Andre Ward says people used “Confusion campaign” try and “bury” Terenka Crawford, leading to his title fight against the undisputed master of super medium weight Canelo Alvarez on Saturday evening in Las Vegas.
Ward states it “They” Crawford said (42-0, 31 KO) was not a draw and could not speak. He did not mention that fans believe that Crawford has no charisma, tedious style of fighting, rarely fights and has a minimal presence in social media.
Did Crawford change his mind?
It is doubtful whether Crawford changed his perception by fans after the last Saturday, because his performance against Canelo (63-3-2, 39 KO) was a low level. He was constantly moving, rarely engaging and did not stand in the trenches to fight.
Turki Alalshikh said at the last press conference: “I want to see blood, shattered faces and broken bones.” How could we see something with Crawford running around the entire creation last Saturday?
Emotional defense of Ward on Crawford
“They tried to bury Terenca Crawford to say that he It was not a draw when the numbers were there so that you can see. It was a swab campaign with his personality. “He doesn’t say. Nobody wants to hear him. No, you don’t want to hear him,” Andre Ward said emotionally All smoke Channel, working on the victory of Terenka Crawford on Canelo Alvarez.
Crawford was not a great draw, and the numbers reflect. Before the fight with Canelo last Saturday, the only time Terenka attracted enormous crowds, was that he fought Errol Spence and when he fought at home in Omaha, Nebraska.
Crawford turnout
Israil Madrimov [2024]: Attendance numbers not announced at the BMO stadium in Los Angeles. However, there are reports of 4,000 tickets.
Jeff Horn [2018]: 8112 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas
Jose Benavidez Jr. [2018]: 13 323 at the Chi Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
Egidijus Kavaliauskas [2019]: 10 101 at Madison Square Garden in Modern York. The capacity of boxing events at MSG is 20 789.
You need a stream [2020]: No crowd because of the fight during Covid.
Shawn Porter (2021): 11 568 at Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas.
Errol Spence Jr. (2023): 19 900 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
“I don’t hear the swab campaign now. He said,” Give me my chance. I will show you, “and he did it again against Canelo,” Ward said.
The reality of his career
What does Ward talk about? Crawford makes his shots in titles all the time. How did Crawford become a world champion with four divisions before fighting Canelo, if there is no chance to fight? The only time Crawford had to wait for the chance to fight for the title of world champion was that he tried to control Errol Spence.
When Crawford first moved to a welterweight, he received an immediate title against Master WBO Jeff Horn on June 9, 2018. Crawford did not have to wait and was not blocked. It was his first battle in the division. Marking that Crawford sounds, as if the victim does not find the reality of his situation. From the very beginning he was treated like gold.
The reality is that Terenki did not deserve the title shot against Canelo for the unquestionable medium championship, because he never fought in the weight class.
Questioning justice of the fight
Turki Alalshikh made the fight to take place with money, but it was completely undisputed and unfair to pretenders, such as Christian Mbilli and Lester Martinez, that Crawford would receive a green airy to move two classes of weight, pack over them to get a straightforward title.
I do not think that Crawford would ever be able to physically get the title shot if he had to defeat Mbilla, Martinez or Oslyys Iglesias to face Canelo for four lanes at the age of 168. In my opinion, the run that Buda against Canelo would not be acting against these three participants. They would get to Crawford and show what would happen when you jump two classes at 38.
The fight should not sanction as a professional competition. It was a fight of a trick similar to the exhibition that mocked this sport.
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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.
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.
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