{"id":512555,"date":"2026-03-03T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/512555\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:21:09","slug":"canelo-sees-only-one-winner-in-prime-mayweather-vs-crawford-after-facing-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/512555\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo sees only one winner in prime Mayweather vs Crawford after facing both"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> has cemented himself as a boxing great, drawing comparisons to the legendary Floyd Mayweather. As the only person to have fought both men, Canelo Alvarez<\/a> sees one clear winner when asked how a meeting between Mayweather and Crawford in their primes would play out.<\/p>\n

Canelo fought Mayweather early in his career, colliding with the American superstar during his super-welterweight world title reign at the age of 23 years old<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There, he was taught a lesson by the experienced technician, with a majority-decision verdict not telling the full story of what was really a \u2018man against boy\u2019 affair.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Alvarez was tasked with Crawford back in September, as \u2018Bud\u2019 successfully upset the odds to become the undisputed super-middleweight world champion with a famous decision win over the Mexican<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That triumph saw the Nebraska-born phenomenon become the second three-division undisputed ruler in boxing history and the first since Henry Armstrong in 1938 \u2013 a feat which the 38-year-old decided to retire off the back of, with his undefeated record in tact.<\/p>\n

As a result, Mayweather and Crawford remain as two of the few multi-divisional world champions to have retired without a defeat to their name, but in a clip captured by Seconds Out<\/a>, Canelo declare his belief that Crawford was the superior fighter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Crawford is way better than Floyd Mayweather.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite his 2017 retirement, Mayweather will put his 50-fight unbeaten streak on the line in September, as he returns to professional boxing to rematch Manny Pacquiao<\/a> at The Sphere in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has cemented himself as a boxing great, drawing comparisons to the legendary Floyd Mayweather. As the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-512555","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\/512555","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=512555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}