Terence Crawford v Israil Madrimov

[Master]

Terence Crawford moves up to junior middleweight to challenge WBA champion Israil Madrimov on Saturday, Aug. 3, at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. (ESPN+ PPV, 7 p.m. ET). The WBO interim title will also be on the line.

Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs), of Omaha, Nebraska, is a two-division undisputed champion, a feat accomplished by only two other men boxers (Naoya Inoue and Oleksandr Usyk). Crawford is 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.

Madrimov (10-0-1, 7 KOs), of Khiva, Uzbekistan, won the title by defeating Magomed Kurbanov by fifth-round TKO back in March, on the Anthony Joshua-Francis Ngannou undercard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Madrimov, 29, is a decorated amateur fighter with almost 100 fights. He turned pro in 2018 and has notable victories over Raphael Igbokwe and Michel Soro.

Also on the card, heavyweight Jared Anderson steps up in competition to face Martin Bakole in a 10-round battle of power punchers. Anderson (17-0, 15 KOs), of Toledo, Ohio, is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Ryad Merhy back in April. He's consider the "next" American heavyweight.

Bakole (20-1, 15 KOs), of Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has won nine consecutive fights -- seven by stoppage -- since suffering the only loss of his career, a decision against Michael Hunter in October 2018.

Two other title fights are scheduled for the undercard. WBA junior welterweight champion Isaac "Pitbull" Cruz (26-2-1, 18 KOs), of Mexico City, takes on Jose Valenzuela (13-2, 9 KOs), of Sinaloa, Mexico, in a 12-round battle. And David Morrell (10-0, 9 KOs), of Santa Clara, Cuba, and Radivoje Kalajdzic (29-2, 21 KOs), of Belgrade, Serbia, will fight for the WBA vacant "regular" light heavyweight title.

Former unified heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. (35-2, 22 KOs), of Imperial, California, faces Jarrell Miller (26-1-1, 22 KOs), of New York in a 10-round bout. To start the event, 2020 Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz (3-0, 1 KO), of Matanzas, Cuba, takes on veteran Antonio Moran (30-6-1, 21 KOs), of Mexico City, in a 10-round fight.

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[Master]

Great promo video.

[Denilson3.0]

Kazakhs are the new Cubans

In the Olympics next week, if anyone is drawn against a Kazakh ? GOOD LUCK

And Crawford is facing an unbeaten Kazakh power puncher who's in the prime of his life, a title holder whose just come off a career best destructive performance and Crawford is moving up in weight. GOOD LUCK

I imagine it will be his toughest opponent.

Maybe Crawford and his team are underestimating him or don't know much about him, or possibly they have sparred before or something. Strange they are so quick to take the risk.

Crawford has somehow managed to have 40 fights whilst barely having fought any legit punchers, especially ones his size, let alone legit KO artists. I'm not saying he's been ducking punchers as such but rather he's just been extremely fortunate in the regard that the minefields he's had to traverse spanning three weight divisions have been full of of non life-threatening mines.

He's fought a ton of absolute feather-fists and average punchers (Brook, Khan, Porter, Spence, Avanesyan, Horn) at best and on one of the only occasions he fought a legit banger his size in Egidijus "Mean Machine" Kavaliauskas he got dropped and Madrimov is levels above Kavaliauskas and for the first time Crawford is facing a LIGHTS OUT puncher.

If Madrimov is able to land his bombs with any consistency and get past Crawford's much longer reach and stiff-arming I'll be surprised if he doesn't hurt him badly, drop him.

Much respect to crawford for taking this fight.

Prediction ?

Well, stylistically if you could throw Mike Tyson and Prince Naz in a pot and mix them up, the result would be Madrimov.



And I think he takes this, he'll enter the fight as an outsider, but he actually has everything he needs to overcome Crawford, Madrimov by TKO.

[TIC]

And Crawford is facing an unbeaten Kazakh power puncher

i think you are overrating israil's power

[Denilson3.0]

And Crawford is facing an unbeaten Kazakh power puncher

i think you are overrating israil's power

The man is from the same part of the world as Triple G.

Hombre, even looks like him



Some incestuous sh*t going on over there I reckon, but that's for another time. Madrimov has three hundred amateur fights, he's not some novice, you either beat him or he beats you down. If bud shows any signs of being 36 he's going to get knocked down and if he can't get Madrimov's respect he gets knocked out, simple as that.

Madrimov trains with Bivol, iron sharpens iron - Kimosabbe

[TIC]

And Crawford is facing an unbeaten Kazakh power puncher

i think you are overrating israil's power

The man is from the same part of the world as Triple G.

Hombre, even looks like him

Some incestuous sh*t going on over there I reckon, but that's for another time. Madrimov has three hundred amateur fights, he's not some novice, you either beat him or he beats you down. If bud shows any signs of being 36 he's going to get knocked down and if he can't get Madrimov's respect he gets knocked out, simple as that.

Madrimov trains with Bivol, iron sharpens iron - Kimosabbe

where do you get the impression that israil is a power puncher? i'll admit he's a decent puncher but not some one punch knockout artist

what about being from the same part of the world & looking like ggg show's israil as a power puncher?

what about his amateur fights show israil as a power puncher?

israil may be unbeaten but he hasn't knocked out all his opponents

if bud gets old over night wouldn't that be more because bud got old than israil's power punching?

did raphael igbokwe, emmany kalombo & eric walker get israil's respect? is that why he didn't stop them? did michel soro not get his respect so the ref let the fight go after the bell?

israil might train with dmitry & i'm sure he'll be well prepared. he looks in tremedous shape already. i also think this will be a difficult fight for terence but i'm asking you what gives you the impression that israil is such a power puncher?

[Primo Carnera]

Terence Crawford moves up to junior middleweight to challenge WBA champion Israil Madrimov on Saturday, Aug. 3, at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. (ESPN+ PPV, 7 p.m. ET). The WBO interim title will also be on the line.

Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs), of Omaha, Nebraska, is a two-division undisputed champion, a feat accomplished by only two other men boxers (Naoya Inoue and Oleksandr Usyk). Crawford is 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.

Madrimov (10-0-1, 7 KOs), of Khiva, Uzbekistan, won the title by defeating Magomed Kurbanov by fifth-round TKO back in March, on the Anthony Joshua-Francis Ngannou undercard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Madrimov, 29, is a decorated amateur fighter with almost 100 fights. He turned pro in 2018 and has notable victories over Raphael Igbokwe and Michel Soro.

Also on the card, heavyweight Jared Anderson steps up in competition to face Martin Bakole in a 10-round battle of power punchers. Anderson (17-0, 15 KOs), of Toledo, Ohio, is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Ryad Merhy back in April. He's consider the "next" American heavyweight.

Bakole (20-1, 15 KOs), of Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has won nine consecutive fights -- seven by stoppage -- since suffering the only loss of his career, a decision against Michael Hunter in October 2018.

Two other title fights are scheduled for the undercard. WBA junior welterweight champion Isaac "Pitbull" Cruz (26-2-1, 18 KOs), of Mexico City, takes on Jose Valenzuela (13-2, 9 KOs), of Sinaloa, Mexico, in a 12-round battle. And David Morrell (10-0, 9 KOs), of Santa Clara, Cuba, and Radivoje Kalajdzic (29-2, 21 KOs), of Belgrade, Serbia, will fight for the WBA vacant "regular" light heavyweight title.

Former unified heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. (35-2, 22 KOs), of Imperial, California, faces Jarrell Miller (26-1-1, 22 KOs), of New York in a 10-round bout. To start the event, 2020 Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz (3-0, 1 KO), of Matanzas, Cuba, takes on veteran Antonio Moran (30-6-1, 21 KOs), of Mexico City, in a 10-round fight.

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That’s a decent card.