Terence Crawford may be the best fighter in the world, but the welterweight champion still feels the need to defend his name against his detractors.
In a slew of posts on his X account recently, Crawford, the undisputed 147-pound champion, took some time to remind doubters (apparently they are still legion) of his accomplishments.
Crawford, of Omaha, Nebraska, is coming off the biggest win of his career, a dominant beatdown of Errol Spence Jr. for all four 147-pound belts. The talented switch-hitter dropped Spence three times en route to stopping the Desoto, Texas native in the seventh round of their scheduled 12-round bout.
He is considered to be the first male to become undisputed champions in two different divisions, at 140 and now at 147.
“When I say I’m P4P best fighter in the world, this is what I mean,” Crawford wrote in a post. “You could put me in any weight category if I was that size and I would still dominate. You definitely can’t say the same for everyone else. Some don’t have the style for smaller fighters or bigger fighters I do.”
“How many of y’all favorite fighters had a close fight or a fight they didn’t dominate or lost?” Crawford wrote in another post. “There’s not one fighter I’ve fought professionally that can say I didn’t dominate them. I never liked to talk because I did my talking in the ring. But I’m really him, better ask somebody.”
“I started this Undisputed shit. Nobody was screaming they wanted to be undisputed until me. I’m a trendsetter. Like it or not y’all favorite fighters wanna be just like me. And that’s not the only thing either.”
Animating Crawford’s apparent resentment is his years-long struggle to find meaningful opponents in the welterweight division, as many of them were aligned with Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions, which was a fierce rival to the promotional company that was backing Crawford at the time in Top Rank. After parting ways with Top Rank, Crawford eventually solidified ties with PBC ahead of his bout with Spence.
“I’m so cold they created an imaginary street for,” Crawford wrote. “Tried to blackball, railroad me and age me but I still came out on top. It’s all God’s plan. One day y’all haters will see that.”
Crawford is expected to enter into a contractually-mandated rematch with Spence sometime next year. It is not clear what weight they will fight at but both have hinted that it could take place 154 pounds.
