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Light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (27-1, 22 KOs) has not fought since a third-round shellacking of club fighter Tommy Karpency in September and contender Artur Beterbiev (9-0, 9 KOs) has been idle since last June because of shoulder surgery that forced him to drop out of a November world title eliminator. But both of the Montreal-based fighters have bouts in the works. Yvon Michel, who promotes both of them, told ESPN.com on Tuesday that Beterbiev will return in June and that Stevenson’s next defense will be in July. The specific dates and locations have not been set yet.
 

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beterbiev is going to fight during ramadan? :huh:

PBC doesn't know wtf they doing sometimes :snoop:

They started building Beterbeiv up kept him active getting kos on TV...then he's on the shelf for a year :mindblown:


PED had a lil resurgence in defeat against Garcia...had 1 fight since N now nothing... even tho there's an event in his home fukking town :mindblown:

Fonfara had some buzz he ain't fighting

Danny Jacobs career W in impressive fashion only fought 1 damn minute...sit his ass down for 6+ months


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Mitch Abramson
Staples Center emerges as favorite to land Crawford-Postol on July 23
Mitch Abramson
March 23, 2016

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Terence Crawford tags Hank Lundy with a left back on Feb. 27. Photo: Naoki Fukuda


Discussions between Terence Crawford and Viktor Postol to meet on July 23 in a junior welterweight unification match have yielded a preferred destination to host the fight: Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, Top Rank CEO Bob Arum told RingTV.com on Wednesday. While Las Vegas still remains an option, Arum said that Los Angeles has emerged as the more probable setting for the HBO PPV bout.

“I think it looks more and more likely it will be in LA, probably at Staples,” Arum said in a brief phone interview on Wednesday. “We’re working on it. We’re right in the middle of it.” Arum would like to stack the PPV undercard with appearances in separate bouts by WBO welterweight titleholder Jessie Vargas and undefeated super middleweight Gilberto Ramirez (33-0, 24 KOs), who challenges Arthur Abraham for the WBO title on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradly on April 9 in Las Vegas, he said.

If Los Angeles emerges as the winner of the Crawford-Postol sweepstakes it would likely favor Postol, a native of the Ukraine who makes his home there. Postal (28-0, 12 knockouts) has fought two of his last three fights in California while the Omaha-native Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs) has never fought in the Golden State.

Arum is also trying to finalize an attractive June 11 match-up between WBO featherweight titleholder Vasyl Lomachenko (5-1, 3 KOs) and former champion Nicholas Walters (26-0-1, 21 KOs) at Madison Square Garden’s Theater in a junior lightweight bout. The highly regarded prospect Felix Verdejo is slated as the co-feature on the HBO broadcast. For Verdejo (20-0, 14 KOs) to appear on the card, however, he has to emerge from an April 16 UniMas show in Puerto Rico. Opponents for both bouts are still undetermined, Top Rank VP Carl Moretti said.

Arum declined to give an update on the status of Lomachenko-Walters other than to say he’s also, “Working on it.” Walters has reportedly balked at the money being offered and Arum has several fill-in opponents ready if a deal can’t be made. Arum didn’t want to explore that scenario on Wednesday and declined to name the opponents-in-waiting. So they continue to wait. As does the public to a resolution on these two attractive cards.


Staples Center emerges as favorite to land Crawford-Postol on July 23 - Ring TV
 
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