Former welterweight champion Shawn Porter has weighed in on the upcoming mega-fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford.
The pound-for-pound greats will do battle on Saturday September 13 in Las Vegas, with an official venue announcement expected to be made in due course. The fight will be co-promoted by Riyadh Season, Dana White’s TKO Promotions and Sela, and will be broadcast on Netflix around the globe.
Mexican icon Canelo will make the first defence of his undisputed super-middleweight championship which he regained at the beginning of last month with a victory over former IBF champion William Scull.
Speaking to Fight Hub TV, two-time world welterweight champion Shawn Porter – who was stopped inside 10 rounds back in 2021 before hanging up the gloves for good – gave an honest assessment of the upcoming mega-fight between Canelo and ‘Bud’, admitting that he is slightly ‘concerned’ for former rival Crawford.
“I am concerned about him absorbing a Canelo punch especially through the course of twelve rounds. [But] we do know this about Canelo, he’s gonna slow down you know.
“So I think if anything Canelo will try to start fast and bang on him and break him down before he gets later and he still got that kind of steam but there’s so many components that make a champion, there’s so many components that make a legend.”
Crawford will bid to become an unprecedented three-weight undisputed champion should he be victorious over Canelo, becoming the first fighter in the history of male boxing to achieve this feat having already accomplished this at light-welterweight and welterweight since making his professional debut back in 2008.
