Terence Crawford: record, next fight and profile →
When Vergil Ortiz Jr. topped Serhii Bohachuk on Saturday, the right fighter got the decision that he deserved at the end of a hotly contested fight. What is Ortiz's best next move?
Teofimo Lopez Jr. is calling his shots and taking some too. The WBO junior welterweight champion Lopez (21-1, 13 KOs) recently rejected a Sept. 27 fight date at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York on ESPN. A matchup against recently elevated WBO welterweight titleholder Brian Norman Jr. was on the table.
Steven Nelson’s boxing journey traces back to an encounter with an 11-year-old Terence "Bud" Crawford at a park in Omaha, Nebraska. It was an experience and meeting that might just have forged Nelson’s path.
Vergil Ortiz Jr. is just coming off a hard fight — easily the hardest fight of his career, given that Ortiz’s close win over Serhii Bohachuk was the first time that the junior middleweight contender had gone the distance.
So much of what we’ve heard about Vergil Ortiz Jr. from Golden Boy Promotions’ executives in recent weeks is about some of the other junior middleweights Ortiz could face, whether it’s Terence Crawford or Tim Tszyu
Thrust into the foreign land of rounds 10, 11 and 12 on Saturday in Las Vegas, Vergil Ortiz Jr. swept the championship rounds to pull out his majority decision triumph over Serhii Bohachuk.
Turki Alalshikh arrived to watch Saturday’s Vergil Ortiz Jr.-Serhii Bohachuk junior middleweight bout and said he would like to see Ortiz take a victory and fight Terence Crawford next.
Whether he is making, suggesting or rejecting fights, Saudi Arabia’s Turki Alalshikh is currently the straw that is stirring boxing’s drink.
Oscar De La Hoya holds Terence Crawford in high regard, an opinion that didn’t change following Crawford’s close decision victory over Israil Madrimov.
Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez have been the talk of the boxing world over the last week. First, Crawford beat Israil Madrimov in a narrow unanimous decision to claim the WBA junior middleweight title on Saturday and become a four-division champion.