Errol Spence Jr. Wants Terence Crawford After Manny Pacquiao Or He’s Moving To 154

Errol Spence Jr. is dead set on facing Terence Crawford next.

The WBC and IBF welterweight champion will face Manny Pacquiao in a title clash taking place August 21 in Las Vegas.

The winner of that fight can go one step closer to completely unifying the 147-pound division by facing WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford next.

However, a fight between Crawford and Spence has been hard to book in the past due to various reasons including the purse split and their respective promoters among others.

This time, Spence has laid out an ultimatum. Once he defeats Pacquiao, he only wants Crawford — otherwise, he is moving up to 154 pounds.

“Once I get that belt, like I told [PBC head] Al [Haymon], I want that fight with Crawford but if it doesn’t happen then I’ll probably just move up [to 154 pounds] or something,” Spence told Barbershop Conversations (via Boxing Scene). “I’m not going to waste my time trying to fight somebody who says they don’t have any interest in me anymore. He doesn’t want to fight me anymore.

“I most likely have two more fights at 147 … I’m going to go across the street to [talk to Top Rank and] see what they’re talking about. If they are not talking about nothing, I’m moving up to 154 … After the Pacman fight hopefully we can make something happen [with Crawford].”

One can only hope that’s the case.