Terence Crawford was open to Saul Alvarez rematch or chasing history at 160lbs

Terence Crawford, who retired late last year with a record of 42-0 (31 KOs) having won 18 different world championship belts from lightweight to super middleweight,  says he would have accepted a rematch with Canelo Alvarez, whom he defeated in his last career fight via unanimous decision in September 2025.

"If you look at the landscape of boxing, I’ll ask you who I should fight?" Crawford said on The Breakfast Club. "None of the stuff they said made sense. They were talking about [David] Benvidez. Benavidez is fighting at 200. Didn't make no sense… Then they were saying Boots [Ennis]. None of that made sense to me. The Canelo rematch was off the table. There was no rematch clause. Nobody said anything about Canelo. To this day, nobody has said anything about Canelo. If there was a rematch clause in the contract, then I would honor that. Just off of who I am.”

Surprisingly, Crawford also says he would have stuck around to face the winner of a fight between then WBO and IBF middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly and WBC champ Carlos Adames.

“Janibek was supposed to fight Carlos Adames for his belt,” explains Crawford, “Janibek had two belts. Carlos had one. That would have been three belts on the line. Whoever would have won that, I would have fought for the belts. That would have been undisputed at 160. I said… ‘After I beat Canelo, I’m going to see what they do down here.’ So, then it came out that Janibek was on performance enhancement and that fight got cancelled.

“I was just like, man, this really ain't nothing for me to do no more. I'm into making history, making legacy fights, you know? That would have been a historical legacy fight. [People would say] ‘Oh, man. This guy came from 135 to 168, then came back down to 160 to be undisputed again while coming off the Canelo fight.”