Terence Crawford may be the best fighter in the world, but the welterweight champion still feels the need to defend his name against his detractors.
In a series of recent posts on his
Crawford, of Omaha, Nebraska, is coming off the biggest win of his career, a dominant beatdown of Errol Spence Jr. for the four 147-pound belts. The talented switch-hitter dropped Spence three times en route to stopping the Desoto, Texas, native in the seventh round of their scheduled 12-round fight.
He is considered the first man to become undisputed champion in two different divisions, at 140 and now at 147.
“When I say I’m the best P4P fighter in the world, this is what I mean,” Crawford wrote in a post. “You could put me in any weight class if I was that size and I would still dominate. You definitely can’t say the same about everyone else. “Some don’t have the style of the smaller fighters or the bigger fighters that I have.”
“How many of you favorite fighters had a close fight or a fight that you didn’t dominate or lost?” Crawford wrote in another post. “There is no fighter that I have fought professionally that I can say I didn’t dominate them. I never liked to talk because I did it in the ring. But I’m really him, better ask someone.”
“I started this Undisputed shit. No one was shouting that they wanted to be indisputable until me. I am a trendsetter. Whether they like it or not, all their favorite wrestlers want to be like me. And that’s not the only thing either.”
What animates Crawford’s apparent resentment is his years-long struggle to find meaningful opponents in the welterweight division, as many of them were aligned with Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions, which was a fierce rival to the promotion company he backed. to Crawford at that time in Top. Range. After parting ways with Top Rank, Crawford finally solidified his ties with PBC ahead of his fight with Spence.
“I’m so cold they created an imaginary street,” Crawford wrote. “I tried to blackball myself, criticize myself and grow old, but I still came out victorious. Everything is God’s plan. One day all the haters will see that.”
Crawford is expected to enter into a contractual rematch with Spence sometime next year. It is not clear what weight they will fight at but both have hinted that it could be 154 pounds.
Sean Nam is the author of Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mob, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing.
