{"id":18749,"date":"2025-09-16T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=18749"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:57:08","slug":"canelo-alvarez-breaks-silence-after-terence-crawford-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/canelo-alvarez-breaks-silence-after-terence-crawford-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez Breaks Silence After Terence Crawford Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Canelo Alvarez took a few hours out of the spotlight but finally broke his silence after Saturday&#8217;s historic loss to Terence Crawford in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The bout, held at Allegiant Stadium, drew a record 70,482 fans \u2014 the largest crowd in Las Vegas boxing history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Crawford, moving up two weight classes, controlled the fight from the middle rounds onward, earning final scorecards of 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113. On the other side, it was Alvarez&#8217;s first defeat at super middleweight and only the third of his career, following losses to Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Dmitry Bivol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Mexican boxer issued his&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Canelo\/status\/1967351695916331293\" target=\"_blank\">first public comments on X<\/a>, praising Crawford while addressing his own future following the unanimous-decision defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Me siento muy orgulloso de todo lo que he conseguido hasta ahora; siempre se quiere ganar, pero acepto esta derrota con humildad y aprendizaje. <br><br>Estoy muy agradecido con mi equipo por todos los sacrificios que hemos hecho juntos en todos estos a\u00f1os. <br><br>Yo ya gan\u00e9 porque tengo a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3tlxZ1wIr8\">pic.twitter.com\/3tlxZ1wIr8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Canelo Alvarez (@Canelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canelo\/status\/1967351695916331293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I feel very proud of everything I&#8217;ve achieved so far; we always want to win, but I accept this defeat with humility and learning,&#8221; Canelo wrote (originally in Spanish) on X. &#8220;I am very grateful to my team for all the sacrifices we&#8217;ve made together over all these years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I already won because I have my family with me and millions of fans who have never stopped supporting me \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;\u00a1Viva M\u00e9xico, Cabrones!\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Canelo&#8217;s message came with both words of respect for Crawford and a clear statement of determination to move forward despite Saturday&#8217;s setback to the 37-year-old, now the first male boxer with three unified division titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Crawford&#8217;s jabs and movement consistently disrupted Alvarez&#8217;s rhythm on Saturday, and by the sixth round, swelling under Alvarez&#8217;s right eye started to put an end to the Mexican&#8217;s chances of winning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The American, on the other hand, saw a clear opening and started gaining more and more control, which ended up with Crawford dictating the pace in the championship rounds, leading up to his upset victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For Alvarez, the defeat carries major implications at 35 years old. The Mexican champion&#8217;s record now stands at 63-3-2, and questions linger about whether he will adjust his approach and face someone else, or seek redemption in a rematch against the third man to ever beat him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Crawford, meanwhile, sits atop the sport after his upset win and will get to pick whoever he wants to fight next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">With his legacy secured at multiple weight classes, Crawford has already been linked to a future fight against David Benavidez, as&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Turki_alalshikh\/status\/1967152472767844371\" target=\"_blank\">suggested<\/a>&nbsp;by Saudi Arabian sports promoter Turki Alalshikh following Saturday&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canelo Alvarez took a few hours out of the spotlight but finally broke his silence after Saturday&#8217;s historic loss to Terence Crawford in Las Vegas. The bout, held at Allegiant Stadium, drew a record 70,482 fans \u2014 the largest crowd in Las Vegas boxing history. Crawford, moving up two weight classes, controlled the fight from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-15-e1758012259344.png?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18752,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18749\/revisions\/18752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}