“He Knows Now”: Canelo Gives His Honest Rating Of Terence Crawford’s Last Performance At 154

Canelo Alvarez has based Terence Crawford’s chances of defeating him on the American’s last showing against Israil Madrimov.

The 34-year-old from Mexico is gearing up to face ‘Bud’ Crawford in a mega-fight later this year after the superstars finally agreed on a clash after months of negotiations.

Crawford made the move up to 154lbs last August to face WBA light middleweight champion Madrimov in Los Angeles. After a competitive contest that went the scheduled distance, the 37-year-old American was declared the winner via unanimous decision to become a four-division world champion.

Despite his spectacular career success, many prominent figures within the sport, including Canelo, were left far from impressed with Crawford’s performance against Madrimov and began to question if ‘Bud’ is taking it a step too far when he moves up to 168lbs this year.

Speaking to Sway’s Universe, Canelo gave an honest assessment of Crawford’s performance against Madrimov, where he believes Crawford looked slower at the higher weight and it will be an ‘easy fight’ for him at 168.

“Don’t get me wrong, he’s a great fighter but for me, in my weight class, it’s an easy fight. Easy money…

I don’t like to fight guys like Crawford because he moves a lot and the fight is not that great, I saw in his last fight and he doesn’t move that much now… there are weight classes for a reason.”

In a separate interview with Fight Hype, Canelo said he thought Crawford should have lost his undefeated record.

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“He lost. I think he knows why there’s weight classes there, right? He make a good fight, but for me I think he lost the fight. Or draw. It could have been the other side.”

Crawford’s quest to becoming a five-weight world champion will not come easy, as he is faced with undeniably the toughest test of his glittering professional career against a man who has dominated the super middleweight division for almost five years.

Canelo will have the opportunity to re-capture the undisputed championship on May 3 when he faces IBF champion William Scull in Riyadh, leaving ‘Bud’ faced with the prospect of becoming a three-division undisputed champion if he can defy the odds against the Mexican superstar in September.

“I should be considered one of the best in history”: Terence Crawford already sees himself beating Canelo in his next fight

There are still seven months to go until the possible fight between Terence Crawford and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, but the American is already creating scenarios and hypothetical cases in this fight that is not yet official, but everything would indicate that it is only a matter of time before it is formally announced.

Taking advantage of his time to prepare physically, Crawford was in an interview with Cigar Talk on Youtube, explaining every detail about the crazy idea of fighting against the pride of Mexico.

“I was in the gym, Bill Haney came up to me and said ‘forget about Spence, go fight Canelo instead. That’s your fight. That should be the one you’re looking for’. So whenever I ran into him, he would say to me: ‘Is the fight with Canelo ready?’ I just laughed,” confessed Bud with the interviewer

All of that started to make noise toTerence Crawford, that’s when he started to believe that it was a very good idea, especially because Bill Haney began to insist that Canelo was heavy, but he was not big, that he could beat him. These ideas began to convince Bud to ask for this fight to Turki Alalshikh.

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A fight that would mark a legacy for his career

In the same talk, Bud confessed that while they were putting this idea of a fight with Canelo in his head, he began to believe that he could certainly fight him and that would put him on another level of greatness:

“Winning this fight will cement me as an all-time great, because there are too many fighters who did what I did, going from 135 pounds to 168,” confessed Terence

And he explained in more detail about his skills in the ring: “My arms are long, I am strong, I even dare to say that they underestimate my strength. He is not big, it is true, it is his category and he knows it very well, but we will see if it is true what he says that it will be easy,” concluded the 37-year-old boxer.

On the other hand, Canelo has a fight scheduled in Riyadh against William Scull, with every intention of taking the Cuban’s belt and having all the titles on the line in September.