Terence Crawford is bitter about not receiving his flowers from fans for his recent victory over Israil Madrimov on August 3 and his past achievements during his 16-year career.
Now 37, Crawford is showing signs of age, is resentful, and feels victimized. He does not understand why he is not adored by the fans.
He is a classic textbook example of a person who made the wrong decisions and now cannot comprehend his mistakes. It is tragic and sad that he wasted his potential. He didn’t want to fight killers like Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis, or move up and run the rig by facing David Benavidez, David Morrell and Christian Mbilli.
Crawford felt unappreciated and invalidated by the public, who were unimpressed with the opposition he was beating.
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 years ago to challenge himself against Canelo Alvarez, Gennadiy Golovkin and Jermall Charlo. He didn’t, and he wasted his 16-year career beating middle-of-the-road opposition.
Former four-division world champion Crawford feels he should be worshiped 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 or the other wins Crawford racked up during his years with Top Rank, the same promoters who helped create Edgar Berlanga’s stellar record.
“The standards for me are always high because everyone always doubts me. People always say that I am not as good as I am portrayed to be. My resume is (poor),” Terence Crawford said Bernie the Boxer.
“Everyone always says these things to try to devalue me when they can’t look at what I’ve accomplished in the sport of boxing for the things I’ve done; you need to take off your hat and give me my props,” Terence said.
Crawford’s best career wins:
– Israil Madrimov: Razor close win
– Errol Spence: *After car accident
– Shawn Porter: Past his best
– Ricky Hatton: Ditto
– Kell Brook: Post-eye injury issues from GGG
– Amir Khan: Fade
– Jeff Horn: Who cares?
– Julius Indongo
– Jose Benavidez Jr: Leg wound after gunshot
– Felix Diaz: Small in size 2008 gold medalist who never ran as a pro
– Yuriorkis Gamboa: 2004 Olympic 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 so much better than the competition,” Crawford said.
Fans weren’t going to make a big deal about the hulking 5’9′ Crawford beating Felix Diaz and Yuriorkis Gamboa because he should never have fought at lightweight in the first place in 2014.
As big as Crawford was, he looked like Goliath in 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. It is a completely different sport and is more like fencing than real boxing. Those guys were brave enough to fight the much bigger Crawford. It 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 anyone. The same way they talk about Roy Jones Jr. said. Just like they said about Floyd Mayweather. He fights guys out of their prime and fights these guys when they’re washed up,” Crawford said.
Roy Jones Jr, and Mayweather were much better fighters than Crawford during their primes, but of course they picked their fair share of poor opposition.
“When you’re so much better than the competition, nobody wants to give you what you’re worth,” Crawford said.
Crawford’s real problem is that he hasn’t fought the talented fighters that the fans wanted, that would have made him a PPV star years ago. Unfortunately, it is now too late to turn back the clock and do what Crawford should have done 10+ years ago. He is old, bitter and can’t get over his mistakes.
