WBO Welterweight Champion Terence “Bud” Crawford (38-0, 29 KOs) went face to face with WBO #6 contender David Avanesyan (29-3-1, 17 KOs) at the final press conference on Thursday before they meet on Saturday headlining a $39.99 BLK Prime Pay-Per-View from the CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
Terence Crawford: “I’m very focused and have been since day one strictly on Avanesyan. We know what he brings to the table, but we’re going to elevate it to a higher level. this Saturday we’ll be victorious, and going to have fun doing it. I really can’t look at too much of who [Avanesyan] fought and how they fought each other. When [Avanesyan] and I match up we’ll be making our adjustments on the fly and we’re going to do what we do best, which is shine.”
David Avanesyan: “This is a big fight, a huge fight. I had a great camp, and I’m going to be giving everything to win this fight. Everyone is talking about Terence, I’m not only here to win this fight decisively but to shock the world. Come Sunday morning, the news will be spreading that I raised the belt, and shocked the world. I’ll be getting to go back and see my family who I haven’t seen for so long, and return home a champion.”
Won’t be watching! Still salty over the FAILED negotiations with Spence….regardless of who’s fought it is or who dropped the ball!
It’s shocking that two top American guys in the same division can’t meet on terms to fight. It feels like this isn’t an issue anywhere but in the US.
Spence and Crawford are two guys that want 8 figure paydays for their fight but it’s not that level of a fight.
We’ll never know what level of a fight it is because they’re not fighting. I know not only fans were looking forward to this but so were other fighters.
Thats great that people are looking forward to it but if both guys want 10 million plus what promoter is going to take that expense on. None becuse they would lose their ass. A lot of fights don’t get made for this reason. Guys wont budge off of their number. And Crawford should take less if he really wants this fight since Spence has pulled in crowds in Dallas and PBC is his promoter
Lets be honest. Nobody gives a damn about this fight. No one believes Avanesyan can win and if Crawford wins so what.
True… Crawford TKO in this one. It’s that easy.
Crawford fighting the smaller guy once again to pad his record. If don’t get this cat out of there in 2! Then he needs to start answering questions.
Pretty sure most of the world not paying any attention.