Burns would welcome Crawford rematch

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Ricky Burns would welcome a rematch with Terence Crawford after becoming a history-making three-weight world champion.

The 33-year-old from Coatbridge rolled back the years with an eighth-round stoppage of Michele Di Rocco to win the vacant WBA super-lightweight title at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro on Saturday night.

Burns, former WBO super-featherweight and lightweight champion, operated at a different level from his 34-year-old opponent who endured a punishing night in front of a partisan home crowd before being bludgeoned to the floor and unable to continue when he got up.

As new avenues opened up for Burns, the first Scot to win world titles at three weights, he told promoter Eddie Hearn to put unbeaten Crawford, whom he lost his WBO world lightweight title to in Glasgow in March 2014 , and his fellow American Adrien Broner, on the list of possible match-ups.

“There is some big fights and some big names out there for me,” said Burns.

“I have said to Eddie [Hearn] that I want to fight the top names. I do super-lightweight comfortably but …

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