By: Sean Crose
It’s comprehensible why some, if not most, struggle followers would think about tremendous middleweight/gentle 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 measurement may current a substantial downside for former junior welterweight Crawford. Nonetheless, there are those that know the struggle sport in and out who really feel that Crawford stands a superb likelihood towards 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 heaps 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 received the struggle. 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 Battle 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 think about the person is completed at this level in his lengthy profession. Certain sufficient, Atlas mentioned he felt Canelo had made some optimistic adjustments on his personal when he defeated Edgar Berlanga just a few weeks again.
The reality is {that a} Canelo-Crawford struggle must be an outrageous proposition. As issues stand, in spite of everything, Canelo now fights two, typically three, divisions above the place Crawford fights for the time being. What makes this doable throwdown intriguing, nevertheless, is Crawford, a disciplined, skillful, dynamic fighter who could be the one greatest fighter, pound for pound on earth. Seeing an amazing like Crawford dealing with a dwelling legend comparable to Canelo is horrifying and attractive concurrently – horrifying due to the distinction within the fighter’s pure sizes, attractive as a result of it’s genuinely price questioning if Crawford might pull it off.
