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Charlo: ‘I want to fight Terence Crawford’
“I just felt like I wasn’t me in there,” Charlo says. “I don’t make excuses for myself so, it is what it is. Take my punches and roll with it. This is boxing. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.”
Asked what the difference was tonight compared to his previous performances, Charlo says it came down to the climb in weight.
“Truthfully, you could feel the difference in the weight,” he says. “I jumped up 14 pounds. I’m undisputed in my weight division [at 154lbs]. I was daring to be great right now. You fall short sometimes, but you got to just keep on pushing. My road don’t stop right here.”
Will he go back to the junior middleweight division where he consolidated all four major title belts?
“Absolutely,” he says. “I think this morning I weighed 172, 173. It is what it is. I’m proud of myself. He didn’t knock me out, [but] he knocked all those other guys. He hit me with some hard shots. I felt like I got mine off. But hey, I’m the little Charlo, I’ve got to represent.”
Asked what’s next at junior middle, Charlo first says that he’d be happy to fight the winner of next month’s WBO title fight between Tim Tszyu and Brian Mendoza ... but then makes a sudden change of tack.
“I want to fight Terence Crawford,” an animated Charlo says. “Fuck that. I could fight Terence Crawford at my weight division. Let him fight Errol Spence, whatever they got going on, get that out the way. I’m waiting. I’m about to get right back in training. Tell him don’t worry about it.”
