Canelo Alvarez's Media Workout showed me A LOT about what he's looking to do in his fight with Terence Crawford. I saw some big strengths and big weaknesses that I think Canelo HAS to ELIMINATE.. Let's Talk
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, folks, So we are back on the way
concept presented by the Ring magazine, and we are just
weeks away from the fight of the year Canello Crawford.
If it's not the biggest fight of the year, which
it probably is going to be, it is definitely the
most important fight of the year for the sport of
box and today Canelo Alvarez held a media workout that
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gave a little bit of insight into what he's working
on for this fight and potentially exposed either a massive
weakness or a massive strength, depending on how you look
at this fight. I want to show you what potentially
could be the biggest difference maker for or against Canelo
and give you a little bit of background as to
why I'm leaning the way I am with my pick
for this fight. I'm not waiting until fight week to
(00:41):
give a little light prediction, so.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Let's do it here today.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So let's take a look at this leaked media workout
footage that Canello dropped today, just a couple of weeks out,
and I have a feeling, knowing the veteran, that Canelo
is no one the experience level he's at. This footage
doesn't get out or the media doesn't get a hold
of it unless he wanted them too. So what's this
media workout me for Canelo Crawford? Well, the breakdown, let's
(01:04):
go all right, So I'm gonna mute a lot of
this because there's like music blasting throughout. But Canelo held
an open media workout today, and some of this footage
is from fight Hubs, So shout out my guy Marcos
for being on top of it, one of the best
in the game. He's getting some of this and other
(01:25):
media outlets were there.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But as we go.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Into this footage, remember Canelo is the unispeeded champ at
one sixty eight. Terrence Crawford coming up from really one
forty seven, but he had to fight at one fifty
four to the madrim MOFs so sure two weight classes
more like three though, And the big narrative going around
this fight is how does Crawford handle Canelo's power at
one sixty eight? How does Canelo get back to canelo
old ways of moving his feed and utilizing his jab
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and working on more of just his upper body movement
and his defense to offense transition and not just throwing
power punches. And can Crawford be able to fight like
the counterpuncher he is still make Canmelo miss and make
him pay like he has at the lower weight classes.
And also how does his body hold up at one
sixty eight? Those are the questions the Canelo's open workout
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may provide some.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Of the answers. Let's take a look.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
First, we see him shadow boxing, circling to his right,
which in this case would be away from the southpaw
stance of a Terrence Crawford, but just basic stuff. And
you see one of the big things that Canelo does.
And listen, I'm not a professional boxer, I'm not a fighter,
and I don't think in any way, shape or form
I should have any position to critique and criticize Canelo.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But one of the things that he's gotten in trouble
with in.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The last couple of fights, and wouldn't say trouble more
so just him working against himself, is him being able
or I guess not being able to cut off the ring.
You know, you go to the williams Skull fight and
you watched him chase William Skull around and around and
around that ring, and yes, William Scull is running from him.
That was pretty clear to see he was on his
bike utilizing his jab, but you didn't see Canelo cut
him off. You didn't see him move laterally to be
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able to stop a lot of that running, or stop
a lot of that circling around the ropes, which is
his responsibility if he's gonna take the front foot and
look to establish himself offensively. And when I watch Canelo here,
he's gotten away with this pretty much his entire career.
But I watch him cross step a lot, and you
see it right there where he goes from circling, he
rolls under the right hand and instead of moving laterally
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replacing his back foot with his front foot, he l
steps and then crosses over, which instead of just moving
laterally and shifting, like I said, shuffling to his right
off of the l step off of the reset, which
would allow him to be ready to go and ready
to fight again, it takes him that extra beat to
get back into fight.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Stands a couple of reasons for this.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Maybe you know, listen, he can gain a lot more
ground by taking that lead leg and stepping it across
and resetting it. Just it feels to me like it
takes too much time. And when you are spending time
taking the lead leg crossing it over, and there's a
guy in front of you that does want a CounterPunch,
like a Terrence Crawford, that does want to be a
bit more mobile here and not stand in the pocket
with Canelo, because why would he do that? Exchange power
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punches with Canelo Alvarez. Don't use your feet. Not to
say that Terrence is a runner, because he never has been,
but to try to reset and cut different angles. You
don't want to be stepping all over your stance and
having to reset and reset and reset instead of being
ready to fire when Terrence Crawford eventually does change angles,
eventually does circle out, or eventually does go from south
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pot at orthodox. If the Canelo is trying to l
step and step over himself, that's just wasted motion. And
a guy that's coming up in weight that does maintain
a bit of his speed could potentially take advantage of I.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
See it time and time again with him.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
It's not a massive deal because that l step and
walk can absolutely reset you. As long as you come
back with a fane or come back with something to
put your opponent on the back foot. It's not the
worst thing in the world by any means. It's just
it feels like for the things that Canelo has struggled
with in his last couple of fights, you may want
to see something a little different there, maybe a little
bit more of a shuffle.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But we move on. Let's take a look at Canelo
on the bag. This is a of sports illustrated.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
He's on the heavy bag at some UFC gym here
and he's just doing a little.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Bit of work.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Right hand left hook, head movement, right hand left hook,
bang bang. Now again, do I think that Canelo is
gonna throw this way necessarily in a fight?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Number one, his feet are very flat, and again, Canelo
hasn't made a living off of being able to stand
in front of guys and utilize big time power and
be a little flat footed right upper body movement, head
movement and then throwing shots behind it. Being defensive and
then transitioning back to his offense has been a strength
of his, especially as he's gone up in weight or
he hasn't had to utilize as much energy right where
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he's fighting bigger guys than he needs that power punch
to put away, even though he hasn't put anybody away
since Caleb plant.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
But that's another topic for another day.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You see him very flat footed, throwing the right hand
lead bang left hook, behind it, head movement jab, right
hand left hook, and then right hand bang left hook.
And you notice the way Canelo throws his hooks. It's
almost like there'sn't a lot of winging to it. It's
almost like a shovel hook, or it's almost like an
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up jab where you get over that lead leg and
bang the up jab, except he's kind of throwing it
as a hook. But it's I don't know, it's hard
to really describe, but it's not like a normal hook.
He's stabbing that in there. It's not like a come
across and slap hook. He's really trying to damage and
Canelo one of his best shots over the years has
been that lead hook into the backhand rear upper cut,
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or that lead hook into the big right hand over
the top. And he really starts to and I think
he took some of this from Triple G in there fight.
He really chops down with stuff as he sits down
on punches here. But again, one of the big question
marks around this fight is what would Canelo do a
little bit defensively, like what would he do a little
different and he has, you know, per se in the
Dmitri Vivo fight, because as much as people want to
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believe that the only reason Dmeetri BiVO beat Canelo al
Res was because he was bigger, I disagree. And I
think that if people do believe that they're in for
a route awakening, if Canelo continues to just stand more
plotty and flat footed and look to throw just pot
shots and power punches without the jabs set up and
without the same level of output, because Terrence Crawford will
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expose that, I think in a way that Dimitri buvol
did when yes, Vivil's size allowed him to take some
of those power shots that we don't know that Bud
Crawford will.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
But look at the style in.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Which Dmitri Buell fights, that Soviet Eastern European bladed stance
boxing style. It's not what Bud Crawford does, but it
allowed him to land a lot of volume and a
lot of in and out movement, and he kind of
walked Canelo down and put Canelo on the ropes in
that fight, and again, completely different fighter than Bud Crawford.
My point is, I don't think Canelo can do what
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he's done to a lot of the one hundred and
sixty eight pounders and just stand there in front of them,
or walk them down and be flat footed and throw
his combination big time power the entirety of the fight.
I think later in the fight, after he's established a
bit in the beginning and you start to do that
and break a fighter down. I could see a Caleb
Plant style overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I could see a.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Little bit of the Billy Joe Saunders thing, But you're
gonna have to set things up. Terrence Crawford's too good
with his eyes, He's too good with his counterpunching. He
doesn't have to run away from you to use his
feet and cut angles. I don't see Canelo just standing
there and looking to just throw power punches all night.
I really think for him to be successful, that jab
has to be working.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And I say all that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Because when I look at him on the heavy bag there,
I don't see him putting a ton of effort into
the speed and power. I don't see him putting a
ton of effort into to moving around the bag. I
see him working specifically on a commodation that he likes
off of some head movement and using that to maybe
set up something else that he has a little bit
more powerful in the bag. Here's him working on the
mits with Dadie Renoso double jab, and then you see
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that stick of a right hand.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Double jab, touch, touch.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Bang, right hand and again Canelo just decides I'm gonna
go for a walk ah right, and he just takes
off now again and Edy Renoso is standing southpaw here,
and I don't know if that's a purpose when he's
holding these mits, because Terrence Crawford will probably be in
a more southpaw stance, and we know that in the
past Canelo has, you know, somewhat struggled with southpaw fighters,
(09:13):
but that could just be Renozo just holding the midst
a certain way. But you see even there, Renozo goes
southpaw and he's simulating an attack here.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
From Terrence Crawfords.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I'm trying not to take too much away from this,
but it's the only footage we've seen mits wise or
otherwise of Canelo in this lead up. But when you
do fight a southpaw as an orthodox fighter, one of
the first things that a lot of the game plan
is tailored around is getting this lead foot on the
outside of your opponent's lead foot because it opens that
lane for your right hand. In this case, for Canelo
being the orthodox guy, for his right hand to come
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straight down the pipe, should he want to set it
up with his lead hand.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And then look at this laser beam one down the middle.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Right here Eddie Renoso has the outside track and he's
holding the mitst. But then as we go back and watch,
watch how Canelo manipulates the space touch touch with the
jab and then he steps on the outside straight right
hand down the pipe. That is a good right hand
versus the south park because it's very much manipulating the
speed and the distance and the angle all in a
couple of punches. I like that because it's it's layered.
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And again I could be making a mountain out of
a mole hill. But you watch Canlo go from the
inside track with his foot to just pepper in that
jab out touch touch, step outside, then right hand, so
you don't give away the tactic of trying to get
that outside foot, but you set it up with the
lead hand. Look at what I'm doing here, step outside bang.
I like that very interesting. And again you see Canelo
getting under the lead hand after finishing his combination and
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trying to protect himself by stepping to the outside, cutting
the angle, and then er Noso wants him to go
left and then circle back with the right hand. So
there's a lot that you can take away there. Number one,
big time right hand from Canelo. Bah stuck in that there,
and then again that cross step, which I do not
like him rolling under kind of a lazy left hook
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to throw a right hand left hook over the top,
and I get and I'm trying to look at it
as Renoso playing the.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Role of Crawford out of South Paul.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And there's a couple of things that I like, some
that I don't out of Canelo. But then again, it's
just a drill and I'm probably making way too much
of it. But again, it's all I have to go
off of, so I have to take.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It for what it is.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And those are the only clips that came out today
in regards to Canelo's media workout. So what do we
see there? We see a little bit of what he
wants to do to take advantage of a right hand
south palm matchup. Get his lead foot on the outside,
bang the right hand down the pipe, set it up
with the jab and maybe even fire that jab at
the lead hand of Crawford to just get it touched.
Touch step outside.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Right hand down the middle.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
We saw Canelo doing a lot of cross stepping, which
is I think a bad idea versus someone who has
good angle manipulation like Crawford does. Right, every wasted movement
is going to be a capitalization for Crawford to try
to fire back on it. Canelo is gonna be there
to be hit with some counterpunches, Make no mistake about it.
Canelo will stand in the pocket. Yes, he'll try to
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make Crawford miss, but sometimes I'll even eat a couple
so that he can be there behind that high guard
taking punches to look for one of the big ones
on his own countershot. So that can be a little
bit of the gamesmanship too. That can be a little
bit of the chess game going on. Is who's gonna
land the bigger CounterPunch and how many of those can
Crawford take? Moving up to one sixty eight versus Canelo,
who has been there and is fighting a guy that
has fought in a lot smaller way and that hasn't
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seen the power. Like we talked about the narratives being
built that Canelo brings it one sixty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Even now, all those things will come into play.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I think a big, big, important part of this fight
is just how much Canelo utilizes his lead hand, because
I'm telling you it's going to be the most important
thing in this fight. I really think if Canelo is
back on his jab and is able to mask some
of the stuff that he loves to do, which is
that lead hook to the body, smashing hook on the arms,
on the body, on the shoulders, if he's able to
hide it just a little bit and then hit you
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with that timing that Canelo Alvarez timing that's been perfect,
that put down a Mere Cohn, that put down Billy
Joe Saunders, that found the button on Covi Lev those punches,
that timing. It's not just speed, it's not just power,
it's the throwing in between, it's finding the right shot.
Those things can make all the difference in the world.
Because I would almost bet everything I own that if
Canelo lands clean on Crawford, it's gonna have far more
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of an effect than Crawford landing clean on Canelo. And
that's not even because both guys don't possess power. Crawford
possesses power, and he's put a lot of guys down.
The Canelo we've seen has an iron chin, and I
watched Crawford get rocked by Gambola again different time period.
I get that, but I don't think that as you
get older and even as you go up and wait
that somehow makes you more readily available to take flush punches,
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right That Usually those two things, the combination of getting
older and going up to a weight that you didn't
naturally fight at, tends to not actually help out your chin.
Tends to make you a little bit more vulnerable to
getting hit with big punches, especially when you're not someone
that cuts a ton of weight to begin with. I
don't think Crawford was cutting a ton of weight when
he was at one forty, when he was at one
forty seven, So him now trying to bulk to get
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to one sixty eight, it's definitely gonna have a factor
in the fight. It's definitely gonna mean something when he
gets touched with a shot from Canelo, who's not, by
the way, a natural one to sixty eight in his
own right, but still that power carries for him.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
We still don't know if it will for Bud Crawford.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But it's not just about the power and making this
as simple as Canelo's power versus Terrence Crawford's skill. We
take out so many factors, like Canelo Alvarez's skill, like
Terrence Crawford's timing, like Canelo Alvarez's manipulation of your guard
and your defense, and Terrence Crawford's angle switch and leaving
you in bad positions with your footwork to not be
able to answer when he fires off, using your own
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momentum against you as you try to walk him down,
and then he steps in with his lead foot pivots
out and he's at a ninety degree perpendicular and you're
looking over your shoulder, like, what the hell was that?
These type of things I think are going to be
more interesting than just saying, well, if Crawford can handle
the power, or well if Canelo can find his chin.
Those things matter, but let's talk about the intricacies of it.
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Let's talk about the nuance that those things both imply,
which is that Canelo is going to fight differently than
he has as of recent of one to sixty eight,
almost the style of like I'm gonna big brow you,
which it feels like he's done to everybody at one
sixty eight, but as of recently hasn't been able to
stop some of those guys. For Crawford, it can't just
be him sitting there and letting Canelo walk him down
and put him on the ropes and land whatever he
wants at will, just because he doesn't want to open
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up versus a one point sixty eight pounder, or he
can't be someone that's uncharacteristic of himself. He can't go
out there and throw a ton of volume, right. He
can't be out there looking like Dmitri Bivold. That's not
how Crawford fights. He has to be able to get
some respect early on from Canelo to be able to
draw Canelo in and make him pay when he does
get a little over confident, when the hands do go
up in that high guard and he just wants to
walk through everything, or when he starts winging out those
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shots and not sitting it up with the jat, or
when he cross steps and gets his feet tangled up
and gets himself out of position. Crawford, unlike William Skull,
unlike Edgar Berlanga, unlike Himimongia, who didn't make.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Him pay for those things.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Crawford has to and he has to do it with
some authority because, honestly, the way I look at this
fight is that it's very difficult for me to see
Terrence Crawford winning by knockout. Not to say it's not possible,
because it definitely could be, but I think the path
of victory for Crawford is to be able to counter
Canelo when he comes in with lazy footwork or when
he stands is flat footed, when he only throws one
or two at a time and Crawford can throw three, four,
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five back. I don't see him walking Canelo down, even
though he said that at the press conference out he
walked Canelo down, He's gonna walk him down because Canelo
is supposed to be the bigger man.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But we'll see about that.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
And trust me, I've seen the pictures of Terrence Crawford.
He looks like he's filling into one sixty eight just fine.
But that looks great on camera.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It does. It looks amazing and still shots.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It looks good when the muscles are glistening and he's
all flexed up and he's tired from his workout, But
what happens when you have to fight at that weight
And I'm not talking about Canelo's power, I'm talking about
body physiology, a weight that Terrence Crawford's never fought at,
a weight that he's not used to going rounds at,
at least not outside of just the gym. We're talking
about a stadium full of people, sixty thou seventy thousand, whatever.
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It's going to be an allegiance and your first time
at the weight class, and it potentially could go twelve rounds,
and oh, by the way, you need to win more
of those twelve rounds. And I'd argue that the only
path to victory for Terrence Crawford is a decision win.
That's just the way I see it, because I mean
it's true. Whereas Canelo can get down on those cards
early and look to just beat Terrence Crawford up and
make him adjust to that weight class by going deep
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into the fight and trying to maintain a style that
I don't know his body is ready for, and then
no one knows his body is ready for. So there's
a ton of things still to come. But I wanted
to make this video because finally, we get some camp
footage from seem Canelo. Crawford's been pretty open, at least
in bits about his camp footage. Right He has shown
some footwork, he's shown some shadow boxing, he's showed some mitwork.
He's not been super shy. It's all on Crawford's YouTube channel,
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and when I get back home, we'll probably watch a
lot more of that because we'll have two weeks to
get ready for one of the biggest fights ever. But
as we sit here, I just wanted to get a
quick update on Canelo Crawford and what I think are
some of the biggest shrinks that Canelo is working on
and some of his biggest weaknesses. Common section, let me
know what you think down below. Who wins this fight?
What are you thinking from what you've seen in just
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the small clips out of Canelo's training and some of
the stuff from Crawford's training. I don't have the answers
as of right now. You know it's way I'm leaning
which right now, Logically I think it just makes more
sense to lean Canelo. But maybe my opinion could switch
or it won't.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But September thirteenth, the fight goes down presented by the
Ring Magazine, His Excellency Turkey Elis Jake Tko boxing Dana White.
They just announced the broadcast team. It's Jon and it
gets Max Kellerman.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I'm pretty sure I saw andre Ward on there.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's the who's who of fight commentary, broadcasters and reporters.
Michael Buffer will be in attendance. It will be a
night none of us will ever forget. But the real
question is what happens in that main event when Canelo
steps in.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
With Terrence Crawford.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I don't have those answers, but it's only a matter
of time, less than a month away. On September thirteenth,
when they step in, what happens then, I guess we'll
find out
All right, folks, So we are back on the way
concept presented by the Ring magazine, and we are just
weeks away from the fight of the year Canello Crawford.
If it's not the biggest fight of the year, which
it probably is going to be, it is definitely the
most important fight of the year for the sport of
box and today Canelo Alvarez held a media workout that
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gave a little bit of insight into what he's working
on for this fight and potentially exposed either a massive
weakness or a massive strength, depending on how you look
at this fight. I want to show you what potentially
could be the biggest difference maker for or against Canelo
and give you a little bit of background as to
why I'm leaning the way I am with my pick
for this fight. I'm not waiting until fight week to
(00:41):
give a little light prediction, so.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Let's do it here today.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So let's take a look at this leaked media workout
footage that Canello dropped today, just a couple of weeks out,
and I have a feeling, knowing the veteran, that Canelo
is no one the experience level he's at. This footage
doesn't get out or the media doesn't get a hold
of it unless he wanted them too. So what's this
media workout me for Canelo Crawford? Well, the breakdown, let's
(01:04):
go all right, So I'm gonna mute a lot of
this because there's like music blasting throughout. But Canelo held
an open media workout today, and some of this footage
is from fight Hubs, So shout out my guy Marcos
for being on top of it, one of the best
in the game. He's getting some of this and other
(01:25):
media outlets were there.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But as we go.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Into this footage, remember Canelo is the unispeeded champ at
one sixty eight. Terrence Crawford coming up from really one
forty seven, but he had to fight at one fifty
four to the madrim MOFs so sure two weight classes
more like three though, And the big narrative going around
this fight is how does Crawford handle Canelo's power at
one sixty eight? How does Canelo get back to canelo
old ways of moving his feed and utilizing his jab
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and working on more of just his upper body movement
and his defense to offense transition and not just throwing
power punches. And can Crawford be able to fight like
the counterpuncher he is still make Canmelo miss and make
him pay like he has at the lower weight classes.
And also how does his body hold up at one
sixty eight? Those are the questions the Canelo's open workout
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may provide some.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Of the answers. Let's take a look.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
First, we see him shadow boxing, circling to his right,
which in this case would be away from the southpaw
stance of a Terrence Crawford, but just basic stuff. And
you see one of the big things that Canelo does.
And listen, I'm not a professional boxer, I'm not a fighter,
and I don't think in any way, shape or form
I should have any position to critique and criticize Canelo.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But one of the things that he's gotten in trouble
with in.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The last couple of fights, and wouldn't say trouble more
so just him working against himself, is him being able
or I guess not being able to cut off the ring.
You know, you go to the williams Skull fight and
you watched him chase William Skull around and around and
around that ring, and yes, William Scull is running from him.
That was pretty clear to see he was on his
bike utilizing his jab, but you didn't see Canelo cut
him off. You didn't see him move laterally to be
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able to stop a lot of that running, or stop
a lot of that circling around the ropes, which is
his responsibility if he's gonna take the front foot and
look to establish himself offensively. And when I watch Canelo here,
he's gotten away with this pretty much his entire career.
But I watch him cross step a lot, and you
see it right there where he goes from circling, he
rolls under the right hand and instead of moving laterally
(03:24):
replacing his back foot with his front foot, he l
steps and then crosses over, which instead of just moving
laterally and shifting, like I said, shuffling to his right
off of the l step off of the reset, which
would allow him to be ready to go and ready
to fight again, it takes him that extra beat to
get back into fight.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Stands a couple of reasons for this.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Maybe you know, listen, he can gain a lot more
ground by taking that lead leg and stepping it across
and resetting it. Just it feels to me like it
takes too much time. And when you are spending time
taking the lead leg crossing it over, and there's a
guy in front of you that does want a CounterPunch,
like a Terrence Crawford, that does want to be a
bit more mobile here and not stand in the pocket
with Canelo, because why would he do that? Exchange power
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punches with Canelo Alvarez. Don't use your feet. Not to
say that Terrence is a runner, because he never has been,
but to try to reset and cut different angles. You
don't want to be stepping all over your stance and
having to reset and reset and reset instead of being
ready to fire when Terrence Crawford eventually does change angles,
eventually does circle out, or eventually does go from south
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pot at orthodox. If the Canelo is trying to l
step and step over himself, that's just wasted motion. And
a guy that's coming up in weight that does maintain
a bit of his speed could potentially take advantage of I.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
See it time and time again with him.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
It's not a massive deal because that l step and
walk can absolutely reset you. As long as you come
back with a fane or come back with something to
put your opponent on the back foot. It's not the
worst thing in the world by any means. It's just
it feels like for the things that Canelo has struggled
with in his last couple of fights, you may want
to see something a little different there, maybe a little
bit more of a shuffle.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But we move on. Let's take a look at Canelo
on the bag. This is a of sports illustrated.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
He's on the heavy bag at some UFC gym here
and he's just doing a little.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Bit of work.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Right hand left hook, head movement, right hand left hook,
bang bang. Now again, do I think that Canelo is
gonna throw this way necessarily in a fight?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Number one, his feet are very flat, and again, Canelo
hasn't made a living off of being able to stand
in front of guys and utilize big time power and
be a little flat footed right upper body movement, head
movement and then throwing shots behind it. Being defensive and
then transitioning back to his offense has been a strength
of his, especially as he's gone up in weight or
he hasn't had to utilize as much energy right where
(05:41):
he's fighting bigger guys than he needs that power punch
to put away, even though he hasn't put anybody away
since Caleb plant.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
But that's another topic for another day.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You see him very flat footed, throwing the right hand
lead bang left hook, behind it, head movement jab, right
hand left hook, and then right hand bang left hook.
And you notice the way Canelo throws his hooks. It's
almost like there'sn't a lot of winging to it. It's
almost like a shovel hook, or it's almost like an
(06:10):
up jab where you get over that lead leg and
bang the up jab, except he's kind of throwing it
as a hook. But it's I don't know, it's hard
to really describe, but it's not like a normal hook.
He's stabbing that in there. It's not like a come
across and slap hook. He's really trying to damage and
Canelo one of his best shots over the years has
been that lead hook into the backhand rear upper cut,
(06:30):
or that lead hook into the big right hand over
the top. And he really starts to and I think
he took some of this from Triple G in there fight.
He really chops down with stuff as he sits down
on punches here. But again, one of the big question
marks around this fight is what would Canelo do a
little bit defensively, like what would he do a little
different and he has, you know, per se in the
Dmitri Vivo fight, because as much as people want to
(06:53):
believe that the only reason Dmeetri BiVO beat Canelo al
Res was because he was bigger, I disagree. And I
think that if people do believe that they're in for
a route awakening, if Canelo continues to just stand more
plotty and flat footed and look to throw just pot
shots and power punches without the jabs set up and
without the same level of output, because Terrence Crawford will
(07:15):
expose that, I think in a way that Dimitri buvol
did when yes, Vivil's size allowed him to take some
of those power shots that we don't know that Bud
Crawford will.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
But look at the style in.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Which Dmitri Buell fights, that Soviet Eastern European bladed stance
boxing style. It's not what Bud Crawford does, but it
allowed him to land a lot of volume and a
lot of in and out movement, and he kind of
walked Canelo down and put Canelo on the ropes in
that fight, and again, completely different fighter than Bud Crawford.
My point is, I don't think Canelo can do what
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he's done to a lot of the one hundred and
sixty eight pounders and just stand there in front of them,
or walk them down and be flat footed and throw
his combination big time power the entirety of the fight.
I think later in the fight, after he's established a
bit in the beginning and you start to do that
and break a fighter down. I could see a Caleb
Plant style overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I could see a.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Little bit of the Billy Joe Saunders thing, But you're
gonna have to set things up. Terrence Crawford's too good
with his eyes, He's too good with his counterpunching. He
doesn't have to run away from you to use his
feet and cut angles. I don't see Canelo just standing
there and looking to just throw power punches all night.
I really think for him to be successful, that jab
has to be working.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And I say all that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Because when I look at him on the heavy bag there,
I don't see him putting a ton of effort into
the speed and power. I don't see him putting a
ton of effort into to moving around the bag. I
see him working specifically on a commodation that he likes
off of some head movement and using that to maybe
set up something else that he has a little bit
more powerful in the bag. Here's him working on the
mits with Dadie Renoso double jab, and then you see
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that stick of a right hand.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Double jab, touch, touch.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Bang, right hand and again Canelo just decides I'm gonna
go for a walk ah right, and he just takes
off now again and Edy Renoso is standing southpaw here,
and I don't know if that's a purpose when he's
holding these mits, because Terrence Crawford will probably be in
a more southpaw stance, and we know that in the
past Canelo has, you know, somewhat struggled with southpaw fighters,
(09:13):
but that could just be Renozo just holding the midst
a certain way. But you see even there, Renozo goes
southpaw and he's simulating an attack here.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
From Terrence Crawfords.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I'm trying not to take too much away from this,
but it's the only footage we've seen mits wise or
otherwise of Canelo in this lead up. But when you
do fight a southpaw as an orthodox fighter, one of
the first things that a lot of the game plan
is tailored around is getting this lead foot on the
outside of your opponent's lead foot because it opens that
lane for your right hand. In this case, for Canelo
being the orthodox guy, for his right hand to come
(09:45):
straight down the pipe, should he want to set it
up with his lead hand.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And then look at this laser beam one down the middle.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Right here Eddie Renoso has the outside track and he's
holding the mitst. But then as we go back and watch,
watch how Canelo manipulates the space touch touch with the
jab and then he steps on the outside straight right
hand down the pipe. That is a good right hand
versus the south park because it's very much manipulating the
speed and the distance and the angle all in a
couple of punches. I like that because it's it's layered.
(10:13):
And again I could be making a mountain out of
a mole hill. But you watch Canlo go from the
inside track with his foot to just pepper in that
jab out touch touch, step outside, then right hand, so
you don't give away the tactic of trying to get
that outside foot, but you set it up with the
lead hand. Look at what I'm doing here, step outside bang.
I like that very interesting. And again you see Canelo
getting under the lead hand after finishing his combination and
(10:35):
trying to protect himself by stepping to the outside, cutting
the angle, and then er Noso wants him to go
left and then circle back with the right hand. So
there's a lot that you can take away there. Number one,
big time right hand from Canelo. Bah stuck in that there,
and then again that cross step, which I do not
like him rolling under kind of a lazy left hook
(10:57):
to throw a right hand left hook over the top,
and I get and I'm trying to look at it
as Renoso playing the.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Role of Crawford out of South Paul.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And there's a couple of things that I like, some
that I don't out of Canelo. But then again, it's
just a drill and I'm probably making way too much
of it. But again, it's all I have to go
off of, so I have to take.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It for what it is.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And those are the only clips that came out today
in regards to Canelo's media workout. So what do we
see there? We see a little bit of what he
wants to do to take advantage of a right hand
south palm matchup. Get his lead foot on the outside,
bang the right hand down the pipe, set it up
with the jab and maybe even fire that jab at
the lead hand of Crawford to just get it touched.
Touch step outside.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Right hand down the middle.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
We saw Canelo doing a lot of cross stepping, which
is I think a bad idea versus someone who has
good angle manipulation like Crawford does. Right, every wasted movement
is going to be a capitalization for Crawford to try
to fire back on it. Canelo is gonna be there
to be hit with some counterpunches, Make no mistake about it.
Canelo will stand in the pocket. Yes, he'll try to
(11:56):
make Crawford miss, but sometimes I'll even eat a couple
so that he can be there behind that high guard
taking punches to look for one of the big ones
on his own countershot. So that can be a little
bit of the gamesmanship too. That can be a little
bit of the chess game going on. Is who's gonna
land the bigger CounterPunch and how many of those can
Crawford take? Moving up to one sixty eight versus Canelo,
who has been there and is fighting a guy that
has fought in a lot smaller way and that hasn't
(12:17):
seen the power. Like we talked about the narratives being
built that Canelo brings it one sixty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Even now, all those things will come into play.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I think a big, big, important part of this fight
is just how much Canelo utilizes his lead hand, because
I'm telling you it's going to be the most important
thing in this fight. I really think if Canelo is
back on his jab and is able to mask some
of the stuff that he loves to do, which is
that lead hook to the body, smashing hook on the arms,
on the body, on the shoulders, if he's able to
hide it just a little bit and then hit you
(12:44):
with that timing that Canelo Alvarez timing that's been perfect,
that put down a Mere Cohn, that put down Billy
Joe Saunders, that found the button on Covi Lev those punches,
that timing. It's not just speed, it's not just power,
it's the throwing in between, it's finding the right shot.
Those things can make all the difference in the world.
Because I would almost bet everything I own that if
Canelo lands clean on Crawford, it's gonna have far more
(13:05):
of an effect than Crawford landing clean on Canelo. And
that's not even because both guys don't possess power. Crawford
possesses power, and he's put a lot of guys down.
The Canelo we've seen has an iron chin, and I
watched Crawford get rocked by Gambola again different time period.
I get that, but I don't think that as you
get older and even as you go up and wait
that somehow makes you more readily available to take flush punches,
(13:28):
right That Usually those two things, the combination of getting
older and going up to a weight that you didn't
naturally fight at, tends to not actually help out your chin.
Tends to make you a little bit more vulnerable to
getting hit with big punches, especially when you're not someone
that cuts a ton of weight to begin with. I
don't think Crawford was cutting a ton of weight when
he was at one forty, when he was at one
forty seven, So him now trying to bulk to get
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to one sixty eight, it's definitely gonna have a factor
in the fight. It's definitely gonna mean something when he
gets touched with a shot from Canelo, who's not, by
the way, a natural one to sixty eight in his
own right, but still that power carries for him.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
We still don't know if it will for Bud Crawford.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But it's not just about the power and making this
as simple as Canelo's power versus Terrence Crawford's skill. We
take out so many factors, like Canelo Alvarez's skill, like
Terrence Crawford's timing, like Canelo Alvarez's manipulation of your guard
and your defense, and Terrence Crawford's angle switch and leaving
you in bad positions with your footwork to not be
able to answer when he fires off, using your own
(14:24):
momentum against you as you try to walk him down,
and then he steps in with his lead foot pivots
out and he's at a ninety degree perpendicular and you're
looking over your shoulder, like, what the hell was that?
These type of things I think are going to be
more interesting than just saying, well, if Crawford can handle
the power, or well if Canelo can find his chin.
Those things matter, but let's talk about the intricacies of it.
(14:47):
Let's talk about the nuance that those things both imply,
which is that Canelo is going to fight differently than
he has as of recent of one to sixty eight,
almost the style of like I'm gonna big brow you,
which it feels like he's done to everybody at one
sixty eight, but as of recently hasn't been able to
stop some of those guys. For Crawford, it can't just
be him sitting there and letting Canelo walk him down
and put him on the ropes and land whatever he
wants at will, just because he doesn't want to open
(15:08):
up versus a one point sixty eight pounder, or he
can't be someone that's uncharacteristic of himself. He can't go
out there and throw a ton of volume, right. He
can't be out there looking like Dmitri Bivold. That's not
how Crawford fights. He has to be able to get
some respect early on from Canelo to be able to
draw Canelo in and make him pay when he does
get a little over confident, when the hands do go
up in that high guard and he just wants to
walk through everything, or when he starts winging out those
(15:29):
shots and not sitting it up with the jat, or
when he cross steps and gets his feet tangled up
and gets himself out of position. Crawford, unlike William Skull,
unlike Edgar Berlanga, unlike Himimongia, who didn't make.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Him pay for those things.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Crawford has to and he has to do it with
some authority because, honestly, the way I look at this
fight is that it's very difficult for me to see
Terrence Crawford winning by knockout. Not to say it's not possible,
because it definitely could be, but I think the path
of victory for Crawford is to be able to counter
Canelo when he comes in with lazy footwork or when
he stands is flat footed, when he only throws one
or two at a time and Crawford can throw three, four,
(16:04):
five back. I don't see him walking Canelo down, even
though he said that at the press conference out he
walked Canelo down, He's gonna walk him down because Canelo
is supposed to be the bigger man.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But we'll see about that.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
And trust me, I've seen the pictures of Terrence Crawford.
He looks like he's filling into one sixty eight just fine.
But that looks great on camera.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It does. It looks amazing and still shots.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It looks good when the muscles are glistening and he's
all flexed up and he's tired from his workout, But
what happens when you have to fight at that weight
And I'm not talking about Canelo's power, I'm talking about
body physiology, a weight that Terrence Crawford's never fought at,
a weight that he's not used to going rounds at,
at least not outside of just the gym. We're talking
about a stadium full of people, sixty thou seventy thousand, whatever.
(16:44):
It's going to be an allegiance and your first time
at the weight class, and it potentially could go twelve rounds,
and oh, by the way, you need to win more
of those twelve rounds. And I'd argue that the only
path to victory for Terrence Crawford is a decision win.
That's just the way I see it, because I mean
it's true. Whereas Canelo can get down on those cards
early and look to just beat Terrence Crawford up and
make him adjust to that weight class by going deep
(17:04):
into the fight and trying to maintain a style that
I don't know his body is ready for, and then
no one knows his body is ready for. So there's
a ton of things still to come. But I wanted
to make this video because finally, we get some camp
footage from seem Canelo. Crawford's been pretty open, at least
in bits about his camp footage. Right He has shown
some footwork, he's shown some shadow boxing, he's showed some mitwork.
He's not been super shy. It's all on Crawford's YouTube channel,
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and when I get back home, we'll probably watch a
lot more of that because we'll have two weeks to
get ready for one of the biggest fights ever. But
as we sit here, I just wanted to get a
quick update on Canelo Crawford and what I think are
some of the biggest shrinks that Canelo is working on
and some of his biggest weaknesses. Common section, let me
know what you think down below. Who wins this fight?
What are you thinking from what you've seen in just
(17:46):
the small clips out of Canelo's training and some of
the stuff from Crawford's training. I don't have the answers
as of right now. You know it's way I'm leaning
which right now, Logically I think it just makes more
sense to lean Canelo. But maybe my opinion could switch
or it won't.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But September thirteenth, the fight goes down presented by the
Ring Magazine, His Excellency Turkey Elis Jake Tko boxing Dana White.
They just announced the broadcast team. It's Jon and it
gets Max Kellerman.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I'm pretty sure I saw andre Ward on there.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's the who's who of fight commentary, broadcasters and reporters.
Michael Buffer will be in attendance. It will be a
night none of us will ever forget. But the real
question is what happens in that main event when Canelo
steps in.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
With Terrence Crawford.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I don't have those answers, but it's only a matter
of time, less than a month away. On September thirteenth,
when they step in, what happens then, I guess we'll
find out
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