Here, Crawford makes it exactly clear what he thinks of the WBC’s green belt and where their president, Mauricio Sulaiman, can stick it — all interwoven between a large number of expletives. Here’s some of what Crawford had to say.
“I see Mauricio got a lot to say about me not paying him $300,000 plus another $100K-something for sanction fees, right, and then gonna tell me I ain’t apologize,” Crawford began. “Like, who the f-ck you think I am?! Boy, you better slap your f-ckin’ self, I ain’t paying your ass sh-t. F-ck you talkin’ about ‘pay you $300,000.’ What makes you so much f-ckin’ better than any other sanctioning bodies?
“What makes you better than the WBO, the IBF, or the WBA? Everybody accepted what I was giving them. But you, the WBC, think you’re better than everybody, don’t you? So since you, the WBC, and you got the f-ckin’ green belt — which don’t mean f-ckin’ sh-t — f-ckin’ real belt is The Ring belt which is free, motherf-cker. What you talking about you want me to pay you more than the other sanctioning bodies because you feel like you better than them?
“You can take the f-ckin’ belt! It’s a trophy anyway. The f-ck am I paying you every time I step foot in the f-ckin’ ring?…That don’t even make sense. I’m the motherf-cker that’s putting my life on the line, not you…You should be paying me, if you want to be truthful.
“It irks my nerves how this dude gets on a plane, gets a hotel suite, him and his buddies they go out to dinners, 5-star meals, all that, and guess who got to pay for it? Us fighters! We paying for ya’ll to come out here [to this year’s WBC convention in Thailand], stay in the best hotels of ya’ll life, and it’s all done on our dime.
“But, listen, you should’ve took the money [I offered] and you should’ve been thankful and grateful that I was rockin’ your belt around as your champion…the undisputed champion, at that. But you wanted to make it about you.”
You can watch Crawford’s full response in the video link at the top.
