Terence Crawford: record, next fight and profile →
At the age of 32, Terence Crawford is stuck on the sidelines chasing a legacy-defining fight. The three-division crownholder and current WBO welterweight champion Crawford (36-0, 27 KOs) is eying a fight against equal peer Errol Spence Jr. — one day.
Terence Crawford and Shawn Porter have been linked to a future fight for years, but with Crawford tied to Top Rank and Porter with PBC, no serious steam has been built for the pair to showdown. To complicate matters a bit more, Crawford and Porter are close and consider each other friends.
Terrence Crawford is cognizant of how the current economic structure in boxing has been impacted due to coronavirus. As top fighters like Canelo Alvarez are asked to take reduced purses in return fights, the WBO welterweight champion Crawford (36-0, 27 KOs) is holding his own ground and pounding the table to get what he deserves.
Terence Crawford may want to rethink his hardline position on pandemic-era purses, according to a certain observer. The welterweight titleholder caused a stir last month for saying he would rather sit out indefinitely than take a pay cut and fight as a result of Covid-19. The novel coronavirus has just about crippled every facet of the global economy, forcing record layoffs and depressed wages.
Unified super lightweight champion Jose Ramirez (25-0) has stated in several interviews that he is very interested in facing unbeaten WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford (36-0) when he moves up in weight.
Terence Crawford can’t understand why his critics are so quick to pick apart his resume at welterweight. Crawford consistently encounters criticism because he hasn’t fought any of the top 147-pound fighters affiliated with Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions, most notably Errol Spence Jr. The 32-year-old Crawford doesn’t think he is at fault for those fights failing to materialize because he has boxed PBC-affiliated fighters, though none on the level of Spence, Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman or Danny Garcia.
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Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum strongly believes that World Boxing Organization [WBO] welterweight champion Terence Crawford is the big name opponent that Manny Pacquiao requires for a major pay-per-view blockbuster.
Terence Crawford considers Kell Brook a potential opponent, but the unbeaten WBO welterweight champion doesn’t think he’ll box Brook next. Beyond preferring to meet Manny Pacquiao whenever he fights again, Crawford considers COVID-19 travel restrictions an obstacle their promoters won’t be able to overcome when they attempt to schedule a Crawford-Brook bout for September or October. Crawford-Brook couldn’t be scheduled to be held in the United States or Brook’s native England until either fighter would be assured he could to travel to his opponent’s home country.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum hopes to have welterweight world titlist Terence Crawford back in the ring in September or October and recently named four potential opponents in fellow titleholder Manny Pacquiao, former titleholders Shawn Porter and Kell Brook and longtime contender Yordenis Ugas.