Three of ESPN's top 10 pound-for-pound fighters were in action this weekend, as No. 3 Terence Crawford clashed with No. 8 Canelo Alvarez at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and No. 2 Naoya Inoue put his undisputed junior featherweight titles on the line against Murodjon Akhmadaliev in Nagoya, Japan.
Crawford defied the odds by moving up two weight divisions and brilliantly outboxed Canelo to become the undisputed champion at 168 pounds. Crawford added four more belts to his collection and became the first men's boxer in the four-belt era to hold undisputed status in three weight classes (junior welterweight, welterweight and super middleweight).
Meanwhile, Inoue made another statement with a thorough schooling of Akhmadaliev to retain his undisputed championship . Akhmadaliev w