By: Sean Crose
It’s comprehensible why some, if not most, combat followers would think about tremendous middleweight/mild heavyweight Canelo Alvarez to be a bridge too far for junior middleweight Terence Crawford. 100 sixty eight kilos is kind of a weight benefit to carry over a 100 fifty 4 pound fighter. Even at a catchweight it’s clear that Canelo’s dimension would possibly current a substantial drawback for former junior welterweight Crawford. Nonetheless, there are those that know the combat sport in and out who really feel that Crawford stands a great probability in opposition to Canelo if the 2 males ought to meet within the close to future.
If famed coach Teddy Atlas has something to say about it (and Atlas all the time has tons to say), Crawford shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. Though the fighter generally known as “Bud” didn’t cease Israil Madrimov in his junior middleweight debut, he nonetheless gained the combat. What’s extra, Atlas feels it was a studying expertise for the multi-division champion.
“Don’t go and consider it’s going to be the identical Crawford,” Atlas informed Combat Hub, “when he steps as much as one sixty eight if that occurs. That is going to be a greater armed Crawford, even higher than he’s been. That is going to be a Crawford that’s now armed with that info, now armed with extra confidence, now armed with the issues that he wants in his thoughts so as to add one other pelt to his assortment, so as to add one other belt, one other title, so as to add to the already nice assortment that he has.”
Does that imply Atlas feels Crawford will beat Canelo? In fact not. Earlier within the interview, Atlas spoke glowingly of Canelo and indicated it’s silly to contemplate the person is completed at this level in his lengthy profession. Positive sufficient, Atlas stated he felt Canelo had made some constructive modifications on his personal when he defeated Edgar Berlanga just a few weeks again.
The reality is {that a} Canelo-Crawford combat ought to be an outrageous proposition. As issues stand, in any case, Canelo now fights two, generally three, divisions above the place Crawford fights for the time being. What makes this potential throwdown intriguing, nonetheless, is Crawford, a disciplined, skillful, dynamic fighter who might be the only finest fighter, pound for pound on earth. Seeing a fantastic like Crawford dealing with a dwelling legend reminiscent of Canelo is horrifying and engaging concurrently – horrifying due to the distinction within the fighter’s pure sizes, engaging as a result of it’s genuinely price questioning if Crawford might pull it off.
