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Shakur Stevenson predicts that Terence Crawford will “take the s*** out of Canelo and make it look easy” if they fight this September on the Mexican Independence Day holiday.
Lightweight champion Stevenson feels Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) is on another level despite being much smaller and never having a super-middleweight fight to prove it.
We certainly can’t look at Crawford’s career-best wins, a scintillating decision against Israil Madrimov and a car crash knockout of the exhausted, injured and inactive shell of Errol Spence to say he’s shown he’s on another level to the canelo. Those two fights showed that Crawford wasn’t good enough to beat the top hitters at 154, 160 or 168.
Crawford’s Challenge
If Turki Al-Sheikh wanted to show Crawford some tough love, he would tell him that he needs to show that he is capable of beating these three in order to deserve a fight against Canelo Alvarez:
- David Benavidez
- Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitri Bivol 2 winner
- David Morrell
It would not only allow Crawford to make money golden parachute into retirement money, which would give him a soft landing in retirement, but would also make the Canelo-Crawford fight more like a sport than a celebrity event similar to pro wrestling.
If boxing is ever to be considered a real sport like the NBA, NFL, and NHL around the world, fighters must endure trials to prove themselves and earn championship bouts.
“Canelo outboxed him,” Shakur predicted of Terence Crawford’s fight against Canelo Alvarez in September. “Yeah, sure,” Shakur Stevenson said iFL TV when asked if Crawford ‘looked easy’ after beating Canelo. “Terence is crazy. That guy’s a psycho,” Shakur said of Budd, who did not seek a rehydration clause from the Mexican superstar.
“Canelo is one of the biggest names in boxing. You can’t claim a rehydration clause against someone like that,” Stevenson said.
A pot of gold at the end
I don’t mind Crawford getting the fight against Canelo, as long as he earns it by running over David Benavidez, the winner of Beterbiev-Bivol 2, and Morel. Look at it this way. Benavidez and Morel have waited much longer than Bad to fight Canelo and have been ignored as if they don’t exist on this planet.
Both men deserve a fight against Canelo more than Crawford, who barely made it through the last fight by the skin of his teeth in his 154 debut against Madrimov.
The only reason I threw Beterbiev and Bivol into the mix is because I think Turki Al-Sheikh might like the idea of drawing attention to a fight involving those guys and Crawford with a gold medal, Canelo at the end of the rainbow, a pot of gold for the ultimate winner.
