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Coach Bernie Tha Boxer has confirmed that Terence Crawford vs. Canelo Alvarez is “on for September 13th.”
Bernie says Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) has earned the combat towards unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) with what he’s completed, and he doesn’t want to maneuver as much as 168 to beat any of the contenders to show himself. What he did from 135 to 154 is sufficient.
Canelo-Crawford Confirmed
Bernie says Crawford’s title will come first earlier than Canelo’s for the September thirteenth combat. That’s onerous to imagine, clearly. It seems like a hustle from Crawford and his workforce, but when Turki Al-Sheikh is prepared to pay for the 38-year-old Bud to go up two weight courses to combat Canelo, that’s what he needs. Relying on what the purses are for Canelo and Crawford, it would flip a revenue. I don’t suppose it’s going to if the PPV value is low.
Canelo would be the one bringing in followers as a result of Crawford isn’t a pay-per-view draw. Even together with his combat towards Ismael Madrimov with an undercard loaded with nice fights final August, it didn’t herald many buys.
“Super fight, mega-fight. Why would he need to do that after all he accomplished and all he’s shown in the ring? Why would he do that?” stated coach Bernie Tha Boxer to Fighthype, reacting to criticism from followers, who really feel that Terence Crawford ought to show himself at 168 to point out he deserves a combat towards unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez.
“The things he done have hardly been done before. Two-time undisputed, unified champion in three weights but [won] four [divisions]. He’s been on the pound-for-pound list for better than 10 years. What more can you ask for? We didn’t get the Pacquiao fight or Mayweather or anyone of that caliber. This is the fight,” stated Bernie.
Crawford didn’t combat nice opposition to turn into a two-division undisputed champion. He was like one other Adrien Broner, profitable 4 division world titles towards marginal opposition. Terence NEVER beat nice fighters to win any of his titles in any weight division. He was maneuvered effectively to keep away from him getting overwhelmed.
Fighters Crawford Beat for Two-time Undisputed
Welterweight (147)
Errol Spence: gained IBF, WBA and WBC
Jeff Horn: Gained WBO
Gentle welterweight (140)
Thomas Dulorme: gained WBO
Viktor Postol: gained WBC
Julius Indondo: gained IBF & WBA
Dimension Doesn’t Matter
“The guy [Canelo] is bigger, and has a lot of experience. He’s young. Canelo is 34 or 35, something like that. Nothing ever comes easy to us. We never got Pacquiao or a guy our size with a global impact that he has. They made sure they stayed away from us. It’s not different,” stated Bernie.
You’ll be able to argue that Crawford is dodging fighters of his personal late in his profession the identical approach Pacquiao did when he was 37 or 38 and confirmed no real interest in combating him. Crawford isn’t speeding to combat Jaron Ennis, Bakhram Murtazaliev, Vergil Ortiz, or Serhii Bohachuk. He’s doing the identical factor Pacquiao was late in his profession, choosing & selecting.
“We tackle powerful challengers, and we beat them. So, they provide us Canelo Alvarez, a tough puncher an IQ of simply the identical caliber and a legend. That’s the one challenges Crawford appeared for, and it was solely proper. We deserved this problem to be on the massive stage in a mega-fight in an excellent combat in what we name a David vs. Goliath battle.
“Once more, now we have quite a lot of disadvantages on this combat so far as weight, so far as energy, and quite a lot of issues on par so far as accomplishments and skills-set. We are going to climb that mountain. It’s on, child. September thirteenth, stay up for it. Crawford vs. Canelo. As I stated, Crawford vs. Canelo. Yeah, it’s confirmed. Crawford vs. Canelo, not the opposite approach round.
“Team Crawford stands up. Pound-for-pound, the best in the world. Soon to be the super middleweight champion of the world,” stated Bernie.
