont Peterson in a controversial decision loss
Terence Crawford delivered in and out of the ring Saturday night. The unbeaten WBC/WBO super lightweight champion’s superb performance against Felix Diaz drew the largest audience for a bout broadcast on cable television this year. According to ratings released by Nielsen Media Research on Tuesday morning, Crawford-Diaz attracted a peak audience of 1,036,000 on HBO and averaged 961,000 viewers.
NEW YORK – As fans and media continue blaming Bob Arum for not making Manny Pacquiao versus Terence Crawford, Arum is confident he can finally make that fight for later this year. Arum told BoxingScene.com that the fight will be worth more money for Pacquiao now that Crawford’s brand has been built through a series of dominant victories. According to the 85-year-old promoter, Pacquiao’s potential purse for fighting Crawford is what prevented the pay-per-view fight from happening over the past year-and-a-half.
Terence Crawford kept his World Boxing Council and World Boxing Organization junior welterweight titles Saturday by stopping Dominican southpaw Felix Diaz after 10 rounds. Crawford improved to 31-0 with his 22nd victory inside the distance while Diaz, a 2008 Olympic gold medal winner, fell to 19-2 in the feature at Madison Square Garden.
Arum, Crawford Video Interview - Terence Crawford patted Felix Diaz on the head and pounded uppercuts into his eye in his latest dominant victory. His next fight could bring him all four 140-pound belts. Or it could bring him Manny Pacquiao.
Terence Crawford landed 59% of his power shots. Felix Diaz landed 20% of his total punches as did Crawford's previous 8 opponents. Crawford landed 63 of 98 power punches (64%) over the last three rounds. Diaz landed just 18 punches over the last 3 rounds after landing 16 in round 7.
NEW YORK – Even Bob Arum pumped the brakes on a potential welterweight showdown between Terence Crawford and Keith Thurman. Crawford mentioned moving up from 140 pounds to 147 to challenge Thurman immediately after dominating Felix Diaz for 10 rounds Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. After discussing preferable fights against Manny Pacquiao and fellow super lightweight champion Julius Indongo, Crawford told HBO’s Max Kellerman, “Keith Thurman or whoever, let’s go. I’ll move up and fight anybody.”