Terence Crawford: Canelo won't want to end his career on a loss

Terence Crawford said he’s not surprised Canelo Alvarez has decided to continue with his career.

The Mexican icon boxes Christian Mbilli in September in Saudi Arabia and would have been out of action for almost a year since his loss to Crawford in Las Vegas.

Crawford was speaking on DAZN at the final press conference ahead of Oleksandr Usyk’s bout with kickboxer Rico Verhoeven.

It was said that Canelo will be at a press conference in Egypt over the weekend and Crawford believes the fire still burns in Canelo.

“I think it’s going to be a great fight,” Crawford said of Canelo-Mbilli. “Mbilli puts on a lot of pressure, Canelo, we need to see what type of shape he’s going to come in for this fight and so Canelo is an all-time great and I’m looking forward to seeing how he bounces back and I’m excited to watch the fight.

“Canelo won’t want to end his career on a loss like he did with me so I can see Canelo wanting to come back and prove himself and be back champion and do the things he wanted to do in the sport of boxing and leave on his own terms.”

One of Crawford’s old belts is up for grabs on Saturday in Giza when Hamzah Sheeraz faces unbeaten German Alem Begic for the WBC’s vacant title at 168lbs.

“Hamzah is a good fighter, good boxer,” Crawford said. “He’s tall, rangy, likes to work defense. That’s another good fight for Canelo