Breaking: WBO orders Terence Crawford vs. Shawn Porter match
The World Boxing Organization has ordered WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford and #2 contender Shawn Porter to begin negotiations for a fight.
The World Boxing Organization has ordered WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford and #2 contender Shawn Porter to begin negotiations for a fight.
The long-awaited rematch between Keith ‘One Time’ Thurman (29-0, 22 KOs) and Shawn Porter (31-3-1, 17 KOs) is in the works for the fall.
Terence Crawford’s promoter Bob Arum says he’d like to put a big fight together between him and his #1 contender Shawn Porter with the WBO, but he questions who would pay for the fight.
Terence Crawford’s hoped-for June 5th fight against superstar boxer Manny Pacquiao is now off the table after the investors from UAE reportedly failed to up with the $50 million to make it happen.
According to his promoter Bob Arum, Terence Crawford’s next fight will be announced this week, and he’s saying it’s a “BIG deal,” this fight or the WBO welterweight champion.
WBO welterweight champion Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford told Shawn Porter on Thursday that he’s on “standby” right now after he let him know that he’ll be ready to face him this May.
Terence Crawford said last Saturday night that he no longer cares about the Errol Spence Jr fight and doesn’t need it.
Shawn Porter believes he should get a big fight with Terence Crawford, and the former IBF and WBC welterweight champ feels he would give Crawford as hard a time as he gave Errol Spence when he fought him.
Shawn Porter says Caleb Plant won’t scare Canelo Alvarez or David Benavidez away with the performance he put in last Saturday night in defeating an inactive Caleb Truax by a less than thrilling 12 round decision at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angles, California
Considering that former IBF super middleweight champion Truax (31-5-2, 19 KOs) was coming off a two-year layoff, an Achilles injury, and was up there in age at 37, Plant (21-0, 12 KOs) should have gotten him out of there.
Who will Terence Crawford, 37-0(28) and coming off a straightforward win over a faded Kell Brook, fight next? Assuming the big fight we all want to see, between Crawford and rival welterweight champion Errol Spence doesn’t happen (and nobody is holding their breath), the list is pretty thin.