Pound for pound superstar Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) has admitted that his future lies up at welterweight - although he’s more than happy to continue plying his trade at 140-pounds for now.
“Right now I’m in this division and I make the weight comfortably but in the future I will be at welterweight,” confirmed the two weight world champion, who was speaking to Sway in the morning.
Bud’s WBO/WBC super-Lightweight unification bout with Viktor Postol is edging closer and the unbeaten switch hitting sensation is expecting his run to continue. The fight will happen on July 23rd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Crawford has respect for the skills of Postol, but he doesn't expect to face any issues on the night of the fight.
“He boxes well. He knows how to use his height, range and distance and I applaud him on that. But come fight night that’s not going to help him!”
One fight that was discussed but eventually got away was a potential mouth-watering dustup with Top Rank stablemate Manny Pacquiao, who announced his retirement back in April.
Crawford says he was told by Top Rank that Pacquiao was made the ultimate decision regarding his April opponents - in which he selected Timothy Bradley for a trilogy fight and took a pass on Crawford.
Crawford acknowledged talks were preliminary held: “Is he retired? I don’t know. Before he fought my name was mentioned. They told me that they left it up to Manny and he picked Bradley.”
He says there were other fighters who took a pass on fighting him.
"We were supposed to fight Provodnikov in this fight, but he went to Showtime. They offered Herrera the fight. They offered the fight to Postol in February and he didn't want to take the fight. We're here now and I'm ready," Crawford said.
