Israil Madrimov says he needs a rematch towards Terence Crawford to have the chance to recapture his WBA junior middleweight title from their slim 12-round conflict earlier this month on August third.
The judges scored it 115-112, 116-112 and 115-112. It was shut.
Madrimov, 29, landed the cleaner, tougher pictures all through the combat and appeared like he’d finished greater than sufficient to win. Nonetheless, the judges gave it to the extra common fighter, Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs), primarily based on the jabs he was touchdown. That’s just about all Crawford did within the combat throw jabs.
A Shut Contest with Questionable Scoring
“I used to be a world champion, and I deserved to be a world champion after August 3; now, my important purpose is to regain that standing,” mentioned Madrimov.
It isn’t possible that Madrimov will ever get an opportunity to combat Crawford, 36, once more as a result of he’s fixated on combating Canelo Alvarez at 168If Crawford can’t get that combat, he could retire until His Excellency Turki Alalshikh provides him a treasure chamber crammed with gold to combat one of many 154-pounders.
The August third Crawford-Madrimov card reportedly failed to usher in many PPV buys on DAZN, and there have been many empty seats on the night time of the combat. It’s clear that Crawford isn’t a draw and desires a well-liked fighter to hitch a journey on their coattails as we noticed when he fought Errol Spence final 12 months.
“I mentioned after the combat that I believed I did sufficient to maintain my World Championship Belt,” mentioned the 29-year-old Uzbek native. “Proper now, I’m prepared for a rematch with Crawford to regain my title or to problem any of the opposite junior middleweight champions.”
“A rematch with Terence Crawford is my purpose, however I’m undecided he’s proper now. Our combat nonetheless has left many questions unanswered,” mentioned Madrimov.
The punishment that Madrimov dished out to Crawford will make it extremely unlikely the Nebraska native will ever combat him once more or face any of the gifted 154-pounders. Madrimov’s greatest wager to turn out to be world champion once more at junior middleweight is to combat Sebastian Fundora or Bakhram Murtazaliev.
If you happen to’re Turki, it might solely make sense to supply Crawford a ton of cash if it had been towards somebody that he could be the underdog, like Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis, David Benavidez, Artur Beterbiev or Dmitry Bivol. Paying Crawford some huge cash to observe him jab and combat cautiously isn’t value it. Turki must lure Crawford some into combating one of many above killers to place him in a state of affairs the place he’ll have to slug to maintain from getting knocked out.
The previous WBA 154-lb champion Madrimov (10-1-1, 7 KOs) feels he deserved to win that conflict on the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
