Terence Crawford wants a shot at Saul ‘Canelo‘ Alvarez. Despite the current weight disparity, he believes he can be just the third man to beat him.

Having conquered lightweight, super-lightweight and welterweight, Crawford wants to make an unprecedented jump to super-middleweight to face Canelo, who has held all four belts in the division since 2021

Speaking to FightHype, two-weight world champion Teofimo Lopez said Crawford was trying to ‘copy and paste’ what Floyd Mayweather did against Canelo over ten years ago, but warned him that he wasn’t on the same level.

“Canelo’s still the face of boxing, you can’t take that away. You cannot take that away. This guy is still the guy everyone talks about, everyone wants to fight. Crawford wouldn’t want to fight Canelo if he wasn’t the face of boxing, realistically. It’s a money grab, it’s a money fight.

He wants to do what Floyd Mayweather did to Canelo. That’s all it is man, they just trying to copy and paste it. He can’t do that. Ain’t nobody like Floyd. Nobody.”

Mayweather caught Canelo relatively early in his career and won a majority decision. It’s a victory that has aged increasingly well given the Mexican has only lost once since, to Dmitry Bivol in a jump up to light-heavyweight. He has still never been knocked down or stopped.

Crawford – like Mayweather did before him – makes the jump up to super-welterweight on August 3 to face WBA Champion Israil Madrimov. Fans and analysts will use the performance as a measuring stick to see how realistic the move to 168 for Canelo really is.