LAS VEGAS – Terence Crawford can’t say he hasn’t been hurt in a fight.

Crawford can’t understand, though, why detractors doubt that he has the chin required to withstand Canelo Alvarez’s power Saturday night at Allegiant Stadium. The former undisputed welterweight and junior welterweight champion reminded those that expect Alvarez to knock him out that he hasn’t been dropped in any of his 41 professional fights.

“Hey listen, I ain’t never been down yet,” Crawford told a group of reporters Tuesday night after his “grand arrival” at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. “They can question it all they want. Have I been hurt? Yes, I have. Have he been hurt? Yes. You know, it is what it is. Let’s figure it out.”

The two most memorable moments of opponents hurting Crawford came in fights against Yuriorkis Gamboa and Egidijus Kavaliauskas. Crawford came back strong and won both of those bouts by ninth-round technical knockout.

Gamboa buzzed Crawford with a right hand that made him stumble 42 seconds into the ninth round of their WBO lightweight title fight in June 2014 in Omaha, Nebraska, Crawford’s hometown.

Crawford recovered quickly, dropped Gamboa twice more in the ninth round and their bout was stopped with nine seconds remaining in it. Cuba’s Gamboa went down four times overall in that fight.

The four-division champion wasn’t noticeably hurt again until 5½ years later against Kavaliauskas. The hard-hitting Lithuanian contender caught Crawford with a punch that many contend caused what should stand as the only knockdown of Crawford’s 17-year pro career.

Kavaliauskas’ straight right hand with 1:35 to go in the third round of their WBO welterweight title fight made Crawford lean forward and grab his opponent by the waist. Crawford’s left knee touched the canvas two seconds later, but referee Ricky Gonzalez ruled that Crawford didn’t go down as a result of Kavaliauskas’ punch.

Like the Gamboa bout, Crawford seemed angered and motivated by what happened in the third round versus Kavaliauskas. He dropped his hard-hitting opponent once in the seventh round and twice in the ninth, when their fight was stopped in December 2019 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

“I was not hurt,” Crawford said during his post-fight press conference that night. “I did not fall from a punch.”

Alvarez, meanwhile, hasn’t been badly hurt by a punch since Jose Cotto’s left hook rocked him in the first round 15 years ago. The ropes helped keep Alvarez from going down, which could’ve counted as what would remain the only knockdown of his 19-year pro career.

Referee Tony Weeks instead allowed the action to continue. Alvarez recovered soon thereafter and regained control of a junior middleweight match he mostly dominated before stopping Cotto in the ninth round in May 2010 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Mexico’s Alvarez was just 19 at that time. He fought for the first time in the United States as well against the older brother of Puerto Rican legend Miguel Cotto, whom Alvarez also beat five years later.

In subsequent bouts, Alvarez took the punches of powerful former middleweight champ Gennadiy Golovkin, former light heavyweight champ Sergey Kovalev, undisputed light heavyweight champ Dmitry Bivol and other strong fighters without being badly hurt.

Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) moved up two weight classes to challenge Alvarez (63-2-2, 39 KOs) for his Ring, IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO 168-pound championships.

Crawford, 37, has boxed above the welterweight limit of 147 pounds only once. Alvarez, 35, has competed exclusively in the super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions for the past six years.

Netflix will stream Alvarez-Crawford and three undercard bouts to a subscribership that exceeds 300 million worldwide. Coverage on Netflix will begin at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT).