{"id":16586,"date":"2024-04-25T10:11:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/terence-crawford-v-israil-madrimov-american-targets-world-title-in-fourth-division\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T10:11:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:11:39","slug":"terence-crawford-v-israil-madrimov-american-targets-world-title-in-fourth-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/terence-crawford-v-israil-madrimov-american-targets-world-title-in-fourth-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford v Israil Madrimov: American targets world title in fourth division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">American Terence Crawford will face WBA light-middleweight world champion Israil Madrimov on 3 August in Los Angeles. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crawford, 36, has won all 40 of his pro fights, and will be targeting a world title in a fourth weight division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former heavyweight world champion Andy Ruiz will face Jarrell Miller on the undercard at BMO Stadium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The card will be presented by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of the Gulf kingdom&#8217;s general entertainment authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will form part of the Saudi cultural and entertainment festival &#8216;Riyadh Season&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crawford is a former lightweight world champion and has also been undisputed champion at light-welterweight and welterweight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He beat Errol Spence Jr in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/66352005\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">July<\/a> and holds wins over Britons Ricky Burns, Amir Khan and Kell Brook. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Madrimov, 29, will make a first defence of the belt he won in March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Uzbekistani fighter has won 10 bouts and drawn one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I cannot wait to get back in the ring in my fourth weight class and remind the world why I\u2019m the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world,\u201d said Crawford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIsrail Madrimov is a tremendous and entertaining fighter, but on 3 August, he will be my next victim. This is the Terence Crawford era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ruiz famously dethroned Anthony Joshua in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/48487939\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">2019<\/a> before losing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/50701313\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">rematch<\/a>. He will return to the ring for the first time in almost two years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miller &#8211; who served a two-year after testing positive for a performance enhancing drug in 2020 &#8211; lost to Daniel Dubois in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/67797120\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">December<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cd1vx9k9mrgo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Terence Crawford will face WBA light-middleweight world champion Israil Madrimov on 3 August in Los Angeles. Crawford, 36, has won all 40 of his pro fights, and will be targeting a world title in a fourth weight division. Former heavyweight world champion Andy Ruiz will face Jarrell Miller on the undercard at BMO Stadium. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16588,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions\/16588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}