Crawford & Davis Trade Barbs: ‘Chasing Greatness’ or Chasing Paydays?

Gervonta Davis and Terence Crawford traded trash talk about being very rich. Crawford seems to have it he started it rubbing the salt to Tank Davis’ injuries, saying he was 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 then pointed out that 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 “pursuing greatness” and “legacy” argument that Crawford has been using as reasoning for moving up to 168 to challenge Canelo for his three belts sounds like double talk. If it was about greatness, Crawford would step up and win the fight by beating the top contenders. He wants the direct title, which unmasks what this is all about…retirement money.

Crawford wouldn’t have this fight if Turki hadn’t given him the chance. Terence wasn’t about to move up to 168 to earn his payday against Mexican superstar Canelo the hard way by running the gauntlet between the killers of the division.

Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) probably wouldn’t last two seconds if he went up against some of the predators, like David Morrell, David Benavidez, Christian Mbilli and Diego Pacheco. You could 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 Turki handing it to him in silver.

Circus boxing

Turki likes circus fights that make no sense in terms of sporting value, but good trash-like entertainment. For example, Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury fight MMA guy Francis Ngannou. They were pure circus. We’re getting an aging Crawford, soon to be 38, moving up two weight divisions to challenge Canelo.