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Coach Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntyre says Terence Crawford was keen to combat Canelo Alvarez with out a rehydration clause as a result of he doesn’t really feel he wants them to show he’s “the best.” BoMac says Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) needs to “show the world” that he’s one of the best fighter.
Payday
Followers see that as hogwash and that Crawford’s true motive for eager to combat Canelo is for the huge payday he’ll get. This proving he’s “the best” junk that BoMac is spouting feels like nonsense once you think about that Crawford isn’t enthusiastic about proving himself at 168.
Fighters tackle one of the best contenders in weight lessons earlier than difficult the champion. Crawford is skipping that half by going straight right into a title combat in opposition to Canelo.
In actuality, Crawford, 37, couldn’t dictate phrases with the famous person Canelo like he might with Errol Spence. If Terence had insisted on weight stipulations for the Canelo combat, he’d have gotten nowhere and been caught preventing the harmful younger fighters at 154 for a lot much less cash.
Crawford might need been capable of dodge a defeat if he fought WBC/WBO junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora. Nevertheless, he’d possible lose if he took on any of the junior middleweight killers like Vergil Ortiz, Serghii Bohachuk, or Bakhram Murtazalev. The sport could be up for Crawford, as he’d be uncovered, and his worth within the sport could be diminished.
Canelo-Crawford nonetheless hasn’t been made official but, however it’s more likely to happen in September on the Mexican Independence Day vacation weekend. It could be fascinating if Turki Al-Sheikh threw a wrench in Crawford’s works by insisting that he beat one of many top-level tremendous middleweights to earn the combat in opposition to Canelo relatively than having it given to him simply based mostly on what he’s executed throughout his profession.
Canelo obtained Crawford up in arms final week, saying that he’s beat “One good fighter” throughout his total 17-year skilled profession, and that was Errol Spence after his automotive crash. BoMac didn’t have a lot to say about that remark apart from repeating what Crawford stated together with his rebuttal about how they have been someone till he made them appear to be “nobodies’” by beating them. Nevertheless, Crawford’s resume is barren of high quality opposition. He’s crushed plenty of good fighters, by no means wonderful ones or elite-level.
Canelo was simply telling it like it’s about Crawford gliding by way of a protracted profession with out taking dangers. Terence can’t blame his promoters for not having the ability to get fights for him as a result of if he had moved as much as 154, 160, or 168, he’d have had loads of alternatives for large fights throughout his profession.
If Crawford needed massive fights within the final 17 years, he might have moved up and fought middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin when he was nonetheless round. I don’t assume it could have ended effectively for Crawford, however he might have executed that. The dearth of risk-talking was by no means there for Crawford prefer it was with Canelo. That’s why Bud solely has “one good fighter” on his resume, the broken-down Spence.
If I have been Canelo, I’d make Terence earn the combat by taking up the David Benavidez vs. David Morrell combat winner. That might give Crawford a sufficiently big battle to construct his title as much as the place Canelo could be given a move by the boxing world for preventing him.
The followers will bounce on the Mexican star for preventing one other man arising two weight divisions to combat him for a giant payday with out incomes it. Two years in the past, Jermell Charlo moved up from 154 to problem Canelo for his titles at 168, and the combat was an entire mismatch because of Alvarez’s energy benefit. It’ll be worse with Crawford as a result of he’s smaller and weaker than Jermell.
BoMac: No Stipulations Wanted
“I think Crawford’s rebuttal was that everybody always says, ‘Oh, he hasn’t fought nobody’ or ‘everybody he fought was a no name,’ but I’m going to tell you like this. What Crawford said, ‘Well, they were something’ until Crawford fought them,” stated coach Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntyre to Boxing Social, reacting to Canelo Alvarez saying that Terence Crawford has fought only one good fighter throughout his profession, Errol Spence.
“So, obviously, he’s [Crawford] doing a great job because he’s making everybody look normal. That’s what Crawford wants. He wants to show the world that he’s the best. Why put stipulations in there when you know you can be the best? So, let’s go test ourselves,” stated BoMac about Crawford agreeing to combat Canelo at 168 with out a rehydration clause.
