WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford is in a high-pressure scenario tonight, needing a great efficiency towards challenger David Avanesyan to maintain himself within the operating for larger fights towards PBC stars Jermell Charlo and Errol Spence.
Crawford-Avanesyan combat tonight on BLK Prime PPV in an occasion that begins at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT. Boxing247 will give updates under on the motion tonight.
In line with Crawford, he took the combat with the 34-year-old Avanesyan as a result of he wished to remain busy. Nonetheless, #2 WBO Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis was accessible and was screaming for a combat.
In a super world, that ought to have been the fighter that Crawford must be preventing tonight, particularly with him repeatedly calling himself the #1 welterweight within the division.
If Crawford is de facto the highest 147-pounder within the division, he must be keen to take dangerous fights towards guys that would probably take his #1 spot.
The mix of Crawford strolling out of the Spence talks and opting to not face Boots Ennis in favor of a lesser risk recommend that he lacks the boldness to be the #1 welterweight. It’s one factor for Crawford to name himself the most effective at 147 and one other factor for him to exit and try to show it.
Avanesyan (29-3-1, 17 KOs) comes into the combat as a large underdog, however he nonetheless has a good probability of the 35-year-old Crawford (38-0, 29 KOs) is overlooking him attributable to his curiosity in preventing Errol Spence Jr subsequent.
Crawford-Avanesyan Undercard:
Cris Cyborg vs. Gabrielle Holloway
Arnold Khegai vs. Eduardo Baez
Jeremiah Milton vs. Dajuan Calloway
Steven Nelson vs. James Ballard
Avanesyan, 34, has by no means blended it with anybody at Crawford’s degree earlier than, so it will likely be an enormous step up for him. Avanesyan has received his final six fights towards lower-level non-contenders.
Up to now, Avanesyan has fallen aside in losses to Egidijus Kavaliauskas, Lamont Peterson, and Andrey Klimov. Crawford beat two of these three, simply defeating Klimov by a one-sided 10 spherical unanimous resolution in 2013 and stopping Kavaliauskas within the ninth spherical in 2019.
If tonight’s combat sells out and brings in an enormous quantity of PPV buys on BLK Prime, it might spell doom for a Spence-Crawford combat.
If tonight’s occasion is a large success on PPV, BLK Prime will doubtless supply Crawford massive cash for his subsequent combat, and it may not matter that he faces one other fringe contender as an alternative of an attention-grabbing foe like Spence or Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis.
Hopefully, a decent-sized crowd turns up for tonight’s Crawford-Avanesyan card. Goodness is aware of, the weigh-in was as quiet as a library, and the gang was sparse.
With all the cash Crawford is getting from BLK Prime, that may clarify why the undercard lacks thrilling fights.
