Terence Crawford isn’t giving up on pursuing a well-paying struggle in opposition to celebrity Canelo Alvarez. Crawford desires that payday in opposition to Canelo and isn’t going to surrender on hounding him for it.
In an interview yesterday, the newly gained WBA junior middleweight champion Crawford criticized Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) over his remarks about not receiving credit score for beating a smaller man if he had been to defend his three 168-lb titles in opposition to him.
Crawford reminds followers that Canelo fought fighters all through his profession and was tremendous with doing that. However now that it’s him, he attracts the road, saying he gained’t obtain credit score. Crawford comes throughout as so needy proper now, and that’s acquired to be off-putting to Canelo.
The actual downside stopping Crawford from getting his want is the $150 million that Canelo desires for the struggle. Crawford will get his dream struggle if His Excellency Turki Alalshikh is keen to satisfy Canelo’s asking value. After all, it will additionally rely on how a lot cash Crawford asks for.
If he desires $150M, too, and even half that at $80 million, that gained’t occur. The struggle wouldn’t generate that cash and hemorrhage huge quantities of dough for Turki. He could be kicking himself later for having put collectively this albatross.
Sadly, Crawford is simply not standard sufficient for a struggle in opposition to Canelo to command the kind of purse he would need.
Crawford’s Lackluster Resume
The Nebraska fighter has solely been concerned in a single large struggle in his 16-year profession in opposition to Errol Spence, and the remainder of the fellows he’s fought had been unpopular fighters.
Final weekend’s match was a main instance of that. Crawford fought WBA junior middleweight world champion Israil Madrimov with solely 11 professional fights. That was alleged to be an enormous struggle, however reviews are the occasion misplaced big-time cash.
In keeping with Kevin Iole, the Crawford-Madrimov occasion on the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles misplaced over $10 million, and “scores” of tickets got away complimentary to followers.
“Canelo’s been preventing smaller guys his entire profession,” mentioned Terence Crawford to Shawn Porter’s YouTube website, persevering with to vent about Canelo Alvarez not preventing him.
Crawford fails to level out that the 5’8″ Canelo has been preventing larger guys a lot of his profession and is taken into account small for the 168-lb division. He’s fought gentle heavyweights Dmitry Bivol and Sergiy Kovalev.
Crawford’s Unwillingness to Show Himself
Crawford hasn’t fought any gentle heavyweights or tremendous middleweights to show himself for a Canelo struggle. He comes as simply wanting the Canelo struggle for a payday and isn’t speaking about eager to earn it by going as much as 168 or 175 to struggle the highest guys in these weight lessons.
If Crawford beat these fighters, he’d don’t have any issues getting that Canelo retirement payday:
– David Benavidez
– Dmitry Bivol
– Artur Beterbiev
– David Morrell
Is it an excessive amount of to ask for Crawford to beat one or two of these fighters to earn a struggle with King Canelo? Why ought to Canelo give him a handout?
“Canelo fought a smaller Floyd Mayweather, Amir Khan, Jermell Charlo. He has all these excuses why he doesn’t need to struggle me,” Crawford continued. “He mentioned I’m simple work. If I used to be simple work, then you definately would take all that cash. However nonetheless, he desires $150 million to struggle me. That simply lets me know I’m a risk to him. I’m a risk to him, and I’m a risk to his legacy.”
Backlash In opposition to Canelo
From Canelo’s viewpoint, he lately fought a smaller fighter, Jermell Charlo, final 12 months, and he needed to cope with a withering backlash from the media and followers. Afterward, Canelo acquired little credit score for his victory over Jermell.
It could be worse for Canelo if he fought Crawford, a fighter three weight divisions smaller than him. The followers’ backlash could be extreme and unrelenting.
Canelo-Crawford’s struggle could be seen as a joke by followers and a rip-off to assist the fading Crawford’s retirement to offer an enormous payday as he leaves the game.