Canelo Alvarez opens as big betting favorite amid links to Terence crawford super fight

Super middleweight kingpin, Canelo Alvarez has opened as a sizeable betting favorite amid links to a title super fight with current light heavyweight gold holder, Terence Crawford later this annum — with the two boxing superstars rumored to take each other on before the end of this summer.

Alvarez, a current super middleweight kingpin, who has been sidelined since September, most recently turned in another dominant title defense in a unanimous decision win over Edgar Berlanga — marking his fifth consecutive victory since a defeat to Dmitry Bivol in a light heavyweight title pursuit.

As for the unbeaten, Crawford, the light middleweight kingpin landed his spectacular forty first professional win consecutively back in August in a trip to the Middle East, besting Israil Madrimov.

Canelo Alvarez opens as betting favorite to beat Terence Crawford

And amid links this week to a super fight this summer, Canelo Alvarez as opened as a decent -225 betting favorite to become the first fighter to beat Terence Crawford, who is boasting underdog odds of +180 — with sportsbook canada offering fans of betting some of the best odds available as well as all of their favorite prop bets.

And backed by many in the boxing community to hand the unbeaten, Crawford his first professional loss, Errol Spence has claimed Canelo Alvarez’s sheer size advantage over the Nebraska pugilist will lead him to a victory if they eventually fight in the squared circle.

“It could happen, I mean why not?” Spence said. “If (Terence) Crawford wants to challenge himself to be great then let him try to be great you know, so I’m with it. I’ll be going for ‘Bud’ if he fights Canelo (Alvarez), I’ll be going for him. I don’t know if he’s going to 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?” Spence explained. “Canelo went up to 175 and fought Kovalev and fought the other guy [Bivol] too, so if he can do it, and he started at 147, so if he doing then why can’t Crawford do it.”

Without a stoppage since since his penultimate round knockout win over Caleb Plant four years ago prior to his loss to Bivol, Canelo has landed five consecutive unanimous decision wins on the trot.

Prior to his win over Berlanga, Mexican fan-favorite titleholder, Canelo Alvarez turned in successive wins over the quartet of Gennady Golovkin, John Ryder, Jermell Charlo, and compatriot, Jaime Munguia.

Over the course of his similarly gold laden career, Omaha puncher, Crawford has turned in a stunning thirty one career knockout wins, besting the likes of Yuriokis Gamboa, Felix Diaz, Julius Indongo, Jeff Horn, Amir Khan, Kell Brook, Shawn Porter, as wel as Errol Spence Jr. in a spectauclar ninth round TKO win in their much-anticipated pairing.

Targeted to potentially meet in a blockbuster pairing in the summer, Canelo Alvarez’s super fight with Crawford could land in the Middle East — in recent form from Saudi adviser, Turki Alalshikh, who has welcomed massive bouts between Artur Beterbiev and Bivol, as well as a pair of heavyweight title fights between Oleksandr Usyk, and Tyson Fury.