Crawford 勝利，勝つs by TKO when 旅宿泊所 doesn't go on after low blow

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NEW YORK (AP) - Terence Crawford knocked Amir 旅宿泊所 負かす／撃墜する just a few punches into their fight.

The punch that finally ended it was below the belt.

Crawford 保持するd his welterweight 肩書を与える by technical ノックアウト Saturday night when 旅宿泊所 wasn't able to continue after 存在 攻撃する，衝突する with a low blow in the sixth 一連の会議、交渉／完成する.

Crawford threw a left 手渡す that 攻撃する，衝突する 旅宿泊所 on his 権利 hip and 旅宿泊所 退却／保養地d toward his corner in 苦痛. After taking a couple minutes trying to shake off the 苦痛, his corner told the 審判（をする） that 旅宿泊所 couldn't continue.

"I could tell I was breaking him 負かす／撃墜する. It was just a 事柄 of time," Crawford said.

It was a strange, unsatisfying ending to 最高の，を越す 階級's first ESPN 支払う／賃金-per-見解（をとる） card, 製図／抽選 loud boos from the （人が）群がる of 14,091 at Madison Square Garden. The finish left Crawford and promoter （頭が）ひょいと動く Arum with plenty of time to ロビー for the fight they want next.

"The fight I want next is Errol Spence," Crawford said. "Whenever he is ready, he can come and get it."

Crawford (35-0, 26 KOs) had knocked 旅宿泊所 負かす／撃墜する in the first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する, but the final couple 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs had been 競争の激しい, with both 闘士，戦闘機s throwing hard 発射s from の近くに 範囲.

審判（をする） D 熱心な Fields didn't appear to see the final one that 攻撃する，衝突する 旅宿泊所 (33-5) low. 旅宿泊所 could have taken five minutes trying to 回復する, but his trainer, Virgil Hunter, made the 決定／判定勝ち（する） before then that 旅宿泊所 was finished.

"I didn't want to send him 支援する out there when he didn't have his 脚s," Hunter said.

Crawford was ahead 49-45 on two 裁判官s' cards and 50-44 on the other.

"I was disappointed the corner stopped the fight in that manner, but Virgil is a 広大な／多数の／重要な coach, and he was looking out for his 闘士，戦闘機," Crawford said. "I know he didn't want to go out like that."

Crawford started 急速な／放蕩な in the second 弁護 of his WBO 見解／翻訳／版 of the 147-続けざまに猛撃する belt, throwing a short 権利 手渡す to the 長，率いる followed by a left that sent 旅宿泊所 to the canvas. He 傷つける 旅宿泊所 again late in the 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and had no trouble controlling the 早期に part of the fight.

They both threw hard 発射s in the fourth and 旅宿泊所 landed some of them in his best moments of the fight. But Crawford 攻撃する，衝突する him with a pair of good lefts in the fifth and was 得点する／非難する／２０ing again in the sixth when his final punch accidentally drifted low.

Arum said he thought 旅宿泊所 could have continued.

"He had five minutes to 回復する," Arum said. "It was an 偶発の low blow. He could have 回復するd from it. They have a cup, 権利? But he was looking for a place to 落ちる."

旅宿泊所, the 2004 Olympic silver メダル受領者 from Britain, was looking for what could have been the biggest victory of his プロの／賛成の career. The former 140-続けざまに猛撃する 支持する／優勝者 could have looked to fight fellow British 星／主役にする Kell Brook in perhaps a more lucrative and winnable match, but instead took the 適切な時期 at Crawford, the Omaha, Nebraska, 製品 広範囲にわたって considered one of the best 闘士，戦闘機s in ボクシング.

Hunter thought 旅宿泊所 had been 安定したing himself, even though he wasn't winning the 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs.

"I now know why Terence is one of the best 続けざまに猛撃する-for-続けざまに猛撃する 闘士，戦闘機s in the world," 旅宿泊所 said.

The biggest fight for Crawford would be a match with Spence, the IBF 支持する／優勝者 who is al so unbeaten. But Spence fights under 首相 ボクシング 支持する／優勝者s, run by Al Haymon, and Arum said Haymon won't let his 闘士，戦闘機s 危険 losing to 闘士，戦闘機s from other organizations.

Arum 非難するd Haymon in the （犯罪の）一味 and then again afterward for 辞退するing to 許す a fight he said that the 闘士，戦闘機s and fans want to see.

"We want to fight Errol Spence," Arum said. "Everyone wants the fight. There is one guy stopping it, and that is Al Haymon."