Kelly Pavlik says Terence Crawford has to push Canelo Alvarez hard in the early rounds to try to tire him on September 13. Former middleweight champion Pavlik, because Alvarez (63-2-2, 39 COs) will fade against the seventh round if Crawford (41-0, 31 costs) forcing him to fight quickly.
To fight that way would require Crawford to be hit by a fresh Canelo, and he would need a good chin to handle the power. For 38-year-old Crawford to get to the head and body repeatedly early in the fight, it would ask much of the native of Omaha, Nebraska.
Early rounds, Canelo faded
“I wouldn’t stay in one attitude for Canelo to find out long enough. It’s going to be a big thing, ‘Kelly Pavlik said Fight Hub TV About Terence Crawford, the views must change to confuse Canelo Alvarez.
It is doubtful that Crawford will confuse Canelo by changing attitude during the fight regularly. Alvarez fought many fighters that changed during his career, and it didn’t work.
Crawford’s opponent quality
Against the poor opposition that Terence fought mostly during his career, it didn’t matter that he repeatedly switched from Southpaw to Orthodox. He would beat them with any attitude because they were poor fighters. People do not have the insight to look at the opposition that Crawford has built his record of 41-0, and noticing that he could have just stayed in the Southpaw attitude to beat them in the same way.
‘Stay on Canelo early. Put Canelo behind. Even though it is three out of the first four rounds, because when Canelo has to fight, he starts to fade a little after seven rounds, saying pavic. ‘ We saw it with Biblical. We saw it with many of his fights with GGG. If Canelo can control the fight and the general of the ring, he can fight 12 rounds quite well. “
Crawford’s durability issues
Crawford cannot stay on top of Canelo as Gennadiy Golovkin and Dmitri Biblol did because he is not as big, tough or as powerful as those fighters. We saw Crawford injured by smaller guys. GGG and Biblical took big blows from Canelo. They could do this because of their size and know. Crawford is too fragile to roast with Canelo as Pavlik wants him to.
“But when Canelo is pushed into a fight early, he starts to endure muscle endurance,” says Pavlik. “If I were Crawford, I would push him in the early rounds. Let him catch up in rounds three, four and five. Then he can really pull it up. ‘
Crawford took a lot of punishment in his last battle against ‘Little GGG’ Israil Madrimov as he stopped running and began to push him into the championships. While it worked, it led to Crawford eating repeated right -hand shots of Madrimov, making the rounds difficult to score. The bigger and harder blows were landed by Madrimov when Terence attacked.
Last updated on 08/02/2025
