Coach BoMac: Crawford wants to ‘show the world’ He’s the best

Trainer Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntyre says Terence Crawford was willing to fight Canelo Alvarez without a rehydration clause because he doesn’t feel he needs them to prove he is.”the best.” BoMac says Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) wants to “show the world” he’s the best fighter.

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Fans see it as hogwash and that Crawford’s real reason for wanting to fight Canelo is for the big payday he’ll get. This show that he is “the best” garbage that BoMac is picking sounds like nonsense when you consider that Crawford has no interest in proving himself at 168 years old.

Wrestlers face top contenders in weight classes before challenging the champion. Crawford is skipping that part by going straight into a title fight against Canelo.

In reality, Crawford, 37, was unable to dictate terms with superstar Canelo like he did with Errol Spence. If Terence had insisted on the weight stipulations for the Canelo fight, he would have gotten nowhere and would have been stuck fighting dangerous young fighters at 154 for a lot less money.

Crawford might have been able to avoid a loss if he fought WBC/WBO junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora. However, he would probably lose if he faced any of the junior middleweight killers like Vergil Ortiz, Serghii Bohachuk or Bakhram Murtazalev. The game would go to Crawford, as he would be exposed, and his value in the sport would be diminished.

Canelo-Crawford has yet to be made official, but is likely to happen in September on the Mexican Independence Day holiday weekend. It would be interesting if Turki Al-Sheikh threw a spanner in the works for Crawford by insisting that he beat one of the top-tier super middleweights to earn the Canelo fight instead of giving it to him based on the that he has done during his career. .

Canelo took Crawford up in arms last week, saying he was beaten”A good fighter” throughout his 17-year professional career, and that was Errol Spence after his car accident. BoMac didn’t have much to say about that comment other than repeating what Crawford said with his rebuttal about how they were somebody until he made them look like a ‘nobody’ by beating them up. However, Crawford’s resume is barren of quality opposition. He has beaten many good fighters, never great or elite.

Canelo was just saying it like it was Crawford planning for a long run without taking any chances. Terence can’t blame his promoters for not being able to get fights for him because if he had moved up to 154, 160 or 168, he would have had plenty of opportunities for big fights during his career.

If Crawford wanted big fights in the last 17 years, he could have stepped up and fought middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin when he was still around. I don’t think it would have ended well for Crawford, but it could have. The lack of risk talk was never there for Crawford like it was with Canelo. That’s why Bud only has “one good fighter” on his resume, the broken-down Spence.

If I were Canelo, I would have Terence win the fight by facing the winner of the David Benavidez vs. David Morrell fight. This would give Crawford a big enough battle to build his name to where Canelo would get a pass through the boxing world to fight him.

Fans will be rooting for the Mexican star to fight another guy coming up two weight divisions to fight him for a big payday without winning. Two years ago, Jermell Charlo moved up from 154 to challenge Canelo for his titles at 168, and the fight was a complete mismatch because of Alvarez’s power advantage. It will be worse with Crawford because he is smaller and weaker than Jermell.

BoMac: No stipulations required

“I think Crawford’s rebuttal was that everybody always says, ‘Oh, he hasn’t fought anybody,’ or ‘everybody he fought had no name,’ but I’ll tell you this. What Crawford said, “Well, they were something” until Crawford fought them,” trainer Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntyre told Social Boxingreacting to Canelo Alvarez saying that Terence Crawford has only fought one good fighter in his career, Errol Spence.

“So obviously he (Crawford) is doing a great job of making everybody look normal. That’s what Crawford wants. He wants to show the world that he’s the best. Why put stipulations there when you know you can be the best? So we’re going to test ourselves,” BoMac said of Crawford agreeing to fight Canelo at 168 without a rehydration clause.