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Crawford Not Bothered By Excuses for Spence: ‘Every Fight There’s An Excuse’
I said, ‘Man, listen, I don’t ever want to fight Errol coming off the accident of that magnitude,” Crawford said. “I want him to get back right, get back to 100% and then I want to fight him at his best.’ That way nobody can say anything. Errol Spence came back and he fought Danny Garcia (in 2020) and he looked good. He didn’t look 100% but he looked good though. I was there live at that fight and I remember getting into it with a couple of his family members. …He didn’t look 100%. He didn’t look great. And they were like, ‘He’s gonna look great against you.’ Yeah, give him some time. Let him get his feet wet.
“When he fought Ugas he looked spectacular. He looked strong. He did what he had to do. Me and Ugas got a different style. After the Ugas fight I was like, ‘OK, now let’s get this fight underway.’ Not only does it mean more for both of us because we the only two champions and we the top two welterweights in the division and everybody wants to see it but now we can fight for all the marbles and undisputed. Everything played out.
I said, “Can’t nobody say, ‘Oh, the car accident, the eye injury,’” Crawford added. “They can’t use that. I’m pretty sure a lot of people was trying to use that but you got to look at the body of work after the car accident, after the eye injury. There was no excuses.
“The eye injury was when he was training to fight Pacquiao. He fought Ugas after the eye injury and he fought Danny Garcia and Ugas after the car accident. The last little car accident (last December) that he got into … it wasn’t no injuries sustained with that car accident. I don’t see why people will sit there and try to blame the accident for me beating him.”
Crawford Not Bothered By Excuses for Spence: ‘Every Fight There’s An Excuse’
Terence Crawford is practically numb to the alibis and asterisks that he says typically follow his fights. That includes the latest justifications that have dribbled out in the wake of his rousing ninth-round technical knockout of Errol Spence Jr.
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