Terence Crawford just appeared on Ring Champs and naturally, the first order of business was to discuss his ongoing friction with Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis. Crawford has maintained that he\u2019s a happily retired fighter, but that hasn\u2019t stopped him from consistently prodding Boots and feigning his intention to fight him on social media.<\/p>\n
Recently, Crawford would publicly ask Boots if he would agree to fight him next if he returned to boxing, and when Boots said he absolutely would, Crawford essentially laughed it off as proof that Boots is willing to do anything but fight Vergil Ortiz, suggesting he\u2019s ducking the real fights to be made at 154.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s some of what he had to say when asked about all his recent interactions with Boots.<\/p>\n
Crawford on teasing Boots about making a fight happen on social media<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not motivated to do anything. I\u2019m chilling. I told everybody I\u2019m retired. It wasn\u2019t no call out. It was just a point to prove that one individual [Boots] is ducking another individual [Vergil]. When you ask him [about] Vergil \u2014 he going after champions and he think Josh Kelly is the most skillful fighter at 154, which is a lie.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou trying to big up this guy because you about to fight him. And I understand, I give Josh Kelly credit and everything else, but David Avanesyan knocked him out, stopped him. And I knocked him out cold. Then you come and you stop him and now you saying \u2018this guy is the best guy in the division?\u2019 That\u2019s crazy. We all know that\u2019s a lie, but you feeding that to [the masses] who really don\u2019t know too much about nothing because they just a Boots fan. I\u2019m a fan, too. But at the same time I\u2019m going to call a spade a spade.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just made a valid point that you don\u2019t really want to fight these dudes that you say \u2018nah, I\u2019m not worried about them\u2019 is \u2018I\u2019m belt [hunting].\u2018 If there was any time in my career that that happened, it would be always talked about. And nobody can ever say I ever did anything like that. They can never say I ducked any challenge in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford just appeared on Ring Champs and naturally, the first order of business was to discuss his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-899868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899868","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=899868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}