“There Are Weight Classes for A Reason”: Benavidez Explas His Concern for Crawford’s Decision to Fight Canelo 168

David Benavidez Believes That Pushing Is Pushing By Moving Up Three Weight Weight To Fight Canele Alvarez for His Four Middleweight Titles This Saturday, September 13.

Dangers of Weight Class Leaps

The WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Benavidez Says He Knows Crawford Skills, But Feels That The Jump Up Three Divisions Might Be Too Much.

Benavidez Says It Would Be The Same Thing IF He Chose to Move Up To Heavyweight to Take Anthony Joshua And Tyson Fury. He Believes HE Might Win, But IF They Hit Him, It Could Be Him for Him.

“Because Crawford Is coming Weight Classes. I’m not saying He’s Hurt Him, But Three Weight Classes Is Different,” Said David Benavidez Ring magazine About Why He Believes Canelo Alvarez Will Defeat Terence Crawford on Saturday.

It Would Have Made More Crawford to Stop at 160 and Take a Couple of Fights Against Top Fighters in That Weight Class First. If He Did Well in That Division, Then Go Up to 168 to Take a Couple of Fights Before Fighting Canelo.

That would be impossible, Though. Crawford Fights Just Once A Year. So, It could take Him Four Years to Get Those in Four Fights. By then, Canelo Will Have Likely Retired, And He’d Be Too Old Anyway to Do Much Against Anyone.

“You Never Want to Count Terence Crawford Out, But There Are Weight Classes For A Reason,” Said Benavidez.

‘The Mexican Monster’ Benavidez Makes A Good Point. The Weight Classes Are in Place to Protect Fighters, Not to Prevent Them From Earning Money Fighting More Popular Fighters. Going Up Three Divisions Could Be Asking For Trouble.

Money Over Legacy?

Crawford Is Going Well Above He Enjoyed His Best Success, Welterweight, and It’s Hard To Buy Into Rationale Moving Up Three Weight Classes.

Terence Says He’s Going for Legacy Purposes. I Believe Crawford’s Total Focus Isting That He’s Getting, Because He Never Showed Any Ambition to Move Up to 168 When David Morrell Held Titles. Crawford didn’t Start Showing Intest in Moving Up Until Canelo Was The One Holding The Belts.

“They got me as The Underdog. It Don’t Get Me. We got to Go Out There and Perform,” Said Crawford Ring magazine When Asked If It Bothers Him That He’s The Underdog Against Canele. “I’m going to go out there and win regardless.”

It’s True That Crawford and Canelo Still Need to Fight to Determine Who The Better Man is Saturday. But it Should Still Crawford In the Back His Mind That The Oddsmakers Double His Chances, Likely Viewing His Last Performance Against Israil Madrimov and Using That A As A Gauge in Their Picks.

The Point of Diminishing Returns

Crawford Has Well Moving Up Three Divisions His Career in Lightweight 2007. But there is a point of diminishing Returns Where Even’s Great Like Crawford Will find a Point Where to Hit It’s Too Much Weight. Hey Wasn’t Cut Out to Compete in Such and Such a Division. 168 Might Be That Point.

“It’s definitely That drives me,” Said Crawford About Being The Underdog. “All,” Said Terence when Told It Doesn’t want People Saying Canelo Was Over-The-Hill He beats Him. “Come Saturday, We’re Going To Have Fireworks.”

The Way Canolo has Performed in His Last Three Fights, It’s Impossible Not to Conclude That He’s Over The Hill. He hasn’t Lost Those Three Fights, But He Wasn’t Facing High-Level Fighters. His Last Three Fights Were Against William Scull, Edgar Berlanga, and Jaime Munguia. If Canelo Had Foodt These Super Middleweights, There’s a Good Chance Ha’d Have Lost:

• Diego Pacheco
• Osleys Iglesias
• Christian Milli
• Hamzah Sheeraz

Why Crawford’s Win May Be Discredited

If Crawford Does Saturday, There Will Still Be a Discredit His Victory, saying That Canelo Is A Faded Force From 20 Years As A Pro. Those Would Be Correct. He’s Not The Fighter Was Four Years ago When He Beat Caleb Plant to Become Undisputed 168-LB Champion The First Time on November 6, 2021.