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Trainer Robert Garcia says Canelo Alvarez will fight Terence Crawford in May 2025. However, he doesn’t see Crawford winning because he’s getting older and Canelo is naturally stronger than him.
He also packs a punch and has been hit by harder punchers than Crawford, who looked weak in his debut at 154 against Israil Madrimov on August 3.
Crawford’s Age and Decline
Robert says Crawford isn’t walking away from a fight against WBC interim 154-pound champion Vergil Ortiz Jr. He just feels the 37-year-old Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) is getting old and wants to get the biggest money possible sooner. soon retires.
Garcia says Crawford could make three times more money fighting Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) than Vergil Jr. If Turki Alalshikh is willing to pay Canelo a huge amount of money to fight the bigger, thinner and weaker Crawford. , the fight can happen.
Considering that Terence would debut at 168 moving up two weight classes, it would be impossible to see a scenario where he could win. It would be a business-level fight.
A celebrity party
When you get a fighter as old as Crawford, who didn’t look good in his debut at 154, moving up another two weight classes to 168, it’s not a serious fight. It’s a celebrity match.
For this to be serious, Crawford would have to make it to 168 and prove himself against top contenders. If he succeeds in three or four tough fights, then he could face Canelo.
Terence’s road to legitimacy
Put Crawford with these three to allow him to prove himself worthy of a fight against King Canelo:
- David Benavidez
- David Morrell
- Osleys Iglesias
He’s not interested in proving himself with a single fight at 168; this just shows you what he’s looking for. It’s the money and NOT the legacy. This is a joke. This has nothing to do with Crawford’s purpose.
If this were the real world, Crawford would have to move up to 168 and get the experience needed to prove he’s right for the spot and deserves it.
Terence doesn’t have to do that here, and the ones who will lose are the fans because Canelo will wipe him out or make him very, very boring like Jermell Charlo did when he moved up from 154 in 2023 to challenge Canelo. Jermell is bigger, faster and stronger than Crawford.
With Canelo he couldn’t do anything and was forced to run to save his skin. The fight couldn’t be seen, but Charlo got his big payday, and he hasn’t been seen in the ring since. It was a cash out for him, and the fans got a poor product for the money they paid to see the fight on PPV.
Financial motivations
“We’ll take the fight right away. It’s not an easy fight. Crawford is a great fighter, pound for pound #1, #2 or #3,” Robert Garcia told Fighthype when asked about his interest in a fight between Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Terence Crawford.
“He’s already 37, looking for the biggest payday. I think he’s looking for a fight against Canelo where he would triple the money he could make against Vergil,” Robert said of Crawford. “So he’s just playing it smart. I don’t blame him. He is already 37 years old and looks the best fights there is for him when it comes to finances.
“What I’ve heard is (Canelo-Crawford) can happen in May. I think Crawford is one of the best fighters out there, but he’s up there in age. We won’t know until he fights again. There’s that opportunity. It happens in boxing,” Garcia said of fighters aging overnight, especially when they hit their 30s, like Crawford.
Terence is old and close to 38 years old. He looked awful in his last fight against Madrimov at 154, and would likely be destroyed in a rematch or if he faced the guy in the division, IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Muratazaliev. This guy is fighting at a higher level than Canelo now and has more power. What he would do to Crawford with his left hooks would not be pretty.
“I choose Canelo. He’s bigger, stronger (and younger than Crawford). Canelo can take a very good punch. I see Crawford putting up a good fight. Cnaleo is the bigger guy physically, stronger,” Garcia said.
