Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford is about to be one in every of the largest boxing fights in recent memory and fighters are split on who they think will win.
On September 13, Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford will clash in one in every of the largest boxing fights in recent memory once they fight for the undisputed super middleweight title on the Allegiant Stadium.
The event is the primary to be promoted by Dana White and Turki Alalshikh under their latest TKO boxing banner, as they give the impression of being to remodel the boxing landscape.
And with two of the present pound-for-pound greats set to clash, the boxing world is split over who they think will walk out of Vegas with the undisputed super middleweight title.
Floyd Mayweather made his thoughts on Canelo and Crawford known
Crawford is one in every of the highest boxers still to have his undefeated record intact, whereas Canelo has suffered losses on two separate occasions.
The primary of which got here when he fought Floyd Mayweather and was taken to highschool by the previous pound-for-pound great.
Canelo then suffered one other loss when he went as much as light heavyweight in an try to win gold there but was dominated by Dmitry Bivol.
When Mayweather was asked his opinion on the Mexican fighter, he made it very clear what he considered him, claiming that once they fought, he was ‘easy work’.
“I’ll inform you the reality about Canelo, the mother—— was easy work. A cakewalk. Easy. You’re all praising this dude. He was nothing. I used to be almost 40 and I cooked this dude, easy,” Mayweather told Fight Hype.
Nevertheless, the previous pound-for-pound primary was filled with praise for ‘Bud’ Crawford when he was asked his opinion on the 37-year-old.
“We are able to put (Gervonta) ‘Tank’ (Davis) up there in the highest 10 in pound-for-pound, he needs to be somewhere in pound-for-pound… As of right away, I’d put Terence Crawford as primary,” Mayweather told Boxing Mane in a later interview.
Mike Tyson urged Terence Crawford to not take Canelo fight
Despite ‘Money’ Mayweather’s thoughts on each fighters, though, former heavyweight boxing king, Mike Tyson urged Crawford to not take the fight against Canelo.
Tyson touched on the large weight difference between the 2 fighters, stating his worry for Crawford, as he can be the smaller fighter significantly.