Crawford needs to win Canelo: Sanchez

Coach Abel Sanchez says Terrence Crawford has to knock out Canela Alvarez to win. He doesn’t see that this is happening because Canel’s blow resistance will be too good. Sanchez notes that Canelo (62-2-2-2, 39 ko) fought against larger guys with power and dominated them.

Crawford enters this fight without experience in a super middleweight category, which he could do something about. Terrence’s fans say he decided not to move until 168 because he wanted to focus on collecting.

The concern of physicality

“I think he’s a great fighter, but Bob Foster was also. He is against a guy who was never injured by Jose Cotto except Fluka,” said coach Abel Sanchez in Who artistic sportsTalking that Terrence Crawford was too small and weak to switch to two divisions to beat Canela Alvarez in the super middleweight category.

Foster is a former champion in a lightweight heavyweight category who moved into a heavy category in the early 1970s and was knocked out by Muhammad as well as Joe Frazier. It just wasn’t big enough or strong enough to successfully jump in weight. Sanchez sees Crawford in the same boat. It will not be big enough to cope with Canel’s size and power.

“He moved and struggled with some of the best strokes in bigger divisions and controlled them. So it’s a difficult task for Terrence. He’ll have to stop. It’s a 12 -round fight. He (crawford) can’t be on the bike all night,” Abel said. “If he wants to win the fight and wants to consider him like he has tried, he will have to stop.”

What Sanchez does not mention is that Crawford will have to dominate to win a decision, as Canelo will hit him hard. The judges will achieve this for Canelo, even if he extinguished him by Crawford’s weaker shots. It will focus on which of the two of them sends more difficult, cleaner shots, and that will be Canelo. In order for Crawford to win, he will have to stay in his pocket and surpass Canelo.

Abel’s Canelo theory

“I think it’s a draft for every fight from Canel to fight for Bivol. After four, five, six rounds, it’s a sparring match. He makes it easier for the boys. He doesn’t want to break out. He beat up on some and not beating on others. But he controlled every fight after a buffalo fight.

It looked more like Canelo was tired after the first four or five rounds in the last three struggles, not a situation where “sparring”. In his fight against William Scull, he hit the Cuban fast counter and he seems to decide he does not want to take the risk. Canelo also looked tired and couldn’t fight the faster pace needed to throw him out.