Trainer Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntyre says Terence Crawford was willing to fight Canelo Alvarez without a rehydration clause because he doesn’t feel he needs them to prove he “the best.” BoMac says Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) wants to “show the world” that he is the best fighter.
Payday
Fans see it as pork rind and that Crawford’s real reason for wanting to fight Canelo is for the massive payday he will get. Proving that he’s “the best” trash that BoMac dishes out sounds like nonsense when you consider that Crawford has no interest in proving himself at 168.
Fighters take on the best contenders in weight classes before challenging the champion. Crawford skips that part by going straight into a title fight against Canelo.
In reality, Crawford, 37, couldn’t dictate terms with superstar Canelo the way he could with Errol Spence. If Terence had insisted on making weights for the Canelo fight, he would have gotten nowhere and would have been stuck fighting the dangerous young fighters at 154 for a lot less money.
Crawford might have been able to avoid defeat if he fought WBC/WBO junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora. However, he will likely lose if he faces any of the junior middleweight killers like Vergil Ortiz, Serghii Bohachuk or Bakhram Murtazalev. The game would be for Crawford as he would be exposed, and his value in the sport would be diminished.
Canelo-Crawford hasn’t been made official yet, but it will likely take place in September on the Mexican Independence Day holiday weekend. It will be interesting if Turki Al-Sheikh throws a wrench in Crawford’s works by insisting that he beat one of the top tier super middleweights to earn the fight against Canelo rather than handing it to him just based on what he did during his career. .
Canelo got the better of Crawford last week and said he beat “One good fighter” during his entire 17-year professional career, and it was Errol Spence after his car accident. BoMac didn’t have much to say about that comment, other than repeating what Crawford said with his rebuttal about how they were somebody until he made them look like “nobodies” by beating them. However, Crawford’s resume is barren of quality opposition. He beat a lot of good fighters, never great ones or elite level.
Canelo just told it like it was about Crawford sliding through a long career without taking risks. Terence can’t blame his promoters for not being able to get him fights because if he had moved up to 154, 160 or 168 he would have had plenty of opportunities for big fights throughout his career.
If Crawford wanted big fights in the last 17 years, he could have moved up and fought middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin when he was still around. I don’t think it would have ended well for Crawford, but he could have. The lack of risk talk was never there for Crawford as it was with Canelo. This is why Bud only has “one good fighter” on his resume, the broken Spence.
If I were Canelo, I’d let Terence earn the fight through the David Benavidez vs. to face David Morrell fight winner. This would give Crawford a big enough fight to build his name to where Canelo would be given a pass by the boxing world for fighting him.
The fans will jump on the Mexican star for fighting another guy who came up two weight divisions to fight him for a big payday without earning it. Two years ago, Jermell moved Charlo up from 154 to challenge Canelo for his titles at 168, and the fight was a complete mismatch due to Alvarez’s power advantage. It will be worse with Crawford because he is smaller and weaker than Jermell.
BoMac: No stipulations needed
“I think Crawford’s rebuttal was that everybody always says, ‘Oh, he hasn’t fought anybody’ or ‘everyone he’s fought has been a no-name’, but I’m going to tell you this. What Crawford said, ‘Well, they were something’ until Crawford fought them,” trainer Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntyre said. Box Socialwho was responding to Canelo Alvarez saying that Terence Crawford only fought one good fighter during his career, Errol Spence.
“So, of course, he (Crawford) does a good job of making everyone look normal. That’s what Crawford wants. He wants to show the world that he is the best. Why put in terms when you know you can be the best? So, let’s go test ourselves,” BoMac said of Crawford agreeing to fight Canelo at 168 without a rehydration clause.
