Does Crawford beat Canelo? The best in 30 years, says the coach

Trainer Greg Hackett says a Terence Crawford victory over Canelo Alvarez in 2025 would make him the best fighter of the last 30 years.

For Crawford to be seen as the best fighter of the last 30 years for beating his best Canelo, would be ignoring many great fighters who did much more than him. We already know how Crawford chose to fight Canelo using the Mayweather hit-and-run model. He will NOT stand in front of Canelo and exchange shots.

Crawford will make it boring, he will hit and not be hit, and he will try to win a decision like Mayweather did against Canelo in 2013.

Hackett already sees Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) as the pound-for-pound number one for capturing world titles in four divisions and becoming undisputed in two weight classes. It’s hard to agree with Hackett because Crawford’s wins in those four divisions haven’t come against anyone special.

If you watched Canelo’s last two fights against Edgar Berlanga and Jaime Munguía, you’ll know he’s looking past his prime at 34 years old. He is showing age in his 19th year as a professional. The first two fights against Gennadiy Golovkin took a lot out of Canelo, and he hasn’t looked the same since.

Measuring Crawford’s legacy

Crawford is simply Another Adrien Broner in that sense. Broner also captured world titles in four weight classes, but his resume was as weak as Bud’s. It shows you how diluted the divisions are with four alphabetical titles so that fighters can choose and capture belts with the help of their skilled promoters.

Bud’s best wins

– Israel Madrimov
-Errol Spence
–Shawn Porter
“Kell Brook.”
–Amir Khan
–Yuriorkis Gamboa
– Ricky Burns
– Victor Postol

You’d have to be simple-minded to think those are wins good enough to make Crawford the No. 1 p-4-po best fighter of the last 30 years. Based on those victories, I can only say that his promoters have matched Crawford very carefully.

Those are NOT enough fighters to give Crawford praise for beating them because they were mostly over the hill when he fought them. Madrimov is the only one who wasn’t shot and came close to beating Crawford in his 12th professional fight.

If Crawford were to defeat the fading 34-year-old Canelo, it wouldn’t make him the greatest of the last 30 years because he wouldn’t have compiled the type of wins that former six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya or Manny Pacquiao achieved, champion of eight divisions, during their careers. Those two are the best.

Crawford can’t be included because he fought weak opposition, and the same with Floyd Mayweather Jr. He was too selective with the opposition he fought.

“Tank is a beast, but I think pound for pound, Bud (Crawford) is number one. Many times people doubted him. They doubted him against (Errol) Spence. They doubted him against (Israil) Madrimov. Some people say it was too small. I heard them,” Greg Hackett told YSM Sports Media about his belief that Terence Crawford should be the pound-for-pound number one.

“When he fought Viktor Postol, he (Crawford) was too small. When he fought (Yuriorkis) Gamboa, he didn’t know enough. There was a lot of shit. “If he beats Canelo, he’ll be the baddest son of a bitch in the last 30 years,” Hackett said of Terence.

“At this point in the game, it has to be Bud, and probably then Inoue,” Hackett continued of his belief that Crawford should be the pound-for-pound number one in the sport. “Dude, people don’t understand it. They were discarding it a long time ago. He kept winning and beat a lot of idiots.

It is too early to say that Crawford will have the fight against Canelo in 2025. Nothing is official yet and there is a good chance that Canelo will turn down that fight. It’s a no-win type of match for Canelo, as Crawford gets more out of him than he does. If you beat Crawford, you won’t make any real gains. Crawford beating Canelo would be huge and the payday would be huge too. Money alone is a victory for Crawford.

Title limits

“The tank has always been 130 or 135 pounds. “People try to say Tank was 126 pounds,” Hackett said. “I fought a couple of cards with Tank. He never actually got to 126. I’m saying Bud was punching shit at 135, 140, 147, and he just won a belt at 154.

“A champion at 135, undisputed at 140 and 147, right? Then he won another belt at 154. He’s still undefeated,” Hackett said of Crawford. “A lot of steps forward, a lot of guys who were supposed to beat him. A lot of guys who were supposed to be too big for him. Too fast, too strong. This one was supposed to have too much experience and beat them all. “He gave Gamboa his first defeat.”

Again, winning world titles in four divisions doesn’t mean Crawford is great because he didn’t beat anyone to win his four division titles.

Crawford’s four-division title wins

– Israel Madrimov: 154
–Jeff Horn: 147
– Tomás Dulorme: 140
– Ricky Burns: 135