{"id":104611,"date":"2022-10-22T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T09:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/errol-spence-jr-everybody-sees-terence-crawford-didnt-want-the-fight\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T09:28:58","slug":"errol-spence-jr-everybody-sees-terence-crawford-didnt-want-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/errol-spence-jr-everybody-sees-terence-crawford-didnt-want-the-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Errol Spence Jr: Everybody sees Terence Crawford didn&#8217;t want the fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"E0FgXp\">Yesterday, Terence Crawford&#8217;s decision to fight David Avanesyan next in a \u201cBLK Prime\u201d pay-per-view main event on Dec.  10 stole some negativity away from Tyson Fury&#8217;s decision to face Derek Chisora \u200b\u200ba third time, but that&#8217;s about the only good way anyone could spin it, and you&#8217;d have to be connected to the Fury vs Chisora \u200b\u200bfight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"wn3tyP\">Fans, of course, were hoping to see Crawford fight Errol Spence Jr in an undisputed welterweight championship fight, which was first anticipated to happen on Nov.  19, then that fell apart, then a new date of Feb.  4 was floated, and ultimately, we&#8217;ve come to Crawford vs Avanesyan and Spence vs, well, someone.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4IlxlJ\">Spence (28-0, 22 KO), as you&#8217;d expect, is laying the blame firmly on the Crawford side, just as Crawford is doing the other way around.<\/p>\n<p id=\"EaRaKm\">From the Dallas Morning News:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"7m78Sb\">\u201cI don&#8217;t know who (Avanesyan) is.  &#8230; everybody see now who is holding the fight up.  He has been.  This, I guess, was in his back pocket.  He been stalling just for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"Nkoijn\">Spence added that he doesn&#8217;t believe this was anything to do with Crawford (38-0, 29 KO) wanting a tune-up, because he could have done that this past spring, around the time Spence fought Ugas.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"YxO13y\">\n<\/aside>\n<p id=\"oiovjw\">There remains hope, among some at least, that Spence vs Crawford can finally happen in perhaps the summer of 2023, but Spence is also floating the idea of \u200b\u200bsimply moving up to 154 lbs, which would leave three welterweight belts vacant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Terence Crawford&#8217;s decision to fight David Avanesyan next in a \u201cBLK Prime\u201d pay-per-view main event on Dec. 10 stole some negativity away from Tyson Fury&#8217;s decision to face Derek Chisora \u200b\u200ba third time, but that&#8217;s about the only good way anyone could spin it, and you&#8217;d have to be connected to the Fury vs &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/errol-spence-jr-everybody-sees-terence-crawford-didnt-want-the-fight\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Errol Spence Jr: Everybody sees Terence Crawford didn&#8217;t want the fight<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38082,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/top-welterweight-contender-vergil-ortiz-jr-stops-michael-mckinson-to-extend-ko-streak\/","url_meta":{"origin":104611,"position":0},"title":"Top welterweight contender Vergil Ortiz Jr.  stops Michael McKinson to extend KO streak","date":"August 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Vergil Ortiz Jr. looked across the ring on Saturday night and saw one of boxing's bureaucratic speed bumps.In order for Ortiz to inch closer to a crack at a legitimate boxing championship, he had to first defeat Michael McKinson, who was modestly ranked by a couple of the sport's sanctioning\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30908,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/danny-garcia-makes-154-debut-wins-dominant-decision-over-jose-benavidez\/","url_meta":{"origin":104611,"position":1},"title":"Danny Garcia Makes 154 Debut, Wins Dominant Decision Over Jose Benavidez","date":"July 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"NEW YORK \u2013 Danny Garcia handled his new weight class and Jose Benavidez Jr. just fine Saturday night. 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