Shakur Stevenson predicts Crawford will ‘take the S* out of Canelo’**
Shakur Stevenson expects Terrence Crawford to “take Canelo out and make it look easy” if they fight next September on the Mexican Independence Day weekend.
Lightweight champion Stevenson feels Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) is on another level despite being much smaller and having never fought at super middleweight to prove it.
We certainly can’t look at Crawford’s career best wins, the extremely close decision over Israel Madrimov, the car crash knockout, and Errol Spence’s exhausted, injury-plagued, inactive shell to say he’s shown he’s on another level to Canelo. These two fights showed that Crawford was not good enough to beat the best killers at 154, 160 or 168.
Crawford Challenge
If Turki Al-Sheikh wanted to show Crawford some tough love, he would tell him that he must show that he can beat these three to win the Canelo Alvarez fight:
- David Benavidez
- Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol 2 winner
- David Morrell
That wouldn’t allow Crawford to get Golden parachute retirement Money, which would give him a soft landing into retirement, but would also make the Canelo-Crawford fight resemble a sport rather than a celebrity event, similar to pro wrestling.
If boxing is considered an actual sport like the NBA, NFL, and NHL around the world, fighters must fight testing fights to prove themselves and win championship bouts.
“Canelo beat him,” Shakur predicts about the Terence Crawford vs. Canelo Alvarez fight in September. “Yes, absolutely,” Shakur Stevenson said EFL TV When asked if Crawford was “making it look easy” by beating Canelo. “Terrence is crazy. This guy is mentally ill,” Shakur said of Budd not demanding a rehydration clause from the Mexican star.
“Canelo is one of the biggest names in the sport of boxing. You can’t ask for a rehydration clause against someone like that,” Stevenson said.
Pot of gold at last
I wouldn’t mind Crawford getting a fight against Canelo, as long as he wins it by running through David Benavidez, the winner of Beterbiev-Bivol 2, and Morel. I look at it this way. Benavidez and Morel had been waiting much longer than Budd to fight Canelo and were ignored as if they didn’t exist on this planet.
Both are more deserving of a fight against Canelo than Crawford, who barely finished his last fight by the skin of his teeth in his 154-year-old debut against Madrimov.
The only reason I brought Beterbiev and Bivol into the mix is because I think Turki Al-Sheikh might like the idea of interest in a fight that involves these guys and Crawford with the gold, and Canelo at the end of the rainbow, Pot of gold For the final winner.
