With the win, Crawford unified the WBA, WBC and IBF titles with his WBO title and more importantly closed a longstanding debate over whether he or Spence was the best 147-pound fighter of the era. Crawford, who is also a former undisputed junior welterweight champion, also became the first male
fighter to ever achieve undisputed status in two weight divisions in the modern four-belt era.
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Round 4: Both fighters are trading inside shots to the face. Right hand by Crawford sneaks through the defense of Avanesyan. Avanesyan now lands a right and an uppercut, but Crawford storms back. Back in front, Crawford lands body shots. With his front foot forward, Crawford lands open shots to the body and head.
Deep in the eastern shoe of the Rockies, at the foot of Pikes Peak about 70 miles from Denver, the champion descended the stairs of his heartland-inspired camp house — ambling past fitted hats from decades ago, tiptoeing through exoskeletons of go-karts he’d been tinkering with and old Everlast gear hugging pounds of dog food. His eyes were barely open, yawns still sticking to the scruff of his swollen beard, but he knew there was work to do. Even if it required his father, "Big T," to bang on the champ’s door — in scarlet and cream ‘Huskers pajamas no less — to get him going.
Taking into consideration the way Crawford dismantled The Truth in their megafight in July, where Bud got away with the win via TKO in the ninth round, facing a drained Spence Jr. would likely make him look great again against the Long Island-bred talent.
He was coming off an impressive performance against Errol Spence Jr. in July 2023. In that fight, Crawford dropped Spence three times to eventually score a ninth-round TKO win at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to unify all four major welterweight world titles.
On August 19, 2017, Crawford took on unified WBA/IBF champion Julius Indongo for the undisputed 140-pound title. Crawford was simply electric, putting Indongo away with a beautiful body shot in the third round for a historic victory.
Round 2: Ruiz loads up on a looping left hook. Another left hand smacks Miller straight in the nose. Ruiz jabs to the body. Miller starts walking him down but can’t land clean. Ruiz goes back to his heavy hooks. Miller digs a left hand into the body. Right hand connects clean for Miller! Followed by an uppercut. Ruiz eats it and keeps on coming. Ruiz slams a three-punch combination into Miller’s skull. MMA Fighting scores it 10-9 Ruiz. (20-18 Ruiz.)
Round 2: Tellez opens with a looping right, his offense already looking more adventurous. Garcia happen to stay in close as he scores with an uppercut. Tellez mixes in some sharp body work. Garcia throwing straight shots the body, there’s a right hand up top for him. Garcia is landing with combinations. Back to the body for Tellez. They’re trading as Garcia marches forward. Tellez’s hands are low and he keeps getting tagged even as he lands punches of his own. Nice exchange to close the round.
One such moment of trouble occurred 15 years ago when Crawford was shot in the face following a game of dice with friends just weeks after his fourth pro fight. He drove himself to the hospital. He recovered, welcoming his first child a few months later.
Crawford held onto his titles, stopping Molina in the eighth round in front of a large home crowd in Omaha. Crawford moved around the ring for most of the fight, jabbing, holding and pot-shotting Molina. Referee Mark Nelson halted the fight in the eight round after
Molina received three consecutive hits to the head. In the post-fight interview, Crawford felt he should be the 2016 'Fighter of the Year' for his wins over Molina, Lundy and Postol, "I feel like I got it. I just have to wait until the results come in." Crawford also reiterated his desire to unify the division before a possible move up to welterweight. Crawford landed 184 punches from 419 thrown, Molina landed 41 of 287 thrown, a 14% connect rate. The fight drew an average 806,000 viewers and peaked at 871,000 viewers on HBO.
Boxing promoters know it is just part of the job that some scheduled fights will take place and others will fall through. A good example of this is Mike Tyson versus Evander Holyfield, which was scheduled to take place a few years before Mike Tyson versus Peter McNeeley. Unfortunately, Tyson’s actions landed him in prison with a 6-year sentence meaning the Holyfield fight did not take place.
Round 3: Valenzuela gets busy with one-twos. Cruz is a bulldog in here though — he continues to march
forward with reckless abandon. Valenzuela connects with a three-punch combo only to eat a hard counter by Cruz. Body shot by Cruz. Valenzuela flurries then fires off a left uppercut to the midsection. Cruz eats a right hand. And another. Valenzuela is finding his mark now. MMA Fighting scores it 10-9 Valenzuela. (29-28 Cruz.)
