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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, folks, welcome back to The Way Go Sat
presented by The Ring Magazine. It just happened. Terrence Crawford
just beat Canelo Alvarez decisively to become the new super
middleweight undisputed champion of the world three times undisputed, and
I'm just gonna say it, he's one of the greatest
(00:21):
boxers of all time. We have to talk about it
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(00:41):
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And now let's get into that breakdown. So folks, like
(01:46):
I said, this is insane what has just happened between
Terrence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez. And I'll be the first
to admitut it. 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 Canelo Alvarez. He
didn't just narrowly beat him. He didn't just get a
robbery or slim decision. No, he decisively beat Canelo Alvarez.
(02:11):
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 comment section doing that, I'm giving you the ma
tumbo fingerwag nada. That's not what happened. He was able to, yes,
use his legs when needed, but when he was also
(02:33):
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 was going to
be a question of how would Terrence Crawford respond to
(02:53):
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 Canelo 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 to cut him off,
not being able to get to him, and even when
(03:15):
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 time to Canelo's one
stagnant shot at a time. It was very evident from
(03:38):
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 pressure him and get in his face and
hit him with big punches and it felt like maybe
the momentum was turning, Terrence squashed all of that right.
(04:00):
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 Canelo'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. Terrence got right back
on that front foot, met him in the pocket, and
(04:20):
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 to get to range, it
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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 same 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 he threw that hook,
(05:03):
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 his way faint jab
(05:24):
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 that lee
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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. And again
(06:06):
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 is 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 looked old, that's fine,
(06:28):
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 gray, 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 in weight.
(06:49):
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 found Hansbeed 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. And that's why I
(07:10):
don't want to take away anything by Colin Canelo, 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 Terence Crawford to move
up from one forty seven to one fifty four, really
from one thirty five to one forty one forty seven
(07:30):
to one fifty four, then go, 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 when he
needed that is the biggest win of his career, and
it speaks to how he prepared to how he put
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himself in the best position possible, his build, his frame.
He's got a crazy reach, by the way, for he's
got like a seventy five inch reach. He utilized it
all and again it was 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 a little more, he was moving.
(08:14):
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 where you thought Canelo would
(08:34):
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 Caleb Plant, because when Terrence Crawford
was all the way in and it was a matter
(08:56):
of make you miss, make you pay. Go back and
look at some of those replays, the sneak 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,
(09:16):
everything was out here and 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. I know it was
(09:39):
one sixteen, one twelve and then two one fifteen, one thirteen's.
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 eight four fight.
Maybe some people are gonna go crazy and say it
was twelve zero. I don't know about all that, but
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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, Crawford was willing
to answer that, and it got to the point where
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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 Canelo being
a bit more frustrated in this fight, visibly, body language,
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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 bit
more frustrated, having a re set himself and get back
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
(11:08):
to Terrence. He would start Terrence with jab him, 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 w a fight, that body language. But
in that twelfth round, I watched Terrence sit down on punches,
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
(11:30):
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 welt on Canelo's eye.
The most damaged Canelo landed was to the body. I
felt in this fight. And if you thought that Canelo's
body work was going to slow cit Terrence Crawford down,
(11:50):
you thought it was gonna slow him to the point
where it was gonna 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 were right, I was wrong. The weight class,
the weight for Canelo didn't make a difference. Now, if
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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 gonna be. And Terence Crawford was a much
better boxer than Canelo was, which I expected, but I
did expect Canelo's power and its sustainability to be better
(12:33):
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 mindset that I don't know, but
Terrence's ability shut it down. Like there was no consistent
jabbing from Canelo. There was no consistent really attack outside
(12:55):
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 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 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
(13:17):
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 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, Aerol Spence after the car crash,
(13:38):
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. Did we just look at
Matrimof and go, damn matcham Mof'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
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good as we thought he was, He's better. That's the
craziest part about it. I didn't think we are 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
(14:20):
something similar, but this was a smaller 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
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was the craziest part of it, out boxing Canelo completely
and utterly. And then the question 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?
(15:01):
I don't know. That's so tough. That's four places, four
places in boxing. And I don't 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. He is the
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,
(15:24):
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
so tough. You have Floyd Mayweather there, you have Manny
Pakiaw there, you have Roy Jones, there, you have Muhammad
Ali there. There's so many guys that have put on
(15:48):
that list. Juleo, Sasers, Trivs seen here. There's so many
it's really tough to start picking between one and ten,
and you can interchange some people in all of that,
but he's definitely one of the greatest fighters boxers I
have ever seen, and tonight prove that. I just I
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can't say enough of how about impressed I am. 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 Year
(16:33):
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 Bulatchick and Adams?
That was another insane fight. I can't say enough about
I think a success here, a massive success. We'll see
what the numbers look like. But I couldn't give a
(16:53):
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.
(17:16):
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
(17:39):
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 gonna ask the question that we leave off with
I genuinely don't know. I think he might retire, and
I think it make all the sense in the world
(18:01):
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
(18:23):
trying to sound disrespectful to Canelo, but do we really
need to see a rematch? What goes differently that that
next fight? Does Canelo all of a sudden become a
change fighter, a different fighter than we saw tonight? He
becomes someone that is now volume, heavy, light on his feet,
is able to track down. No, not to me, because
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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 hell? What else
(19:04):
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.
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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,
(19:53):
the Canelo 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
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seen his competitive nature up front 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. What did he say?
This is one? This one's for the nobody's. Is that
what he said? Yeah? For all? Look at this for
(20:42):
all the nobodies, for all the nobodies. And then and
then there's this I don't care what and you you
will see that. So when I beat you is, you're
gonna be a nobody.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
When I stop him asses, you're gonna be on 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 in the assid he gonna be next?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
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 to zero
thirty one knockouts. He left no doubt. Now, with all
(21:36):
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, rousing success. Congrats to the Ring magazine,
Congrats to Netflix, Congrats to Bud, Congrats to everybody on
(21:59):
the car 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
All right, folks, welcome back to The Way Go Sat
presented by The Ring Magazine. It just happened. Terrence Crawford
just beat Canelo Alvarez decisively to become the new super
middleweight undisputed champion of the world three times undisputed, and
I'm just gonna say it, he's one of the greatest
(00:21):
boxers of all time. We have to talk about it
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And now let's get into that breakdown. So folks, like
(01:46):
I said, this is insane what has just happened between
Terrence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez. And I'll be the first
to admitut it. 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 Canelo Alvarez. He
didn't just narrowly beat him. He didn't just get a
robbery or slim decision. No, he decisively beat Canelo Alvarez.
(02:11):
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 comment section doing that, I'm giving you the ma
tumbo fingerwag nada. That's not what happened. He was able to, yes,
use his legs when needed, but when he was also
(02:33):
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 was going to
be a question of how would Terrence Crawford respond to
(02:53):
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 Canelo 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 to cut him off,
not being able to get to him, and even when
(03:15):
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 time to Canelo's one
stagnant shot at a time. It was very evident from
(03:38):
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 pressure him and get in his face and
hit him with big punches and it felt like maybe
the momentum was turning, Terrence squashed all of that right.
(04:00):
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 Canelo'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. Terrence got right back
on that front foot, met him in the pocket, and
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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 to get to range, it
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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 same 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 he threw that hook,
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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 his way faint jab
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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 that lee
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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. And again
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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 is 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 looked old, that's fine,
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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 gray, 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 in weight.
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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 found Hansbeed 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. And that's why I
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don't want to take away anything by Colin Canelo, 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 Terence Crawford to move
up from one forty seven to one fifty four, really
from one thirty five to one forty one forty seven
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to one fifty four, then go, 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 when he
needed that is the biggest win of his career, and
it speaks to how he prepared to how he put
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himself in the best position possible, his build, his frame.
He's got a crazy reach, by the way, for he's
got like a seventy five inch reach. He utilized it
all and again it was 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 a little more, he was moving.
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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 where you thought Canelo would
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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 Caleb Plant, because when Terrence Crawford
was all the way in and it was a matter
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of make you miss, make you pay. Go back and
look at some of those replays, the sneak 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,
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everything was out here and 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. I know it was
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one sixteen, one twelve and then two one fifteen, one thirteen's.
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 eight four fight.
Maybe some people are gonna go crazy and say it
was twelve zero. I don't know about all that, but
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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, Crawford was willing
to answer that, and it got to the point where
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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 Canelo being
a bit more frustrated in this fight, visibly, body language,
(10:45):
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 bit
more frustrated, having a re set himself and get back
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
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to Terrence. He would start Terrence with jab him, 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 w a fight, that body language. But
in that twelfth round, I watched Terrence sit down on punches,
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
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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 welt on Canelo's eye.
The most damaged Canelo landed was to the body. I
felt in this fight. And if you thought that Canelo's
body work was going to slow cit Terrence Crawford down,
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you thought it was gonna slow him to the point
where it was gonna 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 were right, I was wrong. The weight class,
the weight for Canelo didn't make a difference. Now, if
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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 gonna be. And Terence Crawford was a much
better boxer than Canelo was, which I expected, but I
did expect Canelo's power and its sustainability to be better
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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 mindset that I don't know, but
Terrence's ability shut it down. Like there was no consistent
jabbing from Canelo. There was no consistent really attack outside
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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 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 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
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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 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, Aerol Spence after the car crash,
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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. Did we just look at
Matrimof and go, damn matcham Mof'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
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good as we thought he was, He's better. That's the
craziest part about it. I didn't think we are 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
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something similar, but this was a smaller 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
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was the craziest part of it, out boxing Canelo completely
and utterly. And then the question 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?
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I don't know. That's so tough. That's four places, four
places in boxing. And I don't 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. He is the
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,
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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
so tough. You have Floyd Mayweather there, you have Manny
Pakiaw there, you have Roy Jones, there, you have Muhammad
Ali there. There's so many guys that have put on
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that list. Juleo, Sasers, Trivs seen here. There's so many
it's really tough to start picking between one and ten,
and you can interchange some people in all of that,
but he's definitely one of the greatest fighters boxers I
have ever seen, and tonight prove that. I just I
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can't say enough of how about impressed I am. 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 Year
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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 Bulatchick and Adams?
That was another insane fight. I can't say enough about
I think a success here, a massive success. We'll see
what the numbers look like. But I couldn't give a
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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.
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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
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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 gonna ask the question that we leave off with
I genuinely don't know. I think he might retire, and
I think it make all the sense in the world
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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
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trying to sound disrespectful to Canelo, but do we really
need to see a rematch? What goes differently that that
next fight? Does Canelo all of a sudden become a
change fighter, a different fighter than we saw tonight? He
becomes someone that is now volume, heavy, light on his feet,
is able to track down. No, not to me, because
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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 hell? What else
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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.
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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,
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the Canelo 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
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seen his competitive nature up front 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. What did he say?
This is one? This one's for the nobody's. Is that
what he said? Yeah? For all? Look at this for
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all the nobodies, for all the nobodies. And then and
then there's this I don't care what and you you
will see that. So when I beat you is, you're
gonna be a nobody.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
When I stop him asses, you're gonna be on 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 in the assid he gonna be next?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
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 to zero
thirty one knockouts. He left no doubt. Now, with all
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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, rousing success. Congrats to the Ring magazine,
Congrats to Netflix, Congrats to Bud, Congrats to everybody on
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the car 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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