people are calling this a retirement check, but what if Bud has Canelo right where he wants him? Canelo is good but old, shopworn with one foot out the door at this point. Out of all the champs, Buds been planning for this since he fought Amir Khan. Crawford fought Madrimov because Bivol used him to spar and prepare for Canelo + they're similarly built. Crawford been taking low risk fights and unifying weak divisions like 140 and 147 to preserve that zero long enough and until he moved to 154. Once Crawford moved up and turned 37 he was on automatically on Canelos radar, but even then Canelo claimed he needed 100 million to fight Terence, and Bud has connections with Turki for this reason. Now Canelo is overconfident and thinks Bud is past his prime and small, but crawford is a weight bully and on snac. 186lb Canelo never wanted to fight Scull but alshikh is forcing Canelo to fight William Scull so he can fight Crawford for undisputed. This version of Canelo is bigger, stronger, more powerful, experienced than 2013 Canelo and bud is a chinny welterweight, if he beats Alverez and then retires undefeated him and his fans will claim he's greater than Mayweather
whatever, aslong as canelo makes it to the fight and climbs into the ring hes getting his ass kicked. No excuse. No such thing as a weight bully. Thats a made up term like white priviledge or toxic masculenity.
It would be an interesting argument. If Crawford is undisputed in 3 divisions he might well surpass Floyd, but he won't be surpassing Pacquiao.