Crawford: Canevidez’s avoidance of Canelao rooted in “Mexican” contempt, not boxing skill

Terence Crawford does not think that Canelo Alvarez has been avoiding a fight against David Benavidez for all these years, as many fans do. Crawford (41-0, 31 kos) says Alvarez has chosen not to fight Benavidez because it has been “Extremely disrespectful“Towards him.

Terence notes that Canelo (62-2-2, 39 kos) has fought against other fighters who despised him, but he took it more personally because Benavidez is “Mexican” and went a little further with his statements. She is actually not Mexican. Benavidez is American and has the roots of the equator half and half Mexican. It is not from Mexico.

Avoiding Benavidez

Fans do not buy this excuse why Canelo has not fought against Benavidez. They only see it as Alvarez without wanting to fight someone who would probably hit him and possibly make him out. It is the same reason why Canelo chose to fight Dmitry Bivol when he arrived in 175 instead of Artur Beeterbiev three years ago when he fought for a world title in 2022.

It is not a crash that Crawford is painting a positive image, why Canelo has not fought against Benavidez, because he is on the line to face it on September 13. The last thing Crawford needs is to set the bad side of Canelo and to choose not to fight with him. This is the retirement that Crawford is achieving for this struggle. It would be interesting for Terence to begin Bading Canelo, saying -as he is, and then he stubbornly refuses to fight him in September. Where would Crawford go?

“When you look at the story of Canelo, about all the disrespectful fighters, shouting, there were many. He fought them all. From Shane Mosley to Lara, Danny Jacobs and Saunders, “said Terence Crawford to Ring Magazine about the previous opponents of Canelo Alvarez.

“ When you look at all the fighters who were not respectful of Canelo and he still fought them. I think that from a Mexican point of view, when you have two Mexicans and one is more disrespectful of the other, he only took this more personal aspect in the aspect of the race than the sport, ” said Crawford about the reason why he thinks Canelo has chosen not to fight Benavidez.

“He pulled out the sport and decided he was not going to give Benavidez on payment day he wanted only because he felt something different at the time,” said Crawford.