If Crawford beats Canelo convincingly who are the best middle weights you would favor Crawford over

Canelo is a natural junior middleweight himself and just historically average to above average at 160-168. Not saying he's bad but just average historically speaking. Look at what Bivol a small light heavyweight who could probably drop down to 168 did to him so imagine how badly he'd do against guys like Calzaghe or Ward. Even at 160 his greatest accomplishment is barely getting by GGG whose best wins outside of each other are both of their lackluster efforts against Danny Jacobs. Bud not beating great middleweights. But was Canelo even a great middleweight?

 

People are obsessed with the Bivol fight but I really didnt see a BEATING. Bivol stooped Canelo and landed some good shots but did not do as much damage as GGG imho. Bivol was just way faster than Canelo expected and I think Bivol was the first opponent Ive seen commit to the body and, for a guy with an already poor engine, that sapped his stamina. Couple that with Canelo being disadvantaged by height, reach, and weight and I think it was a sparring match where Canelo was bested.

The Bivol fight gets talked about on here like it was Floyd v Gatti for 12 rounds. Canelo was absolutely fine by fight end and the fight couldve been 3-3 after 6 rounds...Bivol made better adjustments and Canelo couldnt get to Bivol. No shame in a 154er losing to what turned out to be the best 175er.

Also, I'm not sure Bud beats Murderliev @ 154 let alone anyone at 160. Canelo is going to beat Bud and somewhat easily.