TERENCE CRAWFORD has dismissed talk that he is heading into Saturday’s super-fight with Canelo Alvarez carrying a shoulder injury.
The 37-year-old enters his 42nd professional bout as challenger to Alvarez, the reigning undisputed super-middleweight champion. While many fighters admit to carrying niggles into fights, Crawford was quick to shut down claims that he has any shoulder issue.
“Where I got a shoulder injury at?” Crawford responded during a fight week media scrum.
“I think people coming up with their own antics. Terence Crawford got a shoulder injury, Terence Crawford out of shape, Terence Crawford slow. They coming up with all kinds of stuff.”
Crawford, from Omaha, is already a two-division undisputed champion, having cleaned out both the super-lightweight and welterweight divisions. Now he steps up to face Mexico’s biggest boxing star on Mexican Independence Day weekend in Las Vegas, where he was met with boos from the crowd.
Asked by Boxing News what excites him most about the showdown with Canelo, Crawford was blunt.
“Shutting everybody up,” he said.
And when pressed on the hostile reception, the former pound-for-pound number one remained unfazed.
“This is not the first time I’ve been booed. I don’t care. It’s not the first time that people went against Terence Crawford – it doesn’t matter to me. They can’t fight for him so it doesn’t matter to me. It just puts a little more icing on the cake.”
