Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is working on an Oct. 13 fight for newly crowned welterweight titlist Terence Crawford (33-0, 24 KOs) and has a short list of potential opponents but plans to wait until after Top Rank’s July 7 ESPN card before he really get into it. That’s because Arum told ESPN he wants to see how rising contender Egidijus Kavaliauskas (19-0, 16 KOs) looks in his fight that night against Juan Carlos Abreau in the Jose Ramirez-Danny O’Connor co-feature at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California. “We’ll wait to see how Kavaliauskas does in his fight. He could be the opponent,” Arum said. “But we will also talk to Jose Benavidez, maybe Carlos Adames, and we’ll also see what happens with Lucas Matthysse.” Matthysse is slated to defend his secondary welterweight belt against Manny Pacquiao on July 15 (July 14 in the United States) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, but Pacquiao’s MP Promotions has had trouble meeting financial obligations and it’s still not certain that the event will happen. Crawford dethroned Jeff Horn by one-sided ninth-round knockout on June 9 in Las Vegas to win a title in his third division.