Terence Crawford is known as as primary within the tremendous welterweight / junior middleweight division proper now.
The legendary boxer has lengthy been regarded as probably the greatest pound-for-pound boxers on the earth and his undefeated streak actually emphasises that.
As present WBF junior middleweight champion, there’s one other bow to the Terence Crawford string.
Nevertheless, age shouldn’t be essentially on Crawford’s aspect.
As a 37-year-old, he’s nearer to the top of his profession than the start.
Any boxer that is ready to defeat him will probably be a made man afterwards.
And there are many children trying to make their identify off the again of defeating Terence Crawford.
A type of is Vergil Ortiz Jr.
26-year-old Ortiz is the present World Boxing Council (WBC) interim tremendous welterweight and is one other fighter who’s undefeated.
His final struggle noticed him defeat Serhii Bohachuk by majority choice in August to win the belt.
However plainly any struggle between Terence Crawford and Vergil Ortiz is unlikely to occur and now we all know why.
Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez was talking on the ‘3 Knockdown Rule’ podcast and has defined why they received’t meet.
Gomez confirmed that the struggle had been broached by Turki Alalshikh, who reached out to each fights.
Nevertheless, it didn’t occur and he shed some extra mild as to why.
“You realize we simply need the most important struggle,” Gomez advised the podcast concerning the plans for Ortiz.
“We had been approached about doing the Crawford struggle and we accepted.
“Crawford hasn’t determined what he desires to do.
“However he (Ortiz) desires to struggle Crawford.
“We’re keen to try this struggle.”
So plainly the maintain up is on the aspect of Terence Crawford.
The present WBF junior middleweight champion hasn’t made up his thoughts and is deciding what to do subsequent.
Nevertheless, from the aspect of Golden Boy Promotions and Vergil Ortiz Jr., they’re joyful and keen to tackle the struggle.
Battle followers will probably be hoping that Turki Alalshikh can persuade Crawford to tackle the struggle as it should remember to be a blockbuster.
The tremendous welterweight division is among the best in boxing proper now and there are a load of nice fights that may occur.
And if we see Crawford and Ortiz sooner or later, it could possibly’t come quickly sufficient.
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