Crawford drops Spence three times, pummels him with ease

Lays claim to pound-for-pound supremacy, becomes undisputed welterweight champion, first male two-division four-belt king

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LAS VEGAS — Terence “Bud” Crawford is the obvious pound-for-pound king after authoring one of the most one-sided beatdowns in a high-stakes fight in recent memory.

In the most significant fight of the year — and a showdown five years in the making — Crawford battered Errol Spence Jr. with shocking ease, dropping him three times en route to a punishing ninth-round knockout victory to become the undisputed welterweight champion and the first of the four-belt era on Saturday night before a raucous crowd of 19,990 at T-Mobile Arena.

“I only dreamed of being a world champion,” Crawford said. “I’m an over-achiever. Nobody believed in me when I was coming up, but I made everybody a believer. I want to thank Spence and his team because without him none of this would have been possible.

“I am so mixed with so many emotions, I can cry right now.”

What Crawford accomplished reads like a grocery list.

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