Terence Crawford: record, next fight and profile →
Terence Crawford vs. Viktor Postol takes place Saturday, July 23 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT. The HBO Sports Special, Terence Crawford: My Fight, debuts Saturday, July 9 at 11:15 p.m. on HBO.
WBO junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) is not impressed with Viktor Postol's biggest career win, a tenth round knockout of heavy-hitter Lucas Matthysse.
Pound for pound superstar Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) has admitted that his future lies up at welterweight - although he’s more than happy to continue plying his trade at 140-pounds for now.
If they both keep winning, Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum could see two of his rising stars, Terence Crawford and Vasyl Lomachenko, collide in the ring. Arum considers them to be the two biggest forces coming up in the ranks, now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao have announced their retirements in the last twelve months.
Next month, WBO junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) will make his pay-per-view debut, when he faces WBC world champion Viktor Postol (28-0, 12KOs) in a unification.
Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs), who holds the WBO super lightweight championship, will soon be up against his biggest test: undefeated Viktor Postol of Ukraine, which is regularly churning out title contenders. Postol also is 28-0, with 12 knockouts, and owns the WBC title.
Based on their promotional and network affiliations, the Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol fight ideally would be televised live on HBO. But based on what Crawford and Postol expected to be paid to fight each other July 23 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, pay-per-view was the route promoter Bob Arum decided to take to ensure that their 140-pound championship unification fight was scheduled for this summer. Official pricing hasn’t been announced, but the HBO Pay-Per-View card featuring the Crawford-Postol fight is expected to cost $50 in SD and $60 in HD if purchased through most cable and satellite companies.
WBA world super lightweight champion Ricky Burns is eager to get some payback against Terence Crawford and Dejan Zlaticanin. Two years ago when he was still competing at 135-pounds, Burns lost back to back fights to Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) and to Zlaticanin (22-0, 15KOs) - both by twelve round decision.
WBO junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) admits it's tough to secure the top names because a lot of them are paranoid to take risks when Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are potentially making comebacks in the next twelve months.
NEW YORK – Terence Crawford understands Viktor Postol’s reluctance to fight Crawford in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. Crawford never actually asked to have their junior welterweight showdown in Omaha, but Postol’s handlers made it clear that they wanted to face Crawford in neutral territory. They’ll fight July 23 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas (HBO Pay-Per-View).