Why Crawford’s “best” won’t be enough against Canelo

Terence Crawford made the commitment “I will shock the world” message on X today about his fight against unified super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez on a yet-to-be-announced date in September.

Shock The World? Doubtful

Crawford is in his An Edgar Berlanga momentgetting a huge payday he doesn’t rate against Canelo at 168 and talking trash to make fans believe he has a chance in this fight. We all know Terence is going to box and move because he’s too small and old to kill. Crawford is clearly thinking about all the money he’s going to get for this fight, so he’s in a happy, chattering state of mind. He just won the lottery.

He’s probably so happy about that paycheck. Without this gift fight given to him by Turki Al-Sheikh, Crawford would be fighting at 154, facing real sharks like Bakhram Murtazaliev, Serhii Bohachuk, Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Sebastian Fundora.

This is not the broken-down, rusty, sluggish Errol Spence that Crawford is fighting. Canelo is still an active fighter and very dangerous. Canelo is like an M93 Hornet landmine and will explode on the Nebraska native if he gets any idea.

Most likely, Crawford will go along with his trainer Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntire’s plan to use movement and follow Mayweather and Dmitri Bivol’s plan against Canelo.

Exposed and overrated

The soon-to-be 38-year-old Crawford says he hid his best inside “back pocket.” all this time.” That’s a little hard to believe after watching him eat right hands from Israil Madrimov last August and coming close to losing to him in his debut at 154. Terence just looked old, small and weak in that fight.

“I don’t think it’s a fight that Canelo really wants, to be honest, because I think he feels he’s not going to get a lot of credit by winning the welterweight and Crawford is going to be moving a lot in that fight.” , which is not ideal for Canelo,” Eddie Hearn said Fight Hub TVreacting to news of Canelo Alvarez’s fight with Terence Crawford in September.

“What are his (Canelo’s) options? If (Dmitry) Bivol wins (against Artur Beterbiev on February 22), he can fight for the undisputed. It will be a very tough fight. Benavidez is at 175. Obviously, His Excellency wants to fight. So I guess we could see the next one,” Hearn said of the Canelo vs. Crawford fight.

I have a world clock shock!!! The best is yet to come. I had it in my back pocket the whole time.

— Terence Crawford (@terencecrawford) January 13, 2025