Terence Crawford, ESPN's No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer, will move up to 154 pounds to challenge Israil Madrimov for his WBA junior middleweight title Aug. 2 in Los Angeles
Terence Crawford, ESPN's No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer, will move up to 154 pounds to challenge Israil Madrimov for his WBA junior middleweight title Aug. 2 in Los Angeles, sources told ESPN.
Saudi Arabia went on to stage a December card featuring former heavyweight champions Joshua and Deontay Wilder along with a March fight between Joshua and Ngannou. The Kingdom will present their two biggest fights yet over the next two months: the Fury-Oleksandr Usyk undisputed heavyweight championship bout on May 18 and the Artur Beterbiev-Dmitry Bivol undisputed light heavyweight championship bout on June 1.
Madrimov won the WBA title when he scored a fifth-round TKO victory over Magomed Kurbanov last month in Riyadh on the undercard of Joshua-Ngannou. " hereby requests to be reinstated as the WBA super champion at 154 pounds. We also want you to know that Jermell has no problem with Israil Madrimov defending his regular title against Terence Crawford this summer."
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