{"id":501284,"date":"2026-02-26T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501284\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:55:07","slug":"canelo-there-is-only-one-way-terence-crawford-can-get-the-credit-he-deserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501284\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo: There is only one way Terence Crawford can get the credit he deserves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez<\/a> has held back a degree of credit for Terence Crawford<\/a>, which he will only give the American under one condition.<\/p>\n

The pair squared off in a super-middleweight encounter last September, with Crawford moving up from 154lbs to claim a monumental unanimous decision victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In doing so, \u2018Bud\u2019 became a three-division undisputed champion against Canelo, who had unified all four major titles at 168lbs earlier that year.<\/p>\n

The Mexican therefore entered their showdown as a slight favourite, having established himself at the weight with previous victories over the likes of Caleb Plant and Callum Smith.<\/p>\n

A truly masterful performance, however, ultimately saw Crawford become a five-weight world champion, only to then announce his retirement in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prior to confirming his exit from the sport, the unbeaten technician had reportedly been exploring a potential rematch with Canelo, whose next outing has since been slated for September of this year.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but while extending his partnership with boxing powerbroker Turki Alalshikh, the 35-year-old is set to secure a world title shot in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

But despite looking forward to enhancing his legacy, Canelo has told Ring Magazine<\/a> that, without being given the opportunity to exact his revenge, he cannot quite bring himself to give Crawford all the credit he deserves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always give [Crawford] credit, but we need to run it back.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the fight I said, \u2018We need to run back this fight\u2019, because I don\u2019t feel I really won and I need to make this fight happen again. [If the rematch happens], it\u2019s going to be different.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor him to deserve all the credit, he needs to give me the rematch. But he decided to retire, and we need to accept that and move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

While an opponent is yet to be confirmed, it appears likely that Canelo will face a world champion at 168lbs later this year.<\/p>\n

Potential options include Christian Mbilli and Jose Armando Resendiz, who respectively hold the WBC and WBA titles, while Crawford\u2019s old IBF and WBO belts remain up for grabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has held back a degree of credit for Terence Crawford, which he will only give the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-501284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501284","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=501284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}