By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn has reportedly reached agreement with Top Rank, the promoter for #1 WBO Tererence Crawford (22-0, 16 KO’s), for Match between Crawford ans Hearn’s fighter WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (36-2-1, 11 KO’s) for next year in February in Glasgow, Scotland, the home city of Burns. This is where Burns recently was given A gift draw in his fight against challenger Raymundo Beltran last September.
The interesting thing about that fight was that Beltran totally dominated the fight from the 2nd round on and appeared to win 11 of the 12 rounds of the fight, yet the three judges scored the fight a draw. Now it’s Crawford’s turn to travel over to Scotland and try his hand at unseating Burns in his own hometown.
Hearn said on his twitter “Delighted to confirm we have agreed [to] terms with Top Rank for Ricky Burns to face Terence Crawford in Glasgow in February. Date confirmed soon.”
Wow! I always figured that Burns would vacate his strap before he’d ever take the move to get in the ring with a talent like Crawford, because this guy is so much better than Burns on every level. Crawford is one of those Guillermo Rigondeaux type of fighters, and it’s going to take someone really special and really powerful to beat this guy one of these days. Burns obviously isn’t the one to defeat Crawford or even come close to doing that.
I got to say that this is pretty much the end of Burns’ time as the World Boxing Organization 135 lb. champion unless he can get another one of those nice gift decisions like the one that he was given in the Beltran fight.
This is bad news for Beltran, because he had been hoping to get a rematch against Burns in his next fight, but that’s not going to happen now. The way it is now, Beltran will have to be satisfied with fighting Burns without title at stake if he wants to fight him in the future.
Crawford has looked out of this world in his last few fights in beating Andrey Klimov, Alejandro Sanabria and Breidis Prescott.
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