Crawford’s future plans: A bivol game?

Terence Crawford was allowed to enter the ring to congratulate the moments of Dmitry Bivol after his victory over the undisputed champion of Semi -Sedmed Weight Artur Beterbiev on Saturday night in Riyadh. This It seems a staging movement To evaluate the interest of fans In a Crawford vs. fight Bivol in 2026 if both fighters win their next games. I can see it from a mile away. This has the distinctive seal of launching the fans appetite in a crawford vs. fight. Bivol

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There is no other way to see this Crawford movement posing with bivol within the ring as a strategy to create interest in a struggle between them. If it happens next year, Crawford will probably ascend and challenge Bivol for his belts without fighting any contender to gain the opportunity for the title.

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It will be given on a silver dish, as it is doing in 168 against the WBC, WBC and the OMB medium weight champion, Canelo Álvarez. If Crawford had to overcome a maximum contender in 175, such as David Benavidez or David Morrell, to gain the opportunity for the title against Bivol, he would be out of his depth. However, it is completely predictable that Crawford will move to 175 to challenge Bivol for his four titles if he still keeps them after his probable trilogy with Beterbiev.

Bivol and Crawford looked in the same size. The amount of weight that Crawford has packed since it increased last August is surprising. It seems that it is now in the 180s, as great as Bivol but obviously not so powerful or physically built for the division. The Nebraska Crawford native has been feeding and hitting the weights.

Crawford (41-0, 31 kos) is raising his retirement egg, moving up to 168 to challenge Canelo Álvarez for his unified titles on September 13 in a news contest. Terence has no experience in 168 and is advancing for what he calls “legacy”, but it is more money. However, if Crawford receives a questionable decision as we saw in the Bederbiev-Bivol fight last Saturday, he will need another way for a big day of payment.

I hope that Crawford’s true goal that is allowed to enter the ring for a photograph with Bivol was to help promote his September 13 fight against Canelo Álvarez. Crawford is seen within the ring by many fans who ordered the contest in PPV make it a minor star and keeps it in the public eye. Crawford posing for photos with Bivol after his victory over Beterbiev allows him to steal part of the brightness.

If Turki Alalshikh wants to create interest in a Canelo-Crawford fight, he would have moved to 168 to demonstrate his worth against Osleys Iglesias or Diego Pacheco first in June or July. That is the sports way to do so, but again, Crawford would be erased by any of those fighters, which would ruin the fighting of Canelo.