Terence Crawford, ESPN's No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer, is no longer the undisputed welterweight champion after he was stripped of the IBF title, according to the organization's updated rankings at 147 pounds.
Jaron «Boots» Ennis was elevated from interim titleholder to IBF welterweight champion. Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs), 36, defeated Errol Spence Jr.
in July to unify all four welterweight titles via ninth-round TKO. He entered the bout with the WBO title and added the IBF, WBA and WBC belts to his collection.
After the bout, the IBF ordered Crawford to defend against Ennis. Crawford contractually owes Spence an immediate return bout after the latter exercised the rematch clause.
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