By Keith Idec

NEW YORK – Terence Crawford wants to win more world titles at 140 pounds.

The unbeaten WBC/WBO super lightweight champion also wants to start making more money. That’s where a higher-profile fight against Adrien Broner becomes an appealing possibility.

Crawford (30-0, 21 KOs) is interested in boxing Broner later this year, as long as Cincinnati’s Broner (33-2, 24 KOs) can make the 140-pound limit for a title fight against the Omaha, Nebraska, native.

“That’s a good fight, too,” Crawford said earlier this week while promoting his title defenses against Felix Diaz (19-1, 9 KOs) on May 20 at Madison Square Garden. “Broner, they just fought at 147, so who knows if he can make 140? But if he could, that would be a great fight, too. … If our managers and promoters come to an agreement where it suits both of us, then so be it.”

The 29-year-old Crawford referred to Broner’s split-decision victory over Adrian Granados (18-5-2, 12 KOs) on February 18 in Cincinnati. That fight originally was contracted for 142 pounds, but Broner later gave Granados a “take it-or-leave it” offer to move the fight to the welterweight limit of 147.

Broner, a former title-holder in four divisions, didn’t make the contracted 140-pound limit for his previous fight, either. He stopped England’s Ashley Theophane (40-7-1, 11 KOs) in the ninth round of that April 2016 bout in Washington, D.C. 

Granados gave Broner a tough test, but Broner won their 10-round fight on two of three scorecards at Xavier University’s Cintas Center (97-93, 96-94, 93-97). Crawford agreed with that decision.

“I thought he edged him out,” Crawford said. “It was a close fight, but I thought that Broner hit him with the cleaner shots coming down the stretch.”

When asked how his own fight against Broner would play out, Crawford didn’t divulge many details.

“I don’t really think about a fight leading up with me and Broner because that’s not the fight that’s in front of me,” Crawford said. “So I don’t take too much time to analyze a fight between me and him. I would say, ‘Oh, Broner got some skills. He’s good.’ But I never tried to compare or study him [like I’m] fighting him.”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.