Terence Crawford: Errol Spence Needs ME!

When you were growing up, what was the fight that influenced you the most? Well, hands down, Floyd Mayweather and Roy Jones Jr. You know, I used to love watching Roy Jones Jr. I'm pretty sure everybody was a fan of Roy. But, set aside, Roy always watched Floyd Mayweather and Pernell Whitaker. Yes. I was too young for Sugar Ray Leonard and them, so... I'm old enough for that. I was there for the Sugar Ray Leonard days. I was there for Sugar Ray Tommy Hearns, the Sugar Ray Duran. I was there for all that stuff. But I watched everything. When I was young, my coach, Mitch Miner, he used to always take me to his house and watch boxing tapes. That was to keep me off the streets and keep me out of trouble until I went to the gym. Is he still around? No, he passed. Damn, he'd probably be like, look at that. Boy, did that work out. You know, we talk about an investment in time that worked out tremendously. Yeah, it's always in our culture there's a special place for the highest level of boxers. It's like a special place of admiration. And I just feel like with guys like Loma Cenco, with guys like you, with Canelo and Triple G, this is a great time for boxing. It's fun to watch, man. There's so many. Earl Spence Jr. There's so many elite boxers right now. It's like a really exciting time. For sure, for sure. Do you recognize your place in history? Do you recognize that you're a special dude? Of course, of course. I always tell people when they mention me and Earl Spence, you know, of course I want to fight. I tell everybody that. I always say with or without him, I'm going to the Hall of Fame. When you look at all the things that I've accomplished in the sport of boxing, people that's in the Hall of Fame didn't even accomplish that. So I just tell people, I don't need him. He really needs me. Well, we need it. Boxers, right? Don't you agree? Yeah, boxing do need that form. Boxing needs it. I mean, it's one of the beautiful things about when a Canelo and a Triple G do get together. As you see these guys in their respective weight classes that are in their prime, it's fun. That's what everybody wants to see. That's the fight, right? That's what it's all about. It just stops a whole lot of barbershop conversations. Yes. You need to stop a whole lot of comedy club conversations, barbershop, garage, everywhere. Yeah, that's the fight to make in your weight class right now, right? For sure. What's the hold up? You got to ask them. Oh, it's them. Everybody has to hold out a little bit, right? You get the best deal. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. You know, it's all about business, but at the same time, my side of the deal is ready whenever. And you can see all the interviews out there, man. You can see where if it's Terrence or myself or Bob or anybody that's affiliated with Team Crawford, we all say we want to fight. Yeah. We got to fight tomorrow if we wanted to. So, well, we know it's the real issue. It won't happen. So, would you think that he's waiting for the right time marketing wise, or do you think he's ready for the right time where his skills, he feels like, are able to challenge you? Like, what do you think is the actual hold up? I think it has something to do with top rank and PPC. Oh, okay. So, it's a promoter issue. So, it's a financial scramble. I won't say financial because the money will be there if the fight was ever made. I just think it's, you know... Eagles. Yeah. I think Eagles. Yeah, I think there'll be probably some Eagles. I think hopefully this is just something that's going to take a little while, but it will eventually come to play. Of course. I think it'll happen, you know, but I think, you know, me being with top rank is standing in the way of a lot of things happening. That makes sense. That makes sense. It's interesting that promoters, boxing promoters work together well at all. Right. You know, like, you think about it, like, if the UFC had to work with Bellator and put together some world championship fight, basically, there's so many times when you have champion versus champion, they have two different promoters, and they have to decide to get together and make this happen. Mm-hmm. Who want to get the most of the pot? That's probably what it is. Yes. Or what network is going to be on? Yeah. What is going to be on Fox or ESPN and who's going to promote it? It's also like when someone like Floyd Mayweather has done what he's done and sold the kind of paper views that he's sold and then, you know, and achieved this sort of level of financial fame as well as like people... He's famous not just for being the best boxer, but famous for being insanely rich. Like, that's part of the fame. Because he promoted. Yes, because he promoted, because he figured it out. And a lot of other people are going to probably try to do the same thing as well. Right. That's just not my style.