{"id":120970,"date":"2025-09-07T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120970\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:00:07","slug":"ilia-topuria-shares-photo-with-terence-crawford-and-asks-fans-a-question-ahead-of-canelo-alvarez-super-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120970\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria shares photo with Terence Crawford and asks fans a question ahead of Canelo Alvarez super fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Terence Crawford is just days away from the biggest fight of his iconic boxing career. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bud\u2019 is set to square off against undisputed super middleweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/canelo-alvarez\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"392\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez<\/a> at the\u00a0Allegiant Stadium\u00a0in\u00a0Las Vegas, Nevada,\u00a0on September 13.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/terence-crawford\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"679\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a>\u2018s latest fight has gripped combat sports fans, who are using social media to voice their opinions on the matchup. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ilia-topuria\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"548\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ilia Topuria<\/a> utilized X \u2013 formerly known as Twitter \u2013 to gather opinions on another monstrous matchup.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2222691770-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Ilia Topuria celebrates defeating Charles Oliveira\" class=\"wp-image-242319\" \/>Photo by Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLCIlia Topuria vs. Terence Crawford?<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Ilia Topuria shared a picture of him meeting Terence Crawford online.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC lightweight champion added a caption to build hype for his eventual move to boxing. <\/p>\n<p>Topuria asked: \u201cWho wins this fight?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With no ruleset suggested, fans were left debating Topuria vs. Crawford in the comment section. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou, obviously,\u201d one fan replied. While another added: \u201cProbably Crawford, cause he\u2019s a good wrestler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA real fight, you. Boxing? He does,\u201d a third person said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t repeat Conor McGregor\u2019s mistakes,\u201d someone else wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlow down, kid\u2026 That is not Charles Oliveira,\u201d one person commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou, 10 out of 10 times,\u201d a sixth fan boldly predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Terence Crawford\u2019s best UFC boxer <\/p>\n<p>Ilia Topuria\u2019s polarizing question comes just days after being <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/09\/04\/terence-crawford-snubs-ilia-topuria-when-giving-shock-pick-for-the-best-boxer-in-the-ufc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snubbed by Terence Crawford<\/a>, who gave a shock pick when asked to name the UFC\u2019s best boxer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guy, what\u2019s his name, Cody (Garbrandt), he\u2019s the best UFC boxer,\u201d Crawford told Full Send.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, (I\u2019ve seen Topuria), but I don\u2019t know man, Cody has got them hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m saying when we\u2019re talking about straight boxing, we ain\u2019t talking about nothing else, we\u2019re talking about straight boxing skills, I just think Cody has got the best boxing skills in the UFC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garbrandt has lost seven of his last 10 UFC bouts, getting knocked out four times during that run. <\/p>\n<p>Topuria may have taken Crawford\u2019s \u2018best UFC boxer\u2019 pick as some form of disrespect. <\/p>\n<p>So, keep an eye on both men as this could be a rivalry that leads to another MMA-boxing crossover fight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford is just days away from the biggest fight of his iconic boxing career. \u2018Bud\u2019 is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,27974,716,101,9553,715,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-120970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ilia-topuria","10":"tag-mma","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-terence-crawford","13":"tag-ufc","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}