Floyd Mayweather likes to keep his eye on goings on in the boxing world and has spoken about a potential shock opponent for current pound-for-pound star Terrence Crawford.
Crawford is currently looking for his next opponent and suggestions have ranged from Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez who is most likely too large for any serious negotiations, to young contender Jaron ‘Boots ‘Ennis.
Last time out ‘Bud’ impressively defeated Errol Spence Jr in July to lift all four of the major world welterweight titles. That made him undisputed in a second division and was a performance that drew widespread praise from across the boxing world and beyond.
It was recently revealed that Crawford, who has fought on Top Rank and PBC in recent years and this week broke down the fight between Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia, is now a promotional free agent which somewhat gives him room to fight who he wants to fight.
Now, Speaking to FightHype, former pound-for-pound king and multi-weight world champion Mayweather has spoken about who he thinks ‘Bud’ should fight.
“I think he’s a super skillful, very talented fighter. I thought about this, if he wants to go to 168, and fight Canelo, and David Benavidez wants to fight Canelo at 168, and they can’t get that fight, why don’t they fight each other?”
Benavidez has recently revealed he is moving up for a shot at an interim world light heavyweight title so it seems hugely unlikely that these two will ever square up in the ring like Mayweather suggested.