The World Boxing Association has confirmed that Terence Crawford (40-0, 30 KOs) will be permitted to retain his WBA welterweight title until August 3 in a fight with Israil Madrimov (10-0-1, 7 KOs) at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. Crawford will be competing for the organization’s junior middleweight title.
Crawford-Madrimov was formally affirmed by Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing and Turki Alalshikh, the director of Saudi Arabia’s Overall Diversion Authority, at a public interview in New York on Wednesday.
Alalshikh will compete in boxing for the first time outside of Saudi Arabia at the event on August 3.
Crawford right now holds three of the four world welterweight titles and had made no confidential of his expectations to climb to super welterweight after the breakdown of a legally committed rematch with Errol Spence Jr., whom Crawford beat last year to become undisputed boss.
Madrimov guaranteed the then-empty title last month in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a fifth-round stoppage of Magomed Kurbanov.
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The WBA title was previously held by Jermell Charlo, the former undisputed champion at 154 pounds. Before his unsuccessful 168-pound title challenge to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in September, when the WBO stripped Charlo on the day of the fight, he was undisputed.
In March, Charlo (35-2-1, 19 KOs) was officially stripped of the WBA title, but the WBA still made him the “champion in recess,” giving Charlo the freedom to choose when to call for an immediate title opportunity for his previous belt.
As reports coursed last week in regards to Crawford’s impending challenge with Madrimov, Charlo advertiser Tom Brown kept in touch with the WBA making sense of that his warrior would be returning at junior middleweight and that he was available to battling Madrimov for his title.
The World Boxing Association (WBA) issued an official notice to clarify the situation at 154 pounds following the confirmation of Crawford-Madrimov on Wednesday.
Crawford, on the off chance that fruitful in guaranteeing the WBA junior middleweight world title, will have five days to conclude which weight class he wishes to go on in because of the standard forbidding world titles being held in two separate weight classes.
The WBA likewise affirmed that the victor of Crawford-Madrimov would need to confront the endorsing body’s ongoing compulsory challenger, Vergil Ortiz Jr. (20-0, 20 KOs).
The WBA interim junior middleweight title will be awarded to the winner of Ortiz’s fight against Tim Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) on the Crawford-Madrimov card as an additional bauble.
The WBA likewise confirmed Charlo’s status as “champion in break” in the authority goal.
The complete resolution as published by the WBA:
“With the authority declaration of the session between Israil Madrimov and Terence Crawford, the World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) Titles Panel gave a goal on the extraordinary consent Crawford got to climb in class and the [junior middleweight] circumstance.
“Crawford, who is the [junior middleweight champion], will climb to the following division to challenge champion Madrimov on August 3, in Los Angeles. The committee granted the American’s request to move up and keep the welterweight title, with the condition that, if he defeats Madrimov, he will have five days to decide which title he will keep.
“Then again, Vergil Ortiz Jr., is the obligatory challenger of the classification, and hence will be offered the chance to question the interval belt against Australian Tim Tzsyu.
“In addition, Jermell Charlo was declared champion during recess, and the American will be eligible to fight either the Madrimov-Crawford winner or Madrimov in the event that that fight is a draw.
“The body officially informed all parties involved, who are required to be familiar with the WBA’s rules. All previous resolutions are nullified by this one, and any ensuing issues will be resolved by applying the rules.
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