Terence Crawford claims he’ll be within the high three pound-for-pound of “all time” if he’s victorious in opposition to unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez on September thirteenth.
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Weak Resume
It will be good to humor Crawford and say he’s the highest 3 pound-for-pound of all time if he beats Alvarez, however it could be a joke. Terence’s resume is just too weak to take him severely as a high 3 and even high 10. He’s not crushed anybody good throughout his total profession.
Terence instructed The Ring that he thinks it could be sufficient to position him within the high three, however it appears like he doesn’t know a lot concerning the historical past of the game.
His finest victory is Errol Spence, who has been null & void since his automobile crash in 2019. That’s the one important win on Crawford’s 17-year resume. If you evaluate Crawford’s resume to greats like Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Ray Robinson, Roberto Duran, Salvador Sanchez, Muhammad Ali, Archie Moore, Manny Pacquiao, and Oscar De La Hoya, it pales compared.
By the point Sugar Ray Leonard was 25 in his fourth 12 months as knowledgeable, he already had a greater profession resume than Terence Crawford does now. Ray had already fought these fighters
– Tommy Hearns x 2– Roberto Duran x 2– Wilfried Benitez
Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) feels {that a} win over the Mexican star, Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs), would place him forward of lots of the high fighters ever. Canelo is arguably on his retirement tour and has been since his loss to Dmitry Bivol in 2022.
Alvarez isn’t the fighter he as soon as was six years in the past when he fought Gennadiy Golovkin for the second time. It’s been years since Canelo fought opponent, and he clearly swerved David Benavidez and David Morrell once they have been each at 168, making an attempt to get fights in opposition to him.
It’s too late for Crawford even to make the highest 10 of the all-time pound-for-pound listing as a result of his resume is just too weak to get the wins that he would want to make the listing. He solely fights yearly, and he’s been taking part in it protected, avoiding the killers at 154 and didn’t need to go as much as 168 to check himself in opposition to the gifted fighters in that weight. He’s simply in search of the Canelo retirement dough.
The Killer Checklist
If Crawford desires to make a late attempt to grow to be one of many all-time undisputed champions, he would want to beat these fighters:
– David Benavidez– Artur Beterbiev– Dmitry Bivol– David Morrell– Callum Smith– Bakhram Murtazaliev– Jai Opetaia– Janibek Alimkhanuly
