Terence Crawford does not believe that Canelo Álvarez has been avoiding a fight against David Benavidez all these years, as many fans do. Crawford (41-0, 31 kos) says that Álvarez has chosen not to fight Benavidez because it has been “Extra disrespectful“Towards him.
Terence points out that Canelo (62-2-2, 39 kos) has fought against other combatants who were missing, but took it more personally because Benavés is “Mexican” and went a little further with his scathing comments. It is not really Mexican. Benavidez is American and has half equatories and half Mexican roots. It is not from Mexico.
Benavidity avoidance
Fans do not buy that excuse why Canelo has not fought against Benavidez. They simply see it as Álvarez not wanting to fight against someone who would probably hit him and possibly knocked him out. It is the same reason that Canelo decided to fight Dmitry Bivol when he went up to 175 instead of Artur Beterbiev three years ago when he fought for a world title in 2022.
It is not a shock that Crawford is painting a positive image, why Canelo has not fought against Benavidez, because he is in line to face it on September 13. The last thing Crawford needs is to get on the bad side of Canelo and make him choose not fighting him. This is the retirement money that Crawford is getting for this fight. It would be interesting if Terence began to give Canelo bad, saying it as it is, and then refuses to fight him in September. Where would Crawford go?
“When you look at Canelo’s story, about all disrespectful fighters, calling it, there were many of them. He fought against everyone. From Shane Mosley to Lara, Danny Jacobs and Saunders, ”said Terence Crawford to Ring Magazine About the past opponents of Canelo Álvarez.
“When you look at all the combatants who were disrespectful with Canelo and still fought against them. I think that from the Mexican point of view, when you have two Mexicans and one is being more disrespectful with the other, it only took that more personal in the aspect of the race than the sport, “Crawford said about why he believes that Canelo has chosen not to fight against Benavidez.
“He took out the sport and decided that he was not going to give Benavidez on the day of payment that he wanted just because he felt something different at that time,” said Crawford.
Last update on 07/07/2025