Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol: Full Details of MGM Grand Card
By Ryan Burton
On July 23rd Terence Crawford (28-0) will face Viktor Postol in Las Vegas in a HBO distributed pay-per-view super lightweight unification bout. Crawford's WBO and Postol's WBC titles will both be at stake.
As previously announced, newly crowned WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto Ramirez (34-0) will face Dominik Britsch (32-2-1) of Germany, Oscar Valdez (17-0) and Matias Rueda (23-0) will fight for the vacant WBO featherweight title, and Jose Benavidez Jr. (24-0) will battle Francisco "Chia" Santana (24-4-1) in a 10 round welterweight scrap to round out the televised portion of the pay-per-view.
The international and non-televised portion of the undercard is as follows:
Ik Yang (18-1) of China will face Lenny Zappavigna (34-2) of Austraila in a 12 rounds super lightweight eliminator to become the mandatory challenger for champion Eduard Troyanovsky.
2012 Olympic Gold medalist Ryota Murata (10-0) of Japan will square off against George "Comanche Boy" Tahdooahnippah (34-2-3) in a bout scheduled for 10 rounds.
Stanyslav Skorokhod (10-1) of Ukraine takes on unbeaten Hakim Bryant of Asbury Park, NJ (6-0) in a 6 round middleweight fight.
Welterweight Edwards Williams (11-1-1) of Detroit battles Christon Edwards (6-1) of Houston in a scheduled 6 rounder.
Steve Nelson (2-0), who like Crawford is from Omaha, Nebraska, will face Tim Meek (5-2-1) WBO hails from Texas in a 4 round light heavyweight bout.