Cigar Talk<\/a>, the former undisputed super-welterweight champion said he was still keen on the match-up that so many fans were calling for years ago.<\/p>\n\u201cI wish I would\u2019ve got a Terence Crawford fight. I wish he would come out of retirement and just give me an opportunity to fight him, and just make sure we respect who the best black brother is. I think it\u2019s me. I come from the south, he come a little from the midwest, it\u2019s cool. Terence Crawford was always in the mix even when I was an amateur.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no disrespect to him, he\u2019s a great fighter. He did what he had to do. He beat Canelo, he did this, did that. Remember, styles make fights and that\u2019s why you\u2019d see such stylistically such a great match up. I switch southpaw, Canelo not gonna do all that. See, the Canelo fight for me, I was completely distracted from what the prize was. If I hadn\u2019t have been distracted I would\u2019ve handled that fight the way I needed to.\u201d<\/p>\n
During his one-sided win over Errol Spence Jr in 2023, Crawford engaged in a back and forth with Charlo, who was watching ringside. Charlo and Spence, at that time, were stablemates, and avenging the loss in a fight with \u2018Bud\u2019 made a lot of sense, but Charlo instead took the opportunity to move up in weight and face Canelo.<\/p>\n
Though many like to avoid triangle theories when making predictions, others will look at Canelo\u2019s dominant points win and give Charlo little chance in a fight against Crawford. It will remain a fantasy debate regardless, as if Crawford does return it\u2019s unlikely to be a match-up at the top of his list.<\/p>\n
Charlo, meanwhile, is keen to book a return \u2013 his first since that defeat \u2013 but says he is having trouble communicating with PBC to make it happen. He has also called out the likes of Spence<\/a> \u2013 as both have split with Derrick James \u2013 and Jaron Ennis. If he manages to land a big fight, Crawford will almost certainly only be an observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Terence Crawford does decide to return to the ring, he will not be short of challengers. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-477870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477870","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=477870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}