Mark E. Ortega
RingTV.com
March 30, 2013
LAS VEGAS--Thursday afternoon, Top Rank CEO Bob Arum compared one of the young fighters in his stable to an understudy who gets the call when the lead in a big play calls in sick.
At least in that instance, the understudy knows his lines.
Saturday night, Nebraska's Terence Crawford will be ad-libbing his way through his first real test, and on major television no less, as he fights veteran gatekeeper and relentless power puncher Breidis Prescott. What's more, Crawford will be testing the waters in a foreign weight division.
Previously, Crawford (19-0, 15 KOs) has campaigned almost exclusively as a lightweight, where he possesses a number of alphabet rankings at the moment. But when WBA 140-pound titlist Khabib Allakhverdiev pulled out of a fight with Prescott due to injury, Crawford didn't hesitate to jump into the HBO co-feature.
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