Jermell Charlo is making an attempt to tune out all of the Terence Crawford noise.
The undisputed 154-pound champion from Houston, Texas, isn’t too eager on dwelling on a possible struggle with the undisputed welterweight champion, since he has one other appreciable task arising.
On Sept. 30, at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas, Charlo will transfer up two divisions to problem Canelo Alvarez for his 4 168-pound belts.
Discuss of a potential Crawford-Canelo struggle mushroomed within the wake of Crawford’s dominant ninth-round stoppage of Charlo’s good friend and stablemate, Errol Spence Jr., final month at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas. In a second that went viral throughout the struggle, Crawford taunted Charlo, who was sitting ringside. Since then, the native of Omaha, Nebraska, has repeatedly expressed his curiosity in taking up Charlo.
“I believe that Terence Crawford may very well be on the advertising and marketing level,” Charlo mentioned of Crawford’s name outs. “He may very well be utilizing it that manner, cuz I heard what y’all had been saying. However Terence Crawford’s downside is he was by no means with the correct folks earlier than this. He simply acquired with the PBC, he simply signed over and acquired with the correct program. That’s why he was capable of make that Errol Spence struggle. You understand what I’m sayin’? Now that he get his toes moist just a little bit and he liking the promotion and he likin’ all of that, now he need to chew off just a little bit [more] than he can chew, you recognize?
“I acquired Canelo to fret about, at 168, so why the hell am I [worried about Crawford]. We’ll discuss ’54 each time we get finished with this Canelo sh!t.”
Charlo, who can be stripped of one among his 154-pound titles as quickly because the bell rings on Sept. 30 towards Alvarez, mentioned a struggle with Crawford might even need to happen at 160, a division that neither fighter has fought in earlier than. Charlo cited Spence’s eventual presence at 154 and his twin brother Jermall’s potential transfer as much as 168 as causes for settling down on the middleweight restrict.
“We are able to’t even discuss 154 as a result of you’ll have to fulfill me at one other weight as a result of my boy Errol going to 154 and my brother could also be shifting as much as ’68 completely,” Charlo mentioned. “I would arrange at ’60 or spend my profession elsewhere. I been at ’54 a very long time. I solely been in two weight divisions. And I conquered that entire division. What else do I acquired to show at that division?”
Crawford, for the time being, is ready for a date for his rematch with Spence. On Thursday, it was revealed that Spence had exercised his possibility for a direct rematch.
Sean Nam is the creator of Homicide on Federal Road: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, and the Final Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing.
