{"id":2657,"date":"2025-09-14T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:22:11","slug":"terence-crawford-upsets-canelo-alvarez-becomes-undisputed-super-middleweight-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/?p=2657","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford Upsets Canelo \u00c1lvarez: Becomes Undisputed Super-Middleweight Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Terence \u201cBud\u201d Crawford made history last night at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas by defeating <strong>Canelo \u00c1lvarez<\/strong> via <strong>unanimous decision<\/strong> (116-112, 115-113, 115-113), to become the <strong>undisputed super-middleweight champion<\/strong>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2e3b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Stats &amp; Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Record now<\/strong>: Crawford improves to <strong>42-0 with 31 knockouts<\/strong>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Meanwhile, Canelo\u2019s record becomes <strong>63-3-2 with 39 KOs<\/strong> after the loss. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 The judges\u2019 scorecards were: <strong>116-112<\/strong>, <strong>115-113<\/strong>, and <strong>115-113<\/strong> all for Crawford. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Crowd: 70,482 people in attendance \u2014 among the biggest live crowds for a boxing event in recent memory. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2e3b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What This Win Means<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Crawford becomes the <em>first male boxer in history<\/em> to hold <strong>undisputed championship status in three different weight classes<\/strong>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 His win was especially impressive given he moved up <strong>two weight divisions<\/strong> to challenge Canelo in the 168 lb (super-middleweight) class. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Canelo, though he lost, was gracious after the fight. He acknowledged Crawford\u2019s skill and admitted that he was unable to \u201cfigure out\u201d Crawford\u2019s style. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 This marks the first time in about 10 years Canelo has been left without a world title. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2985.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2985.webp 570w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2985-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2985-360x240.webp 360w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2985-545x363.webp 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2984-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2984-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2984-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2984-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2984-360x203.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2984-545x307.jpeg 545w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2984.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2982.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2982.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2982-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2982-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2982-360x203.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2982-545x307.jpeg 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terence \u201cBud\u201d Crawford made history last night at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas by defeating Canelo \u00c1lvarez via unanimous decision (116-112, 115-113, 115-113), to become the undisputed super-middleweight champion. &nbsp; \u2e3b Key Stats &amp; Highlights \u2022 Record now: Crawford improves to 42-0 with 31 knockouts. &nbsp; \u2022 Meanwhile, Canelo\u2019s record becomes 63-3-2 with 39 KOs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1561,1556,1564,1563,1554,1558,1565,1562,220],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-and-culture","tag-boxing-history","tag-canelo-alvarez","tag-fight-results","tag-result","tag-super-middleweight","tag-terence-crawford","tag-unanimous-decision","tag-undisputed-champion","tag-verified-viral"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}