July 30, 2025 • 23 mins
Terence Crawford is coming up 2 weight divisions, fighting one of the greatest boxers ever and doing it all with multiple odds stacked against him.. And i think PERFCTION is his only option.. Here’s why
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, so we are back on the way concept
presented by the Ring. And today I've been thinking about
the biggest fight in boxing this year. That's right, Mello
Alvarez Terrence Crawford live on Netflix, Ring Magazine, Collegia Stadium,
September thirteenth, Las Vegas, Nevada. This one is gonna be
massive for all the right reasons. You have, like I said,
(00:20):
Ring Magazine involved, You have Dana White involved, you have
Max Kellerman involved, you.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Have obviously Turkey Ali Shake putting the fight on.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You have the biggest name in boxing in Canelo Alvarez,
and Terrence Crawford looking for his third undisputed world championship.
But today I've been pontificating, yes, big word, don't linger
on it, move on, can't help it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That was a big word. Proud of myself.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I've been pondering and pontificating is to who actually wins
this fight? And I've only come up with every single
scenario possible, imaginable and why.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think it all leads to one answer.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That is, Terrence Crawford may need to be absolutely perfect
to beat Canelo Alvarez. Only given night, you don't know
how a fighter's going to show up. So maybe I'm
expecting a little too much. But let's discuss why I
think Terrence Crawford needs to be perfect to beat Canelo Alvarez.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
The breakdown.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Let's go all right, So let's lay out the situation.
Terrence Crawford Canelo Alvarez at one hundred and sixty eight pounds,
and we've been over at time and time again. I
feel like the build up has been a washing machine
on a repeat cycle. No SuDS included, just full rints.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
We know what this is.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Terrence Crawford moving up to one sixty eight, a weight
he's never competed at, and two divisions higher than the
last weight he competed at one hundred and fifty four.
He only did that once before that one forty seven.
This is more of a jump up than Super Mario
hitting bricks, looking for mushrooms or cave for Canelo. Obviously,
at one sixty eight he has been a bit of
the smaller man at that weight class and in the
last couple of years has had trouble finishing opponents and
(01:46):
getting guys out of there like he would have at
one sixty or one fifty four. Do you have a
bit of a duality there, both guys coming into this
fight in the let's say twilight of their careers or
maybe twilight of their primes. However you want to look
at it. Canelo is going to be I think thirty five,
Terrence's thirty eight. You have a similar situation, different paths
and different struggles for both fighters. But when you look
(02:06):
at who has to do more in this fight, it's
clearly Terence Crawford as far as what he's giving up
and sacrificing to win this third undisputed championship and to
try to beat Canelo, who has only been beat twice
in his career, one of which was Floyd Mayweather be
in slick in tagging Canelo with counter punches when Canelo missed,
seeing the smaller, lighter fighter and up there in age
(02:28):
that was still able to take advantage of the youth
and experience of Canelo Alvarez, but also just being a
defensive maestro and able to counter off of that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Floyd is one of one, and.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Then you have Dmitri Bivol, who was the bigger fighter.
And the things that Canelo does very well didn't really
hurt him too bad, right, The things that had carried
Canelo up in division was his power and the ability
to break an opponent down, maybe not stopping them in
the early to mid part of fights, but working on them,
wearing on them with that power, even losing rounds throughout.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The mid to first part of fights.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Lily Jos comes to mind where he potentially is losing
a couple of those rounds and then finally finds the
opening and has devastating power to overwhelm opponents. He couldn't
do that at once seventy five with d mit your bivol.
He had found the weight that he couldn't ascend to
and his power could carry him through or the style
of fight that he had come accustomed to. Since the
Gonatti glovegn fights, he in a lot more reserved with
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not only his punch count but also his movement. Had
seen a new burst to Canelo really being defensively sound
with his upper body and slipping punches, but looking for
almost exclusive power punching to open up holes in the
defense and then eventually finish fight. Now again, those are
the only two guys to ever beat Canelo, So everybody else,
regardless of the strategy, regardless of the skill they got,
(03:40):
found out at a certain point.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And that's why I'm saying Terrence Crawford may.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Have to be absolutely perfect here, and I'm not saying
he can't do it, but there's only a couple of
avenues that I think Terrence Crawford can take to win
this fight. I don't see him coming up to one
hundred and sixty eight pounds and knocking Canelo Alvarez out.
Let's be honest, that's gonna be pretty difficult to do. Again,
you're talking about a natural one hundred and forty pounds
maybe one hundred and forty seven pound er now starting to.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Build and get bigger.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And as we've seen in pictures recently, here's Terrence Crawford.
He looks like he's trying to fill into all of
one hundred and sixty eight pounds here. I mean, he
probably weighs one hundred and eighty three eighty four pounds.
I mean that's what he said. I think when I
interviewed him, he was in one hundred and eighty pounds,
So he's coming up in weight and it looks like
he's trying to put some heavy muscle mass on, which, okay,
you know you want to inflict some damage on Canelo.
(04:25):
If we remember back their press conference, this is what
he said to Canelo. This is not the greatest quality
of video, but listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
So when I beat you, is you gonna be a nobody?
When I stup a muhole in your asses, You're gonna
be a nobody.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You're gonna be just like everybody else.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Watch.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Watch ain't shit that everybody else been saying since I
moved at one forty seven. I ain't foughting nobody. Every
last one of them stuff a muhole in as.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Said, he gonna be nice.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Watch So again, you know you hear the tone of
voice that Crawford is and he's not just a talker.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
He's not someone looking to sell a fight up there.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I look at this as again, when I look at
the style of fight potentially Terrence Crawford is gonna bring
to Canelo, it looks like he wants to stand in
front of him and push him back a little bit
of Even in the press conferences they had, there was
that pushing and shoving where Canelo kind of walked up
on him and pushed Terrence back, and then the second
press conference, Terrence Crawford pushed him back so yeah, there's
a mind games going on there for sure, But Terrence
looks like he wants to be able to push Canelo
(05:25):
back to inflict some power on Canelo, and I just
don't know if that's the move here.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Again, I'm not a boxer. I'm not the one going
inside the ropes. But the way I see this potentially
working out for Terrence, it's simple but insanely difficult. You
have to be good at everything. I just don't know
if that's the right avenue. Like trying to push Canelo
back is one thing. Trying to overwhelm him with volume
like Dmitri Bivold did, is definitely an idea, but again
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you have to look at the factor surrounding that. You
have to look at biv OL's size, right, his natural
aptitude for volume punching.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That is his strategy. That's his game, and.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It's usually done off the front foot. It's not counter
punching then following up with combinations. We've seen Bud as
a great counterpuncher, but leading the dance and even in
the Madram fight, it looked a little difficult for him
to get going. If it takes you a while to
get going against Canelo. You're just falling right into his
game plan standing in front of him. You want to
go flat footed with Canelo Alvarez and just be in
the pocket. That's not gonna in my opinion, unless you're
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shooting inside the big looping shots of Canelo, because sometimes
he will open up and hit some big looping shots
around the guard and in front of him. Is not
the idea at least not to me. But again, I'm
just the commentator guy. I'm just the guy on YouTube,
So maybe I don't know. But my point is this
is why I say Terrence Crawford needs to be perfect
because I don't think he's knocking Canelo out right? Does
anyone believe that's the potential possibility here for a guy
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Canelo or Alvarez that has probably the best chin in boxing.
And we're gonna watch a video in a second where
Joe Rogan and Jim Lampley talk about Canelo and what
makes him special and his the defense and why he's
never really been hurt ever.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I just don't see that as a strategy.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Then you look at what Terrence is giving up right
weight size him trying to make up the weight and
size by putting the pounds on. This is Terrence having
to try to balance putting weight on versus still being explosive,
still being able to have some mobility, and to be
able to throw volume without getting tired at the newfound weight.
This is why I say he has to be perfect,
meaning you have to be able to box Canelo, move,
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be mobile with Canelo, throw volume with Canelo, be first
with Canelo, not get driven back by Canelo's presence and
just him walking through punches and trying to slip and
use his head movement. And I know I'm saying a
lot of this stuff like it's a foregone conclusion. Canelo's
gonna walk forward, Canelo's gonna be in front of you.
Canelo is going to try to walk you down, Like yeah,
that's that's for sure what I think Canelo's gonna do.
(07:41):
But to beat him, you can't let any of it happen,
and then you have to let volume go. You can't
make this a Canelo Alvarez circa the last three years
type of fight where sure you're a mover like William Skull,
but you're not throwing any punches. You're on your back
foot and Canelo's not giving you any respect and he's
just walking you down.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That can't happen.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Also, he can't really stand in front of Canelo like
him Mugia did and try to trade with him, or
else you're gonna get caught and he'll maybe put you down,
maybe not finish you, but it'll hurt you and put
you down. Or if he can't catch Terrence Crawford clean.
Because Crawford does a great job in his pocket presence
and his defense inside of the phone booth, that Canelo
is gonna try to punch him in the arms, he's
gonna try to punch him.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
In the shoulders.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And while BiVO waved the finger at him, gave him
them tumbo finger wag and said, no, that didn't work
with me. Yeah, that's because Bivol's a natural two hundred
pound two hundred and ten pound human fighting at one
seventy five. That's why that didn't work. Terrence Crawford is
not that. So all these things adding up in my mind,
they just tell me Terrence has.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
To be perfect.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
He has to be able to do everything versus Canelo,
and he if anybody has the skill to do it,
it's Terrence Crawford. And let's not act like Canelo is
beyond getting beat here, right, there is a path to
victory for Terrence, and to me gets through decision when.
And this is why I say he's gonna have to
be a bit mobile. He's gonna have to take it
to Canelo at times, like you've seen him talk about
(08:57):
in these pressers and you know, stopping a mud hole
and walking forward on Canelo.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
He's gonna have to do that at times.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Right, you can't just get run over for twelve rounds
and expect to win, or he can't be on the
back foot for twelve rounds and expect to be canny.
But Terrence has an avenue where he can outthrow outland,
can keep himself safe. Throw in pockets, circle back to range,
back to the pocket, jab on the way in, back
to range, back to the pocket, jab on the way in,
and rinse and repeat. But I want to take more
(09:23):
of a deeper dive for people that know a lot
more than I do. So let's take a listen at
Jim Lampley talking on the Joe Rogan experience. We've actually
never done a Joe Rogan experience breakdown on the channel,
so I don't know how this is gonna go with
you two. But let's take a look and see what
he had to say and what Joe had to say
about the fight.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
About Canela versus Crawford. Yeah, do you think Terrence Crawford
can beat Canelo outverress?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, I think he's won. Okay, I don't know if
he's going to win, but I think he can win.
So he's going to have to.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That is the answer that I feel like everybody is
having right now. Terrence can win, I just don't know
if he's going to because of the uphill battle. He's
up in weight and the things you need to do
up in weight are going to be tough. Stylistically with
what Canelo brings the way you fight versus the way
Canelo fights, it kind of does tailor to Canelo if
you want to be a counterpuncher and just look for
(10:12):
openings in exchange. The questions around the way all that,
I feel like Joe is kind of saying what a
lot of people are saying is that he can, but will.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
He's going to have to box a brilliant fight.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Okay, what kind of a fight I'm gonna get to that?
I asked the Great Larry Merchant ninety four years old,
living on Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica, looking out at
the ocean, reflecting on all the amazing things he did,
and I asked.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Larry, Dude, can anybody set the scene better than Jim Lambley?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
What a legend, dude.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And I'll say this sidebar in this video. Just getting
to do a little two minute segment that I got
to do with Jim on his own broadcast in New
York from Louis Armstrong Stadium was so sick. He was
such a professional. I remember we did the test and
uh like right before we're gonna go live, and he
said something like, I was, you know, doing my fill
(11:07):
to intro him before we ever went on the pay
per view, and he said, I said to him, I said,
describing him, I go, I'm here with the goat, the
best broadcaster in all of combat sports or whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I said.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
When we were done, he came back and said, I
love what you said. That was awesome. Just make sure
you call me a blow by blow again. And I
loved that because, like it was one instructional for me
and two it's exactly what he should be called. He's
not just a commentator, he's not just a broadcaster. He
is the goat to me low by blow commentator, broadcaster
(11:39):
in combat sports over the or in boxing over the
last however long, right, That's just that was really cool
of him to do so. Anyway, Jim sets the scene
like Noah.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
This looking out at the ocean, reflecting on all the
amazing things he did. And I asked Larry, I said,
do you think Terrence Crawford has a beat, has a
chance to beat Canelo Alvres And Larry said, Jim, did
Ray Leonard get an official decision victory over marvelous Marvin
Hagler And I said, yes, he did. He said, well,
(12:07):
if Ray Leonard could beat Marvelous Marvin Hagler, then Terrence
Crawford can beat Canilo Alvarez. And I said, why do
you say that? He said, same equation, get in, get out,
get in, get out, over and over and over.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
He's got to figure the angles and the approaches that. Yeah,
you know, I don't hate what Jim is saying here.
And this is his talking through the storytelling of Larry Merchant,
who said this, but it's a little bit of a
different fight, right like when you saw Sugar Ray Leonard
and marvelous Marvin Hagler. That fight Sugar had to answer
different questions. Yes, get in, get out, But you're talking
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about Marvin Hagler, who was still at that point still
a great switch hitter. Could definitely bite down on the
mouthpiece and swing, but he had volume for days.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
His output was crazy, He had great fee.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He himself was able to cut angles and use his
feet to switch and be in front of you the
entire time. Ray had to Like, you know, Jim is
saying that Ray had to get in get out, But
that wasn't because of just the power that Marvin was bringing.
It was the volume it was bringing. It was the
aggression he was bringing. It was him being able to
cut off the ring and switch stances to do it.
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Canelo can cut the ring. Canello can hit you with power,
but he has nowhere near over the last three years
the volume that Marvin Hagler had. So in that sense,
you can look at Terrence Crawford and be like, okay,
well that does leave the opening right, get in, get
out where Terrence needs to be a heavy volume puncher here,
or at least someone that's gonna make his combinations count
and then not be there for the return, not be
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there for the receipt as they say. He can definitely
do that, or at least ideally he can do that.
And that's where I'm talking about being perfect. That's what
I'm talking about. He can have moments because Canelo isn't
Marvin Hagler in the sense of what Jim is saying
here right, being able to get in get out, and
he is right also with you know, Sugar Ray being
the lighter guy, being the mover, And I just don't
(13:59):
know if the compare makes sense because that's not what
Terrence's game necessarily is. Either He's gonna have to change
and be a little bit more Sugar Ray esque in
this fight, and that is a path to success again,
can he be that? And also how does that affect
him fighting at this weight, a weight he's never been
at by a lot bigger difference than Sugar Ray had
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when he fought Marvin Hagler. So it's a little bit
of a different situation. But I like the idea of
again being mobile, stick and moved. You gotta be able
to keep Canelo at bay when you are doing your work.
That's the difference to me is like I just don't
see an ability for Terrence Crawford to be a backfoot
fighter for twelve rounds and win this fight. He's gonna
have to at some point push Canelo back just a
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bit and get him on the defensive and then let
those combinations flow.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
We'll allow him to step in land to the body
or occasionally upstairs and then get out before he's facing
any damage. That's what Ray did so effectively against Hagler,
and it frustrated Hagler. Uh. And the more you frustrate
the opponent, the better off you are.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Canelo has such unique skills and one of the weird
things that he does at very few people since Rocky
Marciano does, is he punches your arms.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yes, he utilizes another brilliant guy. He has the greatest
punch resistance in the sport.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You know we now again, Yeah, I mean, by the way,
Joe knows a lot more boxing than people give him
credit for, especially old school boxing, because Joe was a
fan even though you know, he had that big tie
rate on ESPN about who is he talking to Loudabella
where he was like boxing is getting squallowed yours for
is one dimensional and he was he was cooking a
little bit back then. But yeah, I mean Canello's ability
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to target different parts of the body to try to
get to his end goal has been something he's relied
on in the last couple of years. Right again, you
go to the Canelo versus Collum Smith fight, and that's
kind of the way he broke Collum Smith down. I
think he bruised up or maybe broke something or tore
something bicep.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It looked like he had beat him with a freaking
bat or a broomstick or something else, but that was
something he used to break down a bigger fighter, Callum Smith.
When Canelo is moving up in wait, now he can
do this same thing to Terrence Crawford. Again, power is there,
the explosiveness is still there from Canelo, but the difference
will be can Terrence Crawford counter that.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
By either being out arranged, not.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Being hit there frustrating Canelo like Jim said, or in
those moments where Canelo gets super wide with his hooks
and everything is outside of that frame. That's where Terrence,
you know, short punches inside to the body upstairs whatever
those counterpunches and then break the action circle that Again,
there's gonna be moments throughout the fight. It's just about
stringing those moments together on the front foot, on the
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back foot, making Canelo pay even when he's in dominant positions.
And this is why I say he almost has to
be perfect, but he can There are going to be
openings to do it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He talked about it earlier.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
One knockout in the whole career knocked down and it
wasn't a knockdown, and it wasn't really a knockdown in
my personal view. So because didn't touch the canvas, he's
never been on the canvas, and we call it chin.
And I think that we kind of missed the point
by calling it chin. Because I used to be Canelo's
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neighbor in Delmar, California. Used to run into Chepo, his
senior trainer, at the grocery store. I'd look into the
cart and say, oh, he's he's eating tuna and he said, yes,
and he's eating chicken.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
What else eating?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
And so I also used to go.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm kidding, okay, relax everyone.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Down the hill from my house off of Via de
la Baye and del Mar and watch him train at
the Equestrian center where he would go to the Equestrian
Center in the morning and do two and a half
hours of hunter jumper riding before going to his gym
in the afternoon to do three and a half hours boxing.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Training hunter jumper riding. What is that?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Hunter jumper is where you you go over jumps and
you horse.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, on the horse. Yeah, Why the fuck would you
do that when you're training for a fire.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Because he was riding horses since he was a little kid, he.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Was skilled enough to do it.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
You control the height of the jumps, you say, set
the jumps at thirty six inches or forty inches. You
know what the horse can do. It's all about staying
on the horse.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And uh.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
And I asked him, you know how can you do that?
And he said, everything I do in boxing his upper body,
and everything I do on the horse is lower body.
And on that basis, I am the one who theorizes
that the reason you can't knock him down is not
because of his chin, it's because of his legs.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You can't get him off balance. He's too strong from
the waist down.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And you know, if other fighters would pay attention to
what Canelo that's.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Actually a genius level take from there. So his basis
is because Canelo has strengthen his leg. I mean it's
basic strength training progression, right, Like a lot of boxers
don't actually strength train. I mean, you didn't see a
lot of heavy lifting from boxers really ever, outside of
maybe the heavyweight division, and really outside of guys like
Vander Holyfield, you know what I'm saying, Like, there weren't
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a lot of guys that were on the muscle and
fitness magazines that were also boxing. Mike Tyson was shredded
and was just a naturally built freak athlete. But I
don't remember him even being like a super heavy lifter
in the gym or anything like that. But he What
Jim is essentially saying here is that Canelo strength trains.
It's a weird way of doing it, right, riding equestrian
and using his legs to like squeeze the horse and
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keep himself on the horse while he's doing the jumps
and stuff. But essentially he's just string train and I
guess maybe the motion of jumping over the whatever they're called,
the little barriers just keeping Canelo on balance as well, right,
not getting too forward, not getting too back, not you know,
on one side or the other.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So it's unique.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I mean, I've never actually heard of anybody doing something
like that to be a strength athlete or you know,
to be a boxer. But maybe it's just one of
those full body workouts that you just don't expect someone
to do. But you, to be honest, we've never really
had an answer for why Canello's chin is so good,
And like Jim said, we call it his chin, but
maybe it is more of his base. Maybe it is
more of just him being able to have great eyes,
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see punches, take punches. But also you can't get him
off balance. So even if he were to be in
a bad position, he's taken the punch still on balance,
so you're not going to clip him with anything heavy.
So that's another good point as well. Can you get
Canelo off balance? If you're Terrence Crawford, can you stun
him with a shot? I just when I look at
this fight, I just don't see Terrence being able to
hurt him badly with one punch and get him off balance.
(20:36):
I didn't realize why until maybe Jim just broke the
fourth wall for me there. But yeah, I mean my
opinion is Terrence Crawford's path to victory's based on him
being able to do everything. I don't know if he
will do it, but I know that he can. I
know that he can box on the front foot. I
know that he can counter punch. I know that he
can move. I know that he can switch stance. I
know that he can provide different looks. I know that
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he can fight on the front foot. Maybe not as
successfully as I would like for him too, or as
much volume as I like for him too, but I
think that those things are gonna be crucial.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
They absolutely are.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
But it is interesting to see who's picking who in
this fight. I still don't have my pick locked in.
For the longest. When it was announced, I was full Canelo.
I was like, listen, Canelo's gonna win this. People are crazy,
especially after watching the madrumaf fight. But then you watch
Canelo's recent performances and you see there's opportunity. There's holes there,
and if we look at both guys in the way
they're training, you see, like I said, Terrence Crawford getting
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really strong, getting built up potentially to try to go.
You know, I don't want to say power for power,
but to be able to impose his will on Canelo
and to take some of the punching from Canelo, whether
it's the body work that Canelo loves with the lead hand,
the chopping right hook, or just to be able to
keep himself strong in clint situations inside push pull action.
Little montage, but you can still see bits and pieces here. Obviously,
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neither guy is gonna give too too much up of
their training, but you see him primarily working southpaw in
most of his sessions so far.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
South pause.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I've given Canelo some problems in his past, right, so
I think again the way I started this video. I'm
unconvinced that my theory is wrong because I just there's
path to victory for Terence Crawford. Absolutely, to me, he
almost has to be perfect to win this fight, because yeah,
Canelo can win a decision. He's been doing that for
the last three years, even though it's gonna be a
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bit more difficult because Crawford, out of the two of them,
everybody's saying, is the better boxer. He's gonna have to be,
and he may be, but he's gonna have to be
to beat Canelo on September thirteenth, live in Las Vegas.
That's my catch up breakdown because I haven't we haven't
talked about this fight since the press conferences. I wanted
to refresh everybody's minds and put it back in your
frontal cortex that this thing's coming back round yonder September thirteenth,
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live in Las Vegas, Allegians Stadium, Canelo Crawford on a
stacked card, apparently a weekend of fights. There's still so
much information coming out about this thing. I don't know
if I'll be there yet. I hope so, Las Vegas.
I'd love to see you. But I'll leave this video
off with the question that I've asked to begin with,
and the question we're going to keep asking until September thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Who wins? And why?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Let me know in the comments down below, because I
don't have those answers, but I guess we'll find out
All right, so we are back on the way concept
presented by the Ring. And today I've been thinking about
the biggest fight in boxing this year. That's right, Mello
Alvarez Terrence Crawford live on Netflix, Ring Magazine, Collegia Stadium,
September thirteenth, Las Vegas, Nevada. This one is gonna be
massive for all the right reasons. You have, like I said,
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Ring Magazine involved, You have Dana White involved, you have
Max Kellerman involved, you.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Have obviously Turkey Ali Shake putting the fight on.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You have the biggest name in boxing in Canelo Alvarez,
and Terrence Crawford looking for his third undisputed world championship.
But today I've been pontificating, yes, big word, don't linger
on it, move on, can't help it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That was a big word. Proud of myself.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I've been pondering and pontificating is to who actually wins
this fight? And I've only come up with every single
scenario possible, imaginable and why.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think it all leads to one answer.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That is, Terrence Crawford may need to be absolutely perfect
to beat Canelo Alvarez. Only given night, you don't know
how a fighter's going to show up. So maybe I'm
expecting a little too much. But let's discuss why I
think Terrence Crawford needs to be perfect to beat Canelo Alvarez.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
The breakdown.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Let's go all right, So let's lay out the situation.
Terrence Crawford Canelo Alvarez at one hundred and sixty eight pounds,
and we've been over at time and time again. I
feel like the build up has been a washing machine
on a repeat cycle. No SuDS included, just full rints.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
We know what this is.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Terrence Crawford moving up to one sixty eight, a weight
he's never competed at, and two divisions higher than the
last weight he competed at one hundred and fifty four.
He only did that once before that one forty seven.
This is more of a jump up than Super Mario
hitting bricks, looking for mushrooms or cave for Canelo. Obviously,
at one sixty eight he has been a bit of
the smaller man at that weight class and in the
last couple of years has had trouble finishing opponents and
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getting guys out of there like he would have at
one sixty or one fifty four. Do you have a
bit of a duality there, both guys coming into this
fight in the let's say twilight of their careers or
maybe twilight of their primes. However you want to look
at it. Canelo is going to be I think thirty five,
Terrence's thirty eight. You have a similar situation, different paths
and different struggles for both fighters. But when you look
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at who has to do more in this fight, it's
clearly Terence Crawford as far as what he's giving up
and sacrificing to win this third undisputed championship and to
try to beat Canelo, who has only been beat twice
in his career, one of which was Floyd Mayweather be
in slick in tagging Canelo with counter punches when Canelo missed,
seeing the smaller, lighter fighter and up there in age
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that was still able to take advantage of the youth
and experience of Canelo Alvarez, but also just being a
defensive maestro and able to counter off of that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Floyd is one of one, and.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Then you have Dmitri Bivol, who was the bigger fighter.
And the things that Canelo does very well didn't really
hurt him too bad, right, The things that had carried
Canelo up in division was his power and the ability
to break an opponent down, maybe not stopping them in
the early to mid part of fights, but working on them,
wearing on them with that power, even losing rounds throughout.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The mid to first part of fights.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Lily Jos comes to mind where he potentially is losing
a couple of those rounds and then finally finds the
opening and has devastating power to overwhelm opponents. He couldn't
do that at once seventy five with d mit your bivol.
He had found the weight that he couldn't ascend to
and his power could carry him through or the style
of fight that he had come accustomed to. Since the
Gonatti glovegn fights, he in a lot more reserved with
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not only his punch count but also his movement. Had
seen a new burst to Canelo really being defensively sound
with his upper body and slipping punches, but looking for
almost exclusive power punching to open up holes in the
defense and then eventually finish fight. Now again, those are
the only two guys to ever beat Canelo, So everybody else,
regardless of the strategy, regardless of the skill they got,
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found out at a certain point.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And that's why I'm saying Terrence Crawford may.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Have to be absolutely perfect here, and I'm not saying
he can't do it, but there's only a couple of
avenues that I think Terrence Crawford can take to win
this fight. I don't see him coming up to one
hundred and sixty eight pounds and knocking Canelo Alvarez out.
Let's be honest, that's gonna be pretty difficult to do. Again,
you're talking about a natural one hundred and forty pounds
maybe one hundred and forty seven pound er now starting to.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Build and get bigger.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And as we've seen in pictures recently, here's Terrence Crawford.
He looks like he's trying to fill into all of
one hundred and sixty eight pounds here. I mean, he
probably weighs one hundred and eighty three eighty four pounds.
I mean that's what he said. I think when I
interviewed him, he was in one hundred and eighty pounds,
So he's coming up in weight and it looks like
he's trying to put some heavy muscle mass on, which, okay,
you know you want to inflict some damage on Canelo.
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If we remember back their press conference, this is what
he said to Canelo. This is not the greatest quality
of video, but listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
So when I beat you, is you gonna be a nobody?
When I stup a muhole in your asses, You're gonna
be a nobody.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You're gonna be just like everybody else.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Watch.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Watch ain't shit that everybody else been saying since I
moved at one forty seven. I ain't foughting nobody. Every
last one of them stuff a muhole in as.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Said, he gonna be nice.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Watch So again, you know you hear the tone of
voice that Crawford is and he's not just a talker.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
He's not someone looking to sell a fight up there.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I look at this as again, when I look at
the style of fight potentially Terrence Crawford is gonna bring
to Canelo, it looks like he wants to stand in
front of him and push him back a little bit
of Even in the press conferences they had, there was
that pushing and shoving where Canelo kind of walked up
on him and pushed Terrence back, and then the second
press conference, Terrence Crawford pushed him back so yeah, there's
a mind games going on there for sure, But Terrence
looks like he wants to be able to push Canelo
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back to inflict some power on Canelo, and I just
don't know if that's the move here.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Again, I'm not a boxer. I'm not the one going
inside the ropes. But the way I see this potentially
working out for Terrence, it's simple but insanely difficult. You
have to be good at everything. I just don't know
if that's the right avenue. Like trying to push Canelo
back is one thing. Trying to overwhelm him with volume
like Dmitri Bivold did, is definitely an idea, but again
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you have to look at the factor surrounding that. You
have to look at biv OL's size, right, his natural
aptitude for volume punching.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That is his strategy. That's his game, and.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It's usually done off the front foot. It's not counter
punching then following up with combinations. We've seen Bud as
a great counterpuncher, but leading the dance and even in
the Madram fight, it looked a little difficult for him
to get going. If it takes you a while to
get going against Canelo. You're just falling right into his
game plan standing in front of him. You want to
go flat footed with Canelo Alvarez and just be in
the pocket. That's not gonna in my opinion, unless you're
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shooting inside the big looping shots of Canelo, because sometimes
he will open up and hit some big looping shots
around the guard and in front of him. Is not
the idea at least not to me. But again, I'm
just the commentator guy. I'm just the guy on YouTube,
So maybe I don't know. But my point is this
is why I say Terrence Crawford needs to be perfect
because I don't think he's knocking Canelo out right? Does
anyone believe that's the potential possibility here for a guy
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Canelo or Alvarez that has probably the best chin in boxing.
And we're gonna watch a video in a second where
Joe Rogan and Jim Lampley talk about Canelo and what
makes him special and his the defense and why he's
never really been hurt ever.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I just don't see that as a strategy.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Then you look at what Terrence is giving up right
weight size him trying to make up the weight and
size by putting the pounds on. This is Terrence having
to try to balance putting weight on versus still being explosive,
still being able to have some mobility, and to be
able to throw volume without getting tired at the newfound weight.
This is why I say he has to be perfect,
meaning you have to be able to box Canelo, move,
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be mobile with Canelo, throw volume with Canelo, be first
with Canelo, not get driven back by Canelo's presence and
just him walking through punches and trying to slip and
use his head movement. And I know I'm saying a
lot of this stuff like it's a foregone conclusion. Canelo's
gonna walk forward, Canelo's gonna be in front of you.
Canelo is going to try to walk you down, Like yeah,
that's that's for sure what I think Canelo's gonna do.
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But to beat him, you can't let any of it happen,
and then you have to let volume go. You can't
make this a Canelo Alvarez circa the last three years
type of fight where sure you're a mover like William Skull,
but you're not throwing any punches. You're on your back
foot and Canelo's not giving you any respect and he's
just walking you down.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That can't happen.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Also, he can't really stand in front of Canelo like
him Mugia did and try to trade with him, or
else you're gonna get caught and he'll maybe put you down,
maybe not finish you, but it'll hurt you and put
you down. Or if he can't catch Terrence Crawford clean.
Because Crawford does a great job in his pocket presence
and his defense inside of the phone booth, that Canelo
is gonna try to punch him in the arms, he's
gonna try to punch him.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
In the shoulders.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And while BiVO waved the finger at him, gave him
them tumbo finger wag and said, no, that didn't work
with me. Yeah, that's because Bivol's a natural two hundred
pound two hundred and ten pound human fighting at one
seventy five. That's why that didn't work. Terrence Crawford is
not that. So all these things adding up in my mind,
they just tell me Terrence has.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
To be perfect.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
He has to be able to do everything versus Canelo,
and he if anybody has the skill to do it,
it's Terrence Crawford. And let's not act like Canelo is
beyond getting beat here, right, there is a path to
victory for Terrence, and to me gets through decision when.
And this is why I say he's gonna have to
be a bit mobile. He's gonna have to take it
to Canelo at times, like you've seen him talk about
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in these pressers and you know, stopping a mud hole
and walking forward on Canelo.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
He's gonna have to do that at times.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Right, you can't just get run over for twelve rounds
and expect to win, or he can't be on the
back foot for twelve rounds and expect to be canny.
But Terrence has an avenue where he can outthrow outland,
can keep himself safe. Throw in pockets, circle back to range,
back to the pocket, jab on the way in, back
to range, back to the pocket, jab on the way in,
and rinse and repeat. But I want to take more
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of a deeper dive for people that know a lot
more than I do. So let's take a listen at
Jim Lampley talking on the Joe Rogan experience. We've actually
never done a Joe Rogan experience breakdown on the channel,
so I don't know how this is gonna go with
you two. But let's take a look and see what
he had to say and what Joe had to say
about the fight.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
About Canela versus Crawford. Yeah, do you think Terrence Crawford
can beat Canelo outverress?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, I think he's won. Okay, I don't know if
he's going to win, but I think he can win.
So he's going to have to.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That is the answer that I feel like everybody is
having right now. Terrence can win, I just don't know
if he's going to because of the uphill battle. He's
up in weight and the things you need to do
up in weight are going to be tough. Stylistically with
what Canelo brings the way you fight versus the way
Canelo fights, it kind of does tailor to Canelo if
you want to be a counterpuncher and just look for
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openings in exchange. The questions around the way all that,
I feel like Joe is kind of saying what a
lot of people are saying is that he can, but will.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
He's going to have to box a brilliant fight.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Okay, what kind of a fight I'm gonna get to that?
I asked the Great Larry Merchant ninety four years old,
living on Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica, looking out at
the ocean, reflecting on all the amazing things he did,
and I asked.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Larry, Dude, can anybody set the scene better than Jim Lambley?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
What a legend, dude.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And I'll say this sidebar in this video. Just getting
to do a little two minute segment that I got
to do with Jim on his own broadcast in New
York from Louis Armstrong Stadium was so sick. He was
such a professional. I remember we did the test and
uh like right before we're gonna go live, and he
said something like, I was, you know, doing my fill
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to intro him before we ever went on the pay
per view, and he said, I said to him, I said,
describing him, I go, I'm here with the goat, the
best broadcaster in all of combat sports or whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I said.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
When we were done, he came back and said, I
love what you said. That was awesome. Just make sure
you call me a blow by blow again. And I
loved that because, like it was one instructional for me
and two it's exactly what he should be called. He's
not just a commentator, he's not just a broadcaster. He
is the goat to me low by blow commentator, broadcaster
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in combat sports over the or in boxing over the
last however long, right, That's just that was really cool
of him to do so. Anyway, Jim sets the scene
like Noah.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
This looking out at the ocean, reflecting on all the
amazing things he did. And I asked Larry, I said,
do you think Terrence Crawford has a beat, has a
chance to beat Canelo Alvres And Larry said, Jim, did
Ray Leonard get an official decision victory over marvelous Marvin
Hagler And I said, yes, he did. He said, well,
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if Ray Leonard could beat Marvelous Marvin Hagler, then Terrence
Crawford can beat Canilo Alvarez. And I said, why do
you say that? He said, same equation, get in, get out,
get in, get out, over and over and over.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
He's got to figure the angles and the approaches that. Yeah,
you know, I don't hate what Jim is saying here.
And this is his talking through the storytelling of Larry Merchant,
who said this, but it's a little bit of a
different fight, right like when you saw Sugar Ray Leonard
and marvelous Marvin Hagler. That fight Sugar had to answer
different questions. Yes, get in, get out, But you're talking
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about Marvin Hagler, who was still at that point still
a great switch hitter. Could definitely bite down on the
mouthpiece and swing, but he had volume for days.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
His output was crazy, He had great fee.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He himself was able to cut angles and use his
feet to switch and be in front of you the
entire time. Ray had to Like, you know, Jim is
saying that Ray had to get in get out, But
that wasn't because of just the power that Marvin was bringing.
It was the volume it was bringing. It was the
aggression he was bringing. It was him being able to
cut off the ring and switch stances to do it.
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Canelo can cut the ring. Canello can hit you with power,
but he has nowhere near over the last three years
the volume that Marvin Hagler had. So in that sense,
you can look at Terrence Crawford and be like, okay,
well that does leave the opening right, get in, get
out where Terrence needs to be a heavy volume puncher here,
or at least someone that's gonna make his combinations count
and then not be there for the return, not be
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there for the receipt as they say. He can definitely
do that, or at least ideally he can do that.
And that's where I'm talking about being perfect. That's what
I'm talking about. He can have moments because Canelo isn't
Marvin Hagler in the sense of what Jim is saying
here right, being able to get in get out, and
he is right also with you know, Sugar Ray being
the lighter guy, being the mover, And I just don't
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know if the compare makes sense because that's not what
Terrence's game necessarily is. Either He's gonna have to change
and be a little bit more Sugar Ray esque in
this fight, and that is a path to success again,
can he be that? And also how does that affect
him fighting at this weight, a weight he's never been
at by a lot bigger difference than Sugar Ray had
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when he fought Marvin Hagler. So it's a little bit
of a different situation. But I like the idea of
again being mobile, stick and moved. You gotta be able
to keep Canelo at bay when you are doing your work.
That's the difference to me is like I just don't
see an ability for Terrence Crawford to be a backfoot
fighter for twelve rounds and win this fight. He's gonna
have to at some point push Canelo back just a
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bit and get him on the defensive and then let
those combinations flow.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
We'll allow him to step in land to the body
or occasionally upstairs and then get out before he's facing
any damage. That's what Ray did so effectively against Hagler,
and it frustrated Hagler. Uh. And the more you frustrate
the opponent, the better off you are.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Canelo has such unique skills and one of the weird
things that he does at very few people since Rocky
Marciano does, is he punches your arms.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yes, he utilizes another brilliant guy. He has the greatest
punch resistance in the sport.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You know we now again, Yeah, I mean, by the way,
Joe knows a lot more boxing than people give him
credit for, especially old school boxing, because Joe was a
fan even though you know, he had that big tie
rate on ESPN about who is he talking to Loudabella
where he was like boxing is getting squallowed yours for
is one dimensional and he was he was cooking a
little bit back then. But yeah, I mean Canello's ability
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to target different parts of the body to try to
get to his end goal has been something he's relied
on in the last couple of years. Right again, you
go to the Canelo versus Collum Smith fight, and that's
kind of the way he broke Collum Smith down. I
think he bruised up or maybe broke something or tore
something bicep.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It looked like he had beat him with a freaking
bat or a broomstick or something else, but that was
something he used to break down a bigger fighter, Callum Smith.
When Canelo is moving up in wait, now he can
do this same thing to Terrence Crawford. Again, power is there,
the explosiveness is still there from Canelo, but the difference
will be can Terrence Crawford counter that.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
By either being out arranged, not.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Being hit there frustrating Canelo like Jim said, or in
those moments where Canelo gets super wide with his hooks
and everything is outside of that frame. That's where Terrence,
you know, short punches inside to the body upstairs whatever
those counterpunches and then break the action circle that Again,
there's gonna be moments throughout the fight. It's just about
stringing those moments together on the front foot, on the
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back foot, making Canelo pay even when he's in dominant positions.
And this is why I say he almost has to
be perfect, but he can There are going to be
openings to do it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He talked about it earlier.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
One knockout in the whole career knocked down and it
wasn't a knockdown, and it wasn't really a knockdown in
my personal view. So because didn't touch the canvas, he's
never been on the canvas, and we call it chin.
And I think that we kind of missed the point
by calling it chin. Because I used to be Canelo's
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neighbor in Delmar, California. Used to run into Chepo, his
senior trainer, at the grocery store. I'd look into the
cart and say, oh, he's he's eating tuna and he said, yes,
and he's eating chicken.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
What else eating?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
And so I also used to go.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm kidding, okay, relax everyone.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Down the hill from my house off of Via de
la Baye and del Mar and watch him train at
the Equestrian center where he would go to the Equestrian
Center in the morning and do two and a half
hours of hunter jumper riding before going to his gym
in the afternoon to do three and a half hours boxing.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Training hunter jumper riding. What is that?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Hunter jumper is where you you go over jumps and
you horse.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, on the horse. Yeah, Why the fuck would you
do that when you're training for a fire.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Because he was riding horses since he was a little kid, he.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Was skilled enough to do it.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
You control the height of the jumps, you say, set
the jumps at thirty six inches or forty inches. You
know what the horse can do. It's all about staying
on the horse.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And uh.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
And I asked him, you know how can you do that?
And he said, everything I do in boxing his upper body,
and everything I do on the horse is lower body.
And on that basis, I am the one who theorizes
that the reason you can't knock him down is not
because of his chin, it's because of his legs.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You can't get him off balance. He's too strong from
the waist down.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And you know, if other fighters would pay attention to
what Canelo that's.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Actually a genius level take from there. So his basis
is because Canelo has strengthen his leg. I mean it's
basic strength training progression, right, Like a lot of boxers
don't actually strength train. I mean, you didn't see a
lot of heavy lifting from boxers really ever, outside of
maybe the heavyweight division, and really outside of guys like
Vander Holyfield, you know what I'm saying, Like, there weren't
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a lot of guys that were on the muscle and
fitness magazines that were also boxing. Mike Tyson was shredded
and was just a naturally built freak athlete. But I
don't remember him even being like a super heavy lifter
in the gym or anything like that. But he What
Jim is essentially saying here is that Canelo strength trains.
It's a weird way of doing it, right, riding equestrian
and using his legs to like squeeze the horse and
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keep himself on the horse while he's doing the jumps
and stuff. But essentially he's just string train and I
guess maybe the motion of jumping over the whatever they're called,
the little barriers just keeping Canelo on balance as well, right,
not getting too forward, not getting too back, not you know,
on one side or the other.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So it's unique.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I mean, I've never actually heard of anybody doing something
like that to be a strength athlete or you know,
to be a boxer. But maybe it's just one of
those full body workouts that you just don't expect someone
to do. But you, to be honest, we've never really
had an answer for why Canello's chin is so good,
And like Jim said, we call it his chin, but
maybe it is more of his base. Maybe it is
more of just him being able to have great eyes,
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see punches, take punches. But also you can't get him
off balance. So even if he were to be in
a bad position, he's taken the punch still on balance,
so you're not going to clip him with anything heavy.
So that's another good point as well. Can you get
Canelo off balance? If you're Terrence Crawford, can you stun
him with a shot? I just when I look at
this fight, I just don't see Terrence being able to
hurt him badly with one punch and get him off balance.
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I didn't realize why until maybe Jim just broke the
fourth wall for me there. But yeah, I mean my
opinion is Terrence Crawford's path to victory's based on him
being able to do everything. I don't know if he
will do it, but I know that he can. I
know that he can box on the front foot. I
know that he can counter punch. I know that he
can move. I know that he can switch stance. I
know that he can provide different looks. I know that
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he can fight on the front foot. Maybe not as
successfully as I would like for him too, or as
much volume as I like for him too, but I
think that those things are gonna be crucial.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
They absolutely are.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
But it is interesting to see who's picking who in
this fight. I still don't have my pick locked in.
For the longest. When it was announced, I was full Canelo.
I was like, listen, Canelo's gonna win this. People are crazy,
especially after watching the madrumaf fight. But then you watch
Canelo's recent performances and you see there's opportunity. There's holes there,
and if we look at both guys in the way
they're training, you see, like I said, Terrence Crawford getting
(21:26):
really strong, getting built up potentially to try to go.
You know, I don't want to say power for power,
but to be able to impose his will on Canelo
and to take some of the punching from Canelo, whether
it's the body work that Canelo loves with the lead hand,
the chopping right hook, or just to be able to
keep himself strong in clint situations inside push pull action.
Little montage, but you can still see bits and pieces here. Obviously,
(21:49):
neither guy is gonna give too too much up of
their training, but you see him primarily working southpaw in
most of his sessions so far.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
South pause.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I've given Canelo some problems in his past, right, so
I think again the way I started this video. I'm
unconvinced that my theory is wrong because I just there's
path to victory for Terence Crawford. Absolutely, to me, he
almost has to be perfect to win this fight, because yeah,
Canelo can win a decision. He's been doing that for
the last three years, even though it's gonna be a
(22:22):
bit more difficult because Crawford, out of the two of them,
everybody's saying, is the better boxer. He's gonna have to be,
and he may be, but he's gonna have to be
to beat Canelo on September thirteenth, live in Las Vegas.
That's my catch up breakdown because I haven't we haven't
talked about this fight since the press conferences. I wanted
to refresh everybody's minds and put it back in your
frontal cortex that this thing's coming back round yonder September thirteenth,
(22:45):
live in Las Vegas, Allegians Stadium, Canelo Crawford on a
stacked card, apparently a weekend of fights. There's still so
much information coming out about this thing. I don't know
if I'll be there yet. I hope so, Las Vegas.
I'd love to see you. But I'll leave this video
off with the question that I've asked to begin with,
and the question we're going to keep asking until September thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Who wins? And why?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Let me know in the comments down below, because I
don't have those answers, but I guess we'll find out
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