Terence Crawford has already conquered three-weight classes and has his sights set on more before he hangs up the gloves.
The 36-year-old won titles at lightweight before becoming undisputed at super-lightweight and, just last year, achieved the same feat at welterweight with a dominant victory over Errol Spence Jr.
Seemingly uninterested in top 147 contenders like Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis, the Omaha fighter is now ready to move up once more – but that’s not to say there aren’t tempting match-ups that could see him return.
In an interview with The Breakfast Club following the Spence victory, Crawford reacted to Gervonta Davis saying he could knock him out.
“He just talking. He got the confidence in himself that he believes he can do that because he’s been knocking all these fighters out. No knock to Tank, but there’s definitely levels. If he come up to 147 and he’s thinking he’s just gonna knock Terence Crawford out, he’s got another thing coming.”
‘Tank’ Davis has fought as high as the super-lightweight limit of 140 – a win over Mario Barrios for the WBA Regular belt – although looks much more suited to 135 where he is currently full WBA Champion.
Asked if he would stick around to make 147 for the fight, ‘Bud’ said yes for the money rather than the credit, but warned Davis against that scale of weight-jump.
“I’d stay at 147 for him. That’s big money. But then what? Everybody gonna say he was too small. Nobody gonna give me credit. They’re gonna say man you beat up a little guy that fights at 135. Tank’s like 5’5″. He’s a lil guy.
Yeah he can punch, but in his weight class. Not saying he can’t punch in any weight class, cause he punch punch and we see that. But what type of recognition am I gonna get for beating up Tank? Lot of people don’t know 135 to 147 is a big jump.”
As ‘Tank’ now pushes to become undisputed at lightweight, the gulf deepens as Crawford moves to 154 on August 3 to challenge for a world title in a fourth division, this time against Israil Madrimov.
