Terence Crawford has no problem winning a ‘boring’ fight vs. Errol

There’s no denying that Saturday’s clash between WBC, WBA and IBF champion Errol Spence Jr. and WBO champ Terence Crawford to crown an undisputed welterweight champion is a huge fight by any measure. What still remains to be seen is whether the fight will play out in a way that makes it not only important, but also legendary. Spence and Crawford seem to be at odds on that goal.

Speaking to the media in June, Spence suggested the two men had what almost amounted to a responsibility to future generations to make the fight as exciting as possible.

“For us, we just gotta make sure that how exciting it is on paper, we gotta make it exciting off paper and when we get in the ring,” Spence said. “We gotta make sure that people are gonna remember this fight and people are gonna talk about it how they talk about Ray Leonard and Tommy Hearns, and all the great fights 40 years ago. I want somebody, my kid or somebody else kid, you know, 20, 30 years from now, to watch it on YouTube.

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“They’re amateurs, they’re watching our fight like, ‘Man, one day, I wanna be in a fight like that.’ Or, ‘One day, you know, I wanna be in the lead of a fight like that.’ And they have documentaries about me and Terence Crawford, and how it occurred and how the fight happened and what happened before the fight. So, you know, it’s a great moment in history, it’s a great moment just for boxing and myself.”

Speaking with CBS Sports, Crawford made it clear he does not share Spence’s sentiment on the way the fight should be approached. In fact, Crawford seemed to be entirely happy to be in a boring fight, so long as he walks away from it as undisputed champion.

“My thing is, get the job done by any means…