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TERENCE CRAWFORD On Fighting TANK DAVIS, Investments, ERROL SPENCE Rematch | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Aug 14, 2023
Terence Crawford stopped by Sway In The Morning after defeating Errol Spence Jr. to talk about the fight and much more. He speculated on the potential match up with Gervonta Tank Davis and shut down thoughts of a rematch with Errol Spence Jr.
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TERENCE CRAWFORD On Fighting TANK DAVIS, Investments, ERROL SPENCE Rematch | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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champion.
0:29
Yeah. But he wasn't the undisputed in
0:31
this weight category. But ladies and
0:33
gentlemen, he shocked the world. He
0:35
shocked the world. The one AND ONLY
0:37
TERENCE CRAWFORD IS BACK. WE GOT THE
0:38
CHAMP UP IN HERE.
0:42
WE GOT THE CHAMP.
0:43
LET'S GO, BOY. Let's go, baby. Let's go.
0:46
WE GOT THE CHAMP UP THE WALL.
0:49
WE GOT HIM HERE.
0:51
LET'S GO.
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CONGRATULATIONS. YEAH. Big time.
0:55
Yo.
0:55
Wow.
0:56
Terrence Crawford is here.
0:59
It's amazing to have him here. We've
1:01
been watching this man for so many
1:02
years.
1:04
Can't tell you how many bad seats I had
1:06
to sit through to get to this point.
1:11
How much hustling I had to do to get
1:12
into fights. Horse. You were there with
1:14
me
1:14
right there.
1:14
And I said, "I know Terrence." And that
1:16
was our soul. BACK THEN THEY USED TO SAY
1:18
SO.
1:19
NO, BUT I KNOW BUD. THAT'S MY GUY. SO
1:23
now when I say his name, I get ringside
1:25
seats. Ladies and gentlemen, the
1:27
undisputed Terrence Crawford is here.
1:31
I brag about it.
1:34
I show people pictures that I took with
1:35
Terrence
1:37
so they know
1:39
looking at me like, "What the hell is
1:41
going on?"
1:43
I show them, look at this picture of me
1:44
and Terrence. I taught him how to throw
1:46
that hook.
1:47
I just throw that in there and tell
1:48
Bulmarmac forgive me. But I taught him
1:50
how to throw that hook. You know, I brag
1:52
about it, man. I want to say
1:53
congratulations, brother. It's happy.
1:54
I'm happy to see you, man. I feel like I
1:56
won the titles.
1:58
You did, homie. You did. You did. You
2:00
did. We won that.
2:02
What's been the best part about this for
2:04
you? You've been handling this so calmly
2:06
and with so much serenity. Like, you
2:08
know, we have yet to see you get hyped.
2:11
I don't know. I think the reason why I'm
2:13
not as hyped as everybody thought I'd be
2:16
because I already knew what I was
2:17
capable of doing.
2:18
Yeah. So, it was just like, you know, I
2:21
don't I just had to prove it to the
2:24
people that doubted me.
2:25
I didn't really have to prove it to
2:27
myself
2:28
cuz if you could remember, I was like, I
2:31
don't need Spence. Spence need me. You
2:33
know, I didn't really too much care
2:35
about the fight no more because,
2:37
you know, I couldn't get the fight. So,
2:40
when I finally got the fight, I was
2:42
like, "All right." I was excited. I was
2:43
like, "Yeah, now I get to show the
2:45
world, you know, the real Terence
2:47
Crawford." But you don't know what's
2:50
going to happen when the bell first
2:53
rings. You, you know, you can only go
2:54
through it in your mind. You sat here
2:56
and said, "I don't know if this is going
2:57
to be a hard fight. We don't know until
2:59
we get in the ring."
3:01
At what moment in that first round did
3:03
you catch a feeling that, "Okay, I could
3:06
dominate this or I see how this is going
3:08
to go."
3:10
When it first started, I already knew.
3:12
You knew when the bell rang?
3:13
I already knew for first and foremost. I
3:17
know he haven't faced a southpaw.
3:20
Okay.
3:20
In some time now. And
3:23
I think he only faced two southpaws in
3:26
his whole career.
3:27
Yeah.
3:28
You know, so um I was very confident. I
3:31
trained my ass off for that fight. Like
3:33
I really trained that's probably one of
3:35
my hardest training camps,
3:37
you know. And I knew mentally,
3:39
physically, emotionally, and spiritually
3:41
I was ready.
3:42
Mhm. you know, and I knew he wasn't he
3:46
didn't train as hard as I did. In my in
3:48
my heart, I'm like, he he ain't go
3:50
through what I went through. So,
3:52
if it becomes a dog fight, he's not
3:54
going to win.
3:56
He thought the opposite. He thought if
3:58
it became a dog fight, he was going to
4:00
break you down. We didn't see that
4:02
horse. We didn't see that.
4:03
So, you said this was like this was your
4:05
best training camp you ever had. You
4:06
think that you put this most work in,
4:08
you think, far as fighting?
4:09
No, I'm saying it was my hardest
4:10
training camp. So, it's your hardest.
4:11
But you you said it was hard to make
4:13
that weight at 147.
4:14
For sure.
4:15
But you had a hard training camp. What
4:17
did you do different in this camp that
4:18
you didn't do in other camps? Far
4:20
I had a pre-amp.
4:21
Okay.
4:22
I ain't never had no pre-amp.
4:23
So, we had camp.
4:25
What's a pre-amp?
4:26
We had a camp before camp, you know.
4:28
Wow.
4:29
So, you know, uh yeah, that was tough.
4:32
Then, you know, actually going to camp.
4:35
Then after camp, we going to Vegas back
4:38
to, you know, to finish up the
4:41
the finishing pieces and you know, then
4:44
the rest is history.
4:46
But cuz for real, when you came in at
4:48
146, I was going, "Man, boy got the
4:50
eight pack." I was like, "Yo, you went
4:52
hard this year." I mean, for real, you
4:54
really went hard. And promoting the
4:55
fight, it was funny because every time I
4:57
seen y'all go face to face, soon as you
5:00
go face to face with him, you used to
5:01
laugh and I used to be like, "Yo, I
5:03
don't know what it is about Bud. But
5:04
it's like not taking him as as serious
5:06
as everybody think that he is. He's
5:07
looking at the fight like, "Is we
5:09
serious? We about to do this for real?"
5:11
And I told you, like I told you outside,
5:13
I really thought like, "What are they
5:14
going to do to back out about this
5:15
fight?" Because everything just seemed
5:17
like around the fight, everything was
5:19
happening. I mean, the audience was
5:21
getting into it. He was arguing back and
5:22
forth with the crowd backstage. Other
5:25
boxers was getting slapped. I was like,
5:27
"Hey, man. Something going on over here
5:29
right now." I said, "Is this fight going
5:30
to go on or is Bud going to get active
5:31
and jump in the crowd and it's all going
5:33
to go off?" So to see this fight go down
5:35
and the performance that you put on,
5:37
man, I mean, it's hands down
5:38
masterpiece, man. It's a masterpiece
5:40
performance, man.
5:41
Appreciate it. Appreciate it.
5:42
Did you watch it yet?
5:43
Yeah, I watched it. I watched it twice.
5:45
Nah, you watched it more than that. Come
5:46
on.
5:46
No, really? You know, because at first
5:49
you couldn't you couldn't get it.
5:50
Mhm.
5:51
It wasn't on YouTube or anything. It's
5:53
true. Yeah. and uh I had to wait to get
5:55
a link and then I watched it the other
5:59
day.
5:59
Was it exciting looking at yourself go
6:00
to work like that?
6:01
Yeah, of course. Of course. You know, uh
6:03
when I look at myself, I always try to
6:05
look at my flaws.
6:06
Look at the things that I could have did
6:08
better in the ring or things that I
6:11
missed like, dang man, I should have
6:13
threw a body shot right there
6:14
or dang I should have did this or that,
6:17
you know? So, I'm always critiquing
6:18
myself.
6:19
What's the flaws you saw in this fight?
6:20
I ain't see no flaws.
6:22
Yeah, I'm like, "What did you say?" He
6:24
just like,
6:25
"Oh, man. I I left a lot on the table,
6:28
you know what I mean? Like I'm I'm kind
6:30
of hard on myself. So, you know, uh
6:33
looking at little things like in the
6:34
inside or things that I could have did,
6:37
you know, on the outside, I look at a
6:39
lot,
6:40
man. But you think you could have ended
6:42
the fight sooner?"
6:44
Of course. When did you when did you
6:45
feel like you could have, if you wanted
6:47
to end the fight? Well, I don't I I
6:49
wouldn't say I think I could have
6:51
because Arrow is a tough
6:53
Yeah.
6:54
opponent. He's a tough fighter. He's a
6:55
great fighter. So, um
6:57
he wasn't going to lay down or sit down
6:59
for nobody. So, I can't even say that,
7:02
you know. Um
7:04
the fight stopped when it was supposed
7:05
to happen.
7:06
When it was supposed to happen. Terence
7:07
Crawford is here. Two-time undisputed
7:09
champion right here. Nobody can say they
7:11
done that. Um I love Errol Spence Jr. It
7:15
was a hard thing for me because I'm u
7:17
you and I I feel closer. Uh but Errol is
7:20
a fan, a friend of the show, the whole
7:22
nine.
7:24
What did he do well? You thought?
7:27
Well, I thought he was just, you know
7:28
what I mean, a fighter that's very
7:31
consistent in what he doing
7:33
like, you know, he consistent with his
7:35
jab, he's consistent with going to the
7:38
body, he's consistent with cutting the
7:40
ring off. So, you know, everything that
7:43
he does was just basic, but it was
7:47
consistent,
7:48
you know, and that's how he break a lot
7:49
of uh his opponents down because it's
7:52
the constant pressure. It's the constant
7:54
jabs. It's the constant wear and tear
7:58
from the body and stuff like that. So,
8:00
you know, uh everything starts with the
8:03
jab. Everything ends with the jab. And
8:05
so, we knew coming into the fight, we're
8:08
going to take his jab away.
8:09
I love it, man. I love Tracy's a boxing
8:12
fanatic. Last time you came, she didn't
8:13
get a chance to really ask a question
8:15
and so this time she she asked a really
8:18
expert boxing question.
8:22
When it comes to sportsmanship, do you
8:25
and Spence or any other opponent? Did
8:27
you do you guys have an opportunity to
8:29
speak to each other outside of the ring
8:31
when the fight ends? And is it possible
8:34
to even have a true friendship with
8:37
someone in such a violent sport?
8:39
Of course. Okay.
8:40
You know, um I spoke to him after after
8:44
the fight
8:46
uh happened and uh I wouldn't say we
8:50
friends because, you know, we don't kick
8:53
it or anything like that, but we got
8:55
mutual respect for each other.
8:57
And um yeah, I I became friends with a
9:00
few fighters that I've I've fought. You
9:03
know, it's just business at the end of
9:04
the day. we all doing the same thing and
9:07
that's trying to provide food on our
9:10
table for our families.
9:11
Right. Is there like a kind of I don't
9:15
know an order of actions where you know
9:18
when it comes to politics when the
9:21
person loses concedes they call that new
9:24
president you know and give
9:25
congratulations. Is there an order where
9:28
it's like the person who lost CALLS THE
9:30
WINNER OR THE PERSON WHO WINS? Is there
9:33
a responsibility that falls on someone
9:35
to make that first call?
9:37
Hey man, great job whooping my ass.
9:40
I've never got my ass whooped like that.
9:43
Appreciate you. You want to go off?
9:45
Yeah, that's what I was going to say
9:46
because my boy hit me. We had a big
9:48
fight party at the house. It was huge.
9:50
It was gigantic.
9:52
Bridge business.
9:53
It was a big party and my boy hit me and
9:56
was like, "Yo, T-Bud beat the rematch at
9:59
a
10:01
beat the rematch."
10:01
Yeah. beat is not not gonna be a
10:03
rematch. So I I'm you mentioned the
10:05
business side of it. So if that and I
10:08
don't know if I'm speaking too soon, but
10:09
if that rematch doesn't happen, I ran
10:12
out because the Charlo brother was
10:13
talking and you was like yelling.
10:15
I'm like, "Yo, they gonna fight right
10:16
now." So is that the next fight?
10:18
Well, he about to fight Canelo in um I
10:22
believe September somewhat. But
10:26
you know, he's got obligations to
10:29
fulfill with with that fight.
10:30
Another fight. Okay.
10:32
And you know me, I'm just chilling right
10:33
now, enjoying my victory. Take your
10:36
time, man. Take your time.
10:37
Victory.
10:38
T was Bud was talking to Charlo in
10:41
THE RING DURING THE FIGHT. You next.
10:44
That's what I was looking at cuz it was
10:46
like it ain't going to be no rematch.
10:47
So,
10:47
it ain't going to be no rematch. Wow.
10:49
Um, the fight reportedly sold 650,000
10:53
PPVs, pay-per-views, generating 55
10:56
million of revenue. It also generated
10:58
over 20 million for ticket sales. That's
11:01
dope. Congratulations.
11:02
My brother has congratulations.
11:05
My brother.
11:06
This is my brother.
11:08
Congratulations.
11:09
Hey Terren, I want to say this real
11:11
quick. My bad, homie.
11:12
Um,
11:13
congratulations.
11:14
Mhm.
11:15
Because Terence Crawford has had a
11:17
really checkered career behind the
11:19
scenes, you know, being an
11:20
independent-minded
11:22
boxer. um having to leave management he
11:25
was with before kind of being shut out
11:28
of the big fights because he's so
11:29
talented and he would be a liability to
11:31
anybody and through his patience his
11:34
perseverance and tenacity here you are
11:37
and now you're starting to enter the
11:38
realm where you can make the kind of
11:40
money Mayweather was making you know
11:42
what I mean what what is your vision
11:44
with money of this size other than
11:47
taking care of your family and yourself
11:48
do you have a vision of what you would
11:50
like to do once the once you're able to
11:52
make that kind of money.
11:54
To be honest, I don't even think about
11:56
that stuff.
11:57
Okay.
11:58
Like I don't even I ain't even got no
12:00
vision.
12:01
Okay.
12:01
You know, my uh my sights ain't even set
12:05
on on that right now.
12:07
Well, what you going to do once money
12:08
start coming in?
12:09
Well, money already there.
12:10
Okay. You heard that That's my
12:12
brother. That's why we blood related.
12:15
Now you're a cousin. But but you got to
12:17
think about that because I would imagine
12:20
at some point because how many stories
12:22
have we heard of boxers and athletes who
12:24
have made a lot of money and then at the
12:26
end of their career they didn't have any
12:27
left.
12:28
That's because they didn't have no plan.
12:30
Okay?
12:30
You know, I started I started my plan
12:32
probably like 2013.
12:35
Okay?
12:36
You know, so I already had a plan. Like
12:38
I like I said before,
12:40
I wasn't going to fight Spence and that
12:43
was probably going to be the end of it.
12:44
Mhm.
12:45
You know, I I could have retired then,
12:47
can retire now and be comfortable
12:50
because of the investments that I had,
12:53
you know, put forth in years ago.
12:56
I love that.
12:57
Congrats.
12:57
Okay, cool. All right. I know we got a
12:59
lake on that, uh, a house on the lake we
13:01
going to be fishing in. Go ahead.
13:02
But I want to take you to the
13:03
Oh, family. Terrence can't get me. I'm
13:05
stuck. He's stuck with me.
13:08
I want to go to the postfight interviews
13:10
after you after the post after the fight
13:12
and uh you were sitting up there and you
13:13
seen a room full of writers and
13:16
supporters of boxing. They wrote all of
13:18
these things. They wrote you off. They
13:19
said you was too small. How did that
13:22
feel to look those guys in the face
13:24
after the performance you put on and you
13:25
look cuz you called out one of the guys
13:27
name. I can't remember his name. He's
13:28
like, "Why you looking so sad, man? You
13:29
you you wrote me off. You said I was too
13:32
small. You guys were saying I didn't
13:33
deserve this division or the WBO wasn't
13:36
being respected. How did it feel to see
13:38
all those writers and historians that
13:39
was writing all this about you
13:41
and looking them in the face?
13:42
It was it was it it felt it felt good to
13:46
be up there at the top of Mount Rushmore
13:49
by yourself, you know, but at the same
13:51
time to see these people that control
13:54
boxing
13:55
Yes.
13:55
that's so mad you can hear a penny hit
13:58
the ground.
13:59
You know what I mean? It was It was
14:01
disrespectful,
14:02
you know, cuz I'm like, "Dang, why
14:04
everybody looking mad? Everybody like
14:06
sitting around Yeah. Everybody sitting
14:08
around there looking sad and stuff." And
14:10
I'm just like, man, these are the people
14:12
that control boxing. It should always be
14:15
neutral.
14:16
When you when you a boxing writer, you
14:18
supposed to be doing this for the sport
14:20
of boxing, you know? Not leaning towards
14:23
Terrence, not leaning towards Spence. I
14:26
don't need you leaning towards me. Just
14:27
call it how it is, you know. But when I
14:30
got up on the stage, everybody was
14:35
[Laughter]
14:37
That was what y'all sad for. Y'all mad?
14:39
You want some too old, man?
14:42
You know what I mean? Ah, y'all lost
14:44
some money.
14:47
All right, man. We got a lot of callers
14:49
uh that want to talk to you uh real
14:51
quick. Uh you know, we got this this a
14:53
special edition. First of all, when we
14:55
first started our podcast, Bridge
14:57
Business, Terrence, you were one of the
14:58
first people we interviewed.
14:59
Wow.
15:00
And so, I want to thank you for that.
15:01
Yes. You know, because, you know, we
15:03
love boxing. Yes.
15:04
Yeah. You was one of the first people.
15:05
This is during the pandemic. You
15:07
remember that? You came on the Zoom, so
15:09
I'm always going to rock with you. Uh,
15:11
but our f our our listeners love boxing.
15:14
They love you. Jamal's on the line from
15:15
Newark. Go ahead, Jamal. What you
15:17
stand up?
15:18
Okay.
15:18
Jersey stand up.
15:20
New York.
15:20
Hey. Hey. What's going on? Uh, Sway and
15:22
everyone, thank you for the time. Uh I'm
15:24
real quick, Mr. Crawford. I'm I'm
15:26
between patients right now. Uh you don't
15:29
remember me, but when you were back in
15:31
uh Omaha, Nebraska, my dad was a
15:33
custodian and you were doing a lot of
15:35
amateur fights and I have a picture of
15:37
you with me super super small and you
15:39
had your arm around me and seeing you
15:41
now. And first of all, congratulations
15:44
uh you know, since beating Spence and
15:46
and all the accolades that you that
15:48
you've you have. My only question was
15:52
motivation. I mean, man, you've been
15:54
boxing since you were seven. I've been
15:56
watching you since forever. Um, other
15:59
than family. I know you said money,
16:02
money is whatever, but what else is a
16:04
huge motivation every day that that that
16:07
keeps you being, you know, E Crawford or
16:09
or or or Bud or or or or just nasty at
16:13
your sport?
16:14
To be honest, 100 100% honest. I I
16:19
believe it was Spence me being able to
16:23
get in the ring with him and prove
16:25
everybody wrong because I'm a I'm a I'm
16:28
a big competitor and I've been dealing
16:31
with this for five five years and this
16:36
was something that I really wanted a
16:39
long time ago and I've been wanting I've
16:41
been calling for and uh I think just you
16:45
know proving everybody wrong was my
16:47
motivation in this fight. Hey Jamal,
16:49
great question. Even though you from
16:51
Jersey. Thank you.
16:52
Don't do that.
16:52
All right, we got Chu on the line. Chu
16:54
is our Chu is one of our podcast
16:56
ambassadors. He's in the streets in
16:59
Louisiana. Chu place bets on fights,
17:01
too, you know. And Chu actually bet
17:04
against you, Terren. So, I want to bring
17:05
him up on air.
17:07
What up, baby?
17:08
Was you in that crowd of recordings?
17:11
Don't Don't change,
17:12
loser.
17:13
Hey, what up, family? What up, family?
17:16
Go ahead.
17:16
Hey, bud. I told you. I told you last
17:18
time I was a big fan of both of y'all.
17:21
Um, I picked Spence because I thought of
17:23
the Olympic pedigree. Um, I thought that
17:26
might be the difference. Never have I
17:28
been more wrong. Um,
17:31
but and and by the way, Sway, I did not
17:35
lose any money because nobody wanted to
17:38
bet whenever it was time to bet. So, I
17:40
didn't lose money on the fight. Luckily,
17:42
came out easy.
17:43
Uh, but I was at the fight and uh,
17:46
congratulations, man. I can't say
17:47
anything negative towards you. You're
17:50
you're a true champ.
17:52
Um you're a people's champ.
17:53
Yes.
17:54
Um I have nothing but respect for you.
17:57
The question I have is
17:59
Arrow alluded to wanting to rematch
18:01
Claus, but he would he asked would you
18:04
do it at 154? Is that your call or is
18:07
that the promoter's call? And would you
18:09
even think about moving up to 154 to
18:12
fight him?
18:13
Okay. So, first of all, I need you to
18:15
say I'M A LOSER.
18:19
LET'S GO.
18:20
I NEVER SAY THAT. But I I did bet I did
18:23
pick against you.
18:24
No, you got to say you
18:25
But I'm a big fan of yours.
18:27
You got to say you're a loser.
18:28
You lost, right? You picked against me
18:30
and lost. So you got to say you a loser.
18:32
I didn't lose nothing, though. I didn't
18:34
lose nothing.
18:34
You lost your call. You
18:36
I lost the call. All right. I lost the
18:39
call. Okay.
18:42
No, no, no, no. But uh yeah, it's
18:45
definitely my call. the balls in my
18:47
court, you know. Um, you know, uh what
18:50
they say I'm the aside now, so
18:52
everything is on my side.
18:54
The aside.
18:55
Would you consider Would you consider
18:57
moving up to 154 and fighting him?
18:59
Of course.
19:00
Or is that out the question?
19:01
Of course. Like I said, you know, uh 154
19:04
was already in the near future and uh
19:08
yeah, we can do that at 54 as well.
19:12
All right. Hey, can't wait, man. Hey,
19:15
true. Take that L with pride, though.
19:18
Yeah. No, no, no. Hey, I big fan of
19:21
both, Sway. If you got to pick a side,
19:23
you got to pick a side.
19:24
Got to pick a side. That's what Drake
19:25
says.
19:26
But, but I'll tell you this, in the next
19:28
fight, I'll just watch. How about that?
19:30
Okay, there you go, man. You're a super
19:32
citizen.
19:32
In the morning,
19:34
I saw um Javvante Davis speaking about
19:37
you.
19:38
Is that Is that ever a possible fight?
19:41
Yeah. If if he want to just uh dare to
19:44
be great, he can be like all the other
19:47
fighters that's moving up two-way
19:49
classes and you know daring to be great.
19:53
You will fight him,
19:53
man. Tell him to come up there.
19:55
He got to come to win 54 cuz
19:56
he said he said I got a I got a glass
19:58
chin. So tell him come and touch it.
20:02
Wow.
20:02
Oh man.
20:04
Said you got a glass
20:05
He said I got a glass chin.
20:08
Tell him to come and touch it.
20:10
At 147. at 147. I'll make 147 for him.
20:14
Oh, see. Oh, man.
20:16
You gonna have a pre- precamp.
20:20
Then they then what the people going to
20:22
say? Oh, he's beating up on little guys.
20:25
I don't know. The people might want to
20:26
see that one though, bro. That just just
20:28
for the spectacle of it.
20:29
That's the only thing left really after
20:31
like with 154 after he um beat the the
20:34
Charlo brother. I mean, what's really
20:35
next? I mean,
20:36
I'm not coming back down when I go up.
20:38
I'm not coming back down. So too hard,
20:40
dude. It's a wrap.
20:41
And all them dudes from 147, they they
20:44
going to try to stay there cuz they
20:45
ain't going to want to come up. Bud
20:46
right there 154. So they ain't going to
20:47
come up. So they going to stay right
20:49
there and have to fight.
20:50
The thing with you and is is this just
20:51
fun competition or is that really
20:54
something you is he on your list?
20:56
Nah, not really. But he's talented. You
20:59
know, they doing everything they
21:00
supposed to do to promote him, you know,
21:02
but
21:03
he don't bring nothing to the table
21:04
right now at this point in my career.
21:07
Yeah. you know, uh, he ain't really
21:10
fought nobody that that he can say that
21:15
he's worthy enough to, you know what I
21:18
mean, step in the ring with me.
21:20
Like, not saying that he he's his skills
21:22
not worthy enough.
21:23
Yeah.
21:23
Not saying he's not talented enough, but
21:26
right now that that's not a mega fight
21:29
for me.
21:30
Yeah. You got to think from a business
21:31
perspective. A lot of people faulted
21:33
Mayweather for how he selected the
21:35
fights he made, but
21:37
it was always a business with him,
21:38
right? You can't be fighting any, you
21:40
got to, you know, you got to earn your
21:42
right to the belts,
21:43
man. I had to I had to pick my my stuff
21:46
out the dirt,
21:48
you know? I wasn't handed nothing.
21:51
I had to fight two finels to get to
21:54
where I'm at.
21:55
I didn't have no backing. I didn't have
21:57
no big support system or any of that.
22:00
So, you know, can't nobody tell me
22:02
nothing.
22:03
Yeah.
22:03
I don't care who you is. You can't tell
22:05
me nothing. I got it the hard way.
22:07
Yeah. But
22:08
talk that Y'all can't tell us
22:10
nothing.
22:11
You'll put yourself in it again. Us. You
22:13
said
22:14
Yeah. But
22:17
me, he said,
22:18
speaking on boxing and you had to you
22:20
got yours from the mud. Why isn't the
22:22
WBO respected far as the as the belts?
22:24
like they always give the belts for IBF,
22:27
WBA, WBC, but when it come down to the
22:30
WBO, they don't want to give them the
22:31
same type of props far as with with
22:33
fight.
22:33
I think it's mainly because, you know,
22:36
top rank is uh more predominant WBO.
22:40
Okay. Okay.
22:40
And they feel as if, you know, um, since
22:44
the WBA, the IBF, and the WBC been
22:47
around longer than the WBO, that they
22:51
don't really consider that
22:54
a mega belt, I would say, cuz you was
22:56
the second fighter that did that. Uh, I
22:58
think um, Boo Andreas had the WBO and he
23:00
wanted to fight Canelo and he was like,
23:02
I'll never fight you. And I was like,
23:04
what is it about the WBO belt that
23:05
nobody want to get it to collect all the
23:07
belts? cuz to be the champion
23:08
undisputed, you got to get all of them,
23:10
right?
23:10
So that's why I was wondering cuz I know
23:12
you were the WBO and I was like, man,
23:13
why they giving Bud such a hard time to
23:15
get these fights?
23:16
It wasn't it wasn't it wasn't that I was
23:18
the WBO champion. That that definitely
23:21
wasn't it. It was who I am,
23:24
what I bring to the table. And
23:27
you know, if you don't got to fight this
23:29
guy, then you don't got to fight this
23:32
guy. So just leave him over there and
23:34
let him do what he do. We going to do
23:36
what we do over here with three belts.
23:39
He like the JCole of boxing.
23:43
Did it your way, right? And so, uh, and
23:45
now you in total control. PBC did the
23:48
deal with Canelo, right? The the three
23:50
fight deal for 100 million. Would you
23:52
consider something like some type of
23:53
partnership like that?
23:55
I don't know. We got to see.
23:57
Okay. Okay. We got to see, Heather. He
24:01
said we got to see.
24:02
I heard we that time. That was one week.
24:05
Yeah. Yeah. Cuz I got a team, man. We
24:07
got to see what makes sense. You know
24:09
what I mean?
24:10
Yeah. We'll talk about it. Uh, now that
24:12
you in this position, what what you're
24:14
seeing here is an outlier who actually
24:17
came in and beat the system
24:19
and now he's at top. So, the business
24:22
has to run through Terren Crawford.
24:25
He disrupted it.
24:26
He disrupted the business. So, now this
24:28
is the time where the business could
24:30
change. We hear a whole lot of, you
24:32
know, discrepancies about boxing. What,
24:35
how would you like to see boxing improve
24:38
if you had it your way?
24:39
If I had it my way, I would like to see,
24:43
you know, boxing improve more so,
24:46
you know, uh, healthwise,
24:48
you know, um, a pinchion after boxing,
24:52
I would like for it to be just one
24:54
title,
24:55
you know, and you don't got to pay for
24:56
it. Why would you have Why do we got to
24:59
pay to be the champ? Yeah.
25:01
You know, if we, you know, put our lives
25:04
on the line, our blood, sweat, and
25:07
tears, why do we got to give these
25:10
sanctioned bodies a percentage of it? I
25:12
don't get that.
25:13
You know what I mean? Y'all not in there
25:15
fighting.
25:16
Y'all just make a a belt. In reality,
25:18
it's just a trophy.
25:20
Yeah.
25:20
You know what I mean? So, I'm paying you
25:21
for a trophy every time I fight.
25:24
Wow.
25:24
You know, so, um, I would want it like
25:27
that. And I would just want it, you
25:28
know?
25:30
more more fair into like the rankings.
25:34
And you know, if somebody
25:36
worthy enough to to fault to get to a
25:40
point where they can challenge for a
25:42
title,
25:43
then get that person that shot,
25:45
you know, don't don't hold that person
25:47
back because you can make more money
25:50
with this opponent, you know. Let let
25:53
everybody get their shot
25:55
on down the line.
25:56
Make it fair. I like it.
25:59
Give this man a round of applause, man.
26:02
My family, anything coming up? I know
26:04
you gonna be I know you gonna be
26:06
fishing.
26:07
Definitely.
26:09
I'mma hit you up.
26:12
I don't get
26:15
tell you, man. This time I say it every
26:18
time. Go ahead. You can talk bad about
26:19
me, but I'm coming through. I don't
26:21
care. I'm coming through the house.
26:23
I work every day. T
26:25
all then. So don't be saying you about
26:26
to come fishing.
26:29
Just say I'mma see you
26:31
when you out there.
26:32
I'mma see you when you fishing. No, I'm
26:34
I'm roll. We'll see. We'll see. I would
26:36
I love to I'm like you. I like to prove
26:39
the world wrong, too. Okay.
26:41
You going to pull up?
26:41
I'mma pull up on him. You know, because
26:43
I'm saying it, it's going to happen. All
26:45
he got to do is send me the location.
26:46
Saying you saying it before.
26:48
I've said it for years. But you know,
26:50
just asking.
26:50
Yeah. And I have been fishing too since
26:53
I uh saw you last. We going to end this
26:55
conversation. Give Terence Crawford a
26:56
big round of applause real quick. Uh
26:59
Terren, is that the first thing you ate
27:01
after all of that like heavy training
27:03
and strict regimen? What did you eat
27:05
after like the fight was over and you
27:07
was back to just doing your thing?
27:09
Man, I ain't eat nothing really. I think
27:11
at the Top Golf, I ate a slice of uh old
27:15
pizza that was out.
27:17
Not old pizza.
27:19
That just doesn't sound right, man.
27:20
We're going to talk about your diet.
27:23
But yeah, I I I still ain't ain't
27:26
nothing really crazy.
27:28
Wow.
27:29
You know what else? Two turns. I want to
27:30
ask in the fight, when did you start
27:32
feeling sorry for the dudes, man?
27:35
Uh around probably like the sixth round.
27:39
Sixth round you started feeling sorry
27:40
like yo
27:41
I wouldn't say feeling sorry cuz
27:43
that was I was feeling Listen, I love
27:44
boxing. I ain't never say yo stop the
27:46
fight. I'll be like get his ass kicked.
27:48
But I mean come on now.
27:49
Listen man, we ain't you in there. I'm
27:52
like I'm like Drago.
27:55
You guys
27:58
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28:04
when you fighting, hey, when you
28:05
fighting, you got to have that killer
28:07
mentality. You got to have that in you.
28:09
You know what I mean? I never want to,
28:10
you know, I mean, hurt somebody where
28:12
they can't go back to their family. But
28:14
at the same time, you got to have that
28:16
mental, you know what I mean? Like, I'm
28:18
not going to let up because anything can
28:20
happen. It only take one shot.
28:22
Yeah.
28:22
One shot and either you knocked out or
28:25
you can brain damage or blood on the
28:27
head or or or you can die.
28:30
You know what I mean? So, you got to
28:31
always be focused. You got to always,
28:33
you know, stay on your P's and Q's cuz
28:36
not only is this man swinging and
28:39
fighting back hard.
28:41
Yeah.
28:41
You know what I mean?
28:42
Did he hit hard? Was it was punching
28:44
hard?
28:47
Wow.
28:48
No, no, really.
28:49
I I I I said it like I I said it like I
28:52
said it. You know what I mean? In the
28:53
interview. Like
28:56
I was expecting more. I already knew I
28:59
was strong,
29:00
you know, physically strong. You know,
29:02
I've been physically strong my whole
29:04
life, even though I was skinny.
29:06
But, you know, I mean, when he hit me
29:09
with a with a left boom, it was like
29:12
bam. I was like, "That's it." Like, "Oh,
29:17
all right."
29:19
You know, that's it.
29:20
Wow. And I always say, I always said
29:24
since my HBO days, you know, I always
29:28
said if a fighter can't hurt me to where
29:33
I'm respecting him,
29:36
then it's going to be a long night.
29:38
It's going to be a long night. Cuz when
29:39
in doubt, it's going to be a dog fight.
29:42
And we about to just fight it out tooth
29:44
for nails. Cuz
29:45
I'm not just about to let you do what
29:47
you want to do with me.
29:49
I love it. Terren Crawford, you deserve
29:51
a parade.
29:52
Yes.
29:53
Yeah. Yeah.
29:55
Yes.
29:55
You got one coming
29:56
Saturday.
30:01
They having a parade.
30:02
You going to work on Saturdays?
30:03
My daughter's birthday is this weekend.
30:06
That's a fact. Bring it to the party.
30:08
My daughter's birthday this weekend.
30:09
She's in LA. I swear I would bring it.
30:11
If I could, I might not be able to make
30:13
the parade. Terrence, I'm going just be
30:15
honest about it cuz I got to see my
30:17
daughter.
30:18
Yeah. Family first.
30:19
Family first. But it's a parade taking
30:21
place where?
30:22
Omaha, Nebraska.
30:23
Omaha, Nebraska. We got a parade.
30:26
Toss it up.
30:27
We got a parade, man. And And
30:31
Jed, do you go to school out there?
30:34
Oh, he went to University of Nebraska. Y
30:36
he said you've been famous out there
30:38
before people knew who you were.
30:40
Definitely.
30:40
Yeah, man. That that's going to be a
30:42
parade. Um Omaha. Come out. What time?
30:45
10:00.
30:45
10:00 a.m. Beautiful.
30:47
All right. And this celebrate, you know,
30:48
this means as if you know, as long as
30:51
he's fighting, as long as he's bringing
30:53
uh commerce to that economy, you know,
30:55
it's going to grow. Whenever there's a
30:57
champ in the city, the economy grows.
30:59
He's a tourist attraction. Look what
31:01
Floyd did with Vegas. Yes,
31:02
he can do it with Omaha, man. I'm proud
31:04
of you, Terrence, man. Congratulations,
31:05
brother. Appreciate it.
31:06
All right. Thank you, brother. Thank
31:08
you, man.
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