{"id":326596,"date":"2025-12-05T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326596\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:49:08","slug":"terence-crawford-talks-ped-allegations-how-mayweather-would-give-him-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326596\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford Talks PED Allegations, How Mayweather Would Give Him Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> usually keeps a low profile on social media.<\/p>\n

But the pound-for-pound kingpin was in a very talkative mood Tuesday on X and felt like it was a good time to clear the air surrounding some of his stances.<\/p>\n

The wide variety of topics Crawford (42-0, 31 KOs) addressed ranged from critics questioning his status as a star to performance-enhancing drug allegations, a fight with Manny Pacquiao <\/a>that never materialized and how Floyd Mayweather Jr.<\/a> would be the only opponent to potentially push his limits.
“I find it crazy how people run with this Crawford don\u2019t sell,” said Crawford. “Any fighter I ever fought, besides Amir Khan when he fought Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, I was their biggest fight. But I can\u2019t sell though. But none of these fighters could do what they did with me, with other fighters though. So I must be lost.<\/p>\n

“How many times did Canelo fight in a stadium again? How many people attended with other fighters again? If he sells out on his own, why couldn’t he do it with anyone else before me?<\/p>\n

\u201cI just love putting that out there because they don\u2019t talk about that. But they run with the narrative I can\u2019t sell. If I can\u2019t sell, why do so many people come and tune in to the fight? I get it, I don’t act like the rest of them.”<\/p>\n

Crawford has broken through with legacy-defining fights recently by stopping Errol Spence<\/a> in 2023 to become the undisputed welterweight champion and by scoring a unanimous decision win against Canelo Alvarez in September<\/a> to become the undisputed super middleweight champion.<\/p>\n

For the longest time, Crawford was linked to a fight against Pacquiao while they were both signed with Top Rank, but Bob Arum nixed the matchup in fear of the latter being on the receiving end of a bad beating. <\/p>\n

“I tried to fight Pacquiao way back in 2015, and they hid him from me. So I didn\u2019t get too big too soon, they wanted to keep milking him because he was their cash cow.<\/p>\n

\u201cOscar De La Hoya said Pacquiao would have beat me because he got stopped by him. Look: I would have [expletive] you, Pacquiao, and whoever you thought would have beat me up. Just because I\u2019m responsible doesn\u2019t mean [anything].<\/p>\n

“I respect Manny, don\u2019t get it twisted. But he’s been knocked out more than once. If you know boxing then you know he would have had to take a lot of chances with me, and I\u2019m definitely not the one to chance with if you know what you are watching. Just ask his coach.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a reason they stayed away from me so long till they couldn\u2019t anymore. I have been a problem since day one, and they knew it. I\u2019m the one they told y’all to stay away from.”<\/p>\n

Separately, on the same day potential future opponent Janibek Alimkhanuly became the latest fighter to test positive for a performance enhancing drug<\/a>, Crawford also addressed allegations around banned substances. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a reason I never had a close fight, or a fight where people had to say a referee or judges, no drug allegations helped me win. No controversy over here at all, just hard work from the mud.<\/p>\n

“Now I was on steroids [laughing emoji]. Saying that to a person who doesn\u2019t even like taking Tylenol or multivitamins. Check me anytime of the year and won\u2019t find anything in my system but water, pop, and candy.”<\/p>\n

When an X user noted that Crawford is tied to SNAC, a supplements company founded by the late Victor Conte<\/a>, a convicted steroids dealer-turned-outspoken anti-doping advocate, Crawford quipped: “When were over-the-counter supplements considered steroids again?”<\/p>\n

Crawford concluded his commentary by saying that he’s never gotten a chance to show off his entire arsenal of skills throughout his illustrious 17-year, Hall of Fame-bound career. <\/p>\n

“It’s so crazy to say y’all never got to see me at my full potential because nobody brought it out of me because I was knocking them out,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I pay homage to the ones before me, but Floyd Mayweather [would be] the only one I would have had problems with, because of his mind. And I\u2019m done talking about it, go argue with yo momma.” <\/p>\n

Manouk Akopyan is The Ring\u2019s lead writer. Follow him on X and Instagram: @ManoukAkopyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford usually keeps a low profile on social media. But the pound-for-pound kingpin was in a very…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1151,1144,1150,1149,1142,711,1145,1146,1147,1148,1143,49,48,1156,1155,1138,1136,1137,1153,1139,1135,1157,1152,82,1154,1134,1141,1140],"class_list":{"0":"post-326596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-ca","21":"tag-canada","22":"tag-disqualification","23":"tag-draw","24":"tag-fight","25":"tag-fighter","26":"tag-fighter-news","27":"tag-knockout","28":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","29":"tag-ring","30":"tag-ring-magazine","31":"tag-split-decision","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-technical-knockout","34":"tag-the-ring","35":"tag-top-fighters","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}