Terence Crawford: “If I Leave This Sport Without Being Undisputed At 147, It Doesn’t Hinder Me”
By: Sean Crose
“Of course it’s been disappointing. That’s a fight that’s been on our radar for years,” WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford stated to Kate Abdo on her The Good Fight podcast. He was referring, after all, to a failed try and make a significant and far hoped for match between himself and fellow welterweight titlist Errol Spence. Still, Crawford made it clear that he has a profession and household to concentrate on. “I gotta do what’s best for me at the end of the day,” he stated. With that being stated, Crawford has moved away from a Spence struggle and is ready to face David Avenesyan on December twelfth.
And don’t count on the undefeated world titlist to apologize for a Spence struggle not coming to fruition. “I did everything that I was supposed to do, that I could do to make the fight happen,” he stated. When requested if he thinks the struggle nonetheless might get made, Crawford appeared a minimum of considerably assured that it might. “There’s always still life in the fight,” he stated. “Things just got to be made clear and they’ve got to be right on both sides. That’s it. That’s the only thing I ever asked for. To be fair and be transparent. That was it.”
Abdo recommended Crawford may fear about his legacy. Crawford, nonetheless, made it clear he’s pleased with the place his legacy stands. “When you look at Terence Crawford’s legacy to Errol Spence’s legacy,” he stated, “it’s night and day.” He then went on to clarify why he feels his legacy is safe. “You’re going to say he’s a three weight world champion,” Crawford stated in reference to himself, “he’s an undisputed world champion, he’s a fighter of the year, he’s an ESPY award winner, he’s a lineal champion at two different weight classes, he’s undefeated and he never had a close fight ever in his boxing career.”
Abdo then requested if Crawford can be upset if he retired with out being the undisputed welterweight champion of the world. “Not at all,” he stated. “I already did that. I already accomplished that.” To make sure, Crawford has been undisputed earlier than. “If I leave this sport without being undisputed at 147,” he acknowledged, “it doesn’t hinder me.” Although it was apparent Crawford want to face Spence in some unspecified time in the future within the close to future, it was additionally apparent that Crawford seems content material along with his profession if a Spence struggle doesn’t come to fruition.
