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“Crawford is now 60-70 per cent better”

DEPENDING on what happens this weekend, Terence Crawford may have to rethink his answer to a question he was posed recently. Asked to name his best moment in boxing, Crawford recalled the night he took the WBO lightweight title from Ricky Burns in Glasgow on March 1, 2014.

The unanimous points win at the Scottish Exhibition Centre brought Crawford his first ‘world’ title and he sobbed as he was carried around the ring on his trainer’s shoulders afterwards, while the crowd sang the former

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