Is Shakur Stevenson Helping or Hurting Crawford’s Chances Against Canele?

Shakur Stevenson Revealed Today That He Had Some “Good Rounds” Sparring With The Goat, Terence Crawford. WBC Lightweight Champion Shakur Is Trying To Help Crawford (41-0, 31 kos) Get Ready for His Title Challenge Super Middleweight Champion Canelo Alvarez on September 13th in Las Vegas.

Why Shakur Had to Speak

Shakur’s move to Brag about His Sparring Is Strange. Fans On Social Media Are Roasting Shakur Now, asking Him, “How Many Miles Did You Run?” Unless Crawford Took It Easy On Him, It Had To Have A Bad Session for Stevenson.

Using Shakur for Sparring Isn’t The Best Method for Crawford, 37, to Use to Get Him Ready to The Bigger, Stronger, and Younger Canelo (63-2-2, 39 Kos). Interestingly, Stevenson reported the news of His Sparring to His Followers on X Immediately After The Session Instead of Keeping Quiet.

Good Rounds Today With The 🐐 @TenceCrawford

– Shakur Stevenson (@shakurstevenson) August 19, 2025

Crawford Is Jumping Up Two Divisions From 154 to 168, And He Needs All The Help He Can Get From Super Middleweights, Not Lightweights. He Chose Not to Take Any Tune-Ups During His Year off after His Victory Over Israil Madromov in August 2024.

A Waste of Valuable Training Time

It’s A For Mistake Crawford to Waste Valuable Sparring Time On a Feather-fisted Fighter Like Shakur HE Needs to use Everything’s His Training Camps Focusing on Fighting Guys That Can Prepare Him for Canelo.

Sparring Shakur Would Have Made in Sense in 2014 When He Was Still At Fighting At Lightweight, But NOW. Would be shakur for the same thing. If Hey Were Getting Lightweight Like Andy Cruz, The Last Thing Want Is To Bring The 186-LB Crawford Into Camp to Mimic The Fighting Style. He couldn’t do. Crawford Is Too Big, Slow, and Old. He’s Also not a as a ascertained talented as cruz.