Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Reflecting on Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford, and Crawford's standing

[BoxingUpdates]

In this week?s mailbag, Stephen ?Breadman? Edwards answers the inevitable questions about Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Terence Crawford, where Crawford stands in history, who of the modern era's younger fighters can rival him there, and also how he compares to Oleksandr Usyk and Naoya Inoue
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[Jab jab boom]

Where are all the Canelo fans who for the past few months were saying Bread was racist for picking Crawford, only picked him because he’s black, doesn’t know shttt about boxing, there are weight classes for a reason, this is an easy fight for Canelo? You guys are awfully quiet. Must be tough accepting the inferiority of a man you idolized and watch the hit his legacy took by losing to a smaller and older fighter. Of course you always get one bozo in the mailbag who tries to pretend that Canelo somehow deserved the nod. They’re a delusional and prideless fanbase with no integrity.

[Smash]

is that a canelo or bud fan who wants him to go up and fight usyk

[Cyborg Fangerloo]

This goat stuff and top 10 ever is a stretch in my humble opinion. Canelo certainly did not seem anywhere as fast, active, or sharp as he did in his prime. Question marks surround Spence and his accident. Other than those two guys, he has not fought a bunch of A listers. He fights very infrequently. He certainly has incredible skills and is absolutely well rounded, but it would be difficult for me to consider him in the top 10 of all time with the lack of level of competition he has faced.
If he fought the dudes Bread wants him to fight and wins, I could change my opinion.

[Smash]

This goat stuff and top 10 ever is a stretch in my humble opinion. Canelo certainly did not seem anywhere as fast, active, or sharp as he did in his prime. Question marks surround Spence and his accident. Other than those two guys, he has not fought a bunch of A listers. He fights very infrequently. He certainly has incredible skills and is absolutely well rounded, but it would be difficult for me to consider him in the top 10 of all time with the lack of level of competition he has faced.
If he fought the dudes Bread wants him to fight and wins, I could change my opinion.

hes bolted out of 154 for good reason i might add for the canelo cash and glory but 154 has a very good selection of people, 3 big fights there and off u go into the sunset & the thing is turki would make them all happen for bud too

[garfios]

This goat stuff and top 10 ever is a stretch in my humble opinion. Canelo certainly did not seem anywhere as fast, active, or sharp as he did in his prime. Question marks surround Spence and his accident. Other than those two guys, he has not fought a bunch of A listers. He fights very infrequently. He certainly has incredible skills and is absolutely well rounded, but it would be difficult for me to consider him in the top 10 of all time with the lack of level of competition he has faced.
If he fought the dudes Bread wants him to fight and wins, I could change my opinion.

Canelo has never been able to deal with a real elite boxer, he has tried and fail multiple times, when he was 21, 23 and 32 years old and always looked the same slow plodder.

[Rockybigblower]

Lets be fair and agree that on this occasion breadman made the right call. I picked Canelo and got it wrong. But talking about the possibilty of putting Crawford in the same room as Ali is just foolish. How many fighters on crawfords resume are going to be talked about in 10 years from now as "great" fighters....and how many of his fights are going to be remembered?. Its the same thing with Andre Ward. How many of his great fights do we remember clearly and fondly? Ali fought a who's who of great historic fighters who will be remembered for all time through boxing history because the fighters he fought also fought each other to determine who was the best of their era. These days "champions" fight in two different leagues...virtually like olympic track qualifiers...but never seem to meet in a finals race.

[ShoulderRoll]

Beating Canelo was very good for his legacy. But, without sounding like I’m hating on him, Crawford simply doesn’t have the resume to rank very highly among the all-time greats.

[Rigpig]

Boots doesn’t wanna fight anyone worth a F he doesn’t deserve to fight Crawford but if they did Crawford would stomp a mud hole in his ass to

[Oregonian]

This goat stuff and top 10 ever is a stretch in my humble opinion. Canelo certainly did not seem anywhere as fast, active, or sharp as he did in his prime. Question marks surround Spence and his accident. Other than those two guys, he has not fought a bunch of A listers. He fights very infrequently. He certainly has incredible skills and is absolutely well rounded, but it would be difficult for me to consider him in the top 10 of all time with the lack of level of competition he has faced.
If he fought the dudes Bread wants him to fight and wins, I could change my opinion.

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Neither Bread nor anyone here want or need you to change your opinion. Stick with it.