Undefeated junior welterweight titlists Terence “Bud” Crawford and “The Iceman” Viktor Postol will host a press conference next week to formally announce their 12-round title unification fight to determine the lineal king of the exciting 140 pound division. Crawford vs. Postol will take place on July 23 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, and will headline an HBO pay-per-view event.
Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs), of Omaha, Neb., already a two-division world champion, has won four of his last five bouts by stoppage. The consensus Top-10 pound-for-pound fighter will be making his MGM Grand Garden debut in his third title defense as World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior welterweight world champion.
Postol (28-0, 12 KOs), from Kiev, Ukraine, put his stamp on the boxing landscape when he scored a 10th-round knockout of the heavily-favored former world champion Lucas Matthysse to capture the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) super lightweight world title on October 3, 2015. Having won two of his last three fights by knockout, the Freddie Roach-trained Postol will be making his first defense of that title.
