Tim Bradley believes that a loss of Canelo in Crawford would be more detrimental than a defeat to Benavidez

Tim Bradley says Terence Crawford is a “tougher” struggle for Canelo Alvarez than if he had to fight David Benavidez. He claims that Canelo losing to the smallest fighter, Crawford, who has two classes of weight, would make him look bad.

The Crawford Versus Benavidez Risk

There would be less recession for Canelo than Benavidez is beaten by Benavidez, because he is older than him. Alvarez would not receive the same type of criticism that he would do if Crawford (41-0, 31 kos) beats him.

It is only obvious that Canelo’s career would be more damaged by a loss in Crawford than in Benavidez, due to size, advanced age and bad performance in his last struggle.

Canelo (63-2-2, 39 kos) defends its super unquestionable half-weight championship against Canelo this Saturday, September 13 in Netflix in Allegiant Stadium de las Vegas.

“I think this struggle is tougher in his career than Benavidez. Although Crawford is considered the best fighters in the world and has gained many recognitions over the years, if he loses a guy who reached two classes and he overcome it, how will he see?” said Tim Bradley to his canalCreating a narrative that Canelo Alvarez is lost more to be hit by Terence Crawford of what he would do if he lost to David Benavidez.

Bradley says Crawford is taking risks with this struggle to prove to be the number 1 in the world. He thinks that Bud defeating Canelo, would make him the best. This argument is loaded with holes for obvious reasons.

There is possibly younger, better fighters than at this time of his career, which would be out that Crawford should defeat himself to prove that he is the true number 1. Only surpassing Alvarez, 35, would not be enough because he reaches his 20 -year career. Crawford chose a fight against Canelo after starting to show signs of sliding, not before, when he was in his best years.

The true pound test for Crawford pounds

In my opinion, Crawford should beat these guys to be considered the number 1 in the world:

• Dmitry bivol
• David Benavidez
• Jaron Ennis
• Vergil Ortiz Jr.
• Janibek Alikhakhanuly
• Artur Beeterbiev
• Christian Milli
• David Morrell

If Crawford cannot beat these fighters, it does not belong to the 1 pound per pound. These are the true tests for him and, if he does not want to fight them, it is an automatic loss. You do not deserve to be # 1 because you have avoided the risk.

Bradley states that it is rare to have fights that involve the highest fighters of different weight class meetings. The reason there are not many is that the smaller fighters have problems when they make big weight jumps. In history, the rare cases in which it has been successfully made successfully involved the smallest fighters who overcome the greatest defective or gain controversial decisions.

For example, when Roy Jones Jr. He moved to heavy weight since 175, chose the weakest link, John Ruiz, to fight for a world title instead of Lennox Lewis on March 1, 2023.