Amir Khan says Terence Crawford can harm Canelo Alvarez along with his energy, and his ring IQ provides him an opportunity of beating the Mexican star on September thirteenth after they meet for his or her mega-fight.
Khan respects Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) to be transferring up two divisions to problem Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) for his WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight titles at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. It’s courageous on Crawford’s half to take that type of threat at his age.
The one query is, does Crawford have the chin to take what Canelo is dispensing for 12 rounds? Canelo has the one-punch energy that may injury Crawford when he lands, and he’ll join sooner or later. It’s simply how Crawford will react. Will he go down for the depend, take the photographs, and combat again, or run as Jermell Charlo did?
Crawford’s IQ: A Key Issue?
“He’s among the finest fighters on the planet. Going up two divisions is one thing I did after I was on the peak of my profession after beating Devon Alexander and all the massive names,” stated Amir Khan to Ring Journal’s YouTube channel about Terence Crawford transferring up from 154 to problem Canelo Alvarez for his unified tremendous middleweight titles.
“So, I want him [Crawford] all the perfect, and I believe he can do it. One factor about Terence Crawford is he has an excellent boxing IQ. His IQ is so good that he’ll see every part. You want every part within the recreation, from the ring IQ to you want motion, you want energy, and velocity.
“Crawford does hit exhausting. Lots of people don’t give Crawford the credit score for the punch energy he has. Crawford does hit exhausting. I’ve been within the ring with him, and he was hitting me exhausting,” stated Khan.
Chin Test
The issue with Crawford is that he must land many photographs to attain knockouts. We noticed that in his ninth-round knockout victory over Errol Spence. For Crawford to be able to attach with that many punches in opposition to Canelo, he’s going to need to eat some photographs that he’s by no means taken earlier than.
It wouldn’t be good for a 40-ish fighter to be taking these sorts of photographs. Terence turns 38 on September 28, and he doesn’t should be getting nailed by a still-strong Canelo. The Mexican star has misplaced loads from his recreation on account of his lengthy profession, however his energy continues to be pretty much as good because it was throughout his first two fights with Gennadiy Golovkin.
“Clearly, the extra highly effective fighter between the 2 goes to be Canelo, however Crawford has sufficient energy to harm Canelo and push him again and present him that he’s proper in entrance of him as a problem,” stated Khan.
