“I told you so”: De la Hoya’s glorification of Crawford’s victory does not admit a close struggle

Promoter Oscar de la Hoya believed today and gave the old “I told you so” About Canelo Alvarez’s loss of Terence Crawford last Saturday night at the Allegiant Stage in Las Vegas.

A deceived victory shot

De la Hoya pointed out that he predicted that Canelo (63-3-2, 39 COs) would lose the battle, and he saw it as a one-sided relationship with Crawford (42-0, 31 food) played with the superstar all night. Of course, that wasn’t that at all.

Crawford barely won a unanimous 12 -round decision and would have lost if Canelo had not thrown out in the last three rounds. I scored it as a draw.

“I told you that. I predicted the Canelo-Crawford battle like a fortune teller. Canelo’s feet were cemented on the canvas, and he hit air, ‘said promoter Oscar de la Hoya during this week’s Clap back Thursday’s issuewho attacked the loss of Canelo Alvarez to Terence Crawford last Saturday.

A ‘Tom and Jerry’ Fighting

Canelo constantly pushed the attack on Crawford, which clearly followed the William Scull bloup print of the ring for three minutes of each round and threw sporadic strokes. Alvarez’s feet are not “cemented on the canvas”, as De la Hoya wrongly says. He always attacked Crawford, who needed movement because of the struggle for a Tom and Jerry-type struggle.

Turki Alalshikh wanted blood, beaten faces and broken. Instead, he received a Jerry-Esque performance from Crawford and was wasted the $ 50 million he paid him.

The ‘Relikwie’ style of Crawford

Alalshikh would have gained more value for the money he spent if he used Christian Mbilli, David Banavidez, Sebastian Fundora or Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis as the opponent of Canelo to fight instead of Crawford.

Canelo-Crawford was a very, very boring battle last Saturday. It just shows how promoters can do it wrong Overpayment with an outdated, retro mayweather -style It does not fit in this era, where your fans must be entertained or forgotten. I consider Crawford’s style as a remnant from the Mayweather -era that does not fit in the sport today, where fighters must be all action and have a gimmick to sell themselves.

“He just played with Canelo, made him look stupid. Before you start with your stuff (Canelo, he’s just old, you just know that Crawford is older. It’s not an excuse here. (Crawford Net) played with him. Even Mayweather knew Crawford was going to school.

Oscar looks at a few things.

1. Canelo-Crawford was a close figt. Crawford did not play Alvarez or school Alvarez last Saturday. He mostly hit 12 rounds and ran. It was only in round nine that Bud fought briefly aggressively. The rest of the fight was movement. The scores were 115-113, 115-113 and 116-112. These are not the kind of scores that one sees in a one -sided fight.
2. Alvarez’s excellent resume: Crawford, 37, is two years older than 35-year-old Canelo, but he did not face one of the fighters at the elite level that Alvarez has. Terence did not take punishment because he was less deadly punchers in the divisions of 135, 140, 147 and 154 pounds than those treated at 160, 168 and 175.

Canelo’s best opposition

Gennadiy Golovkin x 3
Dmitri BIVOL
Miguel cotto
Daniel Jacobs
Shane mosley
Floyd Mayweather jr.
Austin Trout
Kermit Cintron
Erislandy Lara
Caleb plant
Jermell Charlo
Callum Smith
Sergey Kovalev
Jaime mungiaa