Crawford Slams Tank’s Resume, Bud Outlines His Style And More

Terence Crawford has called out Gervonta Davis’ resume with criticism over his lack of titles and big-name opposition. 

Davis is one of the most-talked-about fighters in the sport, having put on a mega event in his last fight against Ryan Garcia.

The fight sold over a reported $1.2 million pay-per-views, showing that Davis did have pulling power.

Although that may have been the case, Davis was expected to beat Garcia. The latter entered the fight with a ten-pound rehydration clause, something which may have impacted him.

Not only that, but Crawford highlighted how Davis had not beaten any champion of note. After all, Devin Haney is the undisputed lightweight champion, while Davis has not entered into mega fights with the big names in his weight class. 

As such, Crawford has called on Davis to face some tough competition. 

Crawford On Davis

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“We want to see Tank against somebody his size at the elite level. I believe he’ll do good. But we haven’t seen that yet,” Crawford 

Those comments come in light of Bud’s comments in which he was open to facing Davis. The latter currently fights at 135 pounds.

Therefore, Crawford let everyone know that a fight would have to happen at 147 rather than a catchweight.

This would be an intriguing fight since Tank did back Errol Spence Jr. to beat Crawford by claiming that the latter had a glass chin.

In addition, Davis even suggested that he would stop Crawford if they ever did meet. But for all the fighting talk, Crawford put the ball in Davis’ court if he was serious about the fight. 

“He’s just talking. He’s got the confidence in himself and he believes he can do that because he’s knocking all these fighters out that he’s been in the ring with.

“No knock to Tank, but there’s definitely levels. If he comes up to 147lbs and he’s thinking he’s just gonna knock Terence Crawford out, he’s got another think coming. Yeah I’d stay at 147lbs for him, that’s a big money fight,” Crawford 

Ultimately, the chances of a Crawford-Davis fight are slim. But that will not prevent the boxing community from wondering what could happen moving forward. 

Crawford On Beating Spence

In addition to this, Crawford dispelled the reservations that were being expressed prior to his win over Errol Spence Jr. 

Bud dropped Spence three times to become the first undisputed welterweight champion of the four-belt era. And the fact that Bud was able to manhandle the much bigger Spence did come off as a shock to some. This was shown in the second round when Crawford pushed Spence away following the clinch. Therefore, Crawford demonstrated that he was the stronger fighter, despite being the smaller man. 

And Bud let everyone know just how strong he was at 147, despite making it clear that making the weight was tight.

“Everything you seen fight night. We drilled it time and time again, time and time again, so it came naturally and easy to me when the fight came. He might be bigger than me, but big don’t mean stronger,” Crawford said 

Aside from his strength, Crawford expanded on how his style for the Spence fight was based on instinct. The champion admitted that he did not watch a lot of film when it came to Spence.

Instead, he relied on his coaching team to come up with a game plan. As such, Crawford backed himself to make adjustments during the fight to come out on top. 

Crawford On His Style

“I have a different style. They’re not going to fight me the same style and the same way they fought their previous opponents. They’re just not.

“I don’t watch too much film because I’m going to make my adjustments on the fly inside the ring. My coaches, they do the studying, then come up with a plan, then they shoot me the plan to win and we just go from there,” Crawford

Therefore, that would pose ominous signs for Spence moving forward if they were to have a rematch at 154. After all, Crawford could show another side to his game in the rematch, thus negating anything that Spence’s team saw in the first bout. 

This was most notably shown in Crawford’s mindset just before he was going to come out. He admitted that his plan was to take the fight to Spence only to change things at the last minute by deciding to box him.

So the fact that he was able to change his game so late into the preparations was a testament to his skills. 

“I think I made the change to fight southpaw in the back dressing room. I was remembering, ‘he (Spence) never fought too many southpaws before, and then on one of the occasions he go hurt real bad by a hook,’ so I was like ‘I’m coming out southpaw and we’re going to box just to start off, but at the same time I’m going to get my respect right out the gate,” Crawford