LAS VEGAS -- Terence "Bud" Crawford reached boxing immortality with a dominant victory by unanimous decision over the sport's biggest star, Mexico's Canelo Alvarez, on Saturday.
By winning the undisputed super middleweight world championship, Crawford is the first undisputed three-division champion in boxing's modern history.
Crawford's master class came before a sold-out, highly partisan Mexican Independence Day weekend crowd of 70,482 fans, which was the largest crowd ever assembled for an event at Allegiant Stadium. The bout also was streamed live on Netflix.
The judges' scorecards read 116-112, 115-113, 115-113.
After both fighters spent the first round feeling each other out with minimal activity, Crawford (now 42-0, 31 KOs) established a narrow advantage in the second and third r