Terence Crawford will fight for the WBO belt at junior middleweight

With former WBO junior middleweight champion Tim Tszyu out for a extended time, the WBO ordered a purse bid for Terence Crawford vs newly crowned champion Sebastian Fundora. The WBO mandates that a 20-day negotiating window between Fundora and Crawford will start Friday April 5th.  Tszyu holds a rematch clause with Fundora, promotor Sampson Lewkowicz obviously feels empowered to delay it for now. Saying at Saturday night’s post-fight news conference that Tszyu needs time to “heal up.” “Tszyu will get the rematch, but not at this moment – not when we need to maximize the money for Fundora,” Lewkowicz told reporters in a side session later Saturday night. “Fundora deserves it.”

One guy who could get in the way of this fight happening, former unified welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr (28-1, 22 KOs)! He placed his bid into the Fundora sweepstakes. He came into the ring after the fight challenging the new crowned champion. “It’s time to get it on,” Spence said. “He got a pretty good height, but we’ll see. We’ll break him down like we always do.”