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Tim Bradley took to his stand this week to pressure Canelo Álvarez to give Terence Crawford the fight he has been asking for against him. That’s the fight Crawford, 37, desperately wants, but has proven elusive due to his unwillingness to earn it by working hard by slaying fire-breathing dragons at 168 and 175.
golden parachute
Bradley urges unified super middleweight champion Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) not to “run away” from a fight against Crawford. This fight does nothing for Canelo. It is seen as a vehicle for Crawford to obtain the golden parachute that will allow him a soft landing in retirement and allow him to live comfortably in his golden years in a giant mansion in beverly hills.
Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) looked horrible in his last fight against 154-pound champion Israil Madrimov on August 3 and showed that he has reached the limit of how far he can go to advance between divisions. Terence was eating Madrimov’s right hands all night and looked like an old man in that fight. Why might Canelo want to fight Crawford after that performance?
“Canelo, don’t run away from this. “You already escaped the fight with Benavidez,” said Tim Bradley in his YouTube channel, talking about his desire for Canelo Álvarez to fight Terence Crawford. “Anyway, you don’t care what people have to say about you about the fact that you didn’t take the fight.
“You’re walking through Mexico and you obviously don’t care what people think of you about not taking that fight. Do the fight with Crawford. “That’s a fight everyone wants to see you take, and it will give Crawford a chance to showcase you and show the world his greatness,” Bradley continued.
“Everyone talks about weight. ‘Oh, he’s going to knock him out.’ When was the last time Canelo knocked someone out? Everyone can stop saying that: “He’s going to knock out Crawford.” Canelo is the same height as Crawford (5’8″). Canelo started at 147 pounds. “It’s not a natural weight of 168 pounds,” Bradley said.
Canelo is much bigger, stronger and more talented than Crawford. Fans watched as Terence, 37, barely beat Israil Madrimov in his debut at 154 last August, and rightly view the Nebraska native as too small and old to move up 14 pounds to 168 to challenge Canelo for his titles. unified. .
Testing ground
If Crawford was willing to prove himself by moving up to 168 and passing the challenge David Benavidez, David Morrell, Artur Beterbiev and Christian Mbilli, Fans wouldn’t be averse to this fight happening. But since Crawford is not willing to do that, he is not considering a fight against King Canelo. They ignore him like other needy fighters who beg Alvarez to give them an undeserved fight.
To meet the King, you must do something great. It has always been like this. Crawford is trying to skip that part and just beg for the fight or have others try to pressure Canelo on his behalf.
“We just saw a fighter (Oleksandr Usyk) who was 50 pounds lighter than the other guy (Tyson Fury) he faced, and he beat him. He beat him with his skill, ability, heart and determination. Usyk is a great fighter. You know another great player is Crawford,” Bradley said.
The difference is that Tyson Fury, 36, is a complete failure in the clinical sense, always overhyped and manufactured, thanks to the careful matchmaking done by his promoters.
Canelo is not a hype job and has real talent to go along with his power and size. More importantly, it’s a proven PPV draw. Crawford is not a PPV draw and never will be. This fight is simply about helping Crawford financially and making his fans, like Bradley, happy.
This fight does nothing for Canelo. If Bradley really cared, he would position Crawford to face the killers in the 154-pound division, which includes many he still needs to fight. Bakhram Muratazaliev is waiting for Crawford and if he wants to cement his legacy, he needs to fight him.
