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Crawford faces Diaz this Saturday on HBO

By Daily Sports on May 16, 2017

WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford (30-0, 21 KOs) will be inside the ring defending his titles this Saturday against 2008 Olympic gold medalist Felix Diaz (19-1, 8 KOs) on HBO World Championship Boxing at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Crawford will be fighting in a different venue than in Omaha, Nebraska, where he’s been fighting a lot lately.

If Top Rank is going to turn Crawford into a star, they’re going to need to have him fight in places like New York, Las Vegas, Nevada and California.

Crawford needs to be moved around the U.S instead of mainly fighting in his hometown of Omaha. There’s a certain amount of risk involved with Crawford fighting outside of his hometown, because he doesn’t always mix it up to make things exciting. Crawford moves a lot, and his fights are sometimes boring to watch due to his counter punching style.

Hopefully the New York boxing fans don’t boo Crawford on Saturday if he chooses to move like he did in his fights against Viktor Postol and John Molina.

Crawford ran around the ring sticking his tongue out at Postol in the 12th round of their fight last July. The Las Vegas crowd was patient with Crawford, but it was a really poor way to end the fight on his part.

Diaz, 33, has one controversial loss on his resume to Lamont Peterson in April 2015 in losing a 12 round majority decision. Diaz fought well enough to win, but two of the judges gave the fight to Crawford. Boxing News 24 scored the fight 116-112 for Diaz. The scoring was not good at all. Diaz wasn’t getting credit for controlling many of the rounds with his aggression and solid punching. It was one of those fights where Diaz probably needed a knockout to get the win.

Former world champion Bernard Hopkins believes that Crawford is going to put on a show this Saturday. Hopkins compares Crawford to former IBF/WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Donald Curry with the way he fights.

Curry was known for his low punch output and the way he would strike with accurate punches. Where Curry fell apart in his career was when he fought brawlers with high work rates like Lloyd Honeyman, and big punchers in Terry Norris, Mike McCallum and Michael Nunn. Curry didn’t have lot of success with his career after being exposed by Honeyman in 1986 in getting stopped in the 6th.

”On May 20, at Madison Square Garden, Terence Crawford will take on 2008 Olympic gold medal winner Felix Diaz,” said Hopkins.

*Photo shows Terence “Bud” Crawford.

Source Daily Sports

Posted May 16, 2017