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2018-01-06
2017 IN REVIEW- The Junior Welterweights
Pictured: Terence Crawford


Terence Crawford finished 2017 the same way he finished 2016 as the reigning lineal world junior welterweight king. The one difference is that he entered the new year knowing he will be abdicating the throne in the near future as he seeks another in the welterweight division.

Here's how Crawford and fourteen TTR-ranked junior welterweight/super lightweight contenders did in 2017:

Champion: Terence Crawford (P4P #2; 32-0, 23 KOs)
-5/20- Felix Diaz.....TKO-10
(retained lineal, WBO, and Ring Magazine World Junior Welterweight Titles and WBC World Super Lightweight Title)
- 8/19- Julius Indongo.....W KO-3
(retained lineal, WBO, and Ring Magazine World Junior Welterweight Titles and WBC World Super Lightweight Title; won IBF World Junior Welterweight Title and WBA World Super Lightweight Title)
- 8/30- vacated IBF World Junior Welterweight Title
- 8/31- elevated to WBA Super World Super Lightweight Champion
- 10/26- vacated WBO World Junior Welterweight Title and WBA Super World Super Lightweight Title

1. Mikey Garcia (P4P #5; also #1 at 135; 37-0, 30 KOs)
- 1/28- Dejan Zlaticanin.....W KO-3
(won WBC World Lightweight Title)
- 7/29- Adrien Broner.....W UD 12

2. Julius Indongo (22-1, 11 KOs)
- 4/15- Ricky Burns.....W UD 12
(retained IBF World Junior Welterweight Title and IBO World Super Lightweight Title; won WBA World Super Lightweight Title)
- 8/19- Terence Crawford.....L KO-3
(lost IBF World Junior Welterweight Title and WBA World Super Lightweight Title; for lineal, WBO, and Ring Magazine World Junior Welterweight Titles and for WBC World Super Lightweight Title)

3. Viktor Postol (29-1, 12 KOs)
- 9/16- Jamshidbek Najmiddinov.....W UD 10

4. Adrien Broner (33-3, 24 KOs)
-2/18- Adrian Granados.....W SD 10
- 7/29- Mikey Garcia.....L UD 12

5. Antonio Orozco (26-0, 17 KOs)
- 4/1- Keandre Gibson.....W TKO-4

6. Sergey Lipinets (13-0, 10 KOs)
- 3/4- Clarence Booth.....W TKO-7
- 11/4- Akihiro Kondo.....W UD 12
(won vacant IBF World Junior Welterweight Title)

7. Eduard Troyanovsky (27-1, 24 KOs)
- 7/1- Michele Di Rocco.....W KO-4
- 11/27- Carlos Manuel Portillo.....W KO-1

8. Terry Flanagan (33-0, 13 KOs)
- 4/8- Petr Petrov.....W UD 12
(retained WBO World Lightweight Title)
- 10/26- vacated WBO World Lightweight Title

9. Josh Taylor (11-0, 10 KOs)
- 1/28- Alfonso Olvera.....W UD 8
- 3/24- Warren Joubert.....W TKO-6
- 7/8- Ohara Davies.....W TKO-7
- 11/11- Miguel Vazquez.....W KO-9

10. Rances Barthelemy (26-0, 1 ND, 13 KOs)
- 5/20- Kiryl Relikh.....W UD 12

11. John Molina, Jr. (30-7, 24 KOs)
- 12/15- Ivan Redkach.....W KO-4

12. Regis Prograis (20-0, 17 KOs)
- 2/11- Wilfrido Buelvas.....W KO-1
- 6/9- Joel Diaz, Jr......W TKO-2

13. Jose Carlos Ramirez (21-0, 16 KOs)
- 5/5- Jake Giuriceo.....W TKO-2
- 11/11- Mike Reed.....W KO-2

14. Jose Zepeda (28-1, 1 NC, 23 KOs)
- 4/1- Jesus Silveira.....W Unan. Tech. Dec. 5
- 6/17- Miguel Zamudio.....W TKO-6
- 11/4- Abner Lopez.....W TKO-6


 
Article By: Ken Pollitt