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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #174 with Terence Crawford' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-02-25. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #174 with Terence Crawford

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Alright, Champ is here.
Last time I saw you, I think it was before the Maduro fight, wasn't it?
Wasn't it before that fight?
Yeah, I believe so.
It was before that fight, and that was just around the time you were talking
about fighting
Canelo, and everybody was like, that's crazy.
He's going to go up all the way to 168, two more weight classes above that.
That's nuts.
Everybody's got to shut the fuck up now.
Yeah, yeah.
You know when I say, skills pay the bills.
They do.
They do.
Skills are everything, man.
But the thing is, it's like, it's interesting.
I watched both the Canelo fight and the Maduro fight again recently, and Maduro
looked bigger.
He looked bigger than Canelo.
It was really interesting.
He was a big dude.
He's a big dude.
I wonder what that guy walks around at, because it's not 154.
No, not at all.
He's a big guy.
He fought at 160 his last fight.
Did he?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Really an outstanding performance against Canelo.
It was, like I was telling you before, it was a great I told you so fight for
me, because there
were so many of my friends that are big boxing fans that just thought Canelo
was too big.
They thought it was too much of a jump.
He's too experienced.
Well, you got it?
I mean, you made it look, I want to say easy.
It wasn't that it was easy, but it was definitive.
You know, it was such a clear victory.
It was, at one point when you were pity patting him and then firing off hard
shots, I was like,
oh my goodness, he's feeling it.
Yeah, I was in my element.
I was in the zone, mainly because a lot of people was doubting me as well, you
know, telling me I was going to get knocked out.
I was too small and I was just fighting for the money when I knew what I was
capable of.
So I was just like, I'm going to show y'all what I'm really about, because this
is not the first time that I didn't heard that, oh, he can't do this.
He can't do that.
I think your situation is very similar to when Roy Jones was in his prime,
because when Roy Jones was in his prime, everybody was saying Roy Jones, other
than James Toney, Roy Jones really hadn't fought anybody.
And I was like, no, he's just that much better than everybody else.
He makes it look like they're not good.
If you saw them fight against everybody else, you would say these guys are
awesome.
For sure.
For sure.
And I've been dealing with that my whole career, you know, people getting so
much praise after fighting a guy that I already knocked out, you know, if they
beat him.
Oh, such and such beat this guy.
But me, it's, oh, you're fighting tomato cans or you're fighting bones and
things like this.
So I was just like.
It was just because you're doing it so well.
That's what it is.
It's just people.
They try to find flaws in every great performance.
And the flaws, the only flaws they could find is, yeah, but who are these guys
that he beat?
But you beat great guys.
Champions.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, one of the more interesting fights to me was the Benavidez
fight.
I rewatched that again recently, too.
That was a good fight.
Especially that, whew, because there's so much tension.
There's so much shit talking and tension and so many emotions.
And he can fight.
He can fight.
You know, a lot of people, they looking at his injury and he fought no
different from before or after the injury.
He fought the same, you know.
So that's another thing that they're going to say, oh, well, he had got shot in
a leg.
And if he didn't, then this would have happened or that would have happened.
I'm like, he fought the same.
Like, if you know boxing and you see him box, nothing changed from his boxing
standpoint.
He wasn't a mover.
He wasn't this guy that used his legs as a defense or offense.
So I just take it as a grain of salt and laugh at him.
Yeah, I'm sure that injury sucked, but he fought the same.
And he fought well.
I mean, he's a tough guy.
He fought really well.
Took me 12 rounds.
Yeah, listen, and that right uppercut in that 12th round that put him down, I
was like, oh, my goodness.
I remember watching that fight live.
I was like, oh, there it is.
There it is.
You found him.
Yeah, he had good head movement, you know.
Tough guy.
He was ducking them hooks and them straight punches.
So I was just like, all right, I got to switch it up.
Well, also, he believed in himself.
For sure, definitely.
He came into that fight to win.
Oh, definitely, most definitely.
Yeah, it's beautiful to watch you get what you deserve because I felt like, man,
if you retired after this fence fight, I don't think people that are casuals
would really appreciate your skill set.
Yeah.
You know, the people inside boxing, the people that really know boxing did, but
I felt like too many of the casuals just talk so much shit.
And so the Canelo fight was the cherry on top of the sundae.
Yeah, it was.
And even now, a lot of people saying, oh, well, Canelo's washed.
He's old.
And I'm like, well, I'm older than him.
Like, what are we talking about?
You know, so I just love it, you know, because it just shows what level I'm on,
you know, for everybody to already know what happened.
And then they try to take what happened and make it a reason why it happened.
Right.
So I just be like, man, it's cool.
That's boxing, though.
Right.
That's sports in general.
You're always going to have that.
There's always going to be a bunch of sideline people that talk a lot of shit,
but, you know, for a lot of fighters, it's later in their career, especially
when they're avoided or they have difficulty signing big fights.
It's later in their career that people really appreciate them.
Like, think about Bernard.
It wasn't until Bernard Hopkins beat Felix Trinidad that people were like, oh,
shit.
Like, I think he was like 37 or 36 when he fought Trinidad.
And a lot of people were saying he's washed up.
It's over.
And when he knocked out Trinidad, everybody was like, oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've been calling out everybody since the beginning, you know, they created a
whole side of the street because of me, you know, and I'm with a different
promoter.
It was always something, you know, and everybody always blamed me.
But now look at everybody now.
All the promoters working together now.
Why couldn't they work together when it was my turn to shine?
But it is what it is, and life happened, and I'm happy the way it happened
because I did it my way, and I don't think too many other fighters can say that.
That's true.
Yeah.
It's a dirty business, you know, the business of promoters and keeping guys
away from guys.
And making sure that their fighter, you know, avoids hurting fighters.
It's always been that way, you know, and it's unfortunate for the fans because
there's so many.
Like, the big one for a long time was David Benavidez and Canelo.
Like, everybody wants to see that fight, and they just can't figure out a way
to make it happen.
And you've got to think someone's avoiding somebody, and it's not Benavidez.
No, not at all.
You know, I just think Canelo, in a sense, he knows how big Benavidez is going
to come in the ring.
You know, Benavidez is a great fighter, you know, but he's a big fighter.
He's a tall fighter, you know, and I just think Canelo knows, like, why would I
want to get in the ring with this guy that's going to be massive come fight
time?
And I'm not that big of a guy at all.
I've been doing all this with my skills because Canelo's not a big guy.
He's been fighting big guys his whole career.
Yeah.
You know, and beating them with skill, you know, so you've got to tip your hat
off to Canelo and what he's accomplished.
Absolutely.
Being 5'7", going up to 175 and fighting these big guys and actually winning.
Knocked out Kovalev.
Yeah.
I mean, it was Kovalev later in his career, but he's still Kovalev.
For sure.
And then having the courage to fight Bival in his prime.
For sure.
I think that's the fight that probably kept us from getting the Benavidez fight,
the Bival fight.
Because I think after that fight, he's like, okay.
Yeah, this dude is big.
This is a little big.
Yeah.
Because Bival, not just big, but he's got that Russian style, light on the feet,
in and out, in and out, in and out.
To a boxer.
It's a difficult style to handle, you know, and like the only guy to beat
Betterbeev was another beast.
Yeah, so.
I think, you know, him knowing that.
And then I think the disrespect that he got from Benavidez had persuaded him to
go elsewhere.
But, you know, there's been many boxers from the past that didn't fight people
that they wanted to fight.
Right.
You know, look at Sugar Ray Leonard and Aaron Pryor.
They never got that fight.
Mm-hmm.
So, and that's just one of many.
So, it's going to be like that.
Well, it always seems at the end that it all worked out the way it was supposed
to, you know, and that's how it felt like for me after your Canelo victory.
Like, this is, this is like, you know, all the bullshit, it's like now
everybody has to shut the fuck up.
It's like all the bullshit's gone.
It's like now everybody's got to give you your just due because that was a
stellar championship performance.
I mean, that was one of the all-time great performances because it was a Canelo
that's, you know, you could say whatever you want.
I think he's still in his prime.
And you just outboxed him.
And you outboxed him.
I mean, think about it.
40 to 47, 54, all the way up to 68, and you outboxed.
Oh, that's right.
35 first, right?
That's right.
That's crazy.
That's crazy going up from 35 to 68 and outboxing the champ.
And the way you did it, too.
It was so skillful.
It was so beautiful to watch, man.
When you're a fan of skillful, intelligent boxing, that was such a good fight
to watch.
Because, you know, Canelo's a dangerous guy.
He's a heavy puncher.
And he puts a lot of power into his punches.
He's kind of changed over the years and really relied more on his power.
But, man, he knows how to land it.
And when he lands it, he puts people in a lot of trouble.
And, whew, he just – there was this one move that you were doing where you
were throwing a left hand and then a quick hook behind it before you even
brought the hand back.
So, he was going a counter and you were throwing a quick hook.
I was like, oh, that is so pretty.
That is so pretty.
Trying to catch him in a counter.
You know, Canelo is a great counter puncher.
You know, so you got to beat him to it.
You got to counter to counter at times.
Did that fight play out the way you thought it was going to play out?
Yeah, most definitely.
Exactly the way you thought it.
Most definitely.
We knew what we was up against.
You know, when I went to his fight against Berlanga and against –
the guy that's on his team, I forgot his name, Munguia, Munguia.
When I was with Turkey, I said, Turkey, he can't beat me.
Just watching him from 135 to now, like, live, looking at him, I'm just like, I
can beat this dude.
Like, my confidence is getting more and more and more.
And his last fight in Saudi Arabia, I was like, yeah, he can't fight like that
against me.
Which he didn't.
Which he definitely rose his game.
But I just believed in myself that much that nothing was going to stop me from
getting that victory that night.
The fight in Saudi Arabia, he looked, like, under-motivated.
Yeah.
Like, it wasn't a big enough challenge for him.
He didn't look like he was in the same kind of shape physically, like, when you
look at him.
He wasn't, you know.
And it happens, you know.
That's why I always train, like, this is the toughest fight of my career.
Because it is.
Every fight is.
And you never know what to expect with those type of fighters that nobody know
about.
Right.
Right, right, right, right.
Them be the ones that sneak up on you and, you know, you got to be ready for
him.
But he didn't come to fight.
He moved the whole fight.
And, you know, Canelo was frustrated.
And he was just like, ah, man, this dude didn't come to do anything.
Right.
He cam