Daniel Jacobs says he bends towards Terenka Crawford, winning on September 13 against Canelo Alvarez because of Crawford’s skills. The former two-time medium scale champion Jacobs believes that Crawford (41-0, 31 KO) has an advantage against the undisputed Master of a super medium weight Canelo (63-2, 39 KO) in the offensive statistics department.
The only thing Jacobs asks is whether Crawford can ponderous down Canelo with his power, because if he can’t, he will go down to relieve his larger shots all night. Crawford couldn’t do this by moving to 154 in his last fight a year ago against Israil Madrimov.
His power did not move from 147 and took many blows than a stronger Madrimov and was lucky that he won. Many fans thought Crawford lost. I watched it and I had Madrimov in 9-3.
Comparison of Bivol Wadli
“The biggest difference between Bivol and Crawford is the difference in size and power. Although Bivol was the best boxer, he was still able to stop him with pure power and strength,” said Daniel Jacobs Fight Hub tvSpeaking of the last opponent of Canelo Alvarez, he lost to Dmitry Bivol, in 2022.
Jacobs forgets to mention the age of Bivol compared to Crawford. Bivol was 31 years aged, when Canelo lost to him in 2022. However, Crawford would be 38 years aged in September, he is much older, smaller and was less dynamic in his career than Bivol, when he fought Canelo three years ago.
Jacobs makes a strange comparison, remembering Bivol and Crawford, because they are completely different in terms of age, size, power and activity. This is a useless comparison.
“With Crawford Canelo would be hard to get around his skills, but it would not be hard for him to endure pain. [for Canelo]”If you can’t hurt me, I’ll still be ahead.”
I don’t think it’s hard for Canelo. What will be hard is for the Mexican star to catch up with Terence, because he will be on his bike, as if he fought Israil Madrimov.
Crawford’s defense strategy
He will circulate around the ring, trying to win with a stab, throwing individual arrows and tied Canelo when he tries to get closer. This is what we saw from Crawford against Madrimov in August last year. It looked like Shakur, but with a lot of mixed sticking. Bud cannot stand and fight with Canelo, because the difference in power is too significant.
Initially, he will try to fight Alvarez, but when it is hit, he will start to move a lot. Turks Alalshikh will probably regret using Crawford as an opponent of Canelo, because he is not involved enough to be a fun match for fans watching Netflix.
Many random fans will turn off the fight and start watching movies on this platform. It was a bad idea for Turk to utilize Crawford instead of one of the younger, larger, more fun fighters, such as David Benavidez, David Morrell or Oslyys Iglesias.
Canelo’s way of thinking against Crawford
“So, if Canelo can adapt to this way of thinking and make arrows, because he will cast. If you look at statistics in terms of landing, Crawford leads. I would bend more towards Crawford because of his skills,” said Jacobs.
Crawford is weaker, slower, smaller, older and less mobile than Canelo’s last opponent, former super middle champion IBF William Scull. Crawford looked much weaker and slower than Scull in his last fight with Israil Madrimov 11 months ago in August 2024.
Departing from Omah, Nebraska Terenca will be a year older when he will face Canelo, and he will not be stronger or faster than he showed, which many considered a loss for Madrimov. When you look at the combined things that Buda has against him, you can’t win it to win, because this is not a division of 147 pounds. He is getting aged too.
The impact of free time
What Crawford was in 2023, when he defeated the catastrophe of Errola Spence car, this person no longer exists. He is getting aged and did not assist himself, taking year breaks and leaving the extended laps of victory. It seems that he is five years aged since his best victory in his career with faded Spence.
It’s stupid that Crawford did, taking so much free time, but it gives you the ethics of work and how he likes to heat in the glow of his victories. But he will catch it so much that he doesn’t want to go back to work.
Terence Crawford faced and defeated 42 different opponents during a 17-year career, but super-middleweight icon Carl Froch believes that there is one welterweight who would have put an end to Crawford’s unbeaten streak if they were to meet in their primes.
Crawford became the first post-war boxer to claim the undisputed title in three separate weight divisions last September; a run which began as a super-lightweight in 2015 by defeating Thomas Dulorme, then unifying against Viktor Postol before halting Julius Indongo in an undisputed title showdown.
‘Bud’ then moved on to the welterweight scene and knocked out Jeff Horn to capture the WBO world title on his 147lb debut, making five defences of the title before colliding with fierce rival and three-belt unified titleholder, Errol Spence Jr, in 2023.
In a unforgettable fight, Crawford brutally beat Spence down in an authoritative ninth-round stoppage win to capture the undisputed welterweight throne. Talk then turned to an unprecedented three-weight move up to super-middleweight to take on Canelo Alvarez.
After stopping off at super-welterweight to dethrone Israil Madrimov on his way up, Crawford debuted at super-middleweight in a challenge for Canelo’s undisputed crown and outboxed the Mexican superstar in an iconic win last year, hanging up the gloves three months later.
Despite those legendary achievements, Froch picked Floyd Mayweather Jr to come out on top in a potential fantasy fight against the Omaha southpaw, in an episode of ‘Froch on Fighting’.
Mayweather’s achievements speak for themselves, retiring with a perfect 50-0 unbeaten record after claiming world honours in five divisions, with his most impressive reign coming at 147lbs, where he defeated the likes of Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley.
Mayweather has been rumoured to make a comeback, but while there would be huge finances that would be on offer, Crawford has revealed that he would have no interest in ending his retirement for a bout with ‘TBE’, believing that the 49-year-old is ‘old’ and ‘done’.
Terence Crawford has been hailed by many as the best fighter of this generation following his retirement, and now WBC welterweight title hopeful Conor Benn has shared how he thinks ‘Bud’ would have fared against six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya.
Crawford became boxing’s sixth five-division world champion with an iconic win over Canelo Alvarez back in September; joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in that elite and exclusive club reserved only for legends of the sport.
Of that group, only De La Hoya and Pacquiao have gone on to conquer a sixth division, with De La Hoya’s 2004 WBO middleweight world title win over Felix Sturm seeing the Californian become the first boxer to ever become a sextuple champion.
Crawford could have joined ‘’The Golden Boy’ and ‘Pac-Man’ in achieving that feat, having been offered a middleweight world title shot during the aftermath of his triumph over Canelo late last year – a proposal which later fell apart due to a failed doping test by Janibek Alimkhanuly.
Continuing the praise that the Omaha-born southpaw has received since announcing his retirement last December, Benn told Daily Mail Boxing that he would favour the undefeated star to get the better of De La Hoya, if they were to meet in their primes.
Benn also went on to predict that Crawford would retain his unbeaten streak against other greats of the game, picking him to come out on top against each of Mayweather, Julio Cesar Chavez, Pernell Whitaker and Roberto Duran.
Top trainer and former world champion Robert Garcia has considered the outcome of a fantasy showdown between Terence Crawford and Manny Pacquiao.
The two generational greats reportedly came close to squaring off in 2021, back when Crawford was the WBO welterweight champion and ‘Pac Man’ held the WBA title.
Their unification match never materialised, though, as Pacquiao was scheduled to face Errol Spence Jr before ‘The Truth’ pulled out with a torn retina.
Instead, the Filipino legend ended up losing his WBA title to Yordenis Ugas at a stage when, while still serviceable, he was quite clearly past his best.
Crawford, meanwhile, was hitting top form around this time, just a few fights away from producing arguably a career-best performance against Spence.
He did, of course, manage to stop his welterweight rival in nine rounds, before moving up to 168lbs and becoming a three-division undisputed champion by dethroning Canelo Alvarez last September.
Based on those two performances, coach Garcia has told ESNEWS that he would favour ‘Bud’ to defeat even a prime version of Pacquiao.
“The Crawford that beat Spence – and the Crawford that beat Canelo – would probably beat Manny.”
While Crawford’s prime almost certainly came during his run of eight stoppages at welterweight, it is harder to pinpoint when Pacquiao ultimately reached his peak.
In terms of his most destructive performance at world level, however, many will point towards his second-round finish over Ricky Hatton in 2009.
While facing the ‘Hitman’ at 140lbs, Pacquiao would cement himself as a formidable welterweight champion soon after, dethroning Miguel Cotto with a 12th-round stoppage for the WBO title.
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