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Manny Pacquiao apparently sees a lot of himself in Naoya Inoue. To the point that the eight-division champion and former senator of the Philippines wants to help what many feel today is the world’s greatest fighter.
The time to fight Terence Crawford as a welterweight was when he was just starting out as one, some five-odd years ago, according to his longtime trainer Brian McIntyre.
Chris Eubank Jr. denies that he was ever on the cusp of fighting Conor Benn. The brash middleweight from Brighton, England, is set to take on Liam Smith on Sept. 2 at AO Arena in Manchester in a rematch of their encounter in January, when Smith surprisingly stopped Eubank in four rounds.
Terence Crawford is practically numb to the alibis and asterisks that he says typically follow his fights. That includes the latest justifications that have dribbled out in the wake of his rousing ninth-round technical knockout of Errol Spence Jr.
Caleb Plant feels he was completely justified in thwacking Jermall Charlo in public. The former 168-pound titlist from Ashland City, Tennessee, blew up in the tabloids last month when a video showing him smacking Charlo, the WBC middleweight titlist, went viral. The confrontation occurred backstage at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas after Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford officially weighed-in for their undisputed welterweight title.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. apparently feels that Errol Spence Jr. has completely outgrown the division in which he has fought his entire career. What’s more, the Hall of Fame fighter thinks that it is in Spence’s best interests to jump up not one, but possibly two or three weight classes in order to perform at optimal strength.
Regis Prograis won’t deign to consider any other outcome but a painful beatdown for Devin Haney. Prograis, the WBC 140-pound titlist from New Orleans, is in advanced talks to fight Haney, the undisputed lightweight champion, in a 12-round bout for Prograis’ junior welterweight title. The fight would be Haney’s first in the 140-pound ranks.
The undisputed welterweight championship required concessions from both of its participants to become a reality. But perhaps one fighter deserves a bit more credit than the other. Newly crowned undisputed welterweight champion Terence Crawford stated in a recent interview that his ballyhooed fight with Errol Spence Jr. would not have happened if it were not for the latter’s initiative.
Anthony Joshua is confident that Errol Spence Jr. is a much better fighter than what he showed in the ring against Terence Crawford. Spence, of Desoto, Texas, suffered a colossal beatdown from Crawford last Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Omaha, Nebraska’s Crawford dropped Spence three times before referee Harvey Dock waved off the bout in the ninth. Crawford, who turns 36 next month, is now the undisputed welterweight champion. It is the second time he has cleaned out a division, having done so previously in the 140-pound weight class.
Terence Crawford says he never carried any animus toward Errol Spence Jr. The top two welterweights in the world squared off last Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in a high-profile match to determine the undisputed champion in the division. In the end, Crawford came out on top, stopping Spence in the ninth round of a fight that was never really competitive. The win cemented Crawford, in the eyes of many, as the top fighter in the world.