Terence Crawford is bitter about not receiving his flowers from fans for his recent win over Israil Madrimov on August 3rd and his past accomplishments during his 16-year career.
Now 37, Crawford shows signs of age, is resentful, and feels victimized. He doesn’t understand why he’s not being adored by the fans.
He’s a classic textbook example of a person who made the wrong decisions and now can’t grasp his mistakes. It’s tragic and sad that he’s wasted his potential. He didn’t want to fight killers like Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis or move up and run the gauntlet by facing David Benavidez, David Morrell, and Christian Mbilli.
Crawford feels unappreciated and invalidated by the public, who haven’t been impressed with the opposition he’s beaten.
They wanted Crawford to take risks with his career and fight the sharks earlier in his career, but he failed to do so. He could have moved up to 160 and 168 to challenge himself against Canelo Alvarez, Gennadiy Golovkin, and Jermall Charlo ages ago. He didn’t do it, and he’s wasted his 16-year career beating middle-of-the-road opposition.
The former four-division world champion Crawford feels that he should be adored for beating two gold medalists, Felix Diaz and Yuriorkis Gamboa, and other champions during his career.
Not surprisingly, fans weren’t impressed by those wins nor the other victories Crawford accumulated during his years with Top Rank, the same promoters that helped create Edgar Berlanga’s gleaming record.
“The standards for me are always high because everybody always doubts me. People always say that I’m not as good as I am portrayed to be. My resume is [poor],” said Terence Crawford to Bernie the Boxer.
“Everyone always says these things to try and devalue me when they can’t look at what I’ve accomplished in the sport of boxing for the things that I’ve done; you got to take your hat off and give me my props,” said Terence.
Crawford’s best Career wins:
– Israil Madrimov: Razor-close win
– Errol Spence: *After car crash
– Shawn Porter: Past his best
– Ricky Hatton: Ditto
– Kell Brook: Post-eye injury problems from GGG
– Amir Khan: Faded
– Jeff Horn: Who cares?
– Julius Indongo
– Jose Benavidez Jr: Post-gunshot leg wound
– Felix Diaz: Tiny in size 2008 gold medalist who never panned out as a pro
– Yuriorkis Gamboa: 2004 Olymoic giold medalist, who was too small for lightweight
“When you’re so much better than the competition in front of you, and the competition is world champions, Olympic gold medalists [undersized 5’5 1/2″ Felix Diaz and 5’4 1/2″ Yuriorkis Gamboa], multiple weight world champion and you’re just that much better than the competition,” said Crawford.
Fans weren’t going to make a big deal about the giant 5’9′ Crawford beating Felix Diaz and Yuriorkis Gamboa because he should have never been fighting at lightweight in the first place back in 2014.
As big as Crawford was, he looked like Goliath inside the ring with Gamboa and Diaz. It doesn’t matter that those fighters won gold medals in the Olympics. The amateurs have nothing to do with the pro game. That’s a completely different sport and is more like fencing than true boxing. Those guys were brave enough to fight the much bigger Crawford. That would be like Crawford going up to light heavyweight and taking on Artur Beterbiev. He would be food for Beterbiev.
“They look at you like you’re not fighting anybody. The same way they were saying about Roy Jones Jr. The same way they were saying about Floyd Mayweather. He’s fighting guys out of their prime and fighting these guys when they’re washed,” said Crawford.
Roy Jones Jr, and Mayweather were far better fighters than Crawford during their primes, but they obviously did select their fair share of weak opposition.
“When you’re that much better than the competition, nobody wants to give you your just due,” said Crawford.
Crawford’s real problem is that he hasn’t fought the talented fighters that the fans wanted, who would have made him a PPV star years ago. Unfortunately, it’s too late now to turn back the clock and do what Crawford should have done 10+ years ago. He’s old, bitter, and unable to come to terms with his mistakes.
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