If Terence “Bud” Crawford wants to make his case as the greatest non-heavyweight in the history of boxing, he gave himself a helluva Exhibit A late Saturday night in Vegas: Crawford took Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s soul while earning a unanimous decision win that gave him all of his title belts, too. Crawford remains undefeated and now holds the undisputed super middleweight championship, the only guy in the sport’s so-called “four belt era” to have ever so dominated three separate weight classes.
But after the hyper-anticipated showdown, fought before a packed stadium and a huge semi-non pay-per-view TV audience, comes a hangover for fight fans. Crawford, Canelo, and, hell, all of boxing face the same huge dilemma: What do we do now?