{"id":349474,"date":"2025-12-16T18:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349474\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:50:06","slug":"terence-crawford-called-out-to-face-champion-in-best-vs-best-fight-dont-rematch-canelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349474\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford called out to face champion in ‘best vs best’ fight: “Don’t rematch Canelo”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> has been urged to swerve his potential rematch with Canelo Alvarez<\/a> and instead chase another legacy-defining showdown.<\/p>\n

The three-division undisputed champion moved up two weight classes to face Canelo in September, dethroning the then-super-middleweight king with a convincing points victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, Crawford was considered undersized in his super-welterweight clash against Israil Madrimov, but nonetheless came away with the WBA world title in August last year.<\/p>\n

Again, it was a similar pre-fight story when the former world lightweight champion was paired with Errol Spence Jr at 147lbs, yet his dominant ninth-round stoppage victory in 2023 ultimately suggested otherwise.<\/p>\n

Since his win over Alvarez, reports have suggested that Crawford, who was recently stripped of his WBC title, could be set to rematch the Mexican in 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n

But while talks for their second encounter at 168lbs are seemingly ongoing, \u2018Bud\u2019 has been invited to explore an alternative opportunity against another world champion.<\/p>\n

The manager of Dmitry Bivol, Vadim Kornilov, has teased a possible clash between the two pound-for-pound greats.<\/p>\n

Bivol claimed his undisputed crown at 175lbs with a points victory over Artur Beterbiev, who he previously lost to via the same margin, in February.<\/p>\n

Since then, the light-heavyweight king has not only vacated his WBC belt, which now belongs to David Benavidez, but has also remained out of the ring due to a back injury.<\/p>\n

Having now undergone surgery, though, it would seem that the 34-year-old, who outpointed Canelo in 2022, could be sniffing around for another blockbuster fight.<\/p>\n

In a recent post on X<\/a>, Kornilov insisted that Bivol against Crawford, who is now 38 years old, should be the most appealing option for both parties.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are not that excited about Bivol vs Canelo 2 because the probability of Bivol winning the fight in the same manner [is] very high.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same can be said about Crawford vs Canelo 2 in my opinion. Crawford vs Bivol, that is something new and unpredictable. The [best] fight the [best]!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has been urged to swerve his potential rematch with Canelo Alvarez and instead chase another legacy-defining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-349474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}