Terence Crawford, who is decorated with his expensive $ 188,000 ring belt trophy, today participated in a parade in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, and celebrated his victory over Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez on September 13, 2025.
Critics say $ 188k ring belt means nothing
Crawford keeps the valuable golden ring belt as a memento, even if he is stripped, evacuated or beaten from his undisputed super -middleweight championship. It’s a Keepsake-type Belt, who celebrates his victory over the 35-year-old Canelo.
Fans consider $ 188,000 victory by Crawford as a meaningless one because Alvarez is a faded fighter who has maintained his place by avoiding the Sharks. As such, Crawford’s expensive $ 188k ring trophy is a superficial one.
Bud was maneuver to the place; He did not earn it by fighting against the top contenders, which would probably have him weeds. In other words, they regard Crawford as a person placed in that position without earning it. He is like a puppet placed at that place, which looks false, a handicap sitting on a throne.
Crawford (42-0, 13 CO’s) captured the Undevised Super Middleweight Championship Championships of Canelo and beat him by a unanimous 12 round decision by the scores 115-113, 115-113 and 116-112.
Critics claim Crawford avoids peak contenders
I believe the chances of Crawford holding onto the four belts at 168 are slim and can only be made possible if he is carefully matched, Avoid the peak contenders The way many people believe that Canelo did to keep his titles. If Crawford stands against the people like David Banavidez, Christian Mbilli, Lester Martinez or Osleys Iglesias, it is in my opinion that he will overcome.
In an interview today before the march in Omaha, Crawford sounded bitter that he did not receive full credit from fans and the media, arguing that they were making excuses for the reason why Canelo lost the battle by considering him as crop. ‘If you are so wonderful And you so much before your competition, ”says Crawford.
Omaha Parade cannot erase close scorecards
For the record, The Canelo-Crawford battle was a razor, with Terence doing very little through eight rounds, took large shots from the more aggressive Canelo, and only arrived in the last four rounds of 9 to 12 to pull out the victory.
The performance of Crawford was anything but wonderful unless you consider it from an upside -down perspective, and considered ‘great’. It was not a distance impressive performance by Crawford, which looked old and barely better than the washed Canelo.
In many ways, their comments are valid. Alvarez came close to losing his last fight against one of the judges’ scorecards against William Scull earlier this year on May 3, 2025.
Fans refuse to credit Crawford’s late career victory
“These are many people who change their narrative,” we are now looking at something big struggle. We don’t appreciate it. It is sad to say, we wake up at the end of his career. We have not realized it so far when he does extraordinary things, such as contracting two weight classes to fight the best fighter in the section, the #1-man who is the face, ‘says Terence Crawford to the the the the the the the media Today, he argued that he was praised by fans until now in his career after beating Canelo Alvarez.
“The way I handled it had to be something wrong. Canelo had to be washed, or Canelo was not in it, “Bud Crawford said of fans who discredit him for his victory over 35-year-old Canelo.
The hardcore box fans following the sport do not give Crawford credit because they do not recognize Canelo as the best fighter in the 168 pound division. They considered the Mexican star as washed up since his unilateral 12-round unanimous loss of decision against Dmitri Biscvol on May 7, 2022.
Canelo has his no. 1 -Place artificially preserved
The fans notice that Alvarez had Artificially preserves its number 1 -place In the Super Middleweight Division by swinging all the high -level fighters that might have beaten him. Instead of being the best fighting, he defended his super -middleweight titles against these fighters:
- Jaime mungiaa
- William Scull
- John Ryder
- Edgar Berlanga
- Gennadiy Golovkin: (Comment: GGG was 40)
On September 13, 2025, Canelo did not fight for three years against the true top guys in the division to his title defense against Terence Crawford.
For whatever reason, Alvarez chose not to defend against the Apex 168-pound contenders, such as David Bansavidez and David Morrell, while still having a campaign in the middleweight. Canelo retained his place as the king of the division by swinging the Sharks that would take his crown.
The fighters on 168 that Canelo did not fight, which has beaten him many times, is from this group:
- David benavidez
- David Morrell
- Christian Milli
- Lester Martinez
- Osleys Iglesias
- Diego Pacheco
“I see people saying that Turki has paid Canelo to lose. I think if you are so much better than the competition, people are not going to give you credit until you sit down and look at it and just like ‘that guy was good,’ ‘Crawford says.
Last updated on 09/27/2025
