Terence Crawford: record, next fight and profile →
BWAA fighter of the Year, Terence Crawford, and Thomas Dulorme arrive in Arlington Texas for the official Press Conference, held on March 5, 2015 at the University of Texas Arlington to announce their April 18th bout for the vacant WBO 140lb title. Photo by Mikey Williams / Toprank Boxing
Lightweight contender Diego Magdaleno (27-1) will return to the ring on April 18th on the undercard of the Terence Crawford-Thomas Dulorme fight that will be televised by HBO. The venue for the card will be the University of Texas at Arlington's basketball arena. According to a recent article by BoxingScene's Steve Kim, the arena will be set up for 5,000-6,000 fans. Magdaleno, who has won four in row since losing a split decision to Rocky Martinez, said that his opponent will be finalized in the near future.
The April 18th bout between Terrence Crawford and Thomas Dulorme has finally found a home. This bout will take place in Arlington, Texas in what will be a college setting. It's part of an HBO split-site doubleheader that also features the expected slugfest between Ruslan Provodnikov and Lucas Matthysse from Verona, New York.
The April 18 bout between lightweight champion Terence Crawford and junior-welterweight contender Thomas Dulorme will be for the vacant World Boxing Organization title at 140 pounds, according to a tweet from Jose R. Izquierdo II, the WBO’s general secretary. The winner must face Chris Algieri next. Algieri previouslt held the WBO belt after his June 2014 split decision win over Ruslan Provodnikov. He was forced to give it up when he moved to welterweight and challenged Manny Pacquiao for Pacquiao’s WBO title at 147 later in the year.
Barring injuries, illness or contract disputes, John Molina Jr. and Lucas Matthysse will have both had their first fight of 2015 by the time the annual Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Awards dinner rolls around. Whatever happens in their respective upcoming fights, they will have April 24th to look forward to. It's fitting their their unforgettable war from last April will take place nearly one year to the date of this year's awards dinner, as their instant classic was announced by the BWAA as the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier winner for 2014 Fight of the Year.
It was officially announced on Tuesday that the highly anticipated match-up between junior welterweights Ruslan Provodnikov and Lucas Matthysse will be held at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in upstate New York. This will be one-half of a split-site doubleheader on April 18th on HBO. The other fight on that broadcast will feature former WBO lightweight beltholder Terrence Crawford, who was just recently named by the BWAA as it's 2014 Fighter of the Year. He is slated to face Thomas Dulorme in his 140-pound debut.
With three impressive victories against highly credible opponents in 2014, Omaha, Neb., native Terence “Bud” Crawford served notice that he has arrived as one of boxing’s newest and most exciting stars. {erhaps his most significant victory for the year just past comes nearly two months into 2015, with the announcement that the WBO lightweight champion has been named the winner of the Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year Award from the Boxing Writers Association of America. Crawford (25-0, 17 KOs) will receive his Fighter of the Year Award at the BWAA’s 90th annual Awards Dinner in New York City, an event which many have described as the “Academy Awards of Boxing.”
Sources with knowledge of the details have advised BoxingScene.com that a split-site HBO televised doubleheader is being planned for April 18th. The location and venue has not being finalized for either location. In one location, former WBO lightweight champion Terence Crawford (25-0, 17KOs) will move up in weight and makes his junior welterweight debut, against Thomas Dulorme (22-1, 14KOs). Dulorme was last seen in action back in December, winning a split decision over Hank Lundy. Crawford dominated Raymundo Beltran over twelve rounds in November.
Antonio Lozada, manager former champion Humberto Soto (65-8-2, 35KOS), says his boxer was approached about the possibility of facing Terence Crawford on a date in April (25-0, 17KOs). They were asked by their promoter, Golden Boy Promotions, if there was interest in the fight. Lozada is waiting to receive more information from Golden Boy. Soto has won eight fights in a row since losing to Lucas Matthysse in June 2012. The last win came in September, when Soto outboxed John Molina over ten rounds for a unanimous decision. Molina returns next month against Adrien Broner in Las Vegas.
Various sources have told BoxingScene.com that the HBO doubleheader scheduled for March 21st for the Theater at Madison Square Garden, featuring Terrence Crawford and Nicholas Walters, has been scrapped. Things started to unravel earlier this week as Walters - the defending WBA featherweight titlist - was pulled from this card with a case of the flu. Then Crawford, who is moving up to junior welterweight, was still without a dance partner and talks with Chris Algieri were moving at a glacial pace.