Terence Crawford just isn’t giving up on pursuing a well-paying battle 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 received 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 have 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 wonderful with doing that. However now that it’s him, he attracts the road, saying he received’t obtain credit score. Crawford comes throughout as so needy proper now, and that’s obtained to be off-putting to Canelo.
The true drawback stopping Crawford from getting his want is the $150 million that Canelo desires for the battle. Crawford will get his dream battle if His Excellency Turki Alalshikh is prepared to fulfill Canelo’s asking value. After all, it could additionally rely on how a lot cash Crawford asks for.
If he desires $150M, too, and even half that at $80 million, that received’t occur. The battle 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 widespread sufficient for a battle 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 huge battle in his 16-year profession in opposition to Errol Spence, and the remainder of the fellows he’s fought have been unpopular fighters.
Final weekend’s match was a chief instance of that. Crawford fought WBA junior middleweight world champion Israil Madrimov with solely 11 professional fights. That was speculated to be an enormous battle, however studies are the occasion misplaced big-time cash.
In accordance 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 combating smaller guys his entire profession,” mentioned Terence Crawford to Shawn Porter’s YouTube web site, persevering with to vent about Canelo Alvarez not combating him.
Crawford fails to level out that the 5’8″ Canelo has been combating greater guys a lot of his profession and is taken into account small for the 168-lb division. He’s fought mild heavyweights Dmitry Bivol and Sergiy Kovalev.
Crawford’s Unwillingness to Show Himself
Crawford hasn’t fought any mild heavyweights or tremendous middleweights to show himself for a Canelo battle. He comes as simply wanting the Canelo battle for a payday and isn’t speaking about desirous to earn it by going as much as 168 or 175 to battle the highest guys in these weight courses.
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 battle 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 wish to battle me,” Crawford continued. “He mentioned I’m straightforward work. If I used to be straightforward work, you then would take all that cash. However nonetheless, he desires $150 million to battle 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 perspective, he just 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 will 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 battle could be seen as a joke by followers and a rip-off to assist the fading Crawford’s retirement to present a giant payday as he leaves the game.
