Possible Pacquiao fight also at stake for Crawford-Postol winner

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LAS VEGAS — Make no mistake, there is a tremendous amount at stake when junior welterweight titleholder Terence Crawford and Viktor Postol meet on Saturday night (HBO PPV, 9 ET) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

They are battling for division supremacy, each other’s title belt, the lineal world championship at 140 pounds and to keep their undefeated records intact.

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TV lineup for Top Rank’s card Saturday night (HBO PPV, 9 ET) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas:

•Junior welterweights: Terence Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs) vs. Viktor Postol (28-0, 12 KOs), 12 rounds, world title unification

•Featherweights: Oscar Valdez (19-0, 17 KOs) vs. Matias Adrian Rueda (26-0, 23 KOs), 12 rounds, for a vacant world title

•Welterweights: Jose Benavidez Jr. (24-0, 16 KOs) vs. Francisco Santana (24-4-1, 12 KOs), 10 rounds

•Light heavyweights: Oleksandr Gvozdyk (10-0, 10 KOs) vs. Tommy Karpency (26-5-1, 15 KOs), 10 rounds

But even all that is not enough there is also a possible Nov. 5 date with superstar Manny Pacquiao on the line.

That is when Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said Pacquiao will come out of his brief retirement to fight on pay-per-view at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. There are three candidates in play, he said: welterweight titleholder Jessie Vargas (27-1, 10 KOs), Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs) or Postol (28-0, 12 KOs). The Crawford-Postol loser will be eliminated from contention, Arum said.

Arum said the ultimate decision will be Pacquiao’s but he has his views.

“If Postol beats Crawford he has a big future but I don’t know if it’s necessarily with Manny,” Arum said. “Postol is so much bigger. It would be like Mutt and Jeff …

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