Stevenson: Crawford’s power will overcome Canelo, I said that from 2021

Shakur Stevenson says he believed that Terrence Crawford had a style to beat Canela Alvarez even before Dmitry Bivol did it a few years ago. Stevenson says he watched Crawford hurt severe weights and does not believe Canelo can walk forward with his strength.

Stevenson says he started to believe that Crawford would beat Canela 2021 when he fought against Welterweight Shakura Porter. He felt that the then 34-year-old Porter was a good gauge to predict Crawford’s performance of three divisions up at 168.

Loyalty to the logic

Crawford, 37, will cause Canela for their belts in 168 13th September. Despite the fact that the two divisions move in weight, Shakur does not see it as a problem that is the soil. He says he believed Crawford was the best fighter in the super middleweight category for many years.

WBC’s lightweight champion Stevenson said it would not be important for Crawford (41-0, 31 KO) to start two divisions from 154 to 168 to cause Unified Champion Canelo (62-2-2-2, 38 KO).

“I stand it out since Crawford fought Shawn Porter (2021 at Welterweight). Ring Magazinediscovering that he had predicted four years ago that Crawford Terrence would defeat Canela.

It is reasonable to assume that Shakur’s views on the fight against Canelo-Crawford are influenced by his close friendship with Buda and his loyalty. It’s a natural thing. He obviously wants to see Crawford gets this opportunity to give him no earnings the way other fighters have to.

Heavyweight

“I felt in that weight (168), Terrence Crawford is the biggest, “Shakur said of Crawford’s best in the super middleweight category without never fighting there.” I just feel that he is with Canel’s style, and this before (Dmitry) Bivol did that. I felt that Terence Crawford was the only guy to beat Canela with his style.

“I was saying that, even before Bud was saying that. Bud is the southern Pope. Since he is southern Pope, he makes it difficult for Canela,” Shakur continued to praise Crawford. “He has problems with them after watching him fight John Ryder. He wasn’t so good. Only Canelo fought the southern pope.

“How does Canelo carry the power of the bud? When Bud hits him, will he just go ahead and just take the shots? I just don’t know. I saw a Buddha to hurt the heavy weights,” Shakur said.

If Shakur believes Crawford has been the best fighter in 168 for years, why didn’t he go to test? He could have done it years ago and made a lot more money than he had in Welterweight. The only big fight for the money Crawford had at 147 is Errol Spence. If you could beat all the years of super medium weights, as Shakur claims, why didn’t he do it?

Crawford could not hurt Israel to Madrid with his strokes in his last fight at 154, and he is nowhere close to being tough. If he had a kind of power to hurt severe weights, he should have shown that he was against Madrid.