Reigning World Boxing Association welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao said that unbeaten American boxer Terence Crawford is scared of him and is avoiding to fight him for too long.

“Takot lang siya (Crawford) matagal na siyang iniiwas sa akin (He is just afraid and the promoters are preventing him from fighting me for a long time),” the eight-division world champion Pacquiao (60-7-2 win-loss-draw record with 39 knockouts) told reporters during the media launch of the ISPS Handa and Emmanuel & Jinkee Heart Foundation Inc. on Wednesday at the Makati Shangrila Hotel in Makati City.