Gervonta Davis and Terence Crawford have exchanged misfortunes for being rich. Crawford seems to have started rubbing the salt in Tank Davis’ injuries, talking about him being bitter about not being invited to Turki Al-Shiekh’s London party for the Ring Awards last Saturday.
The real reason
Talented lightweight star Tank later said Crawford is not “chasing greatness” by moving up to 168 to challenge Canelo Alvarez for their unified super middleweight titles. This is what Crawford “has to do to make decent money.”
Double Talk Exposed
The “pursued greatness” and “legacy” argument that Crawford used as his rationale for moving up to 168 to challenge Canelo for his three belts sounds like double talk. If it was about size, Crawford would move and win the fight by beating the top contenders. He wants the straight guy of the title, which exposes what it’s all about –pension money.
Crawford wouldn’t have that fight if Turki hadn’t given him the opportunity. Terence wasn’t about to move up to 168 to earn the payday against Mexican superstar Canelo the hard way by running the gauntlet through killers in the division.
Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) probably wouldn’t last two seconds if he was with some of the predators, such as David Morrell, David Benavidez, Christian Mbilli and Diego Pacheco. You can respect Crawford if entered the general population at 168 to risk his soft skin against the sharks to earn a title shot against Canelo instead of having it handed to him on a silver platter by Turki.
Circus Boxing
Turki is into circus mix-and-matching fights that have no sense regarding sporting value but good junk-like entertainment. For example, Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury fight MMA guy Francis Ngannou. Those were pure circuses. We get a 38-year-old Crawford, soon to move up two weight divisions to challenge Canelo.
