by Rick Reeno

MGM Grand, Las Vegas - Terence Crawford (29-0, 20KOs) has rejected any claims of avoiding a physical fight with Viktor Postol (28-1, 12KOs).

On Saturday night, Crawford scored two knockdowns and won a twelve round unanimous decision over Postol  to unify the WBO/WBC junior welterweight world titles. The lopsided scores were 118-107, 118-107, 117-108.

According to Postol, he was trying to make an exciting fight for the fans who purchased the event on pay-per-view - but says Crawford was always "running away" and not engaging.  

"Mentally I knew that this was a pay-per-view opportunity and everybody was paying for this fight. And what I knew is that people who were paying wanted to see a fight and what I tried to do is make the fight happen," Postol said.

"I tried to go forward. I didn't choose to do a technical style and make it a chess match. I did my best to make it an exciting fight. I think the other side didn't really want to do that. Terence Crawford was running and it just didn't happen. I was going forward most of the fight. I tried my best to make ir a fight. He was a running, he was fast and a good boxer."

According to Crawford, Postol's gave a false impression by coming forward. He wanted to fight, especially in the twelfth and final round, but claims Postol was always jumping away and refusing to trade.

"We he said he wanted to fight [in the twelfth round]. He told me 'let's go.' I smiled at him and stepped forward and he retreated and started running. And I was like 'I thought we was gonna fight.'  I never ran from a fight before. He knew that he was never going to exchange with me," Crawford said.

"His thing was, he was trying to get me to come in so he can counter. He really didn't want to fight. The whole time he was coming forward, when I would step to him he would jump back. That told me everything right there."