ERROL SPENCE MAMES THE ONLY FEW WHO COULD MOVE UP IN WEIGHT AND BEAT CANELO

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Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is just months away from clashing with fellow pound-for-pound star Terence Crawford.

The 34-year-old from Guadalajara, Mexico will defend his undisputed super-middleweight championship against ‘Bud’ on Saturday September 13 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Canelo captured the undisputed crown at 168lbs for the second time in his career last month when he defeated former IBF champion William Scull in Riyadh, becoming the first fighter in boxing history to accomplish this feat.

Crawford is bidding to write his name into boxing history once again should he defeat Canelo in September, as the 37-year-old sets out to become the first fighter in the history of male boxing to win an undisputed championship in three divisions.

One man who is all too familiar with ‘Bud’ is former unified welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr, who suffered the first defeat of his career at the hands of Crawford two years ago.

In an interview with Fight Hub TV, Spence admitted that he is backing his former rival ahead of his showdown with Canelo, as he claims if anyone can move up and defeat the Mexican superstar, ‘Bud’ Crawford can.

“I mean it could happen, why not. If Crawford wants to challenge himself to be great, let him try to be great, you know I’m with it. I’ll be going for Bud, I’ll be going for him I mean I don’t know if he’s gonna win or lose but I’ll definitely be going for Crawford, I think if anybody can pull it off he can pull it off, he’s chasing greatness so why not.”

The 37-year-old from Omaha has spent the majority of his professional career campaigning at 147lbs, although he did make the move up to light-middleweight last year to dethrone WBA champion Israil Madrimov.

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TEOFIMO LOPEZ FINALLY REVEALS WHAT STARTED TERENCE CRAWFORD RINGSIDE SCUFFLE: "FIGHT ME NOW"

Teofimo Lopez and Terence Crawford came face-to-face this past weekend after a back and forth through the media.

Crawford is fresh off a world title win in his fourth division, super-welterweight, and is chasing down a fight with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez that would require jumping up twice more to 168 pounds.

Lopez has urged the pound-for-pound star to stay at 154, saying he will leave the 140 ranks where he is currently world champion for that fight.

The pair were both in attendance for a portion of the Canelo-Edgar Berlanga fight card in Las Vegas and crossed paths. Speaking to Broadway Joel, Lopez revealed all on the coming together.

“Long story short, I was going to ringside and I thought someone was staring at me. It was Crawford. He looked at me, I looked at him. He’s trying to stare me down, I stare at him and said listen, when we gonna fight? He’s acting like he can’t hear me, pulls to the side then we just talk, talk, talk. He goes to my father, he says, ‘don’t you ever touch me again, next time you touch me I’mma slap you.’ My father goes and responds, ‘then slap me now.’ I said, ‘when we gonna fight?’ We had a little scuffle.

My whole thing is I want to fight the best. If he’s the best, let’s make the fight happen. He goes over there, trying to poke my face, smack his hand down. He wanted to fight me there. You scared I’m gonna beat you in front of the whole world? Is that why? We’ll see what they do next.”

Crawford and his team have previously ruled out a fight with the 27-year-old, with coach Brian ‘BoMac’ Mcintyre said the match-up is absolutely ‘not competitive’ and that the only rewarding part would be seeing his man knock Lopez out.

Whether or not this drama changes that remains to be seen