Crawford: the avoidance of Benavidez de Canelo rooted in a lack of “Mexican” respect, and not boxes in boxing

Terence Crawford does not believe that Canelo Alvarez avoided a fight against David Benavidez all these years, as many fans do. Crawford (41-0, 31 ko) says that Alvarez chose not to fight Benavidez because he was “An additional lack of respect“Towards him.

Terence notes that Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KB) fought other fighters who lacked him respect, but he took it more personally because Benavidez is “Mexican” and he went a little further with his biting remarks. He is actually not Mexican. Benavidez is American and has half Ecuadorian and half Mexican roots. He is not from Mexico.

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Fans do not buy this excuse for why Canelo did not fight Benavidez. They just see him as Alvarez not wanting to fight someone who would probably beat him and maybe knock him out. This is the same reason why Canelo has chosen to fight Dmitry Bivo when he went to 175 rather than Artur Beterbiev three years ago when he fought for a world title in 2022.

It is not a shock that Crawford painted a positive image, why Canelo did not fight Benavidez, because he is online to face him on September 13. The last thing Crawford needs is to put himself on the wrong side of Canelo and to make him choose not to fight with him. This is the retirement that Crawford obtains for this fight. It would be interesting if Terence began to make fun of Canelo, saying it as he is, then he stubbornly refuses to fight him in September. Where would Crawford go?

“When you look at the story of Canelo, on all disrespectful fighters, calling him, there were many. He fought them all. From Shane Mosley to Lara, Danny Jacobs and Saunders, “Terence Crawford told Terence Ring Magazine About the former opponents of Canelo Alvarez.

“When you look at all the fighters who were disrespectful towards Canelo and he always fought them. I think that from a Mexican point of view, when you have two Mexicans and that one is very disrespectful towards the other, he just took this more personal on the race on this subject than sport, “said Crawford on the reasons why Canelo has chosen not to fight Benavidez.

“He withdrew the sport and decided that he was not going to give Benavidez on the pay day that he wanted just because he felt something different at that time,” said Crawford.