Terence Crawford is more like Floyd Mayweather than first meets the eye.
Both boxers have very different fighting styles but align when it comes to their elite mindsets.
“I’m kind of lame, I don’t gamble, I don’t party, I don’t drink, I’ve never smoked, nothing,” Crawford told Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast.
Asked whether other boxers do the same, Crawford replied: “The only person I can honestly say besides the partying is Floyd Mayweather because he didn’t drink or smoke.
“He would party but he would go and run six miles after he partied at 4 o’clock in the morning.”
It was this commitment to his craft that paved the way for a long and illustrious tenure in the paid ranks.
During a professional career stretching from 1996 to 2017, Mayweather built up an unblemished 50-0 record including wins over several current and future Hall of Famers such as Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Canelo Alvarez and Miguel Cotto.
He is also a five-weight world champion and three-weight lineal champion.
But he never achieved undisputed status in any of the divisions he fought in.
Mayweather came closest to unifying all four major sanctioning body belts in 2015 when he defeated Pacquiao for the WBC, WBA, and WBO welterweight titles.
He could have then gone on to face Kell Brook, who was the IBF champion at the time.
However, Mayweather refused to pay a sanctioning fee to the WBO after his fight with ‘Pac Man’ and was subsequently stripped of their version of the world title.
