Coach Robert Garcia says that Terenka Crawford will dominate the first half of the fight with the United Champion of the super medium weight Canelo Alvarez, winning “five or six” rounds in September.

Early Crawford Lead?

Robert states that Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KO) will have to force herself to enter the second half of the competition to play catching up and break Crawford (41-0, 31 KO). If Garcia is right with his forecast, Alvarez will be almost impossible. You don’t have an vintage wolf, such as Crawford, an early advantage and you count that you can go back to fight overdue.

With five times or overdue, native from Nebrask will stab, move and connect Canelo to the rest of the fight to win the decision. In other words, Crawford will sit on his lead and thwarted the Mexican star Alvarez like Floyd Mayweather Jr. He referred over him in 2013.

Canelo must force the action early, break holes through Crawford and win rounds based on the landing of more hard shots. Winning rounds requires only three or four tough Alvarez blows, because it strikes much more strongly than his opponents.

We have already seen that Crawford has no power in his last move until August 154 last year. It will be much more noticeable when he moved to 168 after the next year outside the ring, passing with a super medium weight No. 1 in the division. I do not see that this ends well for Crawford, if Alvarez is going to kill early.

“Utilize your skills, accelerate, try to fight outside and he has skills. He is a very talented warrior,” said coach Robert Garcia to KO Artistic sport Asked what Terenka Crawford must do to defeat Canelo Alvarez in their fight in September.

“I think he is [Bud Crawford] He intends to put a few good rounds. Maybe at least five or six rounds. Finally, in later rounds, Canelo will start fishing and smashing him. But I can see Crawford [a good fight].

The second half of the tide

“Crawford, he is a man. He is one of the best fighters in the world. He is very talented and I think he will put a good fight. [Canelo] has to [come on late] Because in the first half I think it will be Crawford’s fight – said Robert.

And 100% I disagree with Robert. Canelo will be a more effective warrior in the early rounds and for the first half will exert pressure on shy, moving rings and vintage crawford. Robert forgets how mighty Alvarez looked like in the first five rounds in his last two fights with the 193-Funting funtar scale of Edgar Berlang and Jaime Munguia in 2024. These two fighters are much younger, larger and more powerful than soon 38-year-old Crawford.

Canelo fell in championship rounds from eight to twelve. This is where he is faded and let his smaller opposition steal rounds, which they would not have otherwise.

“I can also be wrong because Canelo is very talented. Let’s not answer him,” said Robert. “I see that Crawford takes the first few rounds and the first half of the fight, and then Canelo is forced to pressure and try to dominate this way.”

Power factor

If Canelo can continue to force the campaign in the second half, the fight will be a complete mismatch, such as the unilateral victory of Alvarez over the former unquestioned champion of 154 pounds Jermell Charlo, September 30, 2023, Alvarez does not give out the first six rounds against Crawford. Then the Mexican star will be in his strongest, most perilous place of fight.

Even Gennadiy Golovkin did not enter the teeth of Canelo’s crime at the beginning of three fights. He usually stayed outside, stabbing and throwing individual shots. It is not surprising that the judges did not attribute this approach to him, because he did not land in the same kind of neat shots Alvarez and did not risk. Crawford cannot beat Canelo by stabbing and staying outside.

“Knowing that he could be a bit behind, he could be forced to do so. He has strength, he has power, he also has skills to do it. He did it many times,” said Robert.