Terence Crawford rages at WBC after being stripped of super-middleweight title

Terence Crawford is not happy

It was revealed that Terence Crawford (42-0, 31 KO's) has been stripped of his WBC super-middleweight title after the WBC accused him of failing to pay his sanctioning fees. 

‘Bud’ won the belt and was crowned undisputed super-middleweight champion in September, as he pitched a near-perfect performance to outpoint Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in Las Vegas. 

He has kept his future plans under wraps, though he has taken to social media to publicly voice his displeasure at the WBC’s recent decision. 

“I see Mauricio [Sulaiman] 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 said. 

“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?” 

Crawford went on to berate the WBC for charging more in fees than the other major 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?

The 38-year-old then directed his anger at Sulaiman, angered by the lavish life the WBC president lives at the expense of the fighters he sanctions.

“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.”