Trainer Greg Hackett says a win for Terence Crawford over Canelo Alvarez in 2025 would make him the best fighter in 30 years.
For Crawford to be seen as the best fighter in the last 30 years to beat his best Canelo, would be ignoring many great fighters who have done much more than him.
We already know how Crawford will choose to fight Canelo using the Mayweather’s plan of hitting and running. He’s not going to stand in front of Canelo and trade shots.
Terence is going to play it safe and make the fight boring all the time. Fans feel angry about wasting their money by ordering the fight on PPV.
Hackett already sees Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) as the no. It’s hard to agree with Hackett because Crawford’s wins in those four divisions haven’t been against anyone special.
If you’ve seen Canelo’s last two fights against Edgar Berlanga and Jaime Munguia, you know he’s looking his prime at 34 years old. He shows age in his 19 years as a teacher. The first two fights against Gennadiy Golovkin took a lot out of Canelo, and he hasn’t looked the same since.
Measure Crawford’s legacy
Crawford is right another Adrien Broner in this respect. Broner also captured world titles in four weight classes, but his resume was as weak as Bud’s. Shows you how watered the divisions are four titles of the alphabet for the fighters to choose and choose to capture belts with the help of their slick promoters.
Bud’s best wins
– Israel Madrimov
– Errol Spence
– Shawn Porter
“Kell Brook”.
– Amir Khan
– Yuriorkis Gamboa
– Ricky Burns
– Viktor Postol
You’d have to be naive to think those are good enough wins to make Crawford #1 p-4-pou best fighter in the last 30 years. Based on those wins, I can only say that his promoters matched Crawford very carefully.
Those aren’t enough fighters to give Crawford credit for the hits because they were mostly on the hill when he fought them. Madrimov is the only one who hasn’t been fired, and is close to beating Crawford in his 12th pro fight.
If Crawford were to beat a fading 34-year-old Canelo, he wouldn’t best him in the last 30 years because he wouldn’t have compiled the kinds of wins that the former six-division world champion has. Oscar De La Hoya or champion of eight divisions Manny Pacquiao done during his career. These two are the best.
You can’t include Crawford because he fought weak opposition, and the same with Floyd Mayweather Jr. “Money May” was too selective with the opposition he fought and spent too much time cherry picking to preserve his precious O. Floyd was the catalyst for this generation’s cherry pickers. He was the teacher.
“Tank is a beast, but I think pound for pound, Bud (Crawford) is #1. A lot of times, people doubted him. They doubted him against (Errol) Spence. They doubted him against (Israil) Madrimov . Some say it was too small, “said Greg Hackett to YSM Sports Media about his belief that Terence Crawford should be #1 pound for pound.
“When he fought Viktor Postol, he (Crawford) was too small. When he beat (Yuriorkis) Gamboa, he didn’t know enough. There was a lot of shit. If he beats Canelo, he’s the worst mother of the last 30 years,” Hackett said of Terence.
“At this point in the game, it’s got to be Bud, and then probably Inoue after that,” Hackett continued on his belief that Crawford should be No. 1 pound for pound in sports. “Bud, people don’t understand. He was counted out a long time ago. He went on to win and beat a lot**.
It is too early to say that Crawford will get the fight against Canelo in 2025. Nothing is official yet, and there is a good chance that Canelo will turn down that fight. It’s kind of a no-win match for Canelo, as Crawford gets more than him. If he beats Crawford, there is no real gain. Crawford beating Canelo would be huge, and the payday would be massive too. The money alone is a win for Crawford.
The limits of the securities
“Tank has always been a 130, 135-pounder. People try to say that Tank was a 126-pounder,” Hackett said. “I fought on a couple of cards with Tank. He never really made 126. I said Bud was punching on s*** at 135, 140, 147, and just won a belt at 154.
“A champion at 135, undisputed at 140 and 147, right? Then he won another belt at 154. He’s still undefeated,” Hackett said of Crawford. “A lot of steps forward, a lot of guys who had to beat him. A lot of guys who had to be too big for him. Too fast, too strong. This one had to be too experienced, and he beat them all. He gave Gamboa his first loss”.
Again, winning world titles in four divisions doesn’t mean Crawford is great because he didn’t beat anyone to win his four division titles.
Crawford’s four-division title win
– Israel Madrimov: 154
– Jeff Horn: 147
– Thomas Dulorme: 140
– Ricky Burns: 135
