Shakur Stevenson Help or hurts Crawford’s possibilities against Canelo?

Shakur Stevenson has revealed today that he had “Good Rounds” Sparring with the goat, Terence Crawford. Shakur’s Light WBC champion is trying to help Crawford (41-0, 31 kos) prepare for his challenge for the Title of the Super Champion of four belts Canelo Alvarez on September 13 in Las Vegas.

Why Shakur had to talk

Shakur’s move to boast of his Sparring is strange. Social media fans are toasting Shakur now, asking -“How many kilometers have you traveled?” Unless Crawford took it calmly, it should have been a bad session for Stevenson.

The use of Shakur for Sparring is not the best method for Crawford, 37, to be used to prepare it to fight the largest, stronger and younger chanery (63-2-2, 39 kos). Interestingly, Stevenson reported the news of his Sparring to his followers at X immediately after the session instead of keeping in silence.

Good rounds today with the 🐐 @terencCrawford

– Shakur Stevenson (@shakurstevenson) August 19, 2025

Crawford is jumping two divisions from 154 to 168, and it needs all the help that can be obtained from higher weights, not lightweight. He chose not to tune up during his year after his victory over Israil Madrimov in August 2024.

A loss of valuable training time

It is an error for Crawford to lose a valuable sparring time In a feathered fist struggle like Shakur because he needs to use every minute of his training fields focused on the fight against boys who can prepare him for Canelo.

Sparring Shakur would have made sense in 2014 when he was still fighting lightly, but not now. It would be the same for Shakur. If you were preparing for a light talented like Andy Cruz, the last thing I would like is to bring the 186 -pound Crawford to the camp to imitate the style of struggle for Cuban talented. I couldn’t. Crawford is too big, slow and old. Nor is it as talented as Cruz.