Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford are less than two months away from their monumental showdown.
The pound-for-pound greats are set to do battle in a ‘mega-fight’ on Saturday September 13 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mexican icon Canelo will defend his undisputed super-middleweight championship against the unbeaten American, having began his second reign as champion on May 3 when he defeated former IBF champion William Scull.
‘Bud’ Crawford is preparing to make his very first appearance at 168lbs, having spent almost the entirety of his professional career campaigning at welterweight, where he became the undisputed champion with a victory over Errol Spence Jr in July 2023.
Speaking to MillCity Boxing, former two-time world welterweight champion Keith Thurman revealed that he has actually reached out to Crawford recently and informed the 37-year-old he would be willing to replace Canelo should he end up pulling out of the fight for any reason.
“He don’t really need to see me but I told Bud, I DM’d him actually, I DM’d him recently he knows it you know what I’m saying, I said ‘Hey man, if Canelo pulls out, I’m here, if anything happens to Canelo Bud, I’m here, just let me know’, he LOL’d it you know, he said ‘We good pimp, we good, we got this’.”
Thurman made his long-awaited return to the ring in March after a three-year hiatus, stopping Australia’s Brock Jarvis in the third round of their bout in Sydney. The 36-year-old from Florida appears to have made the jump up to 154lbs, as he begins his quest of becoming a two-weight world champion.