Former two division world champion Terence Crawford (32-0, 23 KOs) believes he was snubbed last year when it came to 'Fighter of The Year' honors.

The Boxing Writers Association of America awarded that honor to WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs). 

In 2017, Lomachenko picked up three stoppage victories - over Jason Sosa, Miguel Marriaga and Guillermo Rigondeaux.

Crawford believes he had a better year than Lomachenko.

The undefeated boxer started off the by beating down and stopping Olympic gold medal winner Felix Diaz. And then Crawford closed out the year by knocking out undefeated Julius Indongo in three rounds to unify the entire junior welterweight division - becoming only the second male boxer in history (Bernard Hopkins being the other) to unify all four of the major titles in his division (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO).

Crawford feels Lomachenko received way too much credit for being Guillermo Rigondeaux, who moved up by two weight divisions to take the fight. And the Cuban boxer had been very inactive over the last few years. 

"He's a tremendous talent," Crawford told Yahoo Sports. "But, I do not rate him as the number one pound-for-pound. I do not rate him as the Fight of The Year. Why? Because when we sat down, and I said that if Lomachenko comes up two weight classes and fights me, and I beat him, none of you will give me credit - because ya'll are gonna say that I'm too big for him.

"Everybody at the table said 'yeah, you're probably right, but its just that fact that we want to see the fight.' So its a lose-lose situation for me, because I wouldn't get the credit for beating him. Even if I win, or I struggled to win or he did something to make the fight more interesting - then you will say 'you was getting beat by a little guy and the only reason you won is because you was big.'

"Fast forward to last year, he fought Rigondeaux and Rigondeaux came up two weight classes. We don't know how old he is. Everybody says he's old as sh*t. He hadn't fought..... he fought like two rounds in two years or something and didn't look good in those two rounds. And everybody gave him the credit for that win.

"That is double-standard, because ya'll wouldn't give me the credit [if I beat Lomachenko]. He didn't even give himself credit, and I have to respect that. He said that it wasn't [Rigondeaux's] weight so the win shouldn't be that high."

And Crawford was not impressed by Lomachenko two other wins in 2017 - which came against Sosa, who many regard as a tough brawler - and Marriaga, who moved up in weight to take the fight and was also coming off a clear loss to Oscar Valdez.

"When we go to Marriaga, it's another fighter coming up in weight and coming off a loss. How can you even have the justification to [to praise him for that], when the guy was never a world champion, never did anything in his career, never did anything in the amateurs, was coming up in weight, coming off a loss - and they make it seem like it was a gold medalist, like [Marriaga] was world champion and beat this guy and beat that guy. And then Jason Sosa, he was just a basic guy," Crawford said.