THE W.A.D.E. Concept - WEEK IN REVIEW - Canelo Vs Crawford FIGHT WEEK... - The Herd with Colin Cowherd

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Folks, I am in Las Vegas Viva Las Vegas, Nevada four,
the fight of the year and potentially one of the
biggest fights boxing can make.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
In Canelo Versus Crawford.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome back to the Way concept presented by The Ring Magazine,
and today I want to start a two part series
that you guys will see today and tomorrow outlining how
each fighter wins this mega fight. Because, as you've seen
everywhere as the talk has been leading up to this,
most people consider this a fifty to fifty fight, meaning
both fighters can win this thing, and it may come

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down to just one or two very small differences. But
all week you're going to hear different opinions from boxing
analysts and fighters and everybody else.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
And that's what makes this fight so special.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Everyone will be talking about it and speaking of talking
about it before we get into the video.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
This week, I'll be doing a live show at Radio
Row for this fight. I've never done that.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's been one of my dreams to do a Radio
Row live show for any sort of sport, and having
it in boxing for my first one is going to
be amazing. I don't really know too much of what's
gonna go down, it's just kind of come across my schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
But I know I'm gonna be live Thursday and Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't know the times yet, I don't know the
guests yet, but tune in right here on this channel
because if it's anything like I imagine it, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Gonna be something you don't want to miss.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
But today's video is why Canelo Alvarez beats Terrence Crawford. Again,
I'm gonna do one for Terrence, So before the comments
go crazy, just hold on.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
There'll be another one tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
But today we're talking Ganello Alvarez and why he wins.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
The breakdown. Let's go number one.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yes, Canelo is the bigger fighter, and what do I
mean by that? He is more experienced at one hundred
and sixty eight pounds, meaning he has fought at.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
The higher weight class for far longer.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
He has fought some of the biggest names and the
most experienced guys at this weight class one sixty and
one seventy five.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
In this era.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
He has a more natural aptitude for one sixty eight
when it comes to his frame, right, look at Canelo
and look at Terrence Crawford. Canelo is more of a
stockier shorter, dense, thick boy. However you want to go
about it. He's more broad in his shoulders. He carries
the weight. It feels like better at one sixty eight. Today,
they had their first face off at the Bellagio and

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the fountains were going off.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
By the way.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
They were on a floating pedestal. I don't know how
that happened. It was Dana, it was Turkeyela Shake, it
was Canelo, it was Crawford on some sort of floating platform.
How did they get out there remains to be seen.
But you look at that face off and you see
Canelo and Terrence are not different in height. Like Terrence
might be the taller, I think he is the longer.
I think he has like a three and a half
inch reach fighter than Canelo is, And that'll be a

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factor when we talk about his video tomorrow. But the
point is Canelo just more dance, more solid and fills
into the way a little better.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
That is a clear benefit to Canelo, and I want
you guys to understand why he has felt the punches
of Covilev, He's felt the punches of Triple G, He's
felt the punches of Dmitri Bivol, who's not a massive
power puncher, but he still hit Canelo with a lot
of shit at one hundred and seventy five pounds. He
has felt and not been at any point really hurt
by those power.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Punchers and even boxers.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
He's found a way to maneuver past them and end
up either hurting them winning you know, decisions that are
clearly one sided, or stopping them. That has been Canelo's
bread and butter. When he's made this move to one
sixty eight and one seventy five and again, I said,
we're going to be nuanced, and we are. But one
of Canelo's strengths is his strength.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
It is his power.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Even when Canelo was a young lad, a young Canelito
aka Cinnamon, growing up in Mexico. You're Eddie Renozo at
A Renoso's father who trained Canelo first, talk about how.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
He was a big kid for his age.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
He was muscled up at thirteen fourteen when he started
boxing in the gyms of Guadalajara. He was knocking out
grown men by the age of fifteen sixteen, and I
know Terrence Crawford was doing the same over in Omaha, Nebraska.
My point is Canelos always carried some power, carried some strength,
carried some devastation in.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
His hands, and that's gone up with him.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
And I know that people have questioned that because who
really carries that kind of power going up?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
But Canelo's been able to do it.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
You know, people like Manny Pakiao have been able to
do Usually you go up and when you go up
and wait, your skill carries the bill. And Canelo has skill,
and many Pakio had skill, but there's still that nasty,
nasty power in his hands. And one of the things
that we have seen is that Canelo, regardless of he's
being outboxed maybe early in fights, or regardless of people
have landed on him. Look at the Caleb Plant fight,

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look at the Billy Jo Saunders fight. Again not saying
they're the same talent level, but he has found the
button at many points of those fights, even if he's
quote unquote being out boxed, he has found the button.
The one place that maybe didn't work as well or
two places I would say where obviously Floyd Mayweather to
meet your bioble in the Triple G fight, because Triple
G was just made out of iron, just like Canelo
is right, But usually that power carries him through. So

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one of his strengths is when he downloads, when he
does dissect, when he does find the opening, he's able
to capitalize in a big way. And all that boxing
you did rounds one to six, it may have you
up on the scorecards, but it leaves you vulnerable from
round seven twelve because Canelo's hitting arms, and he's hitting shoulders,
and he's hitting ribs, and those arms are getting heavier

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and they're falling down, and all of a sudden, here
comes a chopping overhand. And it's funny, I said overhand
at the end of that sentence. It's not even meaning to,
but it segues to our next point. I think there
are some holes in Terrence Crawford's defense that Canelo can
take advantage of and capitalize on with an overhand. Now
let's talk about what I mean here. Number One, Terrence
Crawford is probably the best skilled brawler in boxing. And

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I don't mean that disrespectfully. I mean he'll get in
a dog fight with you. This isn't gonna be Canelo
Williams Skull. This isn't gonna be even Canelo Floyd Mayweather,
which was a defensive to offensive masterclass from Floyd right
walking Canelo into things and countering but not being there
to be hit. Bud Crawford will be there to be
hit in this fight, and I don't think he's gonna
do a lot of going backward. I wouldn't advise him

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to do a lot of going backward. To hear Bo
Mack talk, that doesn't seem like that's their game plan.
And tomorrow I'll talk about who I think they're gonna
try to emulate to get the best of Canelo. But
one of the greatest and most highly touted things about
Bud Crawford is the fact that he's a switch hitter. Right,
we talk about him being one of the best switch
hitters ever. Now, in reality, Bud Crawford is more of
a southpaw fighter than he is an orthodox fighter. He

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really only goes orthodox if he's looking for that kill
shot or if his backhand kind of leads him into
the orthodox spot out of southpaw. But usually he stays
left handed, and it's because I think he's better defensively
and offensively with his left hand. I do think he
is more comfortable countering with his left hand. I do
feel like When he's an Orthodox, it's mostly just offense

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and it gets him into trouble sometimes. But I think
for this fight he will be southpaw, but out of
either stance. One of the things that gives Bud problems
is an overhand right and it's usually because of what
I talked about a second ago. He is a skilled brawler,
one of the most skilled brawlers ever. He will sit
in the pocket and look the throw volume and in
the midst of that sometimes not on a lot of

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occasions and very rarely, but sometimes he can be hit,
and when he is hit, it lands flush. Just take
a look at the tape. If you don't believe me,
think you look at that right hand. And this is
again Bud out of southpaw, and this is the point
where it always happens. Watch again, as here comes the
jab and Bud wants to trigger that check hook over

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the top. This is one of his greatest attacks and
it sets up the left hand behind. But in an
orthodox southpawd matchup, you're gonna see a battle of the
backhands right, because what's an orthodox killer in a southpaw
stands it's the straight left hand right, that's the straight
left hand straight down the pipe. It's tough for right
handers to see because they're used to your lead hand
leading the action and then the backhand. You go backhand

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first and again head off the center line.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Bang.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's tough for right handers to see, and they're usually
trying to parry and catch the jab first and then
the backhand. So if they missed that backhand, here comes
the overhand. There's just a lot of it's backwards for
Orthodox fighters to see. But also southpaws are used to
usually seeing Orthodox fighters. But just like the left hand
as an Orthodox killer, the right hand without the jab

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or right behind it is.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
The southpaw killer.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
So watch right here.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
You see the jab to kind of post boom overhand. Right.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Bud's gotten caught trying to check hook again and he
gets the right hand dropped up. Doesn't hurt him too bad,
no big deal.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
But the point was that it landed, and it landed
pretty flush right there.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
And notice in all these clips, this is Bud being offensive.
This is Bud on his front foot. This is Bud
looking to walk down his opponent. Honestly, I think they're
gonna try to do this to Canelo, and it remains
to be seeing how well that's gonna work for him. Again,
there are some things that I think he can do
to capitalize, and we'll talk about that tomorrow. But this
is why I don't I say, I don't see Bud

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looking to go backward much in this. Whether it's gonna
work or not, I'm not sure, but I expect him
to try to maintain position or move forward. And again
you see it here overhand. Look at the extension from
Bud trying to lean away from the shot, thinking probably
it's gonna be a straight right hand off the jab,
but it's a faint jab, big overhand over the top.

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Now here's Sean Porter who comes in with a gazelle
hook right, tries to get to range with it and
looks for a right hand, and then they break. Here
comes another overhand where Bud, instead of taking that backstep
to reset, wants to come back with.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
His check right hook. Again here right, this is the clinch.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Instead of trying to reset, he's coming back left hand
right hook, uppercut or maybe body shot with the left hand.
Here comes the right hand across, but here comes the
overhand from Porter.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Boom.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
He traded in that moment and he lost the overhand
right got there first. Every time Bud wants to come
back with something, whether you've hit him or not, if
he's in the pocket, it's boom boom or it's boom boom,
And sometimes he can lose that timing battle, and when
he does, he gets hit with big shots.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
And again here's gamboa.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Now this one is out of Orthodox position, and this
is probably the most hurt I've ever seen Bud.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
He was tuning up gamboa.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Here he was styling on.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Him a little bit.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
He got a little confident, hands came down and he
eats another right hand. Though out of Orthodox boom on
the button tagged him with the right hand, because even
out of Orthodox and Southpop, Bud will still utilize that
same combination right.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
He'll still look to.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Go boom boom or boom boom. It's the same thing.
He's just switched stands. So again, the vulnerability to the
overhand right is definitely something that if you are a
Bud Crawford fan, you don't want to see the canelo
land on him, because when canelo lands overhand rights and
I'm gonna show you a clip of triple G but
watch how he chops that through the guard and drops Charlow,

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who was at the time.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
The one hundred and fifty four on disputed chains.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
So let's watch Canelo now as he chops this right
hand on triple G.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Watch how he sets it up right.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Jab up top, double jab, level change, boom behind it,
walking triple G down with that double jab, right boom,
cover the eyes, faint rip roo. That is what I
call a massive exploit in Terrence Crawford's defense.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
I know he is a great counterpuncher.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
I know that he uses his angles and he slides
off and he gets his head off center, and he's
able to counter with big time volume and big time
power at one hundred and forty at one hundred and
forty seven. But even when you watch this Madrimov fight,
and i'll play it here, Madromov over with the right boom,
if you stand in front of Canelo, not to say

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he's gonna do a ton of that, but if you
stand in front of Canelo and look to trade with him,
that's not gonna be a.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Great night for Crawford if he does that.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
And I expect them to be very aggressive offensively because
you kind of have to be one. I think there's
a bit of pride in Terrence Crawford not wanting to
be walked down by Canelo, not wanting to be on
the back foot, not wanting to be the defensive fighter,
whereas a guy like Floyd Mayweather didn't really care about that.
He was gonna box very slick, he was gonna catch
Canelo lean and l It was also twenty three at
the time, bit of a baby. But the point is

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Terrence is not. He doesn't fight the same way Floyd does,
and I don't expect him to. I expect him to
fight more like Demitri Bivol Triple G in some of
those cases where he wants to bring the action. The
problem is, I don't know that he has the chin
of Triple G, and I know he's not anywhere close
to just the size and frame of Demitrir Bivil, who,
by the way, said that Canelo hits harder and throws

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harder than.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Someone even like Archer better be it.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
So when I look at this fight, I could see
Terrence Crawford being the more skilled guy. I can see
Terrence Crawford landing more punches. In fact, I almost want
to predict that that will happen. When we look at
the final stats of this thing. If it goes the distance,
I think it's going to be a super close fight.
But if it doesn't and Canelo is able to stop
Terrence Crawford, We're gonna look at this and go damn.
Terrence was having such good rounds almost again like the

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Billy Joe Saunders fight. He was having such good round
until he didn't right until the right hand comes through.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
And I really think that's gonna be the difference.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Maker if Terrence wants to stay in the pocket and
look for multiple counters, which I think he should, because
when Terrence plays that risky game that I think he
has to play in this fight, and I think it's
just the reality of the fight. He has to be risky.
To beat Canelo, you have to endure the fray. Look
at the guys that have won with the skill sets
they have, right. No one has Floyd made with their
skill set. So the other guys that have given Canelo problems,

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they've gotten risky, right, they've played the game with Canelo,
or they've been able to back him up and use
their volume.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
I think Terrence is going to have to try to
do that.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
But again, in that phray, you risk getting knocked out cold,
or in that fray, you risk getting beat up with
right hands and chopped on with.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
The left hook right. And another thing.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Canello will throw that left hook out, even out of
the south popposition, just to see where you're going to
move your head right or to lead you back into
that big overhand right. But I think that's probably the
biggest factor in this fight is not just the right hand.
It's not the susceptibility to right hands. It's Terrence Crawford's
willingness to play the game, to be risky right.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
And I bring up the whole right hand scenario.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
To say this, It's not just about Canelo landing the
right hand and the only susceptibility.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
From Crawford is the right hand.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
It is what you see in those clips that merge
the two together is that Terrence is willing to play
the game. He's going to try to stand in front
of Canelo. He's going to try to counter him with
multiple punches, which again I think is probably the.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Path to victory.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
But in that path, somewhere along it, there's going to
be roadblocks or potential street shutdowns. When Canelo decides I'm
done playing this back and forth, Here comes an overhand,
or I found your timing. I've found the spots in
between with my head movement, with my upper body movement, and.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
You can't hurt me like I can hurt you.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
That may be the difference maker when Terrence feels like
he's gotten all the power that Canelo has, when Terrence
feels he can hurt Canelo when he gets confident in
the pocket and he throws those combinations and he stays
just a little bit too long in there, right little
bit too long in the kitchen, and Canelo finds that
right hand, or Canelo finds that left hook, or Canelo
progressively over the rounds where him hitting you in the

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shoulders early on it didn't really hurt as much. But
now round six and seven's coming and it's harder to
hold your hands down, and you still got to do
that game plan. You still have to be in front
of him, you still have to walk him down because
if you get on the back foot, then.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Things really start going downhill.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
And I know everybody's super impressed by Terrence Crawford's footwork,
and he may actually be able to fight a great
defensive fight should he get up early in the cards.
But I'll offer you this reminder, not just how you
play the game, not just the power difference. But remember
this is this first fight at one hundred and sixty
eight pounds. This will be a bit of a different
feel in there. So yes, while you have success early,
what happens if you do get a little tired late on? Right?

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What happens if you do want to transition to a
more defensive posture later on? In Those feet are a
little heavier than they felt at one forty seven, well
heavier than they felt in the madramaf fight at fifty four.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Terrence didn't look super spry in that fight.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
So again, this video being Canelo's path to victory, I
look at all those scenarios and say Terrence could be
up early.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
I almost expect him to be up early in this fight.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Landing combinations having success, but Canelo having more damage when
he lands, having more effect when he lands, and round
by round by round starting to accumulate, and Terrence starting
to slow down again, not being used to the weight,
not being used to himself at the weight, not just
fighting a guy in Canelo that's more dance, but just himself.

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And then the power from Canelo sets in, and then
the timing starts to become equal, and then those risks
that you were taken earlier getting away with because you
were fresh, because you had prepared well, they start to
fall by the wayside. Because if Canelo is not hurt,
which I don't expect him to be, and Canelo is
still trying to find that opening and he's still throwing
hard punches, eventually the levee will break. And that's why

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I lean more toward a Canelo knockout because it'll be
a we've talked about a fifty to fifty fight. I
think it'll be tougher for Canelo to win a decision.
I do just because of the skills and the ability
and the well roundedness of Terence Crawford if he decides
to really take that fight to Canelo early and really
leave no doubt in the judge's mind. But again, that
back half of the fight will be so important. And

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if he falls off a cliff, whether it's you know,
the stamina, whether it's just the power that Canelo has
got in his hands that eventually takes a toll, how
does that back half look and can Canelo, you know,
make the comeback on the fight. I truly think that
it'll be an early successful fight for Terrence Crawford, which
may be the biggest dose of poison for him in
this fight, if that makes sense, because that success in

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him continuing to engage with that success ultimately I think
will lead to his demise. Is the success early, the
willingness to trade, the willingness to be in the fire
and when again I keep calling him this, and I
don't mean it disrespectful, but to be a skilled brawler,
to be there when Canelo is throwing, not backing away
from punches, getting head off the center, trying to look
for the check hook over the top, trying to look

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for the left hand of the body, and the combinations
just eventually you either are perfect in those exchanges or
Canelo finds one, or he finds two, or he finds
one that leads to two, then three, then four.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
I know Terrence has parked big guys. I know that
he's got Lester Martinez in camp. I know all that.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
But eventually Charlo found it, Plant founded out, COVID have
found it out.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Dimitribvo even said it. Saunders founded out.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
These bigger guys found out that the power with Canelo,
regardless of what you felt before, is different. If you
take too many, they will accumulate, and eventually that will
be the reason he finds the knockout shot. That, ladies
and gentlemen, is how I feel Canelo Alvarez can win
this fight. I think it'll be a slower start for Canelo.
I think Terrence Crawford would have a lot of success early,

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but eventually, playing that game of Roulette, right we're in Vegas,
and Terrence Crawford gambling that much, risking that much, playing
that game.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Of Roulette over and over and over.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Eventually Canelo will find the butt and as many right
hands as I've seen Terrence Crawford take, especially when he
wants to trade, especially when he wants to counter over
the top of your shots and doesn't look to get
out of range. I just think it'll be devastating to
lead off fight week. That is how I think Canelo
wins this. And you guys know that I am predicting
Canelo to win, but it doesn't mean that's how it
has to happen.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
I'm coming back with a breakdown of how Terrence Crawford
can win this fight and Honestly, there's a lot of
avenues there. This isn't just Caneloland and Terrence has no shot.
I'm telling you right now, they're calling this a fifty
to fifty fight for a reason. Terrence Crawford's skill is
far better than Canelo is seen in a very long time.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
We'll talk about it tomorrow. Let me know what you
guys think down below.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
I already know you guys are gonna slaughter me because again,
you think this is me saying Canelo is going to
win and this is the only scenario that's not what
I'm saying. I'm just giving you this video as a
reference to how I think it can happen tomorrow Terrence
Crawford's turn. But if you disagree with what I said here,
let me know why down below. And who do you
think wins and why? Because I don't have those answers.
But we're only four days away. So Saturday, September thirteenth,

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live an Allegiance Stadium, presented by The Ring Magazine. It's Canelo,
It's Crawford. Both men fight for legacy. One will walk
out the winner. Who will that be?

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I guess we'll find out, all right.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
So we are back on the way concept presented by
The Ring magazine. I am here at the Fontaine. I
don't even know if it's French. I just say it
that way here in Las Vegas for Canelo versus Crawford
Fight Week. Folks, do not forget. I don't know if
I said this already in my last video, but I
am going to be live on this channel Thursday and
Friday for Canelo Crawford Radio Row. There's going to be

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a ton of boxers, fighters, I heard WWE, wrestlers, celebrities,
and the who's who of people in Vegas, and we're
going live or we're gonna try to talk to the people.
We're gonna try to get predictions live on the show.
It's gonna be guessed, it's gonna be interviews. It's gonna
be a blast, and I don't want you guys to
miss it, so make sure you're tuned in. I think
it's gonna be Thursday at nine thirty am PST, which

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is twelve thirty pm EST. I think the same thing
on Friday. But stay locked in here on the channel.
It's gonna be fun. But today I want to talk
about a couple of things. Number One, today was the
grand arrivals. We got to see Canello, Saoul Canelo Alvarez,
we got to see Terrence Bud Crawford. Both guys look confident.
Both guys look to be in great shape. Terrence Crawford
dispelled the rumor. And again I might have contributed to

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a bit of the misinformation here, so I apologize. But
he's in shape, all right. He is cut up, he
is shredded, and he looks big for the way class.
I will not lie. He looks like he's filling into
one hundred and sixty eight pounds very well. But again,
and it's not just about the size difference, it's about
the difference in the size of the fight that Terrence
Crawford is taking on. Super Middleweight is not welterweight, is

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not super welterweight. It is two, maybe three weight classes
above where he's comfortable fighting. We'll see how that affects him.
Canelo was aur farming. I can't lie. He showed up
looking like the Pope. People were screaming, babies were flying
in the air, and he ascended up the escalator and
did like the Queen's wave to the people. It was insane.
I couldn't believe a fighter had that much or in boxing.
Canelo still runs this shit down. Today, I promised a

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part two of the series that I started yesterday talking
about why one fighter wins this fight. Yesterday was Canelo,
today is Terrence Crawford. So why does Terrence Crawford beat Canelo?
How does Terrence Crawford beat Canelo? And can it actually
be done?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Well?

Speaker 1 (21:47):
I think so, And here's why the breakdown. Let's go
so first and foremost, let's address the things that I
said in yesterday's video. If you haven't seen that, make
sure you watch the Canelo video then come back here.
But I said yesterday that there was gonna be some
things that Crawford had to do that may get him
into trouble. There was gonna be some weaknesses that Crawford had.

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Number one, Yes, it's his brand new fight at one
hundred and sixty eight pounds. It is going to be
a bit of a mystery how he comes into this
weight class. There were some rumors of a shoulder injury.
I'm not putting any stock into that because I don't
think we can unless there's anything official really out there.
Point being, there's got a lot of question marks around
Terrence Crawford this video, we are going to suppose that

(22:29):
those question marks are answered in full force by Terrence
Crawford being an absolute monster at this weight class. It's
a lot of assuming, but it's kind of what we
have to do to see the best version of Terrence
Crawford in this fight. So let's assume the weight doesn't
bother him. Let's assume he is fully healthy, not injured.
Let's assume that Canello's power is not too much from
him coming up from one forty seven one point fifty

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four to one sixty eight. Let's assume all that's true.
How does Terence Crawford win this fight? Number One? He
has to get Canelo's respect early. Terrence Crawford is not
going to fight this fight on his back foot, circling
around the ring like William Skull or Egar Berlanga, any
of these guys that got hit by Canelo and went
ooh no, I don't want any part of that. That

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can't happen. And do not forget, by the way, that
Charlo was one hundred and fifty four undisputed champion coming
up and fighting Canelo in his own right, and Canelo
made that easy work light work, and I know that
Charlo is not Terrence Crawford. My point is it's not
easy to do. So you have to get Canelo's respect.
He is someone that is going to try to walk
you down until you stop him. The guys that got

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his respect and turned the tide of their fights with
Triple G and Dmitri Bivol and then for different reasons
that we're going to go over, Floyd Mayweather danced on Canelo.
He was able to manipulate Canelo's walking down forward press
or flat footed plotty kind of movement to walk him
into space and counter him circle out. I don't see
Terrence Crawford taking a Floyd Mayweather role here. For everybody

(23:52):
saying Terrence Crawford's a runner, he's gonna run from Canelo,
I'm not even sure people have watched Terrence Crawford fight.
When is he ever run from anyone? And you don't
change what got you to the dance. Regardless of the
weight you're fighting at. You may have to do some
things differently, you may not be able to engage on
every single exchange, but he's not just gonna become a
back foot, defensive, slick shoulder role fighter that doesn't throw

(24:13):
punches and tries to just navigate with his jab and circle.
That's not him and that's not who he's gonna be
in this fight. And honestly, yesterday I talked about there
being risk in him fighting in the pocket with Canelo,
but I believe he needs to take that risk. I
think coming out and establishing himself early in this fight
is the risk necessary for him to win, because what
Canelo is is a very flat footed, plotting, power punching

(24:37):
manipulator of space. At his best, he is a great
counterpuncher that uses slick, ubber body movement to make you miss,
and then he makes you pay with big time punishment.
But those punches come usually one at a time, or
one and two at a time, unless he's setting things
up and moving forward offensively, where he'll double that jab
up and.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Bang the right hand.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
If you get Canelo in the pocket and fighting in
the pocket, he's most of the time he's going to
try to make you miss and the ncounter with one
or two big ones. What I think Terrence Crawford's best
path to victory here is is utilizing something like a
triple G style of fighting that was controlled with the
jab and then heavy combinations after the fact. Where he
got Canelo to back up was because when they both

(25:18):
entered range, where they both were in the pocket, Canelo
would make Triple G miss a couple of times, but
then Triple G would keep firing, or Canelo would make
him miss and throw one or two, and Triple G
would try to make him miss or take a punch
and throw two, three, four. He was outstriking Canelo in
their first fight continuously, and he was kind of beating
Canelo at his own game and pushing Canelo backward and

(25:38):
making Canelo settle to being on the ropes and calling
Triple G on I mean, like, you can't hurt me.
If Terrence Crawford has any semblance of that and is
able to outwork Canelo in the pocket and is able
to make those risks that he eventually has to take
right being in the pocket looking to make Canelo miss
with those big power punches and then capitalize on that
check right hook and that left hand down the pipe

(25:59):
of fee can do those things, it's gonna give Canelo
real problems and it's gonna make Canelo break his rhythm.
And that's one of the bigger things that Canelo thrives
on is being a bit of a rhythm fighter. Again,
You're not gonna see a ton of output from Canelo
in this fight. You're not gonna see him throw sixty
to seventy punches around. That's not him. He is going
to try to make every single punch count. But if

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you're Crawford, what have you thrived on your entire career
is making people that throw heavy punches pay for their
lack of output and their output of strength at the
same time by catching in between the punches and being
very snappy with your replies. I fully expect Terrence Crawford
to be a southpaw most of this fight, just because
I do think it gives him the advantage of working
his jab and staying away from the big right hand

(26:42):
of Canelo Alvarez. I don't think Terrence wants to circle
toward the powerhand of Canelo where he's trying to jab
his way into that overhand. We've seen my last video,
Terrence does sometimes get himself caught with overhands by being
in the pocket and looking to exchange. I think him
staying in south paul and if he is going to
pivot out pivoting away from that big power right hand. Yes,
Canelo has a dangerous left hook and that liver is

(27:04):
going to be there. From a southpaw fighter, Bud's probably
going to be for most of this fight. But I
think his best avenue and his best talent, honestly, is
him as a southpaw fighter. People talk about Budd being
a switch hitter, and maybe that can be useful in
the sense of switching in combination or using it as
a cover to gain range or get back into the
pocket or to exit out, but to fight for elongated

(27:25):
periods out of orthodox I don't think Bud should do
in this fight. I think that's a bad idea. So
that's number one. You got to get Canelo's respect. And
I said this in my video yesterday, which was me
breaking down how Canelo wins. But I'll say the same
thing here. I think Bud Crawford is going to win
two to three to four of the first six rounds.
I do believe that it will take Canelo a little
bit longer to get going, and I assume both guys

(27:47):
are going to be a bit patient in the first
couple of rounds where the no one's gonna really you know,
exceed and exude a ton of energy. But I expect
Crawford to be a little more busy, and I expect
him to be I don't want to call it a
pride thing, but I do think there is a bit
of a message, a tone that needs to be set
from Crawford that Canelo's just not going to take over
this fight and it's not going to be the Canelo show.
Meaning Crawford gets going early, and he gets going off,

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and we're gonna find out what Crawford's power translates like
to one sixty eight. It was a big deal from
him at one thirty five. At fifty four against Madromov,
He's still hitting Adrumov with some big stuff and he
still left marks all over his face, but he didn't
hurt him with anything. I don't know if that was
the style of fighter, because Madromov is more of a
you know, a Soviet kind of Eastern European boxer or
what that was, because but there is going to be

(28:31):
a point early in this fight where Canelo is going
to download how hard Crawford is hitting him. There's places
for Crawford to use some of his bait and switch
tactics here What I mean is control Canelo with that jab,
touch him a couple of different times with some soft jabs,
a big jab down the middle and snapped the head
back of Canelo. That would be something that interrupts the

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Canelo pressure and the Canelo timing and his rhythm of fighting.
We talked about this earlier. I would say that's the
next point we need to go to Crawford trying to
break the rhythm of Canelo. Canelo's already, like I said,
a low output fire, meaning he's already not poised to
throw a ton of punches if you break his rhythm
while he's trying to get to range by continually snapping

(29:12):
that jab off and making sure the tone is set
when he walks forward he's eating that lead hand. That
was something. Again, I keep bringing Triple G back into
it because I think, again, out of the South past stands,
but I think there are things that Crawford can do
that Triple G really took advantage of. He broke a
lot of Canelo's rhythm with his jab. Same thing with
Dimitri Bevil. Bivold kept thinking super simple jab circle, jab circle,

(29:33):
combination circle. I don't again, I don't see Bud fighting
that way, it's not the way he fights. But the
jab was the most useful part of what bevol did.
And I thought one of the biggest things that changed
the fight and changed the outlook of that first fight
for Triple G was the fact that he was just
consistently making Canelo reframe, and consistently making him restart, and
consistently getting him out of rhythm. If you just diminish

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Canelo offensively and make him become a little bit more
defensive or frustrate him to where he's winging out shots
from way back, and Canelo already has got to reach
disadvantage here with Terrence Crawford. If he stays long with
that jab, gets Canelo to fire something, wing something off
that's not even close, sees the shots, gets underneath it,
or slips outside of it, and is able to then
come back with that second counter, that second wave of combinations.

(30:18):
That's where Terrence Crawford lives. That's where his bread is
fucking buttered. And that's what Bomack and those guys have
been talking about when they say we're gonna push him back.
We're not going to get bullied in there. We're going
to see who the bigger Man is right. They're talking
that talk because they are confident one that Crawford can
take Canelo's punches if need be, but two that they're
not going to have to because they're going to interrupt
Canelo's rhythm. They're gonna make sure they're the ones getting off,

(30:41):
even if it means they get off first. More even
if it means they go first and make Canelo counter,
slip that counter, and come back with their own playing
the game within the game. And I said it yesterday,
Terrence is going to play the game, have no doubt
about it. He's going to be there. The risk reward
of standing in front of Canelo Alvarez, He's going to
do it. And it's not just a pride thing, but
it's kind of the way he has to fight because

(31:01):
that's how he fight. You don't just change everything when
you get to this level. You have to be you,
and that is who Terrence Crawford is. I don't mean
this disrespectfully. I mean it in the most high regard.
He is the most skilled brawl style fighter you'll find it.
I don't mean he's just winging punches. I mean he's
ready to throw down, stand there in the middle, not
flat footed, but be in the pocket looking to counter

(31:22):
as soon as you throw. Watch when Terrence Crawford's biggest
shots when he hits someone like Eryl Spence in between.
It's when Spence is a little hesitant and he's throwing
one where he's throwing that backhand and Crawford is triggering
as soon as he sees a twitch, he comes with
the hook bang or the bank bang over the top,
or he goes body shot upstairs uppercut. There is a
couple of different time in this camp that I've seen

(31:45):
Crawford work in that triple lead hook, right, not that
he's gonna throw that a ton, but really showing that
lead hook to maybe get Canalo to either then underneath
it and roll it. And here comes that uppercut. There's
another shot of Bomack, and I think Terrence Crawford working,
and again everybody works on different combinations, but a lead
uppercut from Terrence Crawford, and I think that is because

(32:07):
Canelo is so upper body centric with his defense. Canelo
will stand in front of you, he will plant his
feet and he will look to move his head to
get in positions to throw his countershots. But sometimes that
means that head comes down, rolls underneath, down, rolls underneath,
And I kept seeing Terrence Crawford out of the south
past stance work those uppercuts like backhand lead bang go,

(32:30):
set up, just boom go, and I have a feeling
that's to establish Canelo. You can't just stand in here
and move your head. If you do, if you try
to roll underneath something, if you go here, boom, that
uppercut's coming underneath it and they're gonna throw it with
some big time power. So those are the keys I
think for Terrence Croft. You gotta get respect and not
get pushed back against the ropes and playing Canelo's game

(32:50):
where he walks you down and you're trying to Floyd
Mayweather the shit, go high guard, show the roll and
try to counter offit. That's not Terrence Crawford. He has
to get respects, stand in the middle of that ring
and say I'm not going backward. He has to be early,
and he has to be often with his jab, and
I think with the counter Volney's stifle Canelo, do not
allow him to just dictate the pace of this fight

(33:10):
by slowing everything down. And now you're throwing one and
he's throwing one, and you're throwing two, and he's throwing two.
Everything is you go, I go. He's not shutting Canelo's
offense down. Instead, he's letting him get off just to
find ways to try to counter behind it. He's got
to stifle Canelo a bit and frustrating. And here's the
last part of this, which it's not gonna sound very nice,
but it's the truest statement. You have to beat Canelo convincingly,

(33:33):
point blank period.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
You have to.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Let's be honest, in boxing, there is a such thing
as an a side judging or preferred judging sometimes, and
I'm not saying that's going to be the case tonight,
but we've seen it even in Canelo's pass. You go
to the first Triple G fight, you go to some
other fights that you people even say the second Triple
G fight was pretty close. But the point being, there
have been times where Canelo has gotten favorable scorecards when

(33:57):
it was clear to most people that he did not
deserve that. How do you avoid it. You have to
clearly beat Canelo, and I don't even need knocking him
out because as many scenarios as I come up with,
I just don't see Terrence Crawford knocking Canelo out, So
to act like there's a way to do it, I'm
sure there is. Right if Canelo didn't see a punch,
he gets clipped by something, regardless of you know, Canelo's

(34:18):
next strength, and he hasn't really ever been hurt like that.
You don't see something, you get clipped. It's boxing. Everybody
can go down. But Terrence Crawford, in my opinion, has
to clearly beat Canelo. I mean, get up on those
scorecards and run away with this thing. And again those
points that I laid out earlier is the way he
does that. He has to continue to keep pressure on Canelo.
He has to continue to stifle Canelo, and he has

(34:39):
to clearly beat it. I just see Terrence Crawford. If
he's going to win, he's gonna have to win by three, four,
five rounds, which means again, you want to rack those
first four out of six. You want to be able
to maintain it laid into the fight. You're gonna have
to play risky. You're gonna have to do things that
normally you wouldn't have to do. You're gonna have to
be in Canelo's face. There's a lot of thing that

(35:00):
Terrence Crawford is not used to that he's going to
have to do this time around. But out of the
two of them, who is more equipped to do that,
that'd be Terrence Crawford. I do think he's the more
well rounded fighter in terms of his offensive defense, his
selection in punching, his accuracy while punching going forward going backward. Yes,
his ability to fight in both stances, but more so

(35:20):
his ability to counter whilst not being out of the pocket,
keeping exchanges being in the pocket, being defensive in the pocket,
but also countering with feet, angle switch and making people
pay for winging power shots that aren't necessarily set up
with much, which is kind of what Canelo has been
doing over his last couple of fights. So if you
have a ploti fighter in Canelo who is regardless of

(35:43):
what you think, over the last couple of years, definitely
slowed down, has not been the same Canelo that we
even saw a fight Caleb Plant. Terrence Crawford can take
advantage of that with the things that we've seen him
do to fighters that are plotty, to fighters that haven't
been able to keep up with his pace, and quite
frankly with the last point. We'll end off on Terrence
Crawford has an inability to lose that Canello just doesn't

(36:04):
have right now. And I'm not saying Canelo is a
loser or anything like that, but Terrence Crawford is never
lost as a professional, and that has to count for something.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Right.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Canelo has seen defeat. There have been ways that you
can say that is how you beat Canelo because people
have beaten Canelo doing Floyd Mayweather, defensive prowess, making Canelo miss,
making him pay, being very slick on the back foot
to meet your bevil on the front foot, stifling Canelo's
offense with a jab, with a right hand, with movement,
with circling combination, circling stifle triple g. In my opinion,

(36:35):
the first fight around being able to stifle Canelo whilst
remaining in the pocket with him throwing more punches, being
more volume heavy, being able to take power punches from
Canelo but fire back with even more sting. These are
the things you can say work against Canelo because you've
seen them work and you've seen people beat him. Terence
Crawford has been hit by punches. Terrence Crawford has been

(36:55):
losing fights in some cases, but he has never lost
a fight. And at the end of the day, if
you're a Terrence Crawford fan, you can take to the
bank that notion to say, Listen, Canelo might be one
of the greatest ever, he might be the greatest Mexican
boxer that has ever lived. He might be one of
the greats of all time. But my guy's never lost.
So when it comes down to it, when shit hits

(37:16):
the fan, I'm backing him because I just feel he's
gonna pull it out the fire. I just feel at
any point he doesn't know how to lose, and he
will will himself to victory. I know that sounds like
a lot of like motivational speech talk, but sometimes that's
real when you have convinced yourself that you're unbeatable, when
you have never tasted defeat, when you're a bit ignorant

(37:38):
to what quitting means, to what losing means, to what
feeling that switch of well, it's not my night tonight.
If you don't know what that feels like and you
only know winning, then sometimes that's a superpower in any sport.
It makes guys confident to a delusional level that somehow
works to make them even more invincible, or to make
them more resilient in some way to just go, oh no,

(38:00):
this is not happening to me. I don't lose. I win.
So that's a real part of this fight and one
that potentially couldn't be a major factor. So with all
that said, Terrence Crawford having an inability to lose being
the man that just wins, Terrence Crawford e in the
more I think well rounded of the two right now,
seeing as Canelo has foregone a lot of the things
that he used to be in this new form of himself,

(38:23):
which is much more of a plotty power puncher. I
don't know which one's going to show up. Ayonoso is
saying the best Canelo in twenty years is going to
show up, so who knows. You Combine that with the
fact that if Terence Crawford can back Canelo up and
gain respect early, if he is able and willing to
risk it for the biscuit, capitalize with volume punching, if
he's able to establish his jab all those things he
gets started early, that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Terrence

(38:46):
Crawford will beat Canelo Halfarez. There it is folks, comment
below where you think I'm wrong here and give me
your prediction. You think Terrence Crawford is going to win
this fight because for only a couple of days in
the fight, we still so much more to go over
the press conference, the way end stuff we're all going
to talk about here. And also, guys, we're gonna be
live Saturday. I don't know if we're going to be
still in Vegas, not really sure what the plan is.

(39:07):
But if we're not here in Vegas, I can catch
a flight be home in forty five minutes and we
could be live from the studio, have some guests, have
a fun time. But regardless, let me know what you
guys think who wins Saturday and why? Because I don't
have those answers, but I guess we'll find out. Yes, sir,
come on through. Dana, appreciate it, Dana Way, nice to
meet you. I'm liking that ring shirt you're rocking today,

(39:29):
Ladies and gentlemen, President of UC Dana White, as well
as we just got down a nightcap over there, the
boys Mass, Shannon and Ocho. How is that?

Speaker 3 (39:37):
It's great? Great love those guys.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah, man, so Vegas, we're here, talk to me about
why this was the fight Dana White decided to come
into boxing to support and grow the sport.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Well, it's not that this was the fight that I
decided to do. This was the fight that I was
I was offered, you know by Shake Turkey. You said,
I put this fight together and I would love for
you to be the promoter of it. Yeah, and who
the hell would say no to this?

Speaker 1 (40:01):
I can't you, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yeah, you'd have to be mentally ill to not want
to promote this fight.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
So this whole thing, this build up, Netflix, the entire thing.
Is this the the big push for Dana White to
do more in boxing? I've heard you talk about this
new Contender series you're going to do. Obviously zoof of
Boxing now come to life.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Well, what we're doing was when Shake Turkey asked asked
me to be the promoter this fight. We went out,
we cut the television deal, We went out and cut
the arena deal. You know, we did all the all
the groundwork for this thing. And then obviously we're putting
together the production, you know, all the nuts and bolts
and all the things that go into a fight. We did.

(40:42):
This is going to be the third biggest fight in
historyzy right, And I know a lot of people like
to talk shit. Take it however you want to take it, boys,
number one fight of all time Mayweather pack yah Boom
number two Mayweather McGregor Boom number three offered versus Canelo.
What do what do two of the three have in common?

(41:04):
I've been a part of two of the biggest okay
history of boxing, So yeah, uh. And then I'm gonna
do my own thing in twenty six with Shake Turkey.
You know, He's got a lot of other plans, But
the thing that I'm most focused about is this thing

(41:24):
that I want to do in twenty six. I think
that style. I think that I can add a lot
of value to the sport into a lot of these young,
up and coming guys. I saw Eddie Hearn, who I
was just going to ask you about this just I
love and respect this guy. I consider him a friend.
I was surprised, but not surprised to see him talking

(41:45):
shit today and I just letting you know, he said, listen,
I guess my responses. I look forward to it to
my brother, I look forward to it too.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
People. I'm an MMA guy as well as a boxing guy,
you love to compete.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
I love and so I love and you.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Guys in you know going. He said he wanted to
go one on one with Dana White. That's gotta fire
you up.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Yeah, well, I think that he's you know, I I
I and I only listen. I don't listen to what
the media says. I've only seen clips.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
To be fair, he said he wanted to compete. He
was like, listen, I want to show that I'm the
better boxing promoter, which is I think what everybody wants
to do.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Yeah, yeah, and and and I think he's looking at around,
He's like, he's not doing anything that's you know, that's
that's different than anything we've ever done. And I don't
disagree with that. I mean, there's there's only so many
things to do, but there's there's certain ways to do it.
And fair enough to him where he says that he
thinks that I don't know enough about the boxing business

(42:40):
and all this stuff. I'm gonna I'm gonna stay in
my little world like I always do. Like I live
in my own little world, you know, with you have
seen lots of things in my life. I'll tell you
how in my own little world, I live. I just
discovered Billie Eilish like two weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
I had no idea who she.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Was, had no I do who she was. I'd never
heard the book a Superstars on the Planet, never heard
of her, never heard heard any of her songs or
sorry things. And I saw this thing on Instagram where
when she was sixteen years old she did this festival
is like the Redding Festival or something out of California.
Have you seen that clip?

Speaker 1 (43:18):
I've heard about this thing you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yes, So this girl, who was probably fourteen or fifteen
years old with her brother when she wrote this music,
goes out to this festival, which isn't in the afternoon.
She wasn't even the main act at that day. It
was that night. And the way that the crowd reacted
to her and sang to her song is one of

(43:42):
the cool I've watched it one hundred and fifty thousand times. Seriously,
I'm not even kidding. My guys are like sick of
hearing it. Yeah. I love that kind of stuff. I
love that this young, talented, you know girl and her
brother wrote wrote this music, and the way that the
fans reacted to her song at this thing has just

(44:04):
blown me away for the last couple of weeks and
I can't stop watching it. But I was just an
example of how in my own little world I live.
And then I looked at the it's bad Guy or
tough Guy. I don't know the name of the song.
But then when you look at the official video it's
got one point three billion views.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
You're like, holy cow, I'm just discovering.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
I love it. No, I love I love that type
of stuff. And I think that no matter what business
you're in, what sport you're in, or whatever walk of
life you're in, you always have the ability to find
somebody that connects with people. The Connor McGregor's, the Ronda Rousey's,

(44:47):
the Billie Eilishes, you know, these type of people. I
love going out and trying to find those kinds of people.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
I think that's kind of you're talking about this that
makes sense. Yeah, absolutely, you're talking about this new Contender.
It seems like you want to invest in the.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
U of the Sport Contender series with the US over
there is in credit. I mean, we have multiple world chance.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
You can't even put them on two hands. It's all
the people you're seeing and you go back through their
career highlights and oh they started on the Contender series.
Oh wait a second, and then their World Champs or
whatever else.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
This is what I love and this is what I'm
interested in, and I'm not looking to uh, you know, say, oh,
I'm going to go in and I'm gonna overhaul boxing
and I'm gonna do things that nobody's ever seen. I
can tell you this, I'm gonna put on a much
better production than anybody's seen in boxing.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
I think that we will innovate the production side of
the sport. I think that we will elevate in how
the sport is presented in the way that we do it.
I think we will bring new things that people haven't seen,
and I think we'll make the sport more exciting.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
So that's that's where I disagree with. But but I
look forward to it. To Eddie.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Oh, I can't wait to see. That's a one on
one matchup. I gotta see. Talk to me. I heard
there's potential rooms. You guys have had some fighters sign
potentially with Zoofa. Is there any any fighters you could
tell me potentially we do?

Speaker 3 (46:10):
We do, we do have guys signed. Again, after I
get this weekend behind me, We'll go I say this
all the time when I'm doing something new, whether it
was the UFC Power Slap and other things we've done.
Watch what we do in the next two years UFC

(46:32):
and all the other things that we're doing, including boxing.
Watch what we do in the next two years.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
We'll talk to me about this. We're here obviously for Saturday.
I know you want to you want to focus on
that Canelo Crawford massive fight. I know you can't really
lean one way or the other, but how do you think?

Speaker 3 (46:47):
This is how I always lean. How I always lean
is I want to be a part of you know,
shows that when people why to Vegas, buy tickets, spend
money on hotel rooms and dinners, or stay home and

(47:07):
watch it or watch it in a bar, they're not
bummed out that they wasted their time watching my events.
That's my goal every Saturday, no matter what I'm doing.
So there's a lot of things that go into that,
and a lot of attention to detail that I think
every boxing promoter, not just some of them, doesn't do.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
That's where Dana White comes in.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
I just think that's the difference between me and everybody else.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Yeah, well, talk to me about some of this stuff.
You're balancing a lot right now. Obviously you have this event,
You're gonna do more in twenty twenty six. But there's
another big event that's coming in twenty twenty six that
I got to talk to you about. The rumors are
swirling about. It's this white House event for the UFC.
I saw something today where they said there's gonna be
about five thousand people. I know if you said this
or somebody else potentially on the lawn and then some

(47:57):
bigger screens going on, how excited at it or you
about this? Because it looked like when this became a
potential you started getting fired up.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, listen. I love one of one type
events like the Sphere last year for UFC. No cha
this event. I was going to say that, I'm doing
two fights and two different states on the same night,
and we've lined it up so that everybody can watch both.
And everybody who's watching this right now, including yourself, can't
tell me that you haven't been home watching two college
football games at the same time, two NFL games at

(48:26):
the same time, maybe even two fights at the same time.
That's what we've lined this up. To do. This is
a special one of one event too, and then the
White House is literally the unicorn of one of one events.
We're going to be on the South Lawn. We'll have
under five thousand fans on the South Lawn, and then
the park that is connected to the White House, we'll

(48:48):
have eighty five thousand people with screens. You know, we're
doing a big stage over there. We're gonna do concerts.
We're literally gonna take over Washington, DC that entire week.
We're gonna do you know, We're gonna do International fight
there yea, So ufc X will be there and lots
of other things that we're working on.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
As every single fighter on the roster asked to be
on this car.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Pretty much, Yes, pretty much.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
I don't know if you've seen I know that you
essentially had ruled out John Jones being a main e
enter on that guard. He's he says he's training five
days a week, Dana. He says, he's trying to get
on that car. What does John Jones have to do
to get on a White House card?

Speaker 3 (49:22):
John Jones doesn't have to train five days a week. Now,
the fight isn't until next you.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Know, he just looks like he's jazzed up.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
He's ready.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
You know, this is a renewed John.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
He has made it very clear to me that this
is what he wants to do. But I need people
on this card that I can count on that no
matter what happens, opponents get switched out or whatever happens,
I need guys that I can absolutely count on that
are going to show up that night. So listen, I'm
not saying no to John Jones, and I respect the

(49:52):
fact that he's pushing this hard. But John Jones and
I just had a deal that he pulled out of. Yea,
you know, so he's on the top of my list.
Even though I say it all the time, you know,
he's the greatest of all time. I I I still
know that to be a fact.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Oh you know, the comments are gonna come out, not
the greatest.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
He's not the greatest of all time. Uh, guy you
can count on you know that, you know, for one
hundred percent, is going to be solid and be there
and say what you want about Connor McGregor because people
like to talk shit about that too, But he is
that guy, and he's always been that guy. I've been
in the room I've been on the phone. I've been
you know, lots of people like to talk tough publicly,

(50:35):
but behind the scenes, it's a whole nother ballgame when
when when the ship hits the fan, who's really willing
to go out? And Connor McGregor has always been that guy.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
So you said, John's not at the top of your
list for that one. You know, maybe don't rule it out,
but who is? Can you give us a little bit.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Of I just said McGregor Connor so that he wants
always been that guy. Ronda Rousey to Chuck O'Dell has
always been that. There's there's a laundry list of people
that and a lot of these people that are super
talented are are almost like dealing with artists, you know, Yeah,
they're quirky little things.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
And everybody's different in this game, and fighters are always
personality completely different. They're going to show up at this point,
gonna show up two hours. Let you'd ever know? Sometimes
so yeah, absolutely, Now, this White House card a lot
of people are super excited about. Obviously, people are excited
about the notesa event as well going on the same day.
But let's say Saturday night ends. Whoever wins this fight.

(51:33):
This is going to change the sport of boxing.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
I feel I could not agree with you more.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
I think this is going to bring back this especially
here in America, because I've done I've worked with a
bunch of different companies in the UK and that's a
big boxing hotbed right now. But America needs boxing, in
my opinion, to ascend back to it. Let's talk about
the early nineteen hundreds, number one sport in America, number
one sport in the world, and we haven't had that.
And I think this could be a tipping point.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
When has there ever been a business or or whatever
you want to call it that has generated trillions of
dollars in revenue and at the end of the day,
there's nothing there. And to be honest, you know, it
took Saudi money to make this kind of stuff happen.
If you look at what MBS and Shake Turkey have

(52:19):
done in the sport of boxing in no time at
all like this, it's absolutely amazing. But that's what it took.
And it also, you know, said to me, this is
the right time to do it, This is the right
time to jump in. If it's ever going to work,
and it's ever going to be great again right now

(52:43):
because these guys are so aggressive and so willing to
make these big fights. And the other thing that is
incredibly impressive is I mean you're seeing it now with me.
There's so much hate in the sport of boxing. Everybody
hates everybody, all this all this crap, and uh, these

(53:03):
guys are willing to get all the biggest haters together
to pull off these fights. Do you do you enjoy
that a little bit and you don't enjoy it? I
absolutely love it. Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Because it feels like that again, competition has been your
your tipping point has made the UFC what it is now.
Coming into boxing people that maybe you like Eddy, but
there's other guys like an Oscar.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
De la Hooya.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Yeah that people that you may not get along with,
but I think that might fuel you even more.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
But that's the that's the thing about the fight business.
Even in my business in the UFC, there's guys that
I like, and there's guys that I don't like. There's
guys that I don't like to fight for me, for sure,
I don't like them. We don't have to like each
other to work together, right, you know? But yeah, everybody
hates everybody in the boxing business. And now guys that
I was absolutely cool with are talking ship and coming.

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But that's the thing. Is part of the business. It's anything.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Is it Is it surprising to you that he did
that today?

Speaker 3 (53:53):
It is? It is in some ways, and it isn't.
You know. Eddie's a guy who when you look it,
what his father has accomplished and incredible and whatever mat
room incredible. It's very hard being a son of somebody
so successful for you to carve out your own niche
and create your own identity. And Eddie has done that. Yeah,

(54:15):
you know, And like I said, I really like and
respect Eddie. Hearn always have and that's never gonna change.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
So let's talk about it.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
But I look forward.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
I look forward to for this. I I can't wait
make a whole spectacle of you know, they did the
five v five with Eddie and and Frank. They got
to do something with you and Eddie now in the
same kind of mode. That'd be sick. You get your
roster together, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Yeah, yeah, I mean there there's gonna be lots of
different opportunities. But but what's great for to you know,
there's a lot of shit talk about how much boxers
make and all this stuff. Handful of guys do, oh yeah,
the tens, the hundreds of thousands of fighters out there don't.
I've been telling you this, and people talk shit about
the pay and and and and and my school, there

(55:01):
are guys who come off the Contender series who have
made millions and millions of dollars already. Yeah, where nobody
knew who they were. We built them up and they
now make millions and millions of dollars. So I will
do the same thing in the boxing business. It will
just be ten guys that make millions of dollars or

(55:22):
seven or however many there are. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
Anything about boxing that's I think you want to change,
and I think Turkey does as well, is the introduction
of of you know, stacked cards, cards that you care
not just about the main event, but you care about
that undercard, and you build you use that main event
to build your undercard versus I mean you've called it
a going out of business sale, right when you have
these these cards that are loaded with fighters you don't
really know or care about, and then there's that big

(55:45):
main event and that price in that purse gets in
that main event and everybody else is kind of left behind.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
This is what I will guarantee you. I will do,
in no way, shape or form if I come into
this boxing thing arrogant saying, Oh, I'm going to change
the whole sport and I'm gonna do I'm the savior
boxing blah blah blah blah blah. Never have I said
any of that. But here's what I will what I
will say, I am gonna within the next couple of years,

(56:10):
we'll have people tuning into all the fights from the
first fight of the night till till till the end consistently.
Like the UFC, None of these boxing guys can say
that they've done that or that you know, what I'm
doing isn't isn't unique or different than anything you know
that's ever been done. That is definitely unique and hasn't

(56:33):
been done. You don't have any of these promoters where
people are tuning in, you know, to the first fight
of the night. I got celebrities that come to the
UFC and they're sitting in their seat the first fight
of the night.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
The ovon your guy. All right, Dan, I know you're
gonna have to wrap up. Do me one favor can
you really quickly talk to me about Calum Walsh. I
know you're very excited about his fight, and then give
me one fight Dana White would like to pro outside
of this mega fight. Here another fight you'd like to
promote and boxing.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
Well, I'll tell you this. I heard that Fernando Vargus
Junior was saying, not only am I fighting Callum Walsh
on Saturday Night, I'm fighting Dana White and Shake Turkey,
meaning that he feels like this, like the deck is
stacked against him because you know I got behind Callum.
That's not true. I put these fights together, I do

(57:22):
all the bells and whistles. Who wins and loses.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Is up to you.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
If it's you, Fernando Vargus Junior, I respect your father
and and and what he did in his career and
and everything else, and Saturday Night's up to you. We're
giving you the opportunity to say almost the event in
the fight of a lifetime. You are the co main event.
I respect you as much as I respect anybody else

(57:49):
on the cart, including the main event. Saturday Night is
up to you. You. I promise you. You do not
have Shake Turkey or myself. You know again, you on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
You don't want to go in and do what you do.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
And Callum's gonna do what he does. Yeah, and this
is an opportunity for both of you to not only
you know, build your name and your legacy, but uh,
you know, make a lot of money. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Man, I'd argue your involvement helps that, but uh, Dana,
I appreciate it. You have one message to the people
watching for this Saturday, whatever you got in the future
coming on, I say this.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
If you are a UFC fan, right, Saturday night is
your opportunity to tune in and watch You already know
what UFC notch is. It sold out in San Antonio.
You're gonna watch that card. Now you have the opportunity
to watch a stacked boxing card of great fighters all
the way up to the main event. Right. If you
are a boxing fan and you are a fringe UFC guy,

(58:45):
you have the opportunity to tune in Saturday night watch
an unbelievable card with a badass main event. So the
bottom line is this, if you are a fight fan
or a fringe fight fan, Saturday Night is the greatest
night in combat sports history. Enjoy.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
We'll leave it off on that, ladies and gentlemen. UFC
President now ZUFA Boxing d Dana. What coming through all right, folks,
Welcome back to the Way I Sat presented by The
Ring Magazine. It just happened. Terrence Crawford just beat Canelo
Alvarez decisively to become the new super middleweight undisputed champion

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of the world three times undisputed, and I'm just gonna
say it, he's one of the greatest boxers of all time.
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Worm for sponsoring this video. And now let's get into
that breakdown. So folks, like I said, this is insane
what has just happened between Terrence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez.
And I'll be the first a minute. I was completely
wrong about how this fight would go. I know you
guys are gonna let me know in the comments, but
let's let's legitimately talk about this. Terrence Crawford just decisively
beat Kenelo Alvarez. He didn't just narrowly beat him. He

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didn't just get a robbery or slim decision. No, he
decisively beat Canelo Alvarez. And he did it by just
being the better boxer. That's legitimately what we saw tonight.
Terrence Crawford out boxed Canelo Alvarez. And he didn't just
do it by being on the back foot and running.
Before you get in the comments section doing that, I'm
giving you the a tumbo fingerwag nada. That's not what happened.

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He was able to yes use his legs when needed,
but when he was also on the offensive, on the attack,
he was sitting in that pocket and he was able
to catch the shots from Canelo counter catch, counter, catch counter.
He had far more fundamental discipline with his boxing that
Canelo did, and we knew coming into this fight it

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was going to be a question of how would Terrence
respond to the power punching of Canelo, and quite frankly,
he ate it up and asked for some more. He
was talking to Canelo throughout this entire fight, and Canello
showed what we thought potentially would get him in trouble
in this fight, which was one shot at a time,
allowing Terrence Crawford to utilize the ring, not being able

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to cut him off, not being able to get to him,
and even when he did step to Terrence Crawford and
got in that space in the pocket, Crawford was beating
him there as well. It wasn't just that Crawford was
jabbing on the outside and circling. He was beating him
in the pocket. When he needed to use his legs,
he would, and when he was able to stay in
that pocket, he was landing one, two, three at a

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time to Canelo's one stagnant shot at a time. It
was very evident from round one all the way through
that Terrence Crawford, when he was able to match Canelo's
intensity and even go past it, Canelo couldn't match him.
And that was something I did not anticipate. Also, Terrence,
at moments when Canelo started to pray and get in
his face and hit him with big punches, and it

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felt like maybe the momentum was turning. Terrence squashed all
of that right He took water and threw it on
the fire. If Canelo was starting to burn, he was
starting to quell and find ways to be offensive and
be successful getting to range. Even though Canello's jab was
almost non existent tonight. I don't know where that was,
but he wasn't able to capitalize anytime he built momentum.

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Terrence got right back on that front foot, met him
in the pocket, and met him with big counter shots. Again,
while Canelo threw one, it was the right hook, was
the left hook to the body, was the chopping right
hand over the top. Terrence was catching or even if
he was getting hit, he was finding a way to
answer back with punches that were more crisp, more tight,
more fundamentally sound. While Canelo, even when he was able

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to get to range, it wasn't a lot. It wasn't often.
He was having a hard time landing clean because everything
was super wide and out here and to the body
out there, and Crawford would either circle out to that
sane side to Canelo's lead hand side, he would circle
away because Canelo would step straight to Crawford and chase
him and not necessarily cut him off. And even when

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he threw that hook. I was looking for the hook
from canelo right hand as he stepped through right corral
with the lead hand, bang the right hand, because you're
fighting a southpaw, so yeah, your jab may not be
as effective in landing and managing distance and all those things.
Even though for Terrence it kind of was. For Canelo,
I was expecting a lot more of that right hand
down the middle and over the top and him jabbing

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his way faint jab right hand and then that lead
hook that I thought he would be able to corral
Crawford because Crawford did want to move away from Canelo.
He did. He wanted to move away from that powerhand.
Smart to do. Canelo never took that extra step to
step outside of Crawford's lead foot. Again, that orthodox southpaw matchup,
it's always going to be a battle of that lead foot.
He never took that next step to get outside of

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that lee foot and then step through Crawford, step to
his left where Crawford was going and land his right hand.
He just felt like he was falling off to his
right with his right hand, and once he fell off
to his right after he threw the right hand, there
was no follow ups because he was off balance and
Crawford was out the gate and circling back to reset
the action. This was a masterful display from Terrence Crawford.

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And again I looked at this fight and I don't
want to do the thing where I said, oh, you know,
Canelo's washed, he's over the top, he's old. Terrence Crawford's
older than Canelo. Is he as weathered as far as
fights are concerned. No, But you can only do one
thing when talking about this fight, and that is give
credit to Terence Crawford. If you want to say Canelo

(01:05:34):
looked old, that's fine, that's on you. I'm not going
to say that. I think that Canelo looks a bit stagnant. Yes,
I think his footwork is not the greatest. But Canelo
as a pound for pound great as someone that has
been able to move up, it's because his power carried.
It's because as he's moved up, some of those guys
have been a little slower, and he's been able to
utilize his speed as an advantage even while moving up.

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In wait, because while he's not the greatest mover from
his feet up, he is from his waist up, and
he's been able to make guys miss and make him
pay with his hand speed. Terrence Crawford had faster hand
speed tonight, and it was because everything was here when
he got outside. Everything came back when he was there
back and it was really just super impressive to watch.

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And that's why I don't want to take away anything
by Colin Canello, Wash or Old. That's not I don't
want to hear that. We said coming into this, if
either guy won, they should get the credit. But for
Terrence Crawford to move up from one forty seven to
one fifty four, really from one thirty five to one
forty one forty seven to one fifty four, then go,

(01:06:39):
you know what, forget one sixty I'm going to one
sixty eight and become the undisputed champion at super middleweight,
making his third undisputed championship. That is history making stuff.
That's the legacy win he needed. That is the biggest
win of his career, and it speaks to how he

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prepared to how he put himself in the best position possible,
his build, his frame. He's got a crazy reach, by
the way, for five nine, he's got like a seventy
five inch reach. He utilized it all and again it
was confidence throughout the fight. Look at the last round
of the fight. Forget the first rounds and where Terrence
was boxing well and he was on the back foot

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a little more, he was moving as the fight went on,
he adjusted to the intensity Canelo was bringing and he
was able to do it in a way that was
not only just, it was smart because he was on
his bike when he needed to be, and then he
would sit down in that pocket, and especially early in
the rounds, he would trade with Canelo and win those exchanges.
He would get the better of Canelo in the spots

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where you thought Canelo would get the better of Terrence Crawford.
And Caleb Plant told me this before the fight when
I interviewed him. He said Crawford would be better when
he was on his jab on the way out, like
fully extended at jab range, long range, or fully inside
the pocket. And man, was he right. Shouts to Kaye Plant,
because when Terrence Crawford was all the way in and

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it was a matter of make you miss, make you pay,
go back and look at some of those replays, the
sneaky shots Terrence was hitting him with the check hooks,
boom on the inside, just little stuff, bang, little stuff,
boom boom, And it didn't take a lot of effort
because Canelo was coming in with full force. Like Canelo throws,
he throws everything hard, So when he was coming in
and winging out those shots, everything was out here and

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here come Terrence Crawford, bank on the inside, boom bang
on the inside. Before Canelo could get to the punch,
Terrence Crawford had already countered and had followed up with
two or three more. And this is not to say
Canelo didn't have any success. He did in moments, in spurts,
in rounds, and Canelo did win maybe three four rounds.

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I know it was one sixteen, one twelve, and then two, one, fifteen,
one thirteens. It was not that close to me. And
again we know Canelo fighting in Vegas, things are gonna
look a little closer on those scorecards than maybe they
actually are. But regardless, the right decision was made. I
thought it was looked more like a nine to three
to eight four fight. Maybe some people are gonna go
crazy and say it was twelve zero. I don't know

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about all that, but it was a definitive, dominant, decisive
win for Terrence to me, for Terrence Crawford, and I
think the most important thing and the most impressive thing
about it was when it was time to dog it out,
when it was time to meet in the pocket, whether
it was Canelo doing the chasing or Crawford coming out aggressive,

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Crawford was willing to answer that and it got to
the point where Crawford felt Canelo couldn't hurt him, and
that was super impressive to me. Go I said this
a second ago, go back and look at that last round,
Look at round twelve and the end of the fight
where Canelo is he's a bit stumbling all over himself
because he's a little bit more frustrated, And that's something
I also saw that I was pretty surprised that was

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Canelo being a bit more frustrated in this fight, visibly,
body language, the things that you don't usually see out
of a stoic Canelo Alvarez where you think, at any
point he could turn the fight with his power, with
his boxing, iq with his defense. That went out the
window late in this fight, and you could see Canelo
get more frustrated, having to reset himself and get back

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to work, and it wasn't because he was frustrated with
the way Terrence Crawford was fighting. He was frustrated because
he couldn't win. He couldn't win the exchanges, couldn't get
to Terrence. He would start Terrence with jabbbim, make him reset.
He started Terrence on the inside, hit him with something
circle reset and it was something I've never seen from
Canelo in a fight, that body language. But in that
twelfth round, I watched Terrence sit down on punch, his

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turn and go after Canelo and hit him with some
big stuff. There were multiple points in this fight where
each guy got clipped with some big shots. But Terrence
has felt like he felt like the stronger guy. I
gotta be honest. He felt like the shots were he
was landing were bigger. That straight left hand, the left
hand around the guard, leaving the wealth on Canelo's eye.
The most damaged Canelo landed was to the body. I

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felt in this fight. And if you thought that Canelo's
body work was going to slow cit Terrence Crawford down,
you thought it was gonna slow him to the point
was going to make a difference. It just didn't. And
whether that was because Canelo didn't land a ton Or
because Terrence had just built into the weight class the
right way, and the weight truly did not make a difference.
So for the people that tried to tell me you

(01:11:13):
were right, I was wrong. The weight class, the weight
for Canelo didn't make a difference. Now, if that's another
bigger one hundred and sixty eight pounder, you know, maybe
it would. But Canelo wasn't, and the weight didn't matter.
And that's just the truth of the entire thing. The
weight just wasn't as big a deal as I thought
it was.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
Going to be.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
And Terence Crawford was a much better boxer than Canelo was,
which I expected, but I did expect Canelo's power and
his sustainability to be better this time around. I expected
him to be a bit more volume heavy with his
jab but Terrence just shut all that down. It wasn't
that Canelo just couldn't. You know, maybe it was a

(01:11:52):
mindset that I don't know, but Terrence's ability shut it down.
Like there was no consistent jabbing from Canelo. There's no
consistent really attack outside of the one punch at a time,
and Terrence took advantage of that. He's like, listen, I'm
if you're just gonna throw one at a time. I'm
gonna two, three, four times it. I'm gonna tee off
on these exchanges and then get out of dodge before

(01:12:14):
I get hurt. And he was so smart about it.
I can't say enough about the performance. Man, Wow, what
a performance. And it leaves us with the question that
I think everybody coming into this fight was wanted to
know about Terrence Crawford. The question was was he as
good as his record indicated for this fight forty one

(01:12:35):
to thirty one knockouts? Was he as good as that
record indicated? Was he as good as the two times undisputed?
Was he as good as advertised? Because well, Erol Spence
after the car crash, which I fully believe is not
the same Errol Spence that he was beforehand, not taken
away from Terrence Crawford's win. What he did was incredible
that night. Well, the Madrimov fight didn't look super crazy.

(01:12:57):
Did we just look at matrim Mof and go, damn
matchorm Mov's pretty fucking good now? Or was it just
a styles makes fights thing? What I learned tonight was
not only is Bud Crawford as good as we thought?

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
He was.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
He's better. That's the craziest part about it. I didn't
think we were going to come out of this fight
and say, but is better than I think? And I'm
doing that right now. He is better than I thought
he was. The way he completely dismantled Canel Alvrez. I mean,
Dmitri Bivol did something similar, but this was a smaller

(01:13:31):
man taking some of that power. Again, smaller man didn't
really make a difference. He was big taking that power,
dealing with it and getting to work and making Canelo
deal with him and his power and his volume, and
fighting his fight. That was the craziest part of it,
out boxing Canelo completely and utterly. And then the question

(01:13:54):
becomes now not is he as good as we thought
he was? Is Terrence Crawford one of the greatest boxers ever?
And when I say that, I mean is he you
know on Mount Rushmore? I don't know. That's so tough.
That's four places, four places in boxing. And I don't

(01:14:14):
want to be the guy that gets caught up in
the moment and gets prisoner of the moment. But I'll
say this, he is one of the greatest of this generation.

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
He is the.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Greatest by the way of this generation, not one of
the I'm sorry, I misspoke. He is the greatest of
this generation. And when we're talking about grace of all time,
I can put him there. If we're talking top ten, yeah,
Terence Crawford, I think he's in there, top fifteen at least.
But as far as Mount Rushmore goes, I mean, it's

(01:14:44):
so tough. You have Floyd Mayweather there, you have Manny Pakia, there,
you have Roy Jones, there, you have Muhammad Ali there.
There's so many guys that have put on that list. Juleo, Saser,
Trivis seen here. There's so much many it's really tough
to start picking between one and ten. And you can

(01:15:06):
interchange some people in all of that. But he's definitely
one of the greatest fighters boxers I have ever seen,
and tonight proved that. I just I can't say enough.
How about impressed?

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
I am.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
I know I picked Canelo. It did not go the
way I thought it would, and I am I'm happy
with that because I got to see a generational performance.
That's what I got to see. Whether you guys enjoyed
all of the card or not. Listen, Christian and Billy
and Lester Martinez was an insane fight. Fight of the

(01:15:40):
Year candidate Callum Walsh and Fernando Vargus Junior probably shouldn't
have been in the co main event, but still good
enough fight. How about, by the way, how about Bulachick
and Adams? That was another insane fight. I can't say
enough about I think a success here, a massive successful.
See what the numbers look like, but I couldn't give

(01:16:00):
a shit really, but a massive success I think for
the Ring magazine, for ZUFA, boxing, for Netflix. By the way,
John Hannick, Max Kellerman, andre Ward on the comms tonight,
did that not feel like a breath of fresh air?
I don't care what you guys say about John Annick.
I've seen people be, oh, you know, he's an MMA guy.
Sounds like an MMA guy. Get the fuck out of here.

(01:16:23):
He absolutely killed that shit andre Ward. He has this
just inate ability to make very difficult things to describe
very easy to describe, like the way he walks you
through a fight in what's happening? And then you got Max,
who's who's rolling off of that and feeding it back
to andre and it was that was an incredible call

(01:16:47):
on all their parts. Max had great questions for both fighters.
At the end, I thought Stupid is well done all around.
But the night goes to Bud Crawford and I don't
really know what happens next with him. I was going
to ask the question that we leave off with I
genuinely don't know. I think he might retire, and I
think it would make all the sense in the world

(01:17:08):
if he did. Is he going to stay at one
hundred and sixty eight and defend those belts? I doubt it.
What's left for him to do below that? You know,
the Boots fight Virgil Ortiz, because I think I would
assume he'd want to go back to one fifty four.
What else is there? Maybe a rematch? But I do
we really need to see one? I'm sorry, I'm not

(01:17:30):
trying to sound disrespectful to Canelo, but do we really
need to see a rematch? What goes differently that next fight?
Does Canelo all of a sudden become a change fighter,
a different fighter than we saw tonight? Has he becomes
someone that is now volume, heavy, light on his feet,
is able to track down? No, not to me, because

(01:17:51):
what I saw from Canelo tonight is what I saw
from William's skull what I saw in the Egger Berlanga fight.
This is how Canelo fights now, and that's just where
it is. And I will say, for Canelo, what else
does he really need to do? You know, one of
the greats in this generation, not the greatest. That goes
to Terrence Crawford now, But what is ell? What else

(01:18:12):
does he have left? I'm not sure where he would
go next again, outside of a rematch, what I think
he might be done? Maybe not, Maybe there's other fights
out there. I'm just gonna say this, and people, before
you get upset at me, this is the only thing
that just popped into my head. It probably won't happen
this way. There is a fight with Jake Paul out there.

(01:18:38):
I don't know if that's something that Canelo would do.
I don't know if that's something the Ring magazine would want.
Probably not. But it's not as wacky, I think now
as it potentially was when it was first being talked about.
And I don't know if the Canelo even wants And
I'm just saying, whatever happens with this Jake and Tank fight,

(01:19:00):
the Canalo one would be a little less wacky than that,
wouldn't it. I don't know, but my voice is almost gone,
and uh, I just wanted to get this video out
to you guys asap as soon as possible and just
let you know that this. I hope you understood what
you just saw from Terence Crawford as someone that has

(01:19:24):
seen his competitive nature upfront and personal, as someone that
has watched this entire build, has watched his confidence grow
and grow, has seen what he put on Twitter after
I don't know if it was him or somebody else
on Twitter after he won.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
What did he say?

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
This is one?

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
This one's for the nobody's. Is that what he said? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
For all?

Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
Look at this for all the nobodies, for all the nobodies.
And then and then there's this me and you you
with see you. So when I be too, is you're
gonna be a nobody?

Speaker 4 (01:20:06):
When I stup a muhole in your asses, you're gonna
be a nobody. Everybody else been saying since I moved
at one forty seven, I ain't fought nobody, every last
one of them stop a muh hole, and.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
They assid he gonna be next. Watch he said it
there and he did it tonight. Terrence Bud Crawford is
the new undisputed super middleweight champion of the world three
times undisputed forty two and zero thirty one knockouts. He

(01:20:39):
left no doubt. Now with all that being said, I
think it's time to admit that he is one of
the greatest of all time. As far as what happens
next for him Canelo, I don't know. I don't have
those answers, but I do know this was a I think,

(01:21:00):
rousing success. Congrats to the Ring magazine, Congrats to Netflix,
Congrats to Bud, Congrats to everybody on the card. Zoof
of Boxing, Dana White, I thought it was a great
show and I have no idea what happens next, but
I'm excited, so guess we'll find out

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