Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford may have a perfect 41-0 record, but the four-division boxing champion still knows how to take a loss.
‘I’m just a man,’ the 36-year-old told Shannon Sharpe on the Club Shay Shay podcast in a resurfaced clip from April 23.
The retired NFL star and Pro Football Hall of Famer was interviewing Crawford about his long-time love, Alindra, with whom he shares six of his seven children.
And the seventh?
‘Last one not by her,’ said Crawford, who is currently preparing for his highly anticipated September 13 super middleweight bout with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez.
The admission led Sharpe and Crawford to recreate the moment he told his high school sweetheart of his infidelity.
Terence Crawford has six children with his long-time girlfriend Alindra (back left)
Boxer Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford and his family are pictured at Disney World
Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford is seen after knocking out Errol Spence Jr. in July of 2023
‘Walk me through it,’ Sharpe demanded. ‘How you go home, “Hey baby… I bought you something… What’s going on?”‘
Sharpe then switched parts, taking on the roll of Crawford’s long-time girlfriend: ‘Bud, what you got to tell me?’
As Crawford recalled, he didn’t lie but rather admitted defeat.
‘N*****, got one on the way,’ Crawford remembered telling Alindra.
‘Just like that, Bud?’ Sharpe asked.
The normally quiet Crawford launched into a straightforward explanation.
‘You can’t lie. How you gonna lie?’ he asked. ‘You better tell her now because it’s gonna be worse when the baby comes.’
As for his children, Crawford said he won’t let them box or partake in the Omaha native’s favorite spectator sport, football.
‘No boxing, no football,’ he added.
A native of Omaha, Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford has credited his family with turning his life around
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Asked why he’d deny his children the chance to play combat sports, Crawford had an answer ready: ‘That’s why I did it, so they don’t have to.’
But what if one of his sons grows to be a hulking 6-foot-3 athlete?
‘He’s not 6-3 because I’m not 6-foot and his mamma’s not 6-foot,’ the 5-foot-8 Crawford told Sharpe. ‘So he ain’t gonna be 6-nothing. He’s lucky if he’s gonna be 5-8.’
While Crawford does enjoy taking his sons fishing, at least one has emerged as a high-level wrestler in Nebraska, a regional hot spot for the sport.
Sharpe’s interview with Crawford aired days after he was named as a defendant in a sexual assault lawsuit by a woman claiming to be his former girlfriend. Although Sharpe did offer the woman $10 million to settle the dispute, his lawyer Lanny Davis has conceded, the Broncos legend has maintained his innocence and has vowed to fight the case in court.
Crawford will face Alvarez on September 13 in what is likely the biggest bout in either champion’s respective careers. The Las Vegas bout will be aired on Netflix, which previously drew 108 million viewers to see a 58-year-old Mike Tyson lose to former YouTube star Jake Paul.
