Terence Crawford versus Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is a fight that very much excites fight fans despite the great difference in weight between the two elite-level world champions.
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Once upon a time, the fight would have been easier to make: ‘Canelo’ picked up his first world title down at light middleweight, but has since moved up through the weights and won belts all the way up to light heavyweight. Right now he holds all four titles in the super middleweight division having recently defended them once more against fellow Mexican Jaime Munguia.
Omaha’s Crawford is the naturally smaller man who has been undisputed at both lightweight and welterweight. He has beaten the likes of Shawn Porter, Kell Brook and Amir Khan though his most impressive win came last time out against Errol Spence Jr.
That was in July last year and after that protracted period away from the ring he debuts up at 154 lbs in a world title fight with Israil Madrimov on August 3, perhaps in preparation for the further two weight class jump for the Canelo fight he’s been targeting for a year.
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Former heavyweight champion and one time ‘Canelo’ gym mate Andy Ruiz Jr, previously advised ‘Bud’ to stay away from Canelo.
“I think Crawford could be the best in the world at those divisions but I think he should stay away from Canelo right now. Let Canelo do his thing. For sure I know that Crawford’s gonna be the face of boxing after Canelo does his thing.”
But Ruiz has now changed his opinion and in an interview with FightHubTV praised Crawford’s skillset and believes it’s ‘his time’.
“Crawford is a smaller opponent but you can’t critique his skills, his speed, it’s unbelievable.
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I think that would be a good pay day for Crawford and he deserves, you know, it after all the things he has been though, especially with different promoters and all that. It’s his time.”
Ruiz has a huge fight himself on Crawford’s undercard in August when he takes on Jarrell Miller.
Meanwhile, ‘Canelo’ is working on his next fight date in September and has been linked with Chris Eubank Jr as well as Edgar Berlanga.
