A biography for Shawn Porterhasn’t been written yet.
“I enjoy people talking about me.”
“The good thing about having the target on my back is that I am a very hard target to hit.”
“Terence Crawford has always had a short fuse. Terence would get so angry that his eyes would well up and he would tear up. People looked at him like he was soft. But they didn't understand. That's how his anger comes out.”
“Northeast Ohio is always an underdog.”
“Ohio produces champions at every level.”
“Ugas is a strong, aggressive fighter who's responsible with his defense. He's a Cuban fighter and I know he won't waver from that.”
“I think, for me coming into the game, the way that I came into the sport and the business being ran the way that it was ran for me, I was always told who I would fight, and there was never really ever a fountain of guys to pick from.”
“I knew that Errol Spence Jr. was going to be my last fight. I knew that in 2017 when he won his championship fight. But after we fought, I felt that there was something else, and that something else was Terence Crawford.”
“It's how I grew up. It's how my dad raised me, and it's where I come from. We were never allowed to shy away from any challenge, and that's the way I've lived my life.”
“I appreciate and love the way I grew up.”
“After you've fought everybody at the top, what more do you do?”
“I'm going to force Danny Garcia to fight me, to be uncomfortable and to do things he's not used to doing in a fight.”
“Honestly, man, I'm very, very soft spoken. I'll go in a room and if you don't know me, you'll never know that I was there. I've always been that way, timid in a lot of ways. I don't like making new friends.”
“I'm the strongest fighter that Adrien Broner will ever get into the ring with.”
“My dad and I, we're just unique, we understand each other, we know what one another expects.”
“Every fight is a must-win because we are winners.”
“I've been fortunate to be in some really big fights against some really good guys and always have my health at the end of the night.”
“When I say the fight between me and Terence Crawford is going to be great, it's gonna be great. When I say I have what it takes to beat him, don't sleep on that, believe that.”
“Welterweights have what heavyweights have but they also have what flyweights have. We have speed and power. We have what it takes to keep a certain tempo but also deliver the hard shots that the heavyweights have.”