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.
Arif Magomedov Arif Magomedov (born 4 August 1992) is a professional boxer in the Middleweight division. Magomedov is the current leader in the Russian Middleweight division. As of December 2015, he was ranked among the world's top middleweights by all of the major boxing organizations. This was until he began training at Glendale Fighting Club and subsequently lost anything resembling a world class team and fight preparation. This failure to be properly trained led to him being soundly beaten by a full-time landscaper/journeymen boxer in Andrew Hernandez. Hernandez had trouble preparing for the bout due to work commitments.