Shakur Stevenson predicts Crawford will “box” the S* out of Canelo**

Shakur Stevenson predicts that Terence Crawford will “make the s*** out of Canelo and make it look easy” if they fight this September on the Mexican Independence Day holiday weekend.

Lightweight champion Stevenson feels Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) is on another level, even though he is much smaller and has never fought a super middleweight to prove himself.

We certainly can’t look to Crawford’s career-best wins, a slick decision against Israil Madrimov, and a knockout of the car crash, weight-drained, injury-plagued and inactive shell of Errol Spence to say he’s shown he’s on a other level to Canelo. Those two fights showed that Crawford was not good enough to beat the top killers at 154, 160 or 168.

Crawford’s challenge

If Turki Al-Sheikh wanted to show Crawford some tough love, he would have told him that he needs to show that he is capable of beating these three to earn the Canelo Alvarez fight:

1. David Benavidez
2. Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitri Bivol 2 winner
3. David Morrell

It will not only allow Crawford the golden parachute retirement money, which would give him a soft landing in retirement, but it would also make the Canelo-Crawford fight look like a sport rather than a celebrity event, similar to professional wrestling.

If boxing is ever to be considered a real sport like the NBA, NFL and NHL worldwide, fighters must endure test fights to prove themselves and earn championship bouts.

“Canelo boxed the s**** out of him,” predicts Shakur about the Terence Crawford vs. Canelo Alvarez fight in September. “Yeah, for sure,” Shakur Stevenson said iFL TV when asked if Crawford ‘made it look easy’ to beat Canelo. “Terence is crazy. That guy is psycho,” Shakur said of Bud not asking for a rehydration clause from the Mexican superstar.

“Canelo is one of the biggest names in boxing. You can’t ask for a rehydration clause against someone like that,” Stevenson said.

Pot of gold at the end

I don’t mind Crawford getting a fight against Canelo as long as he earns it by running through David Benavidez, the Beterbiev-Bivol 2 winner, and Morrell. Look at it this way. Benavidez and Morrell waited much longer than Bud for a fight against Canelo and were ignored as if they didn’t exist on this planet.

Both of them deserve a fight against Canelo more than Crawford, who barely got through his last fight by the skin of his teeth in his debut at 154 against Madrimov.

The only reason I threw Beterbiev and Bivol into the mix is ​​because I think Turki Al-Sheikh might like the idea of ​​the attention on a fight involving those guys and Crawford with the gold prize, Canelo on the end of the rainbow, the pot of gold for the ultimate winner.