Don’t ever compare him to Conor

Terence Crawford just lately reacted to Ilia Topuria’s battle callout. The Nebraska native dismissed Topuria as a viable opponent for him and rubbished the notion of ‘El Matador’ being “on the extent” of Conor McGregor.

Crawford is coming off a formidable unanimous resolution victory over Canelo Alvarez final weekend. Earlier than that battle, ‘Bud’ was boldly referred to as out by Topuria, who vowed to complete the boxing icon within the squared circle. Nevertheless, Crawford wasn’t and made it clear that he wasn’t fascinated by dealing with Topuria.

Topuria renewed his pursuit of Crawford after the Nebraska native used the reigning UFC light-weight king’s walkout tune earlier than his battle towards Alvarez. As soon as once more, Crawford was compelled to dismiss Topuria’s problem.

In an interview with Ariel Helwani, the boxing icon additional rubbished the notion {that a} battle between him and Topuria would mirror the Floyd Mayweather vs. McGregor battle in 2017 and mentioned:

“To be sincere, I’ve by no means even seen this dude battle, I’m not going to lie. I’m not anxious about that man in any respect. It’s loopy how issues work. I didn’t even know who he was.”

He continued:

“What cash would I get out of preventing him? Inform me how a lot I’d get out of preventing him. He’s not nowhere close to on the extent of Conor McGregor. Let’s be actual. Cease it. Don’t ever evaluate him to Conor. Conor was [up top], he’s [way lower]. Like I mentioned, I don’t know this man. I’ve by no means seen this man battle, and I watch a whole lot of MMA. Possibly I’m slipping, perhaps he’s a very good fighter. I don’t know. However I’ve truthfully by no means seen this man battle, for positive.” [H/t: MMA Fighting]

Ilia Topuria responds to Terence Crawford utilizing his walkout tune

Ilia Topuria seemingly wasn’t glad about Terence Crawford utilizing his tune throughout his walkout for the Canelo Alvarez battle. Crawford notably walked out to the ‘Cancion Del Mariachi’ tune by Antonio Banderas.

In an X put up, the reigning UFC light-weight champion referred to as out Crawford for utilizing the tune that he normally walks out to and wrote:

“First he calls me drunk… then he walks out to MY tune. Crawford, everytime you need, I’ll educate you find out how to dance that mariachi within the ring. And Canelo, I’ll prevent a spherical after him.”

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