Crawford’s future plans: A bivo match?

Terence Crawford was allowed to enter the ring to congratulate Dmitry Bivoh for a few moments after his victory over the undisputed heavyweight Champion Artur Beterbiev last Saturday evening in Riyadh. This looks like a Staging To assess the interest of fans In a Crawford fight against Bivo in 2026, if the two fighters win their next games. I can see it at a distance mile. This has the characteristics of advancing the appetite of fans in a crawford fight against Bivo.

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There is no other way to see this crawford movement posing with Bivo inside the ring as a strategy to arouse interest in a fight between them. If this happens next year, Crawford will probably set up and challenge Bivol for his belts without fighting the contenders to win the title shooting.

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He will be given to him on a silver set, as he does at 168 against WBA, WBC and medium weight champion WBO Canelo Alvarez. If Crawford was to beat a first candidate in 175, like David Benavidez or David Morrell, to win the title against Bivol, he would be out of his depth. It is completely predictable, however, that Crawford will increase to 175 to challenge Bivol for his four titles if he still holds them after his probable trilogy with Betbiev.

Bivol and Crawford looked the same size. It is surprising to see how much weight that Crawford has made his needs since childhood last August. He seems to be in the 180s now, as big as they are bivo, but obviously not as powerful or physically built for the division. The native of Nebraska, Crawford, agitated electricity and reached weights.

Crawford (41-0, 31 ko) feather his retirement nest, passing up to 168 to challenge Canelo Alvarez for his unified titles on September 13 in a novelty competition. Terence has no experience at 168 years old and moves for what he calls “inherited” goals, but it’s more a matter of money. However, if Crawford receives a dubious decision as we saw in the fight of Betbiev-Bivol 2 last Saturday, he will need another path for a big salary.

I hope that Crawford’s real goal of being authorized to enter the ring for a photo shoot with Bivo was to help promote his September 13 fight against Canelo Alvarez. Crawford is seen inside the ring by many fans who ordered the competition on PPV make him a minor star and keeps him in the eyes of the public. Crawford posing for photos with Bivol after his victory over Beterbiev allows him to steal part of the shine.

If Turki Alashikh wants to arouse interest in a fight by Canelo-Crawford, he would have spent Crawford until 168 to prove himself against Osley Iglesias or Diego Pacheco first in June or July. It is the sporting way to do it, but again, Crawford would be erased by one of these fighters, which would ruin the celebrity struggle against Canelo.