For years Al Haymon's stable of fighters trash talked about Crawford. But Crawford was never much of a trash talk guy. He's a family man. Doesn't party. Doesn't drink. A professional fighter. These guys used to actually say that Crawford was afraid of them. What a joke. No, Crawford put the fear of God in Haymon and all of his fighters. When it was obvious that Spence was damaged goods, Haymond finally fed him to Crawford and cashed him out. All of them. Spence, Garcia, Thurman, Charlos, etc. All those guys would have gotten absolutely F'ed up by Crawford. They ran away and had their own little separate tournaments to freeze out Bud.
5 years, 5 ****ing years the entire PBC stable spent running from Crawford, even going as far as to pretend WBO didn't exist. Can't blame Haymon though, he was able to sell a bunch of mediocre fighters as an elite stable because of their ducking of Crawford. The fault lies with the gullible PBC nuthuggers, who somehow managed to fool themselves into believing that Crawford was the one doing the ducking.
That era was so awful for the ww division. The ldbc was so annoying during that era, just awful, making out that Terence was some **** for being woth top rank at the time.
I just hate seeing people get lied on and Terence was lied on bad from 2015 all the way to 2023 just false narratives