Terence Crawford is named as number one in the super welterweight / junior middleweight division right now.
The legendary boxer has long been thought of as one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world and his undefeated streak certainly emphasises that.
As current WBF junior middleweight champion, there’s another bow to the Terence Crawford string.
However, age is not necessarily on Crawford’s side.
As a 37-year-old, he’s closer to the end of his career than the beginning.
Any boxer that is able to defeat him will be a made man afterwards.
And there are plenty of youngsters looking to make their name off the back of defeating Terence Crawford.
One of those is Vergil Ortiz Jr.
26-year-old Ortiz is the current World Boxing Council (WBC) interim super welterweight and is another fighter who is undefeated.
His last fight saw him defeat Serhii Bohachuk by majority decision in August to win the belt.
But it seems that any fight between Terence Crawford and Vergil Ortiz is unlikely to happen and now we know why.
Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez was speaking on the ‘3 Knockdown Rule’ podcast and has explained why they won’t meet.
Gomez confirmed that the fight had been broached by Turki Alalshikh, who reached out to both fights.
However, it didn’t happen and he shed some more light as to why.
“You know we just want the biggest fight,” Gomez told the podcast about the plans for Ortiz.
“We were approached about doing the Crawford fight and we accepted.
“Crawford hasn’t decided what he wants to do.
“But he (Ortiz) wants to fight Crawford.
“We are willing to do that fight.”
So it seems that the hold up is on the side of Terence Crawford.
The current WBF junior middleweight champion hasn’t made up his mind and is deciding what to do next.
However, from the side of Golden Boy Promotions and Vergil Ortiz Jr., they are happy and willing to take on the fight.
Fight fans will be hoping that Turki Alalshikh can convince Crawford to take on the fight as it will be sure to be a blockbuster.
The super welterweight division is one of the most competitive in boxing right now and there are a load of great fights that can happen.
And if we see Crawford and Ortiz in the future, it can’t come soon enough.
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