WBO welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford (38-0, 29 KOs) is eager to show the world why he’s the best fighter in boxing on Saturday against WBO #6 ranked challenger, David Avanesyan (29-3-1, 17 KOs) on PPV from the CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
On his recent training camp:
“It is business as usual. It’s great to have a fight date and a goal to work toward. I have a solid group of guys who are pushing me every single day, and we had a close-knit community during camp. This was one of my best camps, and I am motivated to put on a show for my fans in Omaha, who have had my back from the start of my career.”
On his matchup with David Avanesyan:
“David Avanesyan is a good fighter. He’s on a good winning streak, and beat a guy in the U.K., in Josh Kelly who people thought was going to be a star. I have to train like I am facing King Kong on December 10th, because Avanesyan has everything to gain and nothing to lose. I know he is going to bring everything on December 10th, so I’m not looking past him. This will be the best Avanesyan, so I have to be the best Terence Crawford.”
On what a win will do for his career:
“My goal is to remind the world that world I am the best fighter on the planet so everyone needs to tune in December 10 on this new BLK Prime PPV platform. I am fighting not just to be the best, but to give fighters fair and equitable treatment in negotiations moving forward.”
Crawford is always in shape and ready to fight and I believe he stops Avanesyan somewhere in the middle rounds. What’s holding up the real fight between Crawford and Spence? Promoters? Or does each fighter want more than the other fighter? I hope that’s not the case.
We all know Who/What is holding up that fight. That Greaseball, Al Haymon. We could have had a Rematch between the two by now. I’m telling you, Al Haymon is not good for boxing.
Spence/Crawford probably at the top of the list of best fights to be made along with; Fury/Usyk, Tank/Garcia, Canelo/Benavidez, Bivol/Beterbiev, and Haney/Loma. Did I miss any others?
Wilder/Joshua….?
Terrence,my view is that you are the best Allround BOXER competing right now. Ring IQ, boxing skills and counterpunching second to none at present (Bivol is impressive too) ,and a gentleman outside the ring. I’d like to see you issue a challenge to Charlo at 154lb, you would school him!!
Hopefully Crawford gets paid for this fight. And, we see him in a super-fight soon
I feel Avanesyan is going to push Crawford very hard in this fight.
crawford will never fight spence because he is scared.
“crawford will never fight spence because he is scared.”
– The most idiotic post in this thread so far…
I’m at the point that i just don’t care about the Spence fight.
They waited too long.
Boots Ennis is the man now anyway.
That’s what people said about Donald Curry, and look at what happened. Boots needs to earn his stripes. Cross apply that to Vergil Ortiz Jr.
Comparing Boots to Curry! BTW Curry was unified Welterweight Champion when those big predictions started to go wrong. Seems like a comparison for the sake of it.
I love Bud’s attitude. Humble and hard working. He properly appraised the situation. Great character. I wish Bud well.
Why does an already beaten fighter who brings nothing to the table get a title shot and not Boots Ennis? Miss fighters like Trinidad, Mosley, Whittaker, Delahoya they fought each other the best
All fighters have guess they avoid. For instance, Delahoya avoided winky wright like the plague.
Guys. Not guess. Stupid autocorrect.
Good for Crawford and his family to get another bag ($10 million). No, he didnt what the Spence fight right now but its simply too risky for Crawford. If I was team Crawford I would have pretended and backdoored a deal also.
Crawford pretended to want the fight to save face.
Spence ruins careers and Crawford would likely want to cash out a couple times before the Spence fight. You wont be seeing Mickey Garcia, Danny Garcia, Porter, or Ugas in the ring anytime soon. Those guys are stil in recovery and show signs of PTSD.
Manny Pacquiao is the Best Fighter of Boxing History, with 8 Division Belts. No one can ever duplicate it. Mayweather might be great too being Undefeated, but there are a Lot of Undefeated Boxers out There. So therefore let any boxer accomplish what Manny Pacquiao did, so they can be Great.
What does this have to do with the Crawford fight on Saturday???
Who cares! Not spending a dime on a PPV ever on either Crawford or Spence unless the fight is them against each other.