Terence Crawford Avoids Floyd Mayweather Drama Despite Canelo Alvarez’s Bold Push After Canelo Alvarez branded Terence Crawford better than Floyd Mayweather following loss, Bud avoids tension with May

“I think Terence Crawford, right now in the sport of boxing, is the pound-for-pound best fighter,” Floyd Mayweather told Brian Mazique in an interview last February. Fast forward to last Saturday night in Las Vegas, and those words seemed prophetic as the Nebraska native dismantled Mayweather’s former opponent, Canelo Alvarez, thoroughly. What followed was nothing short of historic!

With the victory, Crawford became the only male fighter in history to hold undisputed status across three different weight classes. Naturally, comparisons to Mayweather came rushing in. Could Crawford be greater than Mayweather, who once handed a 23-year-old Canelo his first loss? For Canelo, the answer is clear: “I think Crawford is way better than Mayweather.” But what does Terence Crawford think ab