By: Sean Crose
Terence Crawford, who has just lately been stripped of the WBC tremendous middleweight title for not paying a sanctioning payment to the group, is clearly miffed. Crawford, who spectacularly defeated longtime tremendous middleweight title holder Canelo Alvarez, has taken his displeasure to social media. “Who the fuck you suppose I’m?” he asks the WBC in a just lately launched video. “I’m not paying your ass shit.” Crawford goes on so as to add that the well-known WBC inexperienced belt isn’t price to him what some may suppose. “You’ll be able to take the fucking belt,” he says. “It’s a trophy anyway.”
Crawford, who is thought to have an edge at instances, is clearly offended on the video, particularly in the direction of WBC honcho Mauricio Sulaiman. “I’m the motherfucker that’s placing his ass on the road,” Crawford says. “You have to be paying me.” Crawford goes on to make it clear that he feels WBC officers dwell nicely on the expense of himself and different fighters, having fun with lavish resorts and excessive finish dinners.
“Guess who obtained to pay for it?” he asks rhetorically. “Us fighters. We pay for y’all to return right here and have the time of your life…it’s all completed on our dime.” The underside line is that Crawford feels he and his fellow fighters are being handled unfairly. “We getting taxed,” he says. “It’s’ loopy.” Crawford additionally signifies that Sulaiman was upset that Canelo was bested final September. “Mauricio,” he says, everyone on the planet is aware of you was going for Canelo. You was mad that I beat Canelo.”
Crawford wraps the video up by asserting he doesn’t care whether or not he has the well-known WBC inexperienced belt or not. “I’ve been stripped earlier than,” he says. “Doesn’t matter…I’m nonetheless the champion within the division.” In Crawford’s thoughts, the WBC basically performs by its personal guidelines anyway. “The WBC,” he says, “you don’t ever see them strip Canelo for Benavidez,” referring to the actual fact Canelo has by no means stepped within the with the menacing David Benavidez when many followers have wished him to.
“I’m nonetheless the champion,” Crawford tells the WBC, “you’ll be able to’t take this away from me.” And certainly it’s exhausting to think about not seeing Crawford as king of the tremendous middleweights proper now no matter what belts he owns. Sure boxers get to some extent of their careers when titles don’t matter. That’s true of Canelo. It’s additionally true of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. Whether or not it’s true for Crawford – whose title belongs alongside these different males – at this level stays to be seen.
