Terence Crawford will bid to become a 3-weight world champion when he challenges Australia’s Jeff Horn for his WBO world welterweight title.
The original April 14th date when they were set to meet was pushed back when the Omaha slickster suffered an injury to his hand but the bout will take place in the very near future.
Lol @mikeygarcia you funny. You say all I did was run from you when we fought! You got the tape when we fought, put it out there so everybody can see how I ran upside yo head. #facts
— Terence Crawford (@terencecrawford) March 22, 2018
Jeff Horn shocked the world last year when he overcame and overwhelmed the legendary 8-weight world champion, Manny Pacquiao, after being written off coming into the bout to capture the WBO world welterweight title.
Discussing that fight in July 2017, Crawford believes he saw a fighter who ‘fought to win.’
Furthermore, Jeff Horn is known for his rugged approach to the art of fighting and the former undisputed jr-welterweight king has warned Horn that he is totally different proposition to Pacquiao.
Additionally, Crawford claims ‘I can get dirty too.’
“He fought to win. I don’t look at it as calling another fighter dirty when he did everything he could to win by any means.”
Now all of the sudden 140 is this stacked division when I leave. 🤔🤣
— Terence Crawford (@terencecrawford) March 10, 2018
“I like that. He’s rough.”
“He doesn’t come to lay down. He comes to win,” Crawford added.
“When I beat him, it’s going to be more telling for me — that I beat someone who was game and didn’t come to get a payday.
I can get dirty too. I’ll tell you like this: I’m bigger than Pacquiao and stronger than Pacquiao.”
There has been much talk that looking past Horn, that Crawford who operates under Bob Arum’s Top Rank may experience some difficulty in trying to finalise agreements with the other welterweight champions, Errol Spence Jr and Keith Thurman.
If a fight needs to be made, it can be made,” Crawford said to the Los Angeles Times.
Not a member of the @Migos. Not from Atlanta. But @budcrawford402 still… pic.twitter.com/zOgMes9aWd
— Top Rank Boxing (@trboxing) March 23, 2018
“No matter what the circumstances are, we the fighters need to speak up and make it be known we want to fight each other.”
“We go to our promoters and managers and tell them to get it done because, at the end of the day, we’re the ones fighting, the ones making them the money.”
“So if it’s something we really desire to have, I believe it can happen.”
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