"Terence "Bud" Crawford and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez go at it Saturday night in Vegas with all the super middleweight belts at stake. Among the oodles of intriguing plot lines that make this matchup of two of the sweetest scientists of their generation worthy of a football stadium full of spectators and any fight fan's attention is one of boxing's most accepted adages ("Good big man beats good little man") being put to the test."
"Crawford fights are routinely things of beauty, but on this night he turned in as great a big-fight performance as I'd ever seen from anybody. Both fighters weighed in at the 147-pound limit, but Spence never looked like he was in Crawford's class. Crawford had vastly superior speed and power, and better defense and counterpunching abilities than Spence, his pre-supposed equal. Every punch Crawford threw landed with consequences."
Terence 'Bud' Crawford and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez will fight Saturday night in Las Vegas with all the super middleweight belts at stake. The matchup pits two elite technicians against each other and tests boxing's adage that a good big man beats a good little man. Crawford is 41-0 with 31 knockouts and has never been knocked down. Crawford built little mainstream acclaim while fighting out of Omaha until July 2023, when he dominated Errol Spence, knocking him down three times and forcing a ninth-round stoppage while leading by nine points. Spence has not fought since. Crawford has been largely inactive in the two years since.
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