Terence Crawford Is In search of Historic Victory When He Faces Canelo on Sept. 12

After witnessing a disappointing most important occasion, battle followers obtained an thrilling announcement that on September 12, 2025, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (63-2-2, 39 KOs) will defend his undisputed crown towards Terence “Bud” Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs).

This extremely anticipated matchup has been talked about for a major period of time, and now it’s lastly official. The Canelo vs Crawford undisputed title bout would be the first occasion promoted by Dana White and Turki Alalshikh below the TKO Boxing banner.

Canelo Alvarez is a future Corridor of Famer who has a resume stuffed with massive fights. Now he’s matched up towards one other elite fighter who can be a future Corridor of Famer, and this fighter has all of the instruments required to defeat Canelo.

A local of Omaha, Nebraska, Terence “Bud” Crawford turned a primary time world champion again in March 2014 when he defeated Ricky Burns by way of unanimous determination, and received the WBO light-weight title.

A yr later, Crawford moved as much as 140 and defeated Thomas Dulorme by the use of sixth spherical TKO, and received the vacant WBO super-lightweight world title. Crawford would go on to change into a unified champion, after which again in August 2017, he stopped Julius Indongo, to change into undisputed.

After conquering the super-lightweight division, Terence Crawford moved as much as welterweight, stopped Jeff Horn within the ninth spherical, and received the WBO world title. Crawford would go on to have six profitable title defenses.

A mega-fight that was 5 years within the making lastly came about in July 2023 when Terence Crawford confronted the then WBA, WBC, IBF champion Errol Spence Jr. Crawford had a dominant efficiency as he stopped Spence within the ninth spherical.

With the victory, Crawford reached rarified air, as he and Oleksandr Usyk are the one two male boxers to change into undisputed in two completely different weight lessons within the four-belt period. Evander Holyfield can be part of that unique group as he achieved it within the three-belt period.

Current day, Terence Crawford has the chance to separate himself from Usyk and Holyfield if he can defeat Canelo Alvarez, and go undisputed in an unprecedented third weight class. Crawford could have his probability to make that historic feat on September twelfth.

Canelo Alvarez is an especially proficient fighter, however he’s beatable, as indicated by the 2 losses on his file. As historical past has proven, you need to be a really particular fighter to defeat Canelo, and Terence “Bud” Crawford is a boxer who matches the standards.

Terence Crawford is a switch-hitter who’s a really aggressive counter-puncher. Crawford has a excessive ring IQ, nice lead hand management, footwork, punch placement, and punching energy. Crawford has all of the instruments wanted to defeat Canelo Alvarez, however there’s one factor that makes some battle followers doubt Crawford.

As a welterweight, Crawford defeated Spence again in July 2023, moved up a weight class to defeat Israel Madrimov, and now he’s transferring up two weight lessons to face Canelo. Among the doubters really feel Crawford has the abilities, however transferring up two weight lessons could also be an excessive amount of to beat.

Whereas Crawford might look like the identical dimension as Canelo, on September twelfth, he will probably be making his debut at 168, whereas Canelo has been competing within the super-middleweight division for practically seven years.

There isn’t a doubt with reference to Crawford having the ability set to win, however the query is can he damage Canelo, and may he take Canelo’s punches because the battle goes into the later rounds?

After Canelo Alvarez defeated William Scull, Canelo and Crawford had their first official face-off. Again in 2023, Terence Crawford turned the primary boxer to go undisputed in two weight lessons, and on September twelfth, he could have the prospect to change into the primary to go undisputed in a 3rd division.