By Allan Fox: IBF/WBA unior middleweight champion Jarrett ‘Swift’ Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) says he plans on returning to the ring soon in the next two months to start getting ready for his next fight, which he says will be a tune-up, according to Premier Boxing Champions. Hurd, 27, wants to come back slowly after undergoing surgery in his right shoulder last week.
By Jim Dower: Jarrett Hurd states that he had a procedure done on his left shoulder on Monday to repair a problem with rotator cuff. Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs), who holds the IBF/WBA junior middleweight titles, says he suffered the problem while getting ready for his recent unification fight against former WBA Super World junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara last April, and was taking cortisone shots to decrease the pain.
By Allan Fox: IBF/WBA junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) saw nothing but vulnerability from WBC junior middleweight champion Jermell ‘Iron Man’ Charlo (31-0, 15 KOs) last Saturday night in the way that he had to labor hard to defeat former junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (31-5, 17 KOs) by a 12 round majority decision last Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The deciding factor in the fight was Charlo’s two knockdowns of Trout in rounds 3 and 9. If not for that, he likely would have come up empty and ended up losing the contest.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo beat Austin Trout last Saturday night to get his voluntary defense out of the way, and he’ll now be fighting IBF/WBA 154lb champion Jarrett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) next. Richard Schaefer reportedly announced at the post-fight press conference last Saturday that adviser Al Haymon will be working on making the Hurd-Charlo fight for a unification fight between them.
By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/WBA junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd once again has called out Kell ‘Special One’ Brook for a fight. Hurd sent a message to former IBF welterweight belt holder Brook (37-2, 26 KOs) on Monday, telling him that the two should face each other after the 32-year-old Brit fights in July.
By Scott Gilfoid: Junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) is hoping to defend his IBF/WBA junior middleweight titles against former welterweight champion Kell Brook (37-2, 26 KOs) for the fall in the U.S if possible.
By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn says Kell Brook will be fighting next in July, and then after that he could be challenging unbeaten IBF/WBA junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd for his two titles. Brook (37-2, 26 KOs) likes his chances of beating the 27-year-old Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs), who recently defeated Erislandy Lara by an exciting 12 round split decision last April to claim the WBA Super World junior middleweight title.
By Scott Gilfoid: After hearing some of Kell Brook’s negative comments about him, unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA junior middleweight champion Jarrett ‘Swift’ Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) says he’d like to give him a title shot and let him prove that he’s better than him. Hurd notes that Brook is kind of small for a junior middleweight, but he’s still willing to defend his three titles against him.
By Dan Ambrose: It didn’t take newly crowned WBO junior middleweight champion Jaime Munguia (29-0, 24 KOs) to attract interest from unbeaten IBF 154lb champion Jarrett ‘Swift’ Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs).
By Jim Dower: Jermell Charlo (30-0, 15 KOs) is saying that he’s facing former junior middleweight champion Austin ‘No Doubt’ Trout (31-4, 17 KOs) on June 9, and then IBF/WBA 154 lb. champion Jarrett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) after that.