A mic’d up Shakur Stevenson was livid at listening to boos from the group through the Terence Crawford vs. Israil Madrimov struggle final Saturday evening. The booing began within the second spherical as a result of uninteresting, tactical chess match between Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) and Madrimov (10-1-1, 7 KOs).
WBC light-weight champion Shakur, who is not any stranger to boos, was within the viewers on the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles and was upset at listening to the followers booing throughout the principle occasion struggle between former three-division world champion Crawford and WBA junior middleweight champion Madrimov.
Shakur is shut pals with Crawford, who fights equally to him with a safety-first type, and he didn’t like listening to him getting booed nonstop.
Crawford is an older fighter with a combating type suited to the bygone Mayweather era. That type doesn’t work with in the present day’s followers, who demand leisure inside and out of doors of the ring. Crawford, a dinosaur within the twenty first century, gives none of that.
Taking it Personally
For some motive, Shakur took the booing personally, repeatedly saying, “Shut up,” to followers who had been sad at paying to see a boring struggle between Crawford and Madrimov. Followers had spent their hard-earned cash on tickets and costly parking to observe the occasion.
They needed to get worth for his or her time and cash spent on journey, in order that they naturally expressed their emotions to the 36-year-old Crawford and Madrimov.
By the point the principle occasion struggle got here on, followers had been drained as a result of they’d needed to sit via an extended live performance from 51-year-old Eminem, and so they needed to see an thrilling struggle. Placing a rap live performance in a boxing occasion was not a good suggestion as a result of many followers aren’t into that type of music.
A Return to Type
Folks not acquainted with Crawford assumed that they might see the identical brawling type that he confirmed in his earlier struggle a 12 months in the past towards Errol Spence in July 2023, however that’s not how he often fights.
Crawford has at all times been a boxer, and the one motive he deviated from that method is that Spence was a bodily wreck in that match. Spence appeared half-stunned even earlier than the struggle began.
Final weekend, Crawford reverted again to the fighter he’d at all times been, a uninteresting boxer-puncher with a combating type much like Shakur’s.
