ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) β Undefeated Terence Crawford is moving up to the next class, and immediately getting another title chance.
Crawford last year went to Scotland to win the WBO lightweight title, then defended it twice.
Now in his first fight of 2015, Crawford takes on Thomas Dulorme for the vacant WBO junior welterweight title Saturday night.
The Dulorme-Crawford bout is scheduled for 12 rounds on the University of Texas-Arlington campus. The fight comes a week before Crawford, 25-0 with 17 knockouts, will be in New York to accept his 2014 fighter of the year award from the Boxing Writers Association of America.
Promoter Bob Arum says Crawford “pretty well cleaned out the lightweight division.”
