Bud’s and Floyd’s split ends
To Terence Crawford, I say, “See ya,” and to Floyd Mayweather Jr., I say, “Wouldn’t want to be ya”
The words of Bob Dylan (as sung by Jeff Buckley, in accordance with my personal melodic preferences) were banging around in my head last week as I observed from across the room the way Terence Crawford carried himself at the Boxing Writers Association of America’s annual awards dinner:
It’s so hard to find
One rich man in 10 with a satisfied mind
And those words banged around with an additional layer of clatter as I thought about the losing streak Floyd Mayweather Jr. is on.
A man can be rich in an assortment of ways. Dylan meant it literally, and that literal use of the word does apply to Crawford, whom Forbes estimated to have earned some $50 million for his fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last September and over $100 million in his boxing career. And the financially focused definition definitely applies – er, applied – to Mayweather, who switched his nickname from “Pretty Boy” to “Money” mid-career and who is believed to have made about $1.2 billion in lifetime boxing earnings. That’s an all-time record, by a distance of at least half a billion dollars.
But Mayweather never seemed to have a satisfied mind.
Crawford, on the other hand? He exuded many qualities last Thursday as he collected his 2025 Fighter of the Year award at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan, none more pronounced than his sense of satisfaction.
