Terence Crawford says he doesn’t think he should receive credit from people if he successfully defeated Canelo Alvarez on September 13. Crawford predicts that fans and the media will find reasons to reject his victory in the same way he in 2023 Errol Spence Jr.
Canelo’s decline
There are already fans who say that Canelo (63-2-2, 39 CO’s) is taking off, and shows signs of a shot fighter after his recent performance against William Scull.
They say that Canelo looked slow and looked nothing like the fighter, he was seven years before when he hit Gennadiy Golovkin in 2018. Canelo is clearly not the fighter he once was, but not Crawford. Last August last year, he didn’t look anything like his best against Israel Madrimov.
Crawford predicts fans
“The same thing that happened to Spence. They are going to find out a kind of excuse why Terence Crawford was successful in the Canelo Alvarez fight, ‘Crawford said Fighting type When asked if he believes he will receive credit for defeating Canelo by fans.
Fans will make Crawford victory if he beats Canelo because he catches him at the right time of his long 20-year career. He was in very hard fights against formidable opposition that is much better than the limited fighters on Crawford’s CV of 41-0.
If Crawford would beat fighters such as David Bansavidez, Dmitry Biblical, Artur Betterbiev and David Morrell, he would receive credit from fans.
Crawford’s future: Retirement or big pay days?
“I don’t know. We’ll see, ‘Crawford said when asked if he would retire after the Canelo match.
Whether Crawford retires or not will amount to how well he performs against Canelo and whether Turki Alalshikh will continue to offer big money. Crawford allegedly earned $ 10-20m for his fight against Israel Madrimov last August.
For his title Superfight against Alvarez on September 13 at Netflix, Terence is expected to get a minimum wallet of $ 50 million.
So, if Alashikh continues to pay Crawford the kind of money to fight against other guys, he will stay around indefinitely until he no longer offers the kind of dough. Turki may lose interest in Crawford if he is beaten or the events involving him, as with his last fight against Madrimov.
Mayweather does not take Crawford’s focus
“He thinks I will not show him anything new that he has not seen before. Not at all, “Bud says or he will chase that he will follow the record of 50-0 of Floyd Mayweather if he overcomes against Canelo.
It is understandable that Crawford has no interest in holding around Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s record of 50-0.
With Terence’s focus on taking only the best paid battles and fighting only on an annual basis, it would require him to fight for another eight years until he is 45 to break Floyd’s record.
Tough battles for mega payments
A bigger problem for Crawford is that he is expected to fight more and more stricter opposition as Canelo, such as Dmitri Bivol, David Benavidez or Artur Betterur Betterbiev, to continue to get his big pay days out of the Saudi.
Initially, Crawford would get beaten opposition, such as Hamzah Sheeraz, Chris Eubank Jr., or Edgar Berlanga. But if he gets past the flawed fighters, he will have to earn his mega paid against the Sharks, Benavidez, Biscuit and Betterbiev if he is still there.


Last updated on 06/26/2025