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Crawford needs KO to defeat Canelo: Sanchez

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1 year ago

May 23, 2025

Image: Terence Crawford Believes Skill Set Will Be Deciding Factor In His Bout With Canelo

Coach Abel Sanchez says that Terence Crawford must win Canelo Alvarez. He can’t see that this is happening because the resistance to Canelo’s impact will be too good. Sanchez notes that Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KO) fought with larger guys with power and dominated them.

Crawford enters this fight without experience in Super Middle Libra, which he could do something about. Terenca fans say he decided not to move to 168 because he wanted to focus on joining.

Fears of physicality

“I think he is a great warrior, but also Bob Foster. He moves against a guy who has never been injured except for hitting Jose Cotto,” said coach Abel Sanchez. KO Artist SportSpeaking about the fact that Terenka Crawford is too petite and delicate to move two divisions to defeat Canelo Alvarez in Super Middle Libra.

Foster is a former heavyweight champion who moved to heavyweight in the early seventies and was knocked out by Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. He just wasn’t massive enough or forceful enough to jump successfully. Sanchez sees Crawford on the same boat. It will not be gigantic enough to deal with the size and strength of Canelo.

“He got up and fought with one of the best strokes in larger divisions and controlled them. This is a hard task for Teupers. He will have to stop. It’s a 12-round fight. [Crawford] He can’t be on his bike all night – said Abel. “If he wants to win the fight and wants to be considered as he tried, he will have to stop.”

Sanchez does not mention that Crawford will really have to dominate to win the decision because Canelo will be heavily hit. The judges will get it for Canelo, even if he is doomed to weaker shots of Crawford. They will focus on which of them lands more hard, cleaner shots, and it will be Canelo. For Crawford to win, he will have to stay in his pocket and overtake Canelo.

Canelo Abla theory

“I think this is a plan for every Canelo fight since Bivol’s fight. After four, five, six rounds it is a sparring match. It makes guys easier. He doesn’t want to throw some of them.” He defeated on some, he doesn’t beat others. But he controlled every fight after the fight for Bivol. It was a match in the sixth round. Abel said.

It looked more that Canelo got tired after the first four or five rounds in the last three fights, and not a situation in which “sparring”. In his fight with William Scull, a few quick shots were hit by a Cuban and he seemed to decide that he did not want to risk. Canelo also looked tired and was unable to fight at a faster pace needed to eliminate him.

Last updated 23.05.2025

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Robert Garcia Analyzes Tim Tszyus Odds Against Erislandy Lara | Boxing News

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2 hours ago

November 7, 2026

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"Robert Garcia Analyzes Tim Tszyu's Odds Against Erislandy Lara | Boxing News"

Tim Tszyu seeks to become Australia’s third multi-divisional boxing world champion when he competes for Erislandy Lara’s WBA middleweight title next month, and ahead of the action, trainer Robert Garcia has offered his thoughts on the fight.

Tszyu lost his WBO super-welterweight title in a defeat to Sebastian Fundora back in 2024 and twice failed to reclaim 154lb honours, both against Bakhram Murtazaliev and in a rematch with Fundora.

Since then, the Aussie has stepped up to middleweight and scored a career-best win over Errol Spence Jr earlier this yearand now, the 32-year-old could join lead trainer Jeff Fenech and Liam Paro as his nation’s third two-weight world champion, if he can trump 43-year-old.

Speaking with ProBox TVRobert Garcia, who trains a potential future Tszyu opponent in Vergil Ortiz, admitted that he is leaning towards the home fighter, but noted that Lara will not be phased by competing in the challenger’s backyard.

“We can probably lean towards Tim Tsyzu because he is fighting at home, in front of his hometown, but Lara is not the fighter that brings in a lot of fans following him.

“He doesn’t have a following, he is not one that is going to sell out arenas, so even if it is in the United States, it is likely that most of the people are going to be [there] for Tim Tszyu because Australians do travel and Tim Tszyu has a lot of fans.

“For Lara, going to Australia is like going to Las Vegas or going to New York because he never has that following anyways. Anywhere he goes, he is going to be against the crowd. So, I think for him it is going to be one of those performances where it doesn’t make a difference if he is going to Tim Tsyzu’s hometown.”

Tszyu-Lara takes place at the Cbus Super Stadium in Queensland, Australia on Sunday 13 December.

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Malik Scott Predicts Knockout Victory for Jai Opetaia in Upcoming Fight

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November 7, 2026

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"Malik Scott Predicts Knockout Victory for Jai Opetaia in Upcoming Fight"

Deontay Wilder’s former head coach Malik Scott has delivered a knockout prediction for the American’s upcoming showdown with Jai Opetaia.

The pair will square off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on December 11, with Opetaia making his heavyweight debut on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua.

Despite him being the naturally smaller man, many are favouring the Australian – a former two-time world cruiserweight champion – to defeat his 10-years-older opponent.

It is, after all, generally accepted that Wilder has declined significantly since his trilogy bout with Furywho survived two knockdowns and scored an 11th-round knockout in their 2021 encounter.

Back then, Wilder had just joined forces with Scott, his former opponent, and the pair maintained their fighter-trainer relationship through subsequent defeats against Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang.

With Wilder now operating under different coaches, though, Scott has shared a balanced view of the Opetaia fight with Seconds Out.

“The fight’s got dynamite written all over it. Jai Opetaia is very dangerous, but he’s a smaller man that’s been hurt by smaller men than Deontay, slower men than Deontay.

“I’ve never seen Opetaia get hit by nobody like Deontay; I’ve seen Deontay get hit by bigger punchers than Opetaia. [But] one thing we can expect in this fight is a knockout.

“The name of the fight is ‘bad intentions’ – at least that’s what I’m calling it, because that’s what they share in common. What they share in common is mentality – they both are trying to hurt you.”

While he stopped short of predicting a winner, it is perhaps telling that Scott, despite his relationship with Wilder, has not explicitly favoured him to win by knockout.