Terence Crawford vs. Thomas Dulorme
Battle mō te wātea WBO Jr. Welterweight Championship
Rāhoroi, April 18
I College Center Park i University o Texas Arlington
Teata Live i runga i HBO®
Tickets Haere I te Sale teie mahana i 10:00 AM CT
Arlington, TX (March 5, 2015) – Tūturu World mekemeke Organization (WBO) toa Kōmāmā me te Mekemeke Writers Association o Amerika o (BWAA) Fighter o te Tau Terence “Bud” Crawford Ko movin’ i runga i runga — ki te wehenga Welterweight teina — te wahi e tangohia e ia i runga i THOMAS “Thunder” DULORME, te No. 2-nguha te ao-tauanga, for the vacant WBO junior welterweight world title. Crawford vs. Ka tangohia Dulorme wahi Rāhoroi, April 18, i College Center Park kei runga i te wānanga o te University o Texas Arlington in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The world championship fight will be televised as part of a split site doubleheader live on HBO mekemeke I muri Dark®, timata i 9:45 p.m. AND/PT.
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“I am ready to do bigger and better things at 140,” Said Crawford.
“Ahau i konei ki te whakamatau ki te ao nei e ko ahau te toa pai i roto i te wehenga Welterweight teina,” Said Dulorme. “Crawford he record tūturu, engari e kore ngā riro ia i te whawhai i 140 lbs. Kei te pėhea e ahau i te wikitoria pakeke-whawhai, tetahi e ka whakahokia mai e ahau te fare ki taku iwi o Puerto Rico.”
“Ko te pai Dulorme, kaimekemeke pai-porotaka. He hihiri tatou no te mea te 140 Ka kawea mai pauna wehenga te pai i roto i o Terence,” Na ka mea a Brian McIntyre, Tahi-kaiwhakangungu me te tahi-te kaiwhakahaere o Crawford. “Te 140 utaina wehenga i te runga whawhai. He nui hoki Terence tenei rite e hohoro kite katoa.”
“Terence i te tau horanga i roto i 2014 hopu tokanga o te ao ki te toru mahi-pai taitara ao whakaora en huarahi ki imiraa Fighter o nga ekea Tau,” Na ka mea a Todd duBoef, peresideni o Runga Kapa. “Ka titiro ia tonu e torohaki i runga i April 18 ka hoki ia ki a HBO, on the hunt for another world title against Thomas Dulorme of Puerto Rico.”
“Au rawa i ahuareka ai ko ahau taea ki te mahi i tenei whawhai ki te Kapa Top,” Na ka mea a Gary Shaw. “Whakaaro Terence Crawford te tetahi o nga Lightweights pai i roto i te mekemeke, engari kei te neke ia ki runga ki te Welterweight teina te wahi e fehangahangai ia he tino takoto, me te pūmanawa Thomas Dulorme, nei tūturu ngā i 140 pauna. I want to thank HBO for showcasing what I perceive is another great fight for the fans. I smell an upset in the making. This will be the start of a great run of fantastic fights for HBO.”
“Ki te ka puta whetu Terence Crawford o roto i 2014, te pātai inaianei ko e founga teitei e whetū kake ranei, ki te e Huripoki tona hoariri Thomas Dulorme te trajectory,” Na ka mea a Pita Nelson, perehitini tuarua o te hōtaka, HBO Sports. “Toa rite Kōmāmā tau whakamutunga, Roaa Crawford tana BWAA Fighter o nga hōnore tau ki maia, whakaora huatau ki runga whakataetae, a streak which continues in stride up the scale against the hungry Dulorme, who is undefeated at 140-lbs. It will be a split-site doubleheader not to be missed on our late night Boxing After Dark franchise.”
Crawford (25-0, 17 Koó), o Omaha, NE, hanga ana 2015 mowhiti tuatahi titiro ki te hanga i runga i tona whetu-hanga 2014 which featured three world championship victories as well as Fighter of the Year honors from the BWAA and major media alike. He began his career-best year last March 1, tika 13 ra poto o te ono o nga huritau o tona tuatahi ngaio. Crawford captured the WBO lightweight title, dethroning paruru i toa Ricky Burns i runga i Burns’ pūreirei te kāinga o Glasgow, Scotland. Te kaute i te whakatau kaha, me te loto, Whakanohoia Crawford te ao mekemeke i te pānui ki tona mahi virtuoso rite unuhia e ia i roto i tūnga katoa i roto i te tuuraki Burns, nekeneke i te toa te parururaa i puta noa i te whawhai, while switching back and forth between orthodox and southpaw stances. He followed that with a dramatic and critically-acclaimed knockout victory of undefeated former world champion and Cuban Olympic gold medalist Yuriorkis Gamboa on Pipiri 28 in a Fight of the Year nominee. It was one of the most-watched fights of the year with over 1.2 miriona ngä kaimätakitaki hopu i te ora, -wā tuatahi rongona o te whawhai, according to Nielsen Media Research. He concluded 2014 i runga i Whiringa 29 ki te shellacking tino o te kotahi-wā kaiwero taitara ao, me te No. 1 nguha Ray Beltran, toa 11 o te 12 rauna. Crawford is only the second Nebraska native to be recognized as a boxing world champion. Perry “Kid” Pōhatu, i Rock Bluff, mau te karauna Welterweight, patoto i Johnny Alberts i Brooklyn, i roto i te 1914, kia rite ki te Omaha Ao-Herald.
Dulorme (22-1, 14 Koó), o Carolina, Puerto Rico, puta ki te rarangi ngaio i roto i 2008 i muri i te mahi runaruna oranga i ngā he moni 140-2 record. He has long been a fan-favorite of Puerto Ricans for his slick all-action fighting style. Dulorme enters this fight riding a two-year six-bout winning streak, ki pai mahi-ana toa e haere mai ana i roto i te hoki-ki-hoki whawhai i roto i te 2014 and both televised on HBO. He opened up 2014 with a 10-round unanimous decision victory over undefeated contender Karim Mayfield to capture the NABF super lightweight title and ended the year unifying his NABF title with the NABO junior welterweight title via an exciting 10-round decision over Hank Lundy. A consensus Top-Five contender, Dulorme he ao-tauanga No. 2 i te Ao mekemeke Association (WBA), Kaua e. 3 i te Kaunihera mekemeke Ao (WBC) a No. 4 e te WBO me te International mekemeke Federation (IBF).
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