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Terence Crawford On Making History And Making Money His Way l Out Of Office

Boardroom Talks

Boardroom Podcast Network

Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4620 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Terence Crawford joins Rich Kleiman on the Out Of Office podcast to discuss how he never set out to be a pound for pound heavyweight champion, the boxing gym and community he's created in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska and why Crawford considers the business of boxing so corrupt. They also touch on the leadup to his landmark fight against Errol Spence Jr., getting Eminem to make a rare appearance, how he feels in control of his destiny and more.

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0:00.0

What's up everybody and welcome to another boardrooms out of office. My name is Rich

0:06.5

Clyman and I am honored today to sit with the undisputed welterweight champion in the world

0:12.2

and pound for pound the greatest fighter in the world. What's up Terrence Bud Crawford?

0:17.4

What's up with it, man? What's good, bro? Just chilling, man, and enjoying this New York weather. I feel you. This New York weather has been miserable, but we're happy to have the champ in town, bro. Well, at least it ain't burning hot. That's true. A lot of people are hyped that you were coming on the show. I told KD yesterday, everybody's talking about you, man. Do you feel, can you feel that?

0:38.1

Can you feel like the excitement, and it's been this way, but can you feel it after the

0:42.6

fight on the 29th, just this new level of focus and attention?

0:46.7

Of course, I definitely can feel it, given the fact of all the celebrities that's still talking about it till this day.

0:55.7

And the fight was a week and a half ago and everybody, you know, still saying positive things about it.

1:02.0

And when you hear the words pound for pound, because I would be lying if I said I was like a boxing fan in the way I'm a hoop fan, but I'm a

1:11.4

sports fan. So obviously when there's greatness, I keep up with it and I follow it. But one of the

1:15.6

things I've noticed about the sport and maybe one of the reasons why the sport at times disconnected

1:21.4

from the layman fan is like all the different belts, all the different classes, right? And sports

1:26.6

fans like to understand exactly what they're watching.

1:29.3

But I think everybody knows that the title pound for pound, that's like bigger than any belt,

1:34.7

bigger than anything.

1:35.5

And there's no real title for that except for like that's what people call you.

1:40.4

Is that what you as a fighter as great as you ultimately are like fighting for for that title?

1:47.2

Or was it also or as important for you to like, let me get all these welterweight belts or

1:52.8

let me fight up another class?

1:54.4

Or is it like I want that pound for pound title?

1:56.9

Well, coming up, I never was like, Pound for Pound.

2:01.2

That wasn't nothing that I was thinking about or worried about.

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