teddy atlas is not ready to put in writing off a canelo-crawford battle: “That is going to be a greater armed Crawford.”

By: Sean Crose

It’s comprehensible why some, if not most, battle followers would think about tremendous middleweight/gentle heavyweight Canelo Alvarez to be a bridge too far for junior middleweight Terence Crawford. 100 sixty eight kilos is kind of a weight benefit to carry over a 100 fifty 4 pound fighter. Even at a catchweight it’s clear that Canelo’s measurement may current a substantial drawback for former junior welterweight Crawford. Nonetheless, there are those that know the battle recreation in and out who really feel that Crawford stands a very good probability towards Canelo if the 2 males ought to meet within the close to future.

If famed coach Teddy Atlas has something to say about it (and Atlas at all times has tons to say), Crawford shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. Though the fighter often called “Bud” didn’t cease Israil Madrimov in his junior middleweight debut, he nonetheless gained the battle. What’s extra, Atlas feels it was a studying expertise for the multi-division champion.

“Don’t go and imagine it’s going to be the identical Crawford,” Atlas instructed Battle Hub, “when he steps as much as one sixty eight if that occurs. That is going to be a greater armed Crawford, even higher than he’s been. That is going to be a Crawford that’s now armed with that info, now armed with extra confidence, now armed with the issues that he wants in his thoughts so as to add one other pelt to his assortment, so as to add one other belt, one other title, so as to add to the already nice assortment that he has.”

Does that imply Atlas feels Crawford will beat Canelo? In fact not. Earlier within the interview, Atlas spoke glowingly of Canelo and indicated it’s silly to contemplate the person is completed at this level in his lengthy profession. Positive sufficient, Atlas stated he felt Canelo had made some optimistic modifications on his personal when he defeated Edgar Berlanga a number of weeks again.

The reality is {that a} Canelo-Crawford battle must be an outrageous proposition. As issues stand, in spite of everything, Canelo now fights two, typically three, divisions above the place Crawford fights in the mean time. What makes this potential throwdown intriguing, nevertheless, is Crawford, a disciplined, skillful, dynamic fighter who could be the one finest fighter, pound for pound on earth. Seeing an excellent like Crawford going through a residing legend similar to Canelo is horrifying and engaging concurrently – horrifying due to the distinction within the fighter’s pure sizes, engaging as a result of it’s genuinely price questioning if Crawford may pull it off.