Waiting For Canelo: Crawford’s Strategy Under Fire

Terence Crawford said on X tonight that he’s going to be “waiting on Canelo” for their fight on September 13th and will “shock the world.” against unified three-belt super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez.

The Waiting Game

Rather than taking a tune-up to stay sharp, Terence says he’s just going to wait on Canelo. That looks like he’s afraid of losing or looking bad. Sitting out of the ring until September 13th just cements fans’ belief about Crawford coming for the big payday against Canelo.

What Crawford should do is move up to 168 and fight one of these contenders to acclimatize himself to the weight class:

1. David Morrell
2. Osleys Iglesias
3. Diego Pacheco

If Crawford can beat those guys, he’ll be ready to fight Canelo on September 13th. Losing to them would show what many fans already believe about him. He’s too small to fight at 168.

Crawford is the only one of the four opponents Turki Al-Sheikh revealed on social media in announcing the new four-fight deal between Canelo Alvarez and Riyadh Season. There’s no favorable reaction from fans to Crawford, 37, being confirmed as Alvarez’s opponent for September 13th.

People wanted a better option than Crawford for Canelo’s fight in September because he’s too small, weak, and old. He has no experience at 154, and he didn’t look impressive at that weight in his debut last August.

“I’m waiting on Canelo in September and going to shock the world in Riyadh Season!” said Terence Crawford on X, talking about his scheduled fight on September 13th against Canelo Alvarez in Las Vegas.

It’s hard for fans to respect Crawford and his attitude of sitting and waiting. That’s not how fighters are supposed to act. They’re supposed to show their fearless soldiers on the frontlines, fearless, suffering, and going through pure hell. Crawford is doing the opposite. He’s acting like someone off the front lines, back at the battalion, playing sickbay commando.

I’ll never know what Turki sees in Crawford. There are so many more deserving go-getters from 154 to 175 that Turki overlooked in favor of Crawford. If he were watching Crawford’s career from the beginning as I have, he wouldn’t have been picked out for Canelo to fight.