Terence Crawford has spoken out on a possible unification fight against Errol Spence, admitting the fight is possible at welterweight.
Crawford faces Amir Khan at Madison Square Garden on April 20, making the second defence of his WBO belt in what could be arguably the toughest test of his career to date and a fight against Spence would see two of world boxing’s pound-for-pound greats face each other in a rare occurrence.
Despite reports linking him with a potential unification bout against IBF holder Spence, Bud said that he does believe it’s ‘makable’ but is not looking beyond his immediate task at hand in Khan.
“Of course it is makable. I believe it would be the biggest fight in the welterweight division,” Crawford said.
“But I have this fight against Amir Khan. After the fight, we can talk about Errol Spence and Al Haymon and Top Rank doing business together. But right now, I am not even thinking or worried about Errol Spence.”
Spence comes off the back of a career best performance, winning every single round against another great of the sport in Mikey Garcia – and despite calling out Manny Pacquiao to his face in the ring immediately after, was left off the Filipino’s Twitter poll of who he should fight next.
Pacquiao instead included Floyd Mayweather, Keith Thurman, Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter – with a whopping 73% of voters saying they would like to see him have a rematch against Mayweather.
Khan, however, plans on ruining any potential of Crawford and Spence meeting in the ring, claiming he will ‘turn it on’ when the pair meet in April.
“There’s a lot of talk about Crawford fighting Spence,” Khan said, “Spence has just come off a fight.
“All the people that are talking about that fight; he’s got his hands full against me.
“I’m not just a number. I know when I have to turn it on, I can turn it on.
“If Crawford’s talking about Spence, maybe that fight happening, and overlooking me, I think he is gonna be having a big shock.
“I hope he’s gonna be ready in this fight.”
