For the sake of transparency, I’ve excluded the journalists personal opinions, even though I agree with some of them, since I wanted to focus on Terence Crawford’s very own words, because he’s recently admitted to lacking interest in facing Thurman, Ortiz Jr., Spence Jr. and Porter.
We also know that Crawford recently argued that he'd deserve 60% of the purse split to face Errol Spence Jr.
The only fighter that Crawford really wants to fight is Manny Pacquiao – a man that’ll be on the cusp of turning 43 years of age, coupled with being inactive for at least two years, if they actually agreed to face each other later in the year (which isn't going to happen).
"Crawford says 50-50 purse split for Spence might not do it"
“I don’t know, to be honest, because I’m past that,” said Terence Crawford to the AK & Barak Show to DAZN when asked if he would fight Errol Spence if he were offered a 50-50 split.
“Now it’s, ‘You’re on the wrong side of the street.’ I’m not going to be playing these games where they say, ‘We’ll fight you when we want to fight you. It’s on our terms.’ It doesn’t work that way with me.
“I don’t know,” said Crawford when asked what it will take for him to want to fight Spence.
“I don’t know where everybody is getting that information, but that’s what people do, that’s what media do,” said Crawford about boxing fans speculating whether he’ll leave Top Rank after October when his contract expires.
‘Ugas because he’s got something to offer,” said Crawford when asked if he’d rather fight WBA welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas or Shawn Porter.
“Why would I choose Shawn Porter with nothing to gain when I can choose Ugas. I’m fighting for something. That’s a no-brainer. Everybody in the game, or should I say, 65% of the people felt that Ugas beat Shawn Porter.
“Given the fact that if me and him were to fight and how the fight goes and how I look against him, then they would compare that to the Shawn Porter fight.
“When Shawn Porter is commenting, people say, ‘You didn’t even give Ugas his rematch. You got to fight Ugas.’ That’s always in the back of Shawn Porter. You got to fight Ugas,” said Crawford.
“Everybody felt that Ugas won. Some people say, ‘I’ll give it to Shawn, but it was close.’ It was never a clean-cut victory.
“Kind of like Errol Spence. Some people feel that Porter pulled it off with the knockdown. I felt it was close either way, but I’m not the judge of the fight,” said Crawford.