On DAZN's Boxing with Chris Mannix podcast, Crawford said he spoke with Spence and told him that when he does step back into the ring to not even think about selecting him as his first opponent back, as he won't accept the offer.
"(Spence) said he's going right into a fight with Danny Garcia, (Manny) Pacquiao, me," Crawford told Mannix. "I told him 'Don't come back trying to fight me because that ain't the fight you really want on your first fight to come back.' I wouldn't even take that fight if it was offered to me because it's a lose-lose situation for me.
"If something was to happen and I knocked him out or beat him up bad, they (media and fans) would say 'He's not the same Errol Spence, he's coming off a car accident,' and that would never end for my whole career," he added. "I just want to see him at the old Errol Spence that he used to be, and then me and him are going to fight
"(Spence) said he's going right into a fight with Danny Garcia, (Manny) Pacquiao, me," Crawford told Mannix. "I told him 'Don't come back trying to fight me because that ain't the fight you really want on your first fight to come back.' I wouldn't even take that fight if it was offered to me because it's a lose-lose situation for me.
"If something was to happen and I knocked him out or beat him up bad, they (media and fans) would say 'He's not the same Errol Spence, he's coming off a car accident,' and that would never end for my whole career," he added. "I just want to see him at the old Errol Spence that he used to be, and then me and him are going to fight
Spence tells him he's in the running to fight him and Bud tells him don't pick him. That fight could've been made if Bud really wanted it. He doesn't want the fight. Why do you think he turned down the fight, keeps pricing himself out and saying he doesn't need Spence and he doesn't care if he ever fights him.
When Spence is interviewed he says that's a fight that HAS to happen.
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