Comments Thread For: Crawford: 'I Was Kinda Disappointed ... That It Took This Long For Me To Get My Recognition'

[DClefthook]

They did the same thing to Archie Moore and many other great fighters. Matchmaker Teddy Brenner once said, "there's no room for perfection in boxing". He was referring to Harold Johnson from Philly. Now the same thing is happening to Boots Ennis. At least you got to win your world titles. They froze Archie out of the title picture until he was well in his 40's. Guys like Charley Burley and Sam Langford never got world title shots, and they were both about as good as it gets. At least with Bud, he got to make good money along the way, and win titles. It's mainly the dumb ass fans who keep saying he ain't fought nobody, and it was Bob Arum, who failed to promote Bud like he promoted his little white or latin fighters. And the other powers in boxing like PBC who wouldn't let Bud fight the top ppl from their roster because he wouldn't sign to them, knowing all along that he could kick all their asses. Floyd, Ellerbe, and Al Haymon have all clearly understood this from day one and did all they could to blacklist Bud and try to age him out. Dirty mofos

Well it worked because they got Bud over to PBC to do both fights on Showtime. Sucks for Spence but Al git his bag!

[HandsofIron]

Crawford should whoop Boots's booty after he finishes his rematch with Spence, and then have some fights with guys like Thurman, Danny G, Ugas and then call it a career.

There's no need for Bud to move up to 168, makes no sense when there's better options at 147-154 around his size.

[QballLobo]

He's pretty self aware in the ring though isn't he. Spence looked like a deer in headlights who wasn't even sure what was happening. I find it funny that people feel the need to trash someone who is so accomplished because of their honest opinion in an interview.

He’s great in the ring but the reason he’s where he is at is he’s 35 and hasn’t made the fights people want to see. If he retired today he would be quickly forgotten. The Spence win was big but he should have taken that fight and others on that level years ago. He let others dictate his fight choices and it did him no favors.
He made the decision to go to Top Rank and resign there in his prime earning years knowing they’re stable of WW fighters and how hard it is for Arum to work with other promoters.

With how inactive he’s been and his age it will be tough to make a big splash in his remaining years in the game.

[Smash]

Maybe he wants his flowers so badly because of this........

"Terence Crawford's mother paid kids to beat him up and punished the superstar with a leather belt during his childhood in Omaha - insisting it made him the success he is today.

Crawford's mother, Debra, had an unorthodox approach to parenting and paid kids in the local community $10 (£8) each to fight her son on the streets.

She also undermined Crawford's achievements in the ring and refused to tell her son that she loved him or that she was proud of him

The 35-year-old's mother also admitted to 'beating him with a belt' and 'whooping his a**' to make him the pound-for-pound sensation he is today"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-12380745/Terence-Crawfords-mum-paid-kids-beat-felt-help-pound-pound-sensation-today.html

ouch lol

[Pac=Duran]

was pac 5 yrs ago really some kind of prize that was going to elevate bud up? he was clearly well past his best, surely the fight was just a foregone conclusion, elevation fights i presume would need an element of oh this guy 'might' lose so casuals get interested, surely that wouldnt have existed with pac bud at that time

Yeah. This ain’t the first to hang your hat on. Is Ugas considered some legend for whipping old man Pac? I don’t think so.

crawford didn’t get recognition because he had a pretty lack lustre resume, simple as that.

[-Kev-]

That’s because it was a great win. You don’t get recognition when you show your skills vs fringe contenders, you get it when you beat the best contenders.

[The Common Man]

The likes of Kavaliauskas, Horn, Postol, Diaz, and Indongo helped round Crawford into the guy we saw destroy Spence. The likes of Garcia, Garcia, Ugas, Porter, and Peterson helped round Spence into the guy we saw get destroyed.

Name recognition and popularity contest, probably need to ask yourselves who really had the better "resume" of the two...

[RuleOfTheSpear]

Pacquiao no longer looked good after that Horn fight. Any win over him after that point was just diminished.

Even Floyd's win over Pacquiao seemed way luckluster especially the context we have (Pacquiao's back to back losses to hof'ers Bradley and Marquez)

Pacquiao had his Duran-Barkely moment with Thurman.

Bud is better off destroying prime p4p fighters than destroying an old man chasing last glory.

[The D3vil]

He's right.

The business of boxing whether it's Arum ****blocking the Pacquiao fight or Al Haymon blackballing him.

I really wish some really rich fxck would buy boxing & create a format where guys have to fight & can't hide behind promoters

[Greenfield02]

He wanted the pac fight and it was dangled in front of him to resign w TR and then they snatched it. Then it was “killed” by Arum. Is what it is. He used his time wisely and became undisputed at 140 and 147. All worked out fine, and now you the most talked about fighter in the sport. Slow, steady, and intentional.

Man these Crawford groupies get all butt hurt when the truth is spoken....