Originally posted by Brittney1229
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Good sincere question, that deserves a sincere answer.
I'll start with Bud Crawford, he beat his contemporaries, or at least the guys of his generation willing to fight him. Before fighting Spence Crawford unified two weight classes,stop the WBO champion, beat a two belt, two-time champion and that was all before stopping the lineal welterweight champion. Terrance Crawford was a HOF lock long before he faced Errol Spence. Similar to many people I would have liked to have seen Crawford fight more of his contemporaries and he tried, Top Rank offered career high paydays and everyone from Danny to Keith Thurman refused to fight him. (I don't count Manny because he's from another generation).
Jaron Ennis is not Crawford's contemporary, he's a decade behind him and so far his management offered nothing to his opponents, Ennis never unified anything, he hasn't fought for a belt in any weight class, he is not a draw and he just signed with a company that doesn't have a stable at 147 or 154lbs.
Sure, it seems like it should be a competitive fight but there's no money, nobody knows Ennis and the only belt he has to offer Crawford fought for, won and never lost.
IMO... and this may be just my opinion, Ennis is probably a few years away and that assumes Eddie Hearn can deliver at least one championship fight for a belt. Keep in mind Eddie Hearn signed Canelo and still he couldn't get Demetrius Andrade a single shot at a title in his weight class so there are no guarantees.
As for Crawford's future, Terrance is moving up again to fight champions in his attempt to unify 3rd divisions
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