Spence: I’m not worried about Crawford right now

After Errol Spence Jr. defeated Shawn Porter to unify the WBC and IBF welterweight titles on Saturday night, the name of WBO champion Terence Crawford came up. “The last time Crawford fought on pay-per-view, he did 100,000 buys,” said Spence. “I’m not worried about Crawford right now. They don’t promote him like they should be, so it is what it is. We’ll worry about Crawford when we get there. Like I said Crawford needs me more than I need him.”

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  • Man He should be worrying about Crawford Manny Pacquio ain’t fighting neither one of them so they need to gone fight each other Pacquio was with Top tank and said out his mouth he didn’t want no part of Crawford and the both we’re with the same company now Fast Forward Manny with Al Hammond now and Spence might as well forget it to so Errol u should be worried about Crawford unless he’s scared too

    • Spence and Crawford will both be favorites to win against Pacquiao. But Pacquiao can beat any of them. And Pacquiao is not afraid of anybody. It just doesn’t make business sense to fight Crawford then, when he was still in Top Rank. Crawford was then an up and coming high risk low reward fight. Being at the twilight of his career, you can’t blame Pacquiao. But, if the prize it right, Pacquiao will fight Crawford.

  • Great, always good to see the top guys in the division avoiding each other.

    To be fair, Spence did just have a close, tough fight with Porter and Garcia is no pushover.

    But it would be good to find out who actually is THE champ at welter…I could say the same for pretty much all the divisions.

  • Crawford could fight Lomachenko if Crawford can drop to 141 lbs, and the fight can be for the WBO 147 lbs belt. Whoever would win that, most boxing fans would say at least, they are pretty much undisputedly recognized as the best in the world, and the best at jr welterweight. What would be 1 lb over the limit of jr welterweight? So why doesn’t Crawford or Lomachenko, or both, get on that soapbox. Both are 32 years old (Lomachenko will be 32 in 4½ months). So why not make the fight? Teofimo Lopez is going to fight Commey now, so Lomachenko isn’t doing that unification anytime soon. And also, if Canelo can up to 175 and fight Kovalev, why not make Crawford at 141, and Lomachenko can weigh whatever he wants over 135. I would want to see Spence fight Crawford, but Spence is not trying to bring Crawford to fight him in Dallas Stadium. They could make that fight in Denver if not Dallas. It isn’t like people wouldn’t buy pay per view for Spence vs Crawford. Crawford is looking for guys coming off of a win or a draw, that is pretty much Pacquaio and Spence, they only won their last fights because of knockdowns in a round.

    • Loma won’t go up anytime soon. They’ve actually talked about him moving back down. Loma has big fights with Davis and Haney that would be good to see. Spence is out of his mind saying Crawford needs him more. After this fight he is looking seriously overrated. How can a guy be P4P top 10 when he struggles with a smaller guy in his original weight class? Also noted that he is a horse led to water with this Garcia fight. Total circus act to make sure Paqman didn’t get brought up.

    • Man, Lomachenko is already in division where he is too small at 135. His real place is at 130. Fighting Crawford at 141 or so wouldn’t even be competitive. Crawford is just too big and is not just an ordinary fighter as well. Loma just had a tough fight vs Campbell in an unification match. Taking on a #1 challenger for one of his belts in waiting for the Lopez-Commey winner looks more likely to happen imho.

  • Not worried about Crawford right now? What happened to wanting to fight the best, being the best welterweight and number one pound for pound? I guess a tough fight and a razor thin decision will do that to you. Oh well, now we get Garcia, who is no easy out.

    • Exactly That Texan does not want anything to do with Nebraskan Crawford. Bud has to basically b@##h slap him to get a fight

    • Spence is there for the money and to take care of himself. His health, just like he said, is very important. Spence is the product. Crawford is the real fighter/boxer. That’s just the way it is. Crawford wants to fight for legacy. Spence is all about marketing and timing.

    • Why jump out of the frying pan right into the fire while Crawford is sitting back waiting? Craw needs to fight a top contender or Pac-Man and share the work!

  • Of course you don’t need to worry about Crawford because you’ll never fight him.

  • Errol Spence is a career welterweight, since November 2012. Not that he was starting to fight anyone until September 2015, though some people would say that Van Heerden and Algieri were no hopers against Spence anyway. But in the last 3 years Spence has stepped up and is legit as #1 or #2 at 147. Everyone wants to say that Lomachenko and Crawford are #1 and #2 pound for pound, so Crawford has to be at least #2 best at 147. Crawford is 6-0 and 6 KOs in the last 3 years, and he totally and clearly defeated Postol by decision. Spence is 6-0 with 4 KOs in the last 3 years. I’d have to go with Spence facing the better opposition. Beltran and Postol were the only guys that could go 12 with Crawford in the past 5 years, though Benavidez Jr came really close to going 12. To me it is up to Crawford to say the Lomachenko fight will happen in his next fight, or the fight after next. Crawford can still get close to 140, maybe 141 or 142. Instead he has Shakur Stevenson saying the Lomchenko fight will happen some day, a fight nobody cares about now. Spence will keep fighting in house, Crawford might as well shop in house at Top Rank for anyone that wants to fight from 141 to 147. Crawford can keep that WBO 147 lbs belt for a long time that way (even if PBC guys keep avoiding him).

  • How is it that Crawford can’t get lined up to fight with #9 WBO from 140, Turarov? The guy will be 25-0 pretty soon, coming off of a pretty long lay off. To me, there are guys in the top 10 of the WBO at 140 that can move up to fight Crawford, since Lipinets and Danny Garcia are contenders at 147 in the top 5 of the WBO that will not fight Terence Crawford. And unifications at 147 that involve Crawford do not seem likely right now.

  • “I’m not worried about Crawford because I know I’ll never fight him because he will beat my ass. I’m more focused on the totally irrelevant Danny Garcia” – Errol Spence Jr.

  • He just took shawn’s belt do Crawford needs to either take Pac-Man’s belt or fight a top contender!

  • This whole business of commenting on another champions promotional conduct is getting old. This fighters are only interested in being a unified champion at most. The only real champ is the UNDISPUTED one, which is still missing at 147, because if the b.s. politics.
    Another tactic that is getting old and hopefully one that everyone can see through is the philosophy of letting the threat in the division get old before they fight them for a clear advantage. It’s happening at 147 just as it is all the way to light heavyweight and down to lightweight. Crawford did it without blinking because he wanted to be the best. Whoever has a belt is in charge and if they are afraid to fight the best, then they should relinquish the alphabet strap.

  • Spence this fight is very easy to make. Lets put on the table 20-30 million $$$$$s, and make it a winner take all fight. So Spence if you really think Crawford is a nobody and someone you do not need to worry about, here is a solution for your situation. And BTW if the WBC,Fbi,WWE KGB does not want you to fight Crawford, ask the FANS which fight they want to see? If you decided not to fight Crawford,take those titles and give them to Crawford, and BOW your head to Bud while handing them to him. PBC and who knows who else, better start understanding that you’re making boxing faaaaar worse than the WWE because at least in the WWE EVERYONE is always fighting everyone!!!!!! Now man up SPENCE and make this happen.

  • Both bums overrated! How can these bums even be mentioned in the same breath the TRUE LEGEND MANNY PACQUIAO, it’s embarrassing they ain’t ready for each other but they all are ready for a 41 year old pacquiao those BUMS are a disgrace to boxing! Canelo is also A BUM Pacquiao Mayweather Leonard Hearns Delahoya Mosley where the real welterweights in there time not like these losers now!

  • If PBC is the problem here, let them know that we the public are not satisfied with a champion not fighting another major champ. Crawford is a major fighter, and needs to be addressed as such. Although I can see why Spence would rather not fight him after he had all he could do to get the nod with Porter,who I thought won that fight.

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