After his career defining victory over Errol Spence Jr last year, Terence Crawford made it clear he’s only interested in legacy building fights before he hangs up the gloves.
Many billed his fight against Spence as a 50/50 match-up, but ‘Bud’ dominated from the first bell and eventually stopped his man in the ninth round.
Since that victory Crawford has set his sights firmly on a fight three-weight classes above his last outing against super-middleweight ruler Saul ‘Canelo‘ Alvarez, taking to social media to call it the biggest fight in boxing and telling FightHype it will happen when the right offer is made.
“Terence Crawford vs Canelo Alvarez is the biggest fight in boxing right now. Like it or not it’s just facts.
Business talks. When the right business comes across the table it’ll happen.
Canelo’s a big dude but at the same time I believe in my abilities, he’s a heavy dude but he’s not a big guy. He’s 5’8, I’m 5’8, my arms are longer than his. That fight would be good.”
However, with Canelo being dismissive of it, Crawford has taken a fight one weight class up from 147. He takes on WBA super-welterweight champion Israil Madrimov next month and revealed to Matchroom Boxing that although ‘not the priority’ he is open to cleaning out the 154lb division to become a three-weight undisputed champion.
“It’s not the priority but it’s up in the air. You’ve got to understand the Madrimov fight has potentially two belts on the line because if Fundora don’t fight me after this then I’m WBO and WBA champion. If he does fight me then that’s three belts on the line then there’s only one more to capture. So potentially I’m 2 or 3 fights from undisputed.”
Crawford faces Madrimov on August 3 in Los Angeles.
