By Steve Kim

Representatives for WBO super lightweight titlist, Terence Crawford and Ruslan Provodnikov were set to talk about a possible fight for the summer but those plans were scuttled as Showtime announced on Friday that Banner Promotions cut a deal to bring Provodnikov to their network. Provodnikov will collide with John Molina on June 11th in New York.

So what now for Crawford (28-0, 20KOs), who kicked off his 2016 by halting Hank Lundy on February 27th in five rounds at the Theater at Madison Square Garden?

His manager, Cameron Dunkin, told BoxingScene.com that his return will still - "be June or July and we have to find the right guy. We don't have an opponent, we're looking and we'll find somebody. We're going to get this guy on TV and find out if he can carry his own show."

After fighting just twice last year and losing some of the momentum he gathered in 2014, the goal is to get Crawford three fights in 2016 and to get him to a point where he can participate in a major pay-per-view fight.

"We want to fight in July and we want to fight him again before the end of the year and hopefully he'll become some sort of a name so people will understand who he is," said Dunkin, who says that he was told that the plan from Top Rank still called for his fighter to fight at the Forum in Los Angeles.

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.