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Well-liked WBC welterweight champion Shawn Porter has his sights region on a wrestle with undefeated WBO champion Terence Crawford.
“All people’s purchased to come by me,” Porter talked about, by The Athletic’s Lance Pugmire.
Pugmire eminent that Porter cited himself as being the WBO needed contender for the welterweight title.
Following his unanimous-resolution utilize over Sebastian Formella on Aug. 22, Porter talked about he expected to became the needed title contender for Crawford.
“I am looking ahead to a championship wrestle after [defeating Formella],” Porter knowledgeable Keith Idec of BoxingScene.com. “As all people knows, Formella became once no longer in my plans. But I did what I needed to keep to keep what I wanna keep. What I want is to wrestle for a international title. As far as I do know, there would possibly maybe merely calm be two titles on the line [in my next fight].”
The WBO made it official when Porter became once ranked the No. 1 contender in its most most up-to-date welterweight standings. Crawford has held the 147-pound championship since beating Jeff Horn in June 2018.
Crawford no longer too prolonged ago returned to the ring on Nov. 14, precisely 11 months from the date of his TKO utilize over Egidijus Kavaliauskas. He retained the WBO welterweight crown with a fourth-spherical TKO of Kell Brook.
Porter lost the WBC welterweight title to Errol Spence Jr. in September 2019.
