Juan Manuel Márquez 42–2 (33 KO) vs. Manny Pacquiao 38–2–1 (29 KO), billed as Hearts and Fists on Fire, was a professional boxing match contested on May 8, 2004, for the WBA (Unified), IBF, and The Ring featherweight titles.

On November 1, 2003, reigning IBF featherweight champion Juan Manuel Márquez captured the WBA version of the title after defeating Derrick Gainer via technical decision on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.–Phillip N’dou lightweight title fight. Two weeks later IBF super bantamweight champion Manny Pacquiao made his featherweight debut, defeating Marco Antonio Barrera by 11th-round technical knockout to claim The Ring featherweight title and lay claim to the lineal featherweight championship.

Following his impressive and decisive victory over Barrera, Pacquiao’s fame and popularity began to rise leading to him signing an multi-million dollar deal with HBO allowing the channel to exclusively broadcast his fights. After the HBO deal was signed, Pacquiao’s promoter Murad Muhammad agreed to terms with Márquez’s promoter Bob Arum that would see Pacquiao face Márquez on May 8, 2004.

Though Márquez had competed as a featherweight for over a decade while Pacquiao was a newcomer to the division, it was Pacquiao that was installed as the minus 170 favorite with Márquez a plus 150 underdog. Both fighters planned to move up to super featherweight and had potential big title fights lined up should they be victorious. Márquez tentatively expected to challenge IBF featherweight champion Carlos Hernández while Pacquiao had agreed to face WBA super featherweight champion Erik Morales. Pacquiao’s already announced plans to challenge Morales and his perceived overlooking of Márquez annoyed Márquez who stated “He can talk all he wants about his next fight, I’m just concentrating and being serious about this one.”

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Terence Crawford 31–0 (22 KO) vs. Julius Indongo 22–0 (11 KO) was a professional boxing match contested on August 19, 2017, for the undisputed light welterweight championship. The bout took place at the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Following his reign as the WBO lightweight champion in 2014, Crawford moved up to light welterweight in April 2015 to capture the vacant WBO title against Thomas Dulorme.[
After two defences of his title, he defeated WBC champion Viktor Postol in July 2016 to unify the WBC, and WBO titles, while also capturing the vacant Ring magazine title in the process.

Indongo defeated reigning champion Eduard Troyanovsky in December 2016 to capture the IBF, and IBO light welterweight titles.
Four months later he defeated reigning champion Ricky Burns for the WBA (Unified) title in April 2017, capturing the last of the four major world titles in the light welterweight division and setting up the undisputed title fight. Indongo’s IBO title was not on the line as the Namibian champion had been stripped of the title for refusing to pay the IBO’s sanctioning fees, which already stood at $100,000 for each fighter.

The winner would be the first undisputed light welterweight champion since Kostya Tszyu in 2004 and the first undisputed champion in any weight division since O’Neil Bell in 2006. The bout would also be the first time all what is now considered the four major belts had been at stake in a single fight since Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermain Taylor in 2005, although the WBO didn’t become a major title until 2007.

Crawford entered the fight as a heavy favourite to win.

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Miguel Cotto 33–1 (27 KO) vs. Joshua Clottey 35–2 (21 KO), billed as Knockout Power, was a professional boxing match contested on June 13, 2009, for the WBO welterweight title.

In early March 2009, it was announced that WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, who had won the vacant title after defeating Michael Jennings the previous month, would make his first title defense against IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey after Cotto’s promotional firm, Top Rank, passed on Cotto’s countryman Kermit Cintrón and then WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto. The fight was originally planned to be a unification bout with both Cotto and Clottey’s respective titles on the line.

However, though Clottey completed the necessary paperwork to meet the IBF’s deadline to approve the unification, Cotto was late in filing his, which caused the IBF to instead insist that Clottey next face their highest available contender Isaac Hlatshwayo or be stripped of their title. Though Clottey, who had announced his intentions to go through with the more lucrative Cotto fight, wrote a letter to the IBF asking the organization to reconsider its decision, the IBF refused and stripped Clottey of the title roughly a week later.

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😡 Safe to say Roy Jones doesn’t think James Toney is more talented than him. 🤣

Throwback to when the former multi-weight world champion appeared on ‘The Gloves Are Off’ and host @johnnynelson asked him “Who was the best fighter he faced at Super-Middleweight?”.

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Devin Haney 29–0 (15 KO) vs. Vasiliy Lomachenko 17–2 (11 KO), billed as Checkmate, was a professional boxing match …

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