After they saw the disappointing the main event, Fight fans received an exhilarating announcement that on September 12, 2025 at the Allegiant stadium in Las Vegas, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (63-2-2, 39 KO) will defend its unquestioned crown before the Terenka “Bud” Crawford (41-0, 31 Kos).

The expected duel was talked for a significant time, and now it is official. The unmarked title Canelo vs Crawford will be the first event promoted by Dan White and Turki Alalshikh under the TKO boxing banner.

Canelo Alvarez is the future Hall of Famer, which has a CV full of great fights. Now he fits another elite warrior who is also the future Hall of Famer, and this warrior has all the tools required to defeat Canelo.

Departing from Omah, Nebraska, Terenca “Bud” Crawford, he became the world champion for the first time in March 2014, when he defeated Ricky Burns with a unanimous decision and won the title of WBO Lightweight.

A year later, Crawford moved to 140 and defeated Thomas Dulorme in the sixth round of TKO and won the title of WBO Super Airy WBO champion. Crawford would become a united champion, and then in August 2017 he detained Julius Indongo to become unquestioned.

After conquering the lightweight division, Terenka Crawford moved to a welterweight, stopped Jeff Horn in the 9th round and won the WBO World title. Crawford would have six successful defense of titles.

Mega-Walka, which took place five years, which finally took place in July 2023, when Terence Crawford faced WBA, WBC, IBF Errol Spence Jr. champion. Crawford had a dominant performance when he stopped Spence in the 9th round.

Together with the victory, Crawford reached Raridified Air, because he and Oleksandr Usyk are the only two boxers’ sexes that are not familiar with two different weight classes in the era of four stripes. Evander Holyfield is also part of this exclusive group because he achieved it in the era of three stripes.

Nowadays, Terenka Crawford has the opportunity to separate from Utyk and Holyfield, if he can defeat Canelo Alvarez and remain undisputed in the unprecedented class of third weight. Crawford will have the chance to do this historic feat on September 12.

Canelo Alvarez is an extremely talented warrior, but he is defeated, as two losses on his album indicate. As the story has shown, you must be a very special warrior to defeat Canelo, and Terenka “Bud” Crawford is a boxer who matches the criteria.

Terenka Crawford is a switch that is a very aggressive counter -ax. Crawford has high IQ, great lead hand control, leg work, placing impacts and the power of impact. Crawford has all the tools needed to overcome Canelo Alvarez, but there is one thing that makes some fight fans doubt Crawford.

As a semi -care weight, Crawford beat Spence in July 2023, led the weight class to defeat Israel Madrimova, and now he moves up two weight classes to face Canelo. Some doubts believe that Crawford has skills, but the transfer of two weight classes can be too much to overcome.

While Crawford may seem the same size as Canelo, on September 12, it will debut in 168, while Canelo has been competing in the super-medium weight division for almost seven years.

There is no doubt that Crawford has the ability to win, but the question is or can hurt Canelo, and can Canelo blow when the fight enters the later rounds?

After Canelo Alvarez defeated William Scull, Canelo and Crawford had their first official meeting. In 2023, Terenka Crawford became the first boxer who would not be undisputed in two weight classes, and on September 12 he will have the chance to become the first to be the first to be unquestioned in the third division.

You have to joke. Canelo Alvarez vs. William Scull was not just boring-it was a television nap, a 12-round sleepy, who made the fans stare at their screens, wondering if someone forgot to tell the fighters that they fought. It’s not only weaker – he offended everyone who stayed, paid or wasted a weekend night, hoping for the action. And yet here, with Scull running in his mouth, claiming that he should have won. Incredible.

Sculla’s reasoning? “If he doesn’t hit me, why should I risk it?” Oh, please. This is not a tactical genius – it hides. This hopes to skate, doing less than a second guy. Sure, Cuban style values ​​defense, but this is not an excuse to throw a handful of blows within 36 minutes and pretend that you will master “The Sweet Science”. It is called boxing, not “they exist quietly in the ring.”

And now, like salt in an open wound, Amir Khan jumps. Khan – the same guy who took his head through Canelo years ago – now he says that Scull won.

You watched the Canelo vs. disaster Scull and went away, thinking that Scull won for two rounds? Did you fall asleep in half and dreamed another fight? Because the rest of us were extensive-painted-observing one of the slowest, most dead 12-order in the latest memory.

“It was the prettiest and could go both ways.” Pretty? Pretty What, Amir – quite terrible? Quite embarrassing? Quite close to a far -free farce? Come, man. You were in great fighting. You know what the performance looks like, and it wasn’t. Scull landed next to nothing. Canelo was barely sweating. The only thing that should “leave in both directions” was remote control.

“I probably won Scull in two rounds.” Based on what exactly? Returning back convincing? Are you smiling at Canelo between rounds? Do you throw away an occasional stab in the air? It’s one thing to be generous. This is another to be completely detached from reality.

“I like Canelo, I think he is a great warrior and I think he chose shots better and laid shots.” Right – so do you admit that Canelo has landed better and cleaner, and yet you hand it to Scull? This is not an analysis, it is a comedy sketch.

“Regardless of how the fight went, it was a great performance of both fighters.” No, Amir. NO. It wasn’t. It was a sluggish, continuous, awkward event that caused the fans to mumble “Never Again” before the last bell rang. Calling this “great” spits in the face of every fan who sat through him, hoping for something he will happen.

Let’s explain: “Performance” Sculla encourages this rubbish. He tells the fighters that they can choose, hug, dance and still pat on the back. And from the former master, no less – he is embarrassing.

Here is a suggestion, Amir: Next time, let’s say it was a misfire. Say that Scull survived, maybe he approached your eyes, but don’t insult boxing, dressing it as “great”. Fans deserve honesty, not an illusion.

Recent York – in the middle of a warm tourist place there was something strange known as Times Square, leaving pedestrians about their minds and photos of the boxing ring and the structure around him in the rolls of the camera.

“What happens and how to get to the other side of Fifth Avenue?” The pedestrian asked the officer who supervised this area.

Another was with a friend visiting California. When it was said that the area was constrained, the local issued her frustration, saying: “She came here to make the Times Square blocked. I don’t even know what was going on.”

“This is an exclusive, substantial match,” answered a security worker.

Many observers did not know that they were witnessing history.

Last Friday, “Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves” was marked, the first event that transformed the Times Square to the outdoor box.

The card was the headline Ryan Garcia, who fought for the first time since the annual suspension for positive testing of the drug with the results, taking Rolando “Rolly” Romero. Devin Haney received Jose Ramirez, and Teofimo Lopez faced Arnold Barboza Jr.

Unlike the average boxing event, the impact and stabs helped strengthen the filled airy atmosphere of Times Square. Here’s what made the historic box of boxing so special.

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Ring

The ring was set on the seventh Avenue in front of the ABC television studio “Good Morning America” ​​and Carlo’s Bake Shop, from Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Taco Bell and Tough Rock Cafe on the other side of the street. He was in a configuration, which contained four pillars with a roof and four compact video boards.

Father and coach Haney, Bill Haney, says that the location of the match is second to none.

“I was in the fight with 50,000 people and I would have to say that this is the most iconic, historical struggle that I witnessed my whole life,” said Bill ESPN. “Here in the middle of the Times Square. If you told me last year that we would be here and we would fight or I just saw the fight [let] Being part of it myself, I wouldn’t believe it. I feel I’m dreaming. “

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Boxing fans had the opportunity to watch this event

Tickets are not on sale for this program, pedestrian crossings were blocked, fans of barricades and tourists in the gates, with video screens available in many locations in the area. As the fight progressed at night, delayed roars from dispersed crowds around the place in three different designated scenic areas could be heard when a great hit was delivered.

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Oscar de la Hoya: “It’s amazing”

Oscar de la Hoya, promoter Golden Boy, who had three fighters on the card (Garcia, Ramirez and Barboza), said that this location was different than any other sports event.

“There is no comparison in boxing within 45 years,” said De La Hoya on Thursday. “I think that it believes everything in boxing or in any sport, literally. I don’t think we have a live basketball in the Times Square. … I think it’s very special, it’s amazing, it’s amazing.”

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Everyone was watching

One thing in boxing fans is that they will find a way to see a immense card. Different screens around the Times Square were an opportunity for those who did not have access to the ring, watch immense video screens. The ring was surrounded by fences, which stood about 12 feet height covered with a red tarpaulin, blocking the external view to contain exclusivity of the event. But the fans found a way to watch, even from nearby platforms and buildings.

In the place where Recent Year’s Eve falls, a group of construction workers probably had one of the best observation points to watch the action. Dressed in working vests and difficult hats, employees gathered at the construction site. They watched early fights, leaning over the handrails, then pulled the chairs into the platform to watch the main events. Employees became comfortable when Garcia took Romero, eventually removing difficult hats and vests.

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Celebrities, athletes and boxing royal

In addition to the Snoop Dogga, Tupac Shakura, Harry Potter, Hulk Hogan, Michael Jackson and Four Elmos, in every direction you looked. The viewers sat in three sections. The north-south sections consisted of stars such as actor Michael J. Fox, streamers Ishowpeed and Amp, legendary drummer Jonathan “Sugarfoot” Moffett, rapper/actor Ice-T and Recent York Kninsk Center Karl-Anthony Towns, freshly after the victorious performance at night, when Knicks eliminated Detroit Pistons in the night. The first round of the game in Easern Conference.

The boxeries sat east of the ring. The airy champion Shakur Stevenson was one of the first boxers who came to witness a historical night before joining him by the younger medium weight master, Terenka Crawford, who built a lot of noise for his fight against Canelo Alvarez from Canelo Alvarez. Former heavyweight master, Mike Tyson, lit a navy blue satin suit, taking pictures with fans.

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FDNY VS. Nypd

The first respondents organize an annual charity event entitled Battle of the Blagges, in which it contains amateur boxing matches between policemen from Recent York and firefighters. He uses the Tunnel 2 Towers Foundation, which provides significant facilitate to the first persons providing rescuers and military veterans. An hour before the start of Friday’s professional card, firefighter James Gennari from Ladder 24 and police officer Joel Allen arrived at the ring in the right colors of the bathrobe (blue for NYPD, Red for Fnny), leaving vehicles related to their professions.

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Time to prepare

Barbosa sat in the hotel ballroom to grab his hands, and the gloves recorded before his fight against Lopez. To start a journey to the ring wrapped in a white and blue robe and a white hat, Barboza and his team went to the escalator to leave the hotel.

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Taxi, taxi!

Without a cloakroom connected with a place, the question was how fighters arrive at the ring. Answer? With style. The wardrobe fighters were in the hotel blocks from the ring and were taken to the ring in classic cars – some in characteristic yellow cabins in Recent York. It took about eight minutes to get from the hotel from the hotel.

Fighters in WBO Junior Welter weighed to the ring in vintage -fashioned taxis through the streets of Recent York City, when fans cheered and recorded them on mobile devices. Lopez, born in Brooklyn, took it at the time of the fight in his yard. When he reached the ring with the “NYPD” vest, supporters of the American chant “Teo”.

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Replace Devin Haney

Haney entered the ring to “Many Misl Men” 50 Cent with a black leather jacket and black leather trunks. When he jumped around the ring, he quickly looked around various billboards outside the ring and about how a handful of fans were mainly celebrities and other boxers on the spot. Although Haney is used to fighting thousands of fans, the exclusivity seemed to drive a 26-year-old.

“You can’t prepare for it. It’s so iconic and I don’t think it is repeated for a long time,” said Bill Haney.

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Romero pays tribute “Return to the future”

Romero chose the “Back to the Future” theme for the main event. His team was equipped with turquoise overalls from “Rolly McFly” at the back in Pink in Pink to the future inscription.

To complement this topic, the boxing Romero replied Marty McFly, the character of Michael J. Fox, who was present. They were like the self -sufficient Nike sneakers worn in the continuation of the film series “Back to the Future”.

Romero came to the ring in a creamy cream in cream color equipped with hydraulics and bogus, dressed in a pink-yellow sleeve jacket.

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Time for the main event

It was expected that Garcia’s return would be immense. He wore a blue look with the participation of “King Ryan” at the back of the robe, with cross wings and angels. Pryki Garcia contained crosses on every leg, from “King” at the front and “Ryan” at the back. He finished appearance with white shoes with the same pattern as his robe and trunks.

The hotel entrance was crowded when Garcia went to an escort vehicle to the ring. His riding was Batmobile, which established the standard of fighting. He climbed the ropes so that Lupe Fiasco “Superstar” with the participation of Matthew Santos.

Garcia was knocked down in the second round by the left hook Romero. With clothes, few fans the answer to knocking was tranquil. The only sounds were cars, bicycle bells, car horns and sirens.

Tyson and Stevenson were moved by knocking down Romero.

Ultimately, Romero broke Garcia’s return and a potential rematch against Haney with a nervous result card 115-112, 115-112 and 118-109. Romero still guaranteed a rematch.

“I think Devin and Ryan should get a rematch and make him substantial,” said Romero.