Comments Thread For: Crawford: "No Matter How Many Divisions You Conquer, There's Gonna Be Fans That Don't Like You"

[BritJimbo]

This is false. I am a Crawford “critic”, but I used to be a fan. There was a time when Crawford was fighting more than satisfactory opposition. I remember arguing with fans claiming he would never fight Postol. When he did and schooled him, it was very satisfying as a Crawford fan.

It was what came after that fight that led me and probably many fans to become critical of Crawford.

I don’t know if Crawford doesn’t see why we really don’t like his career and if he really thinks he’s out here fighting the best. After Postol, it took him 6 years to fight another legit opponent in Shawn Porter.

Shawn ran him really close and this is Crawford's biggest win. Errol's last win over Ugas was as good as anything TC has done at WW.

Terence just doesn't want to fight anyone.

[Greenfield02]

I don't think it's about people liking you. It's about you, your groupies, and some of the media claiming that your the best thing since sliced bread and P4P "best" when your competition has been lackluster at best. Your claim to fame is the undisputed spot 140, but who did you exactly beat to become undisputed? Postol was the best win and that not saying much. But in the end you were undisputed, ok, what else have you done? Beat some paper champions in multiple divisions? Which top tier opponents have you beat In their prime? Your fans and the media will of course say, well, the competition that was available at 130, 135, 140 at the time is not Crawford's fault, maybe, but once you moved up to WW a few years back, you had the opportunity to take the division by storm, at that time, Porter, Garcia, Spence, are even Thurman were still considered somewhat in their prime, and what do you do? You wait around, allow those guys to face each other and you continue the trend of fighting B and C level opponents, or washed up opponents and then when you finally get the opportunity to fight Spence, a guy still considered top tier in their prime, you run away again claiming they are not paying you enough even though you have sold crap on PPV. Great fighters through out history, will take a chance and less money to get a fight that they know if they win, will open up doors to bigger things and money, that's the way it works in boxing, just off the top of my head I could think of when De la Hoya took less to get the Chavez fight, When Pac and Mayweather took less to fight De la Hoya, even though he lost, When Canelo took less to fight Mayweather, these fights put these guys in the lime light and made a ton of money because of it, they took the risk, payed your dues, but Crawford wants everything handed to him. You can blame the other side all you want but truth is, that when fighters want a fight, they get it done, look at Tank and Garcia, Fury, Wilder, Canelo, GGG, ect ect. At the end of the day Crawford is 35 and not one single signature fight, and the only determining factor in that is this clown who is so insecure that he has to come out on his social media everyday, to tell us how great he is......

[Slip jab]

Lol I get it. There’s ppl that put time into negativelydissecting his reseme, commit to something in real life with the same energy put into hating, they can make something of themselves, can run a successful business but they rather hate lol grown ppl too

[Oldskoolg]

Let me correct him, it’s about the decisions you’ve made after leaving arum, in fact it’s about the decision you made to resign with Arum when you knew you would get no big fights. Indeed the biggest fight of your career came against a Haymon fighter who crossed the street and fought on ESPN on a top rank show. If it worked out for you that’s where the most money was for least risk then just be honest that’s what you’re about because the ants what everyone sees. A fighter who seems to have zero interest in career defining fights.

[Dela]

You’re number one on my list
and them other knuckleheads are just that

[Biolink]

I'm a bit critical of his 140 run, but I give him the benefit of the doubt. He can only fight who he can fight and he took belts off of whoever had them.

At 147 he's been a disappointment.

[Jab jab boom]

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How are you disagreeing and making an argument over a hypothetical scenario?
Crawford ducked Spence to fight a guy nobody cares about. He might as well picked Boots. That might have given him respect.
As for undisputed in 2 weight classes, can you name the guys he beat at 140 without googling their names?

1. Is your reading comprehension limited? I’m saying that I disagree with Crawford saying that it wouldn’t matter how many divisions he conquered , that he’d still get hate. Had he conquered 147 by beating Spence, it would be hard to hate on him.
2. As far as hypothetical, his original statement is a hypothetical by saying it wouldn’t matter how many divisions he’s conquered since he’s only conquered 1.
3. Yes I know exactly who he unified against at 140 because I’m an actual boxing fan and not a casual. Specifically him beating undefeated champion postol who was coming off an upset win after making mathysse quit and indongo who was an undefeated unified champion who that was coming off beating burns on the road. Then there’s Dulorme for a vacant title.

[Uncle SneakyTouch]

Well said bud. Meanwhile Spencer has yet to conquer one division lmao

[DeeMoney]

If Crawford fights & beats Spence impressively, most critics will shut up. That's all it would take.

I'd favor Bud to beat Spence, and I'm not one of those "fans of a promoter" like many here; who criticize or defend based on that. But I feel as if the criticism of Crawford is not about his ability, so winning or losing shouldn't really change the criticism.

The initial critique was that he is getting most of the blame for the Spence fight not happening while both are in prime. I would say more of the recent criticism is due to him turning heavy into that proverbial skid in regards to the Spence criticism. He doubles down on his opponent choice, complains about others, goes on about others being at fault, comes off as whining about doing all he can....

His issues arent about his 'in-the-ring' ability, and they are growing less about him not fighting Spence, its now more about him handling the Spence fight not happening.

[LAchargers373]

Lol I get it. There’s ppl that put time into negativelydissecting his reseme, commit to something in real life with the same energy put into hating, they can make something of themselves, can run a successful business but they rather hate lol grown ppl too

Lmao u probably too broke to pay for fights that’s why u don’t care. Anyone defending him ain’t a BOXING fan. Imagine tito and DLH avoided vargas quartey EACH OTHER, Mosley like gtfoh this dude a FRAUD. Next level fraud