{"id":252050,"date":"2025-07-10T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252050\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:00:10","slug":"terence-crawford-says-world-champion-rival-will-never-move-up-and-face-him-he-picks-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252050\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford Says World Champion Rival Will &#8216;Never&#8217; Move Up And Face Him: &#8220;He Picks Opponents&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/terence-crawford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terence Crawford<\/a> has sent a scathing message to a potential future rival.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old switch-hitter from Omaha, Nebraska is just shy of 40-fights into his exceptional professional career, which began way back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford has already won world titles across four weight divisions, as well as capturing the undisputed championship at super-lightweight and welterweight, becoming the first male fighter of all time to achieve this feat within the \u2018four belt era\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He is just two months away from arguably the toughest test of his career <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/13386642\/canelo-alvarez-vs-terence-crawford-fight-will-be-one-of-my-best-says-mexican-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as he prepares to challenge Mexican great Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed super-middleweight championship<\/a>. Their highly anticipated \u2018mega-fight\u2019 takes place on Saturday September 13 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/sf2nhgVUehs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cigar Talk Podcast<\/a>, Crawford discussed the possibility of a future showdown with lightweight star Gervonta \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis, as he claims the 30-year-old world champion \u2018would never\u2019 make the move up in weight to face him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTank would never. He would never even think about to come up to 154.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018Bud\u2019 was then asked if he believes Davis would move up to welterweight, should the opportunity present itself.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYes, if he gets to pick his opponent, but Tank would never go from 35 to 54.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Davis currently reigns as the WBA world lightweight champion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/gervonta-davis-vs-roach-rematch-twist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with the next defence of his crown set to come against Lamont Roach Jr in their highly anticipated rematch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pair locked horns for the first time back in March as they fought to a close split decision draw at the Barclays Center in New York City. It is being speculated that the rematch will take place in Las Vegas on August 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has sent a scathing message to a potential future rival. The 37-year-old switch-hitter from Omaha, Nebraska&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-252050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114826000691371720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}