On February 25, 2017 he lost to Jarrett Hurd for the International Boxing Federation light middleweight world title, the  fight was originally supposed to be a title eliminator for the right to fight Jermall Charlo, an American professional boxer who held the IBF light middleweight title from which year, to 2017?
Jermall Charlo Jermall Charlo (born May 19, 1990) is an American professional boxer who held the IBF light middleweight title from 2015 to 2017. His identical twin brother, Jermell Charlo, is also a professional boxer and is younger by one minute. Both brothers are graduates of Hastings High School. They began boxing when they started following their father, himself a former boxer, into the gym. In 2016, both brothers became world champions when Jermell won the WBC light middleweight title.
Miguel Cotto Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez (born October 29, 1980) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He has held the WBO light middleweight title since August 2017, and has held six world championships, being the first boxer from Puerto Rico to win world titles in four weight classes. As of September 2017, Cotto is ranked as the world's second best best active light middleweight by BoxRec, third by "The Ring" magazine, and seventh by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. In 2007 and 2009 he reached a peak pound for pound ranking of seventh by "The Ring".