Terence Crawford has fired back at Teofimo Lopez’s unsavoury remarks about him and Gervonta Davis.
The WBO super-lightweight champion called out both boxers last week and came under fire for his choice of words.
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“Whichever monkey wants to get the banana!” he told Broadway Joel when asked which of the pair he’d like to fight most. “They say they are gorillas, I’m a lion, I eat them.”
Taking exception to his comments, Crawford responded via an interview with Bernie The Boxer: “Teo is like the little kid that’s screaming for attention.
“Had me or Tank called him a racial slur, they would’ve been trying to cancel us, calling us racist, it would’ve been all over the news.
“The hatred that’s within always shows. That’s not something that’s just came out, that’s something that’s been inside that man that he was taught as a little kid.”
Lopez and Crawford were in attendance for Canelo Alvarez‘s shutout win over Edgar Berlanga last month and were videoed clashing at ringside.
Security had to separate the pair after they squared up and exchanged verbal jabs.
Explaining what happened, Crawford said: “He sees me and he’s laughing and saying, ‘We are going to fight.’ And I had to check his dad because he slapped me on my shoulder trying to get some attention after my fight.
“And it’s on camera so I go to his dad, ‘If you ever put your motherf***ing hands on me again I’m going to beat your a***.’
“And he’s like, ‘We just want the fight,’ and Teo is like, ‘No, we just want the fight,’ and I said, ‘Shut your b*** a*** up when grown folks are talking.’
“And now I’m pointing in his dad’s face because now I’m getting mad.
Lopez called Davis and Crawford ‘monkeys’Esther Lin/PBC
“Then Teo was like, ‘You want to fight outside?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, we are going to fight outside motherf***er, what are you talking about?’
“Then the security come in and now he is getting bold, ‘You don’t want the world to see you lose’.
“He’s a b****. If that was my dad I don’t give a f*** where we are at, n**** I’m going to clean you.”
It seems unlikely Crawford and Lopez will exchange leather anytime soon as ‘Bud’ has his attention focused elsewhere.
The WBO recently ordered their champion, Sebastian Fundora – who is also in possession of the WBC title – to defend his titles against WBO ‘interim’ and WBA title holder Crawford.
On August 28, they were initially given 30 days to negotiate a deal a deal.
But they have since been granted a ten-day extension period until October 10 before a purse bid is ordered.
