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And speaking of talking about it, before we get into the video this week, I'll be doing a live show at Radio Row for this fight. I've never done that. It's been one of my dreams to do a Radio Row live show for any sort of sport. And having it in boxing for my first one is going to be amazing. I don't really know too much of what's going to go down. It's just kind of come across my schedule. But I know I'm going to be live Thursday and Friday. I don't know the times yet, I don't know the guests yet. But tune in right here on this channel because if it's anything like I imagine it, it's going to be something you don't want to miss. But today's video is why Canelo Alvarez beats Terence Crawford again. I'm going to do one for Terence. So before the comments go crazy, just hold on. There'll be another one tomorrow. But today we're talking Canelo Saul Alvarez and why he wins. The breakdown. Let's go number one. Yes. Canelo is the bigger fighter. And what do I mean by that? He is more experienced at 168lbs, meaning he has fought at the higher weight class for far longer. He has fought some of the biggest names and the most experienced guys at this weight class. 160 and 175 in this era. He has a more natural aptitude for 168 when it comes to his frame. Right. Look at Canelo and look at Terence Crawford. Canelo is more of a stockier, shorter, dense, thick boy, however you want to go about it. He's more broad in his shoulders. He carries the weight. It feels like better at 168 today they had their first face off at the Bellagio and the fountains were going off the. By the way, they were on a floating pedestal. I don't know how that happened. It was Dana. It was Turkiella Shake. It was Canelo. It was Crawford on some sort of floating platform. How did they get out there remains to be seen. But you look at that face off and you see Canelo and Terrance are not different in height like Terrence might be. The taller I think he is, the longer I think he has like a 3 1/2 inch reach fighter than Canelo is. And that'll be a factor when we talk about his video tomorrow. But the point is Canelo just more dense, more solid and fills into the weight a little better. Now that is a clear benefit to Canelo and I want you guys to understand why. He has felt the punches of Kovalev, he's felt the punches of Triple G, he's felt the punches of Dimitri Bivol, who's not a massive power puncher, but he still hit Canelo with a lot of shit. At 175 pounds, he has felt and not been at any point really hurt by those power punchers and even boxers, he's found a way to maneuver past them and end up either hurting them with winning decisions that are clearly one sided or stopping them. That has been Canelo's bread and butter when he's made this move to 168 and 175. And again, I said we're going to be nuanced and we are. But one of Canelo's strengths is his strength. It is his power. Even when Canelo was a young lad, a young Canelito, AKA Cinnamon, growing up in Mexico, you hear Eddie Reynoso and Eddie Reynozo's father, who trained Canelo first, talk about how he was a big kid for his age. He was muscled up at 13, 14 when he started boxing in the gyms of Guadalajara. He was knocking out grown men by the age of 15, 16. And I know Terrence Crawford was doing the same over in Omaha, Nebraska. My point is, Canelo has always carried some power, carried some strength, carried some devastation in his hands and that's gone up with him. And I know that people have questioned that because who really carries that kind of power going up? But Canelo's been able to do it and you know, people like Manny Pacquiao have been able to do it. Usually you go up and when you go up in weight, your skill carries the bill. And Canelo has skill and Manny Pacquiao had skill, but there's still that nasty, nasty power in his hands. And one of the things that we have seen is that Canelo, regardless if he's being outboxed, maybe early in fights or regardless if people have landed on him, look at the Caleb Plant fight, look at the Billy Joe Saunders fight. Again, not saying they're the same talent level, but he has found the button at many points of those fights, even if he's quote unquote being outboxed, he has found the button. The one place that maybe didn't work as well, or two places I would say were obviously Floyd Mayweather, Dimitri Bivol and the Triple G fight, because Triple G was just made out of iron, just like Canelo is Right. But usually that power carries him through. So one of his strengths is when he downloads, when he does dissect, when he does find the opening, he's able to capitalize in a big way. And all that boxing. You did rounds one to six, it may have you up on the scorecards, but it leaves you vulnerable from round seven to 12 because Canelo's hitting arms and he's hitting shoulders and he's hitting ribs and those arms are getting heavier and they're falling down. And all of a sudden here comes a chopping overhand. And it's funny, I said overhand at the end of that sentence, not even meaning to, but it segues to our next point. I think there are some holes in Terence Crawford's defense that Canelo can take advantage of and capitalize on with an overhand. Now, let's. Let's talk about what I mean here. Number one, Terence Crawford is probably the best skilled brawler in boxing. And I don't mean that disrespectfully. I mean he'll get in a dog fight with you. This isn't going to be Canelo Williams scole. This isn't going to be even Canelo. Floyd Mayweather, which was a defensive to offensive master class from Floyd, right? Walking Canelo into things and countering but not being there to be hit. Bud Crawford will be there to be hit in this fight, and I don't think he's going to do a lot of going backward. I wouldn't advise him to do a lot of going backward. You hear Bomac talk that doesn't seem like that's their game plan. And tomorrow I'll talk about who I think they're going to try to emulate to get the best of Canelo. But one of the greatest and most highly touted things about Bud Crawford is the fact that he's a switch hitter, right? We talk about him being one of the best switch hitters ever. Now, in reality, Bud Crawford is more of a southpaw fighter than he is an orthodox fighter. He really only goes orthodox if he's looking for that kill shot or if his backhand kind of leads him into the orthodox spot out of southpaw. But usually he stays left handed. And it's because I think he's better defensively and offensively with his left hand. I do think he is more comfortable countering with his left hand. I do feel like when he's in orthodox, it's mostly just offense and it gets him into trouble sometimes. But I think for this fight, he will be southpaw. But out of either stance, one of the things that gives Bud problems is an overhand right. And it's usually because of what I talked about a second ago. He is a skilled brawler, one of the most skilled brawlers ever. He will sit in the pocket and look to throw volume. And in the midst of that, sometimes, not on a lot of occasions, and very rarely, but sometimes he can be hit. And when he is hit, it lands flush. Let's take a look at the tape, and if you don't believe me, look at that right hand. And this is again, Bud out of southpaw. And this is the point where it always happens. Watch again, as here comes the jab. And Bud wants to trigger that check hook over the top. This is one of his greatest attacks, and it sets up the left hand behind. But in an orthodox southpaw matchup, you're going to see a battle of the backhands, right? Because what's a orthodox killer in a southpaw stance? It's the straight left hand, right? That's the straight left hand straight down the pipe. It's tough for right handers to see because they're used to your lead hand leading the action. And then the backhand, you go backhand first and again head off the center line. Bang. It's tough for right handers to see, and they're usually trying to parry and catch the jab first and then the backhand. So if they miss that backhand, here comes the overhand. There's just a lot of it's backwards for orthodox fighters to see. But also, southpaws are used to usually seeing orthodox fighters. But just like the left hand is an orthodox killer, the right hand without the jab or right behind it is the southpaw killer. So watch right here. You see the jab to kind of post. Boom. Overhand right. Bud's gotten caught trying to check hook again, and he gets the right hand dropped off. Doesn't hurt him too bad. No big deal. But the point was that it landed and it landed pretty flush bow right there. And notice in all these clips, this is Bud being offensive. This is Bud on his front foot. This is Bud looking to walk down his opponent. And honestly, I think they're going to try to do this to Canelo, and it's. It remains to be seen how well that's going to work for him. Again, there are some things that I think he can do to capitalize, and we'll talk about that tomorrow. But this is why I don't I say, I don't see Buddha looking to go backward much in this fight. Whether it's going to work or not, I'm not sure. But I expect him to try to maintain position or move forward. And again, you see it here, overhand. Look at the extension from Bud trying to lean away from the shot, thinking probably it's going to be a straight right hand off the jab. But it's a faint jab, big overhand, over the top. Now here's Sean Porter, who comes in with a gazelle hook right, tries to get to range with it and looks for a right hand. And then they break. Here comes another overhand, where Bud, instead of taking that back step to reset, wants to come back with his check right hook again here, right? This is the clinch. Instead of trying to reset, he's coming back. Left hand, right hook, uppercut, or maybe body shot with the left hand. Here comes the right hand across, but here comes the overhand from Porter. Boom. He traded in that moment, and he lost the overhand right. Got there first. Every time Bud wants to come back with something, whether you've hit him or not, if he's in the pocket, it's boom boom or it's boom boom. And sometimes he can lose that timing battle. And when he does, he gets hit with big shots. And again, here's Gamboa. Now, this one is at an orthodox position, and this is probably the most hurt I've ever seen. Bud. But he was tuning up Gamboa here. He was styling on him a little bit. He got a little confident, hands came down, and he eats another right hand, though, at orthodox. Boom. On the button. Tagged him with the right hand. Because even out of orthodox and southpaw, Bud will still utilize that same combination, right? He'll still look to go boom boom or boom boom. It's the same thing. He's just switched stance. So again, the vulnerability to the overhand right is definitely something that if you are a Bud Crawford fan, you don't want to see Canelo land on him. Because when Canelo lands, overhand rights. And I'm going to show you a clip of triple G. But watch how he chops that through the guard and drops Charlo, who was at the time the 154 undisputed chance. So let's watch Canelo now as he chops this right hand on. On triple G. Watch how he sets it up. Right jab up top, double jab, level change. Boom. Behind it, walking triple G down with that double jab right. Boom. Cover the Eyes, faint, rip. That is what I call a massive exploit in Terence Crawford's defense. I know he is a great counterpuncher. I know that he uses his angles and he slides off and he gets his head off center and he's able to counter with big time volume and big time power at 140, at 147. But even when you watch this Madrimov fight, and I'll play it here, Madrimov over with the right, boom. If you stand in front of Canelo, not to say he's going to do a ton of that, but if you stand in front of Canelo and look to trade with him, that's not going to be a great night for Crawford if he does that. And I expect them to be very aggressive offensively because you kind of have to be one. I think there's a bit of pride in Terence Crawford not wanting to be walked down by Canelo, not wanting to be on the back foot, not wanting to be the defensive fighter, whereas a guy like Floyd Mayweather didn't really care about that. He was going to box very slick. He was going to catch Canelo leaning. Canelo was also 23 at the time. Bit of a baby. But the point is, Terence Crawford is not. He doesn't fight the same way Floyd does. And I don't expect him to. I expect him to fight more like Dimitri Bivol, Triple G in some of those cases where he wants to bring the action. The problem is I don't know that he has the chin of Triple G and I know he's not anywhere close to just the size and frame of Demetri Bivol, who, by the way, said that Canelo hits harder and throws harder than someone even like Archer, better be it. So when I look at this fight, I could see Terence Crawford being the more skilled guy. I can see Terence Crawford landing more punches. In fact, I almost want to predict that that will happen. When we look at the final stats of this thing, if it goes the distance, I think it's going to be a super close fight. But if it doesn't and Canelo is able to stop Terrence Crawford, we're going to look at this and go, damn. Terrence was having such good rounds. Almost again, like the Billy Joe Saunders fight, he was having such good rounds until he didn't. Right until the right hand comes through. And I really think that's going to be the difference maker if Terrance wants to stay in the pocket and look for multiple counters, which I think he should, because when Terrence plays that risky game that I think he has to play in this fight, and I think it's just the reality of the fight. He has to be risky. To beat Canelo, you have to enter the fray. Look at the guys that have won with the skill sets they have, right? No one has fluid may with their skill set. So the other guys that have given Canelo problems, they've gotten risky, right? They've played the game with Canelo or they've been able to back him up and use their volume. I think Terrence is going to have to try to do that. But again, in that fray, you risk getting knocked out cold, or in that fray, you risk getting beat up with right hands and chopped on with the left hook, right? And another thing, Canelo will throw that left hook out, even out of the southpaw position just to see where you're going to move your head, right, or to lead you back into that big overhand right. But I think that's probably the biggest factor in this fight is not just the right hand. It's not the susceptibility to right hands. It's Terence Crawford's willingness to play the game to be risky, right? And I bring up the whole right hand scenario to say this. It's not just about Canelo landing a right hand. And the only susceptibility from Crawford is the right hand. It is what you see in those clips that merge the two together is that Terrance is willing to play the game. He's going to try to stand in front of Canelo. He's going to try to counter him with multiple punches, which, again, I think is probably the path to victory. But in that path, somewhere along it, there's going to be roadblocks or potential street shutdowns. When Canelo decides, I'm done playing this back and forth, here comes an overhand or I found your timing. I found the spots in between with my head movement, with my upper body movement, and you can't hurt me like I can hurt you. That may be the difference maker. When Terrance feels like he's gotten all the power that Canelo has, when Terrence feels he can hurt Canelo, when he gets confident in the pocket and he throws those combinations and he stays just a little bit too long in there, right? Little bit too long in the kitchen and Canelo finds that right hand, or Canelo finds that left hook, or Canelo progressively over the rounds where him hitting you in the shoulders early on, it didn't really hurt as much. But now round six and Seven is coming and it's harder to hold your hands up. And you still got to do that game plan. You still have to be in front of him. You still have to walk him down, because if you get on the back foot, then things really start going downhill. And I know everybody's super impressed by Terence Crawford's footwork, and he may actually be able to fight a great defensive fight should he get up early in the cards. But I'll offer you this reminder, not just how you play the game, not just the power difference, but remember, this is his first fight at 168lbs. This will be a bit of a different feel in there. So, yes, while you have success early, what happens if you do get a little tired late on? Right. What happens if you do want to transition to a more defensive posture later on? And those feet are a little heavier than they felt at 147. Well, heavier than they felt in the Madrimov fight at 54. And Terence didn't look super spry in that fight. So, again, this video being Canelo's path to victory, I look at all those scenarios and say Terrence could be up early. I almost expect him to be up early in this fight. Landing combinations, having success, but Canelo having more damage when he lands, having more effect when he lands. And round by round by round starting to accumulate. And Terrence starting to slow down again, not being used to the weight, not being used to himself at the weight, not just fighting a guy in Canelo that's more dense, but just himself. And then the power from Canelo sets in, and then the timing starts to become equal. And then those risks that you were taking earlier, getting away with because you were fresh, because you had prepared well, they start to fall by the wayside because if Canelo is not hurt, which I don't expect him to be, and Canelo is still trying to find that opening and he's still throwing hard punches, eventually the levy will break. And that's why I lean more toward a Canelo knockout, because it'll be. We've talked about a 50, 50 fight. I think it'll be tougher for Canelo to win a decision I do, just because of the skills and the ability and the well roundedness of Terence Crawford if he decides to really take that fight to Canelo early and really leave no doubt in the judge's mind. But again, that back half of the fight will be so important. And if he falls off a cliff, whether it's, you know, the stamina, whether it's just the power that Canelo has gotten his hands, that eventually takes a toll. How does that back half look and Canelo, you know, make the comeback on the fight? I truly think that it'll be an early successful fight for Terence Crawford, which may be the biggest dose of poison for him in this fight, if that makes sense. Because that success and him continuing to engage with that success, ultimately, I think will lead to his demise. Is the success early, the willingness to trade, the willingness to be in the fire. And what I, again, I keep calling him this, and I don't mean it disrespectful, but to be a skilled brawler, to be there when Canelo's throwing, not backing away from punches, getting head off the center, trying to look for the check hook over the top, trying to look for the left hand of the body and the combinations, just eventually you either are perfect in those exchanges or Canelo finds one or he finds two, or he finds one that leads to two, then three, then four. I know Terrence has sparred big guys. I know that he's got Lester Martinez in camp. I know all that. But eventually Charlo found it. Plant found it out. Kovalev found it out. Dimitri Bivol even said it. Saunders found it out. These bigger guys found out that the power with Canelo, regardless of what you felt before, is different. If you take too many, they will accumulate, and eventually that will be the reason he finds the knockout shot. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how I feel. Canelo Alvarez can win this fight. I think it'll be a slower start for Canelo. I think Terence Crawford would have a lot of success early, but eventually playing that game of roulette, right, we're in Vegas and Terence Crawford gambling that much, risking that much, playing that game of roulette over and over and over, eventually Canelo will find the button. And as many right hands as I've seen Terence Crawford take, especially when he wants to trade, especially when he wants to counter over the top of your shots and doesn't look to get out of range, I just think it'll be devastating to lead off fight week. That is how I think Canelo wins this. And you guys know that I am predicting Canelo to win, but it doesn't mean that's how it has to happen. Tomorrow I'm coming back with a breakdown of how Terence Crawford can win this fight. And honestly, there's a lot of avenues there. This isn't just Canelo land, and Terrence has no shot. I'm telling you right now, they're calling this a 5050 fight for a reason. Terence Crawford's skill is far better than Canelo has seen in a very long time. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Let me know what you guys think down below. I already know you guys are going to slaughter me because again, you think this is me saying Canelo is going to win and this is the only scenario. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just giving you this video as a reference to how I think it can happen tomorrow. Terence Crawford's turn. But if you disagree with what I said here, let me know why down below and who do you think wins and why? Because I don't have those answers. But we're only four days away. So. Saturday, September 13th, live at Allegiant Stadium, presented by the Ring Magazine. It's Canelo. It's Crawford. Both men fight for legacy. One one will walk out the winner. Who will that be? Guess. We'll find out. All right, so we are back on the way. Concept presented by the Ring Magazine. I am here at the Fontainebleau. I don't even know if it's French. I just say it that way. Here in Las Vegas for Canelo vs Crawford fight week, folks, do not forget. I don't know if I said this already in my last video, but I am going to be live on this channel Thursday and Friday for Canelo Crawford. Radio Row. There's going to be a ton of of boxers, fighters, I heard WWE wrestlers, celebrities, and the who's who of people in Vegas. And we're going live and we're going to try to talk to the people. We're going to try to get predictions live on the show. It's going to be guests, it's going to be interviews. It's going to be a blast and I don't want you guys to miss it. So make sure you're tuned in. I think it's going to be Thursday at 9:30am PST, which is 12:30pm EST. I think the same thing on Friday. But stay locked in here on the channel. It's going to be fun. But today I want to talk about a couple things. Number one, today was the grand arrivals. We got to see can Canelo Saul Canelo Alvarez. We got to see Terence Bud Crawford. Both guys look confident. Both guys look to be in great shape. Terence Crawford dispelled the rumor and again, I might have contributed to a bit of the misinformation here. So I apologize. But he's in shape all right. He is cut up. He is shredded. And he looks big for the weight class. I will not lie. He looks like he's filling into £168 very well. But again, it's not just about the size difference. It's about the difference in the size of the fight that Terence Crawford is taking on. Super middleweight is not welterweight, is not super welterweight. It is two, maybe three weight classes above where he's comfortable fighting. We'll see how that affects him. Canelo was aura farming. I. I can't lie. He showed up looking like the Pope. People were screaming, babies were flying in the air, and he ascended up the escalator and did like the queen's wave to the people. It was insane. I couldn't believe a fighter had that much aura in boxing. Canelo still runs this. Now, today I promised a part two of the series that I started yesterday, talking about why one fighter wins this fight. Yesterday was Canelo. Today is Terence Crawford. So why does Terence Crawford beat Canelo? How does Terence Crawford beat Canelo and can it actually be done? Well, I think so, and here's why. The breakdown. Let's go. All right, so first and foremost, let's address the things that I said in yesterday's video. If you haven't seen that, make sure you watch the Canelo video, then come back here. But I said yesterday that there was going to be some things that Crawford had to do that may get him into trouble. There was going to be some weaknesses that Crawford had. Number one, yes, it's his brand new fight at 168 pounds. It is going to be a bit of a mystery how he comes into this weight class. There were some rumors of a shoulder injury. I'm not putting any stock into that because I don't think we can unless there's anything official really out there. Point being, there's got a lot of question marks around Terence Crawford. This video. We are going to suppose that those question marks are answered in full force by Terence Crawford being an absolute monster at this weight class. It's a lot of assuming, but it's kind of what we have to do to see the best version of Terence Crawford in this fight. So let's assume the weight doesn't bother him. Let's assume he is fully healthy, not injured. Let's assume that Canelo's power is not too much from him coming up from 147, 154 to 168. Let's assume all that's true. How does Terence Crawford win this fight? Number one, he has to get Canelo's respect early Terence Crawford is not going to fight this fight on his back foot, circling around the ring like William Skoll or Edgar Berlanga. Any of these guys that got hit by Canelo and went, oh no, I don't want any part of that. That can't happen. And do not forget, by the way, that Charlo was 154 undisputed champion coming up and fighting Canelo in his own right. And Canelo made that easy work, light work. And I know that Charlo is not Terence Crawford. My point is it's not easy to do. So you have to get Canelo's respect. He is someone that is going to try to walk you down until you stop him. The guys that got his respect and turned the tide of their fights were Trip Triple G and Dimitri Bivol. And for different reasons that we're going to go over. Floyd Mayweather danced on Canelo. He was able to manipulate Canelo's walking down, forward pressure, flat footed, plotty kind of movement to walk him into space and counter him, circle out. I don't see Terence Crawford taking a Floyd Mayweather role here. For everybody saying Terence Crawford's a runner, he's going to run from Canelo. I'm not even sure people have watched Terence Crawford fight. When has he ever run from anyone? And you don't change what got you to the dance. Regardless of of the weight you're fighting at. You may have to do some things differently. You may not be able to engage on every single exchange. But he's not just going to become a back foot, defensive, slick shoulder roll fighter that doesn't throw punches and tries to just navigate with his jab and circle. That's not him and that's not who he's going to be in this fight. And honestly, yesterday I talked about there being risk in him fighting in the pocket with Canelo, but I believe he needs to take that risk. I think coming out and establishing himself early in this fight is the risk necessary for him to win. Because what Canelo is is a very flat footed, plotting, power punching manipulator of space. At his best. He is a great counter puncher that uses slick upper body movement to make you miss and then he makes you pay with big time punishment. But those punches come usually one at a time or one and two at a time. Unless he's setting things up and moving forward offensively where he'll double that jab up and bang the right hand. If you get Canelo in, in the pocket and fighting in the pocket, he's most of the time he's going to try to make you miss and encounter with one or two big ones. What I think Terence Crawford's best path to victory here is is utilizing something like a triple G style of fighting that was controlled with the jab and then heavy combinations after the fact. Where he got Canelo to back up was because when they both entered range or they both were in the pocket, Canelo would make triple G miss a couple of times, but then triple G would keep firing or Canelo would make him miss and throw one or two and triple G would try to make him miss or take a punch and throw 2, 3, 4. He was out striking Canelo in their first fight continuously and he was kind of beating Canelo at his own game and pushing Canelo backward and making Canelo settle to being on the ropes and calling triple gian. I mean, like, you can't hurt me. If Terence Crawford has any semblance of that and is able to outwork Canelo in the pocket and is able to make those risks that he eventually has to take right being in the pocket, looking to to make Canelo miss with those big power punch and then capitalize on that check right hook and that left hand down the pipe. If he can do those things, it's going to give Canelo real problems and it's going to make Canelo break his rhythm. And that's one of the bigger things that Canelo thrives on is being a bit of a rhythm fighter. Again, you're not going to see a ton of output from Canelo in this fight. You're not going to see him throw 60 to 70 punches around. That's not him. He is going to try to make every single punch count. But if you're Crawford, what have you thrived on your entire career is making people that throw heavy punches pay for their lack of output and their output put of strength at the same time by catching in between the punches and being very snappy with your replies. I fully expect Terence Crawford to be a southpaw most of this fight just because I do think it gives him the advantage of working his jab and staying away from the big right hand of Canelo Alvarez. I don't think Terrence wants to circle toward the power hand of Canelo where he's trying to jab his way into that overhand. We've seen my last video. Terrence does sometimes get himself caught with overhands by being in the pocket and looking to exchange. I think him staying southpaw and if he is going to pivot out, pivoting away from that big power right hand. Yes, Canelo has a dangerous left hook, and that liver is going to be there from a southpaw fighter. Bud's probably going to be for most of this fight, but I think his best avenue and his best talent, honestly, is him as a southpaw fighter. People talk about Bud being a switch hitter, and maybe that can be useful in the sense of switching in combination or using it as a cover to gain range or get back into the pocket or to exit out. But to fight for elongated periods out of orthodox, I don't think Bud should do in this fight. I think that's a bad idea. So that's number one. You got to get Canelo's respect. And I said this in my video yesterday, which was me breaking down how Canelo wins. But in, I'll say the same thing here. I think Bud Crawford is going to win two to three to four of the first six rounds. I do believe that it will take Canelo a little bit longer to get going, and I assume both guys are going to be a bit patient in the first couple of rounds where the no. 1's going to really, you know, exceed and exude a ton of energy. But I expect Crawford to be a little more busy, and I expect him to be. I don't want to call it a pride thing, but I do think there is a bit of a message, a tone that needs to be set from Crawford that Canelo is just not going to take over this fight, and it's not going to be the Canelo show, meaning Crawford gets going early and he gets going off. And we're going to find out what Crawford's power Translates like to 168. It was a big deal from him at 135, 140 and 147 at 54 against Madrimov. He's still hitting Adriamov with some big stuff and he still left marks all over his face, but he didn't hurt him with anything. I don't know if that was the style of fighter because Madrimov is more of a, you know, a Soviet kind of Eastern European boxer or what that was because there is going to be a point early in this fight where Canelo is going to download how hard Crawford is hitting him. There's places for Crawford to use some of his bait and switch tactics here. What I mean is control Canelo with that jab. Touch him a couple of different times with some soft jabs and bang a big jab down the middle and snap the head back of Canelo. That would be something that interrupts the Canelo pressure and the Canelo timing and his rhythm of fighting. We talked about this earlier. I would say that's the next point we need to go to Crawford trying to break the rhythm of Canelo. Canelo's already, like I said, a low output fighter, meaning he's already not poised to throw a ton of punches. If you break his rhythm while he's trying to get to range by continually snapping that jab off and making sure the tone is set, when he walks forward, he's eating that lead hand. That was something. Again, I, I, I keep bringing Triple G back into it because I think, again, out of the southpaw stance, but I think there are things that Crawford can do that Triple G really took advantage of. He broke a lot of Canelo's rhythm with his jab. Same thing with Dimitri Beavel. Bivol kept things super simple. Jab, circle, jab, circle, combination, circle. I don't, again, I don't see Bud fighting that way. It's not the way he fights, but the jab was the most useful part of what Bivol did. And I thought one of the biggest things that changed the fight and changed the outlook of that first fight for Triple G was the fact that he was just consistently making Canelo reframe and consistently making him restart and consistently getting him out of rhythm. If you just diminish Canelo offensively and make him become a little bit more defensive or frustrate him to where he's winging out shots from way back, and Canelo already is at a reach disadvantage here with Terence Crawford if he stays long with that jab, gets Canelo to fire something, wing something off, that's not even close. Sees the shots, gets underneath it or slips outside of it and is able to then come back with that second counter, that second wave of combinations, that's where Terence Crawford lives. That's where his bread is fucking buttered. And that's what Bomac and those guys have been talking about when they say we're going to push him back, we're not going to get bullied in there. We're going to see who the bigger man is. Right? They're talking that talk because they are confident, one, that Crawford can take Canelo's punches if need be, but two, that they're not going to have to because they're going to interrupt Canelo's rhythm. They're going to make sure they're the ones getting off Even if it means they get off first more, even if it means they go first and make Canelo counter, slip that counter and come back with their own. Playing the game within the game. And I said it yesterday, Terrence is going to play the game. Have no doubt about it. He's going to be there. The risk reward of standing in front of Canelo Alvarez, he's going to do it. And it's not just a pride thing, but it's kind of the way he has to fight because that's how he fights. You don't just change everything when you get to this level. You have to be you. And that is who Terence Crawford is. I don't mean this disrespectfully, I mean it in the most high regard. He is the most skilled brawl style fighter you'll find. And I don't mean he's just winging punches, I mean he's ready to throw down, stand there in the middle, not flat footed, but be in the pocket looking to counter as soon as you throw. Watch when Terence Crawford's biggest shots, when he hits someone like Errol Spence in between, it's when Spence is a little hesitant, he's throwing one or he's throwing that backhand and Crawford is, is triggering. As soon as he sees a twitch, he comes with the hook bang or the bank bang, over the top or he goes body shot upstairs uppercut. There was a couple of different times in this camp that I've seen Crawford work in that triple lead hook, right? Not that he's going to throw that a ton, but really showing that lead hook to maybe get Canelo to either bend underneath it and roll it. And here comes that uppercut. There's another shot of bomac and I think Terence Crawford working the mids. And again, everybody works on different combinations but a lead uppercut from Terence Crawford and I think that is because Canelo is so upper body centric with his defense. Canelo will stand in front of you, he will plant his feet and he will look to move his head to get in positions to throw his counter shots. But sometimes that means that head comes down, rolls underneath, down rolls underneath. And I kept seeing Terence Crawford out of the southpaw stance, work those uppercuts like backhand lead bang, no setup, just boom, go. And I have a feeling that's to establish Canelo. You can't just stand in here and move your head. If you do, if you try to roll underneath something, if you go here, boom, that uppercut's coming underneath it and they're Going to throw it with some big time power. So those are the keys, I think for Terence Croft, you got to get respect and not get pushed back against the ropes. And playing Canelo's game where he walks you down and you try to Floyd Mayweather the shit, go high guard, shoulder roll and try to counter off it, that's not Terence Crawford. He has to get respect, stand in the middle of that ring and say, I'm not going backward. He has to be early and he has to be often with his jab and I think with the counter volume, stifle Canelo. Do not allow him to, to just dictate the pace of this fight by slowing everything down. And now you're throwing one and he's throwing one and you're throwing two and he's throwing two. Everything is, you go, I go. He's not shutting Canelo's offense down. Instead he's letting him get off just to find ways to try to counter behind it. He's got to stifle Canelo a bit and frustrate him. And here's the last part of this, which it's not going to sound very nice, but it's the truest statement. You have to beat Canelo convincingly, point blank, period. You have to. Let's be honest, in boxing there is a such thing as an A side judging or preferred judging sometimes. And I'm not saying that's going to be the case tonight, but we've seen it even in Canelo's past. You go to the first triple G fight, you go to some other fights that you people even say the second triple G fight was pretty close. But the point being, there have been times where Canelo has gotten favorable scorecards when it was clear to most people that he did not deserve that. How do you avoid it? You have to clearly beat Canelo. And I don't even mean knocking him out because as many scenarios as I come up with, I just don't see Terence Crawford knocking Canelo out. So to act like there's a way to do it, I'm sure there is, right? If Canelo didn't see a punch, he gets clipped by something. Regardless of, you know, Canelo's neck strength and he hasn't really ever been hurt like that. You don't see something and you get clipped. It's boxing. Everybody can go down. But Terence Crawford, in my opinion, has to clearly beat Canelo. I mean, get up on those scorecards and run away with this thing. And again, those points that I laid out earlier is the way he does that, he has to continue to keep pressure on Canelo, he has to continue to stifle Canelo and he has to clearly beat it. I just see Terence Crawford, if he's going to win, he's going to have to win by 3, 4, 5 rounds. Which means again, you want to rack those first four out of six. You want to be able to maintain it late into the fight. You're going to have to play risky, you're going to have to do things that normally you wouldn't have to do. You're going to have to be in Canelo's face. There's a lot of things that Terence Crawford is not used to that he's going to have to do this time around. But out of the two of them, who is more equipped to do that? That'd be Terence Crawford. I do think he's the more well rounded fighter in terms of his offense to defense, his selection in punching, his accuracy while punching, going forward, going backward, yes. His ability to fight in both stances, but more so his ability to counter whilst not being out of the pocket, keeping exchanges, being in the pocket, being defensive in the pocket, but also countering with feet, angle switch and making people pay for winging power shots that aren't necessarily set up with much, which is kind of what Canelo has been doing over his last couple of fights. So if you have a plotty fighter in Canelo who is, regardless of what you think over the last couple of years, definitely slowed down, has not been the same Canelo that we even saw fight Caleb Plant. Terence Crawford can take advantage of that with the things that we've seen him do to fighters that are plotty, to fighters that haven't been able to to keep up with his pace. And quite frankly, with the last point we'll end off on. Terence Crawford has an inability to lose that Canelo just doesn't have right now. And I'm not saying Canelo is a loser or anything like that, but Terence Crawford has never lost as a professional and that has to count for something, right? Canelo has seen defeat. There have been ways that you can say that is how you beat Canelo because people have beaten Canelo doing it. Floyd Mayweather, defensive prowess, making Canelo miss, making him pay, being very slick on the back foot, Demetri Bivol on the front foot, stifling Canelo's offense with a jab, with a right hand, with movement, with circling combination, circling, stifle, triple G. In my opinion, the first fight around, being able to Stifle Canelo whilst remaining in the pocket with him, throwing more punches, being more volume heavy, being able to take power punches from Canelo but fire back with even more sting. These are the things you can say work against Canelo because you've seen them work and you've seen people beat him. Terence Crawford has been hit by punches. Terence Crawford has been losing fights in some cases, but he has never lost a fight. And at the end of the day, if you're a Terence Crawford fan, you can take to the bank that notion to say, listen, Canelo might be one of the greatest ever, he might be the greatest Mexican boxer that's ever lived, he might be one of the greats of all time, but my guy's never lost. So when it comes down to it, when shit hits the fan, I'm backing him because I just feel he's going to pull it out the fire. I just feel at any point he doesn't know how to lose and he will will himself to victory. I know that sounds like a lot of, like, motivational speech talk, but sometimes that's real. When you have convinced yourself that you're unbeatable, when you have never tasted defeat, when you're a bit ignorant to what quitting means, to what losing means, to what feeling that, that switch of, well, it's not my night tonight. If you don't know what that feels like and you only know winning, then sometimes that's a superpower in any sport. It makes guys confident to a delusional level that somehow works to make them even more invincible or to make them more resilient in some way, to just go, oh, no, this is, this is not happening to me. I don't lose, I win. So that's a real part of this fight and one that potentially couldn't be a major factor. So with all that said, Terence Crawford having an inability to lose, being the man that just wins, Terence Crawford being the more, I think, well rounded of the two right now, seen as Canelo has foregone a lot of the things that he used to be in this new form of himself, which is much more of a plotty power puncher. I don't know which one's going to show up. Eddie Reynoso saying, the best Canelo in 20 years is going to show up. So who knows? But you combine that with the fact that if Terence Crawford can back Canelo up and gain respect early, if he is able and willing to risk it for the biscuit, capitalize with volume punching, if he's able to Establish his jab, all those things get started early. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how Terence Crawford will beat Canelo Alvarez. There it is, folks. Comment below where you think I'm wrong here and give me your prediction. You think Terence Crawford is going to win this fight? Because we're only a couple days into fight week. Still so much more to go over. The press conference, the weigh in stuff we're all going to talk about here. And also, guys, we're going to be live Saturday. I don't know if we're going to be still in Vegas. Not really sure what the plan is, but if we're not here in Vegas, I can catch a flight, be home in 45 minutes, and we could be live from the studio, have some guests, have a fun time. But regardless, let me know what you guys think, who wins Saturday and why, because I don't have those answers. But guess we'll find out. Yes, sir. Come on through, Dana. Appreciate it. Dana. Wade. Nice to meet you. I'm liking that ring shirt you're rocking today. Ladies and gentlemen, president of UFC Dana White is with us now. Just got done with Nightcap over there. The boys, man. Shannon and oo. How was that?
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B
It was great. Great. Love those guys.
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A
Yeah, man. So, Vegas, we're here. Talk to me about why this was the fight Dana White decided to come into boxing to support and grow the sport.
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B
Well, it's not that this was the fight that I decided to do. This was the fight that I was, I was offered, you know, by Shake Turkey. He said, I put this fight together and I would love for you to be the promoter of it.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And who the hell would say no to this?
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A
I can't. Yeah.
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B
You know what I mean?
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A
Yeah.
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B
You'd have to be mentally ill to not want to promote this fight.
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A
Right. So this whole thing, this build up Netflix, the entire thing, is this the, the big push for Dana White to do more in boxing? I've heard you talk about this new contender series you're going to do. Obviously, Zufa boxing now come to life.
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B
When Shake Turkey asked, asked me to be the promoter of this fight, we went out, we cut the television deal, we went out and cut the arena deal. You know, we did all the, all the groundwork for this thing. And then obviously we're putting together the production, you know, all the nuts and bolts and all the things that go into a fight. We did. This is going to be the third biggest fight in history. Right. And I know a lot of people like to talk shit. Take it however you want. To take it, boys. Number one fight of all time, Mayweather. Pacquiao.
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A
Boom.
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B
Number two, Mayweather McGregor.
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A
Boom.
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B
Number three, Crawford versus Canelo. What do, what do two of the three have in common? Yeah, I've been a part of two of the biggest.
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A
Okay, talk to yourself.
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B
Of boxing. So. Yeah, and then I'm going to do my own thing in 26 with Shake Turkey. You know, he's got a lot of other plans, but the thing that I'm most focused about is this thing that I want to do in 26.
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A
I think that contender style.
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B
I think that I can add a lot of value to the sport into a lot of these young up and coming guys. Yeah, I saw Eddie Hearn, who I.
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A
Was just going to ask you about this.
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B
This just happened. I love and respect this guy. I consider him a friend. I was surprised but not surprised to see him talking shit today and letting you know. He said, listen, I guess my responses. I look forward to it too, my brother. I look forward to it too.
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A
I'm an MMA guy as well as a boxing guy. You love to compete?
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B
I love.
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A
And so does Eddie. And you guys being, you know, going. He said he wanted to go one on one with Dana White. That's got to fire you up.
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B
Yeah, well, I think that he's, you know, I, I, I, and I only listen, I don't listen to what the, the media says. I've only seen clips, to be fair.
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A
He said he wanted to compete. He was like, listen, I want to show that I'm the better boxing promoter, which is, I think, what everybody wants to do.
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B
Yeah, yeah. And, and I think he's looking at it wrong. He's like, he's not doing anything. That's that, you know, that's, that's different than anything we've ever done, man. I don't disagree with that. I mean, there's, there's only so many things to do, but there's, there's certain ways to do it. And fair enough to him where he says that he thinks that I don't know enough about the boxing business and all this stuff.
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A
Look at that.
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B
I'm going to stay in my little world like I always do. Like I live in my own little world, you know, with UFC and lots of things in my life. I'll tell you how in my own little world I live. I just discovered Billie Eilish, like two weeks ago.
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A
Had no idea who she was.
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B
Had no idea who she was. I'd never heard of her.
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A
The biggest superstars on the planet never Heard of her.
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B
Never heard any of her songs or saw any of her things. And I saw this thing on Instagram where when she was 16 years old, she did this festival. It was like the Reading Festival or something out in California. Have you seen that clip?
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A
I've. I've heard about this thing you're talking about. Yes.
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B
So this girl who was probably 14 or 15 years old with her brother when she wrote this music goes out to this festival, which is in the afternoon. She wasn't even the main act that day. It was that night. And the way that the crowd reacted to her and sang to her song is one of the cool. I've watched it 150,000 times. Seriously. I'm not even kidding. My guys are, like, sick of hearing it.
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A
Like, all right, enough. Billie Eilish.
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B
Yeah, I love that kind of stuff. I love that this young, talented, you know, girl and her brother wrote. Wrote this music. And the way that the fans reacted to her song at this thing has just blown me away for the last couple of weeks, and I can't stop watching it. But it was just an example of how in my own little world I live. And then I looked at the. It's Bad Guy or Tough Guy. I don't know the name of the song. But then when you look at the. The official video, it's got 1.3 billion.
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A
Views, you're like, holy cow. I'm just discovering this.
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B
I love it. No, I love. I love that type of stuff. And. And I think that no matter what business you're in, what sport you're in or. Or whatever walk of life you're in, you always have the ability to find somebody that connects with people. The Conor McGregor's, the Ronda Rousey's, the Billie Eilishes, you know, these type of people. I love going out and trying to find those kind of people.
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A
I think that's kind of. You're talking about this.
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B
That makes sense.
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A
Yeah, absolutely. You're talking about this new contender. It seems like you want to invest in the youth of this sport.
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B
Contender series with the ufc.
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A
It's insane, man. What you're doing over there is incredible.
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B
I mean, we have multiple world champions.
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A
You can't even put them on two hands. It's all the people you're seeing. And you go back through their career highlights and, oh, they started on the contender series. Oh, wait a second. And then they're world champs or whatever else.
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B
This is what I love and this is what I'm interested in. And I'm not looking to you know, say, oh, I'm going to go in and I'm going to overhaul boxing and I'm going to do things that nobody's ever seen. I can tell you this, I'm going to put on a much better production than anybody's seen in boxing. I think that we will innovate the production side of the sport. I think that we will elevate in how the sport is presented and the way that we do it. I think we will bring new things that people haven't seen and I think we'll make the sport more exciting.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So that's where I disagree with my.
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A
Good friend Eddie Hearn.
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B
But I look forward to it too. Eddie.
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A
Oh, I can't wait to see. That's a one on one matchup I got to see. Talk to me. I heard there's potential room and you guys have had some fighter sign potentially with Zufa. Is there any, any fighters you could tell me potentially?
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B
We do, we do. We do have guys signed again after I get this weekend behind me.
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A
Right.
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B
We'll go once more.
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A
Sure.
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B
I say this all the time when I'm doing something new, whether it was the UFC power slap and other things we've done. Watch what we do in the next two years. UFC and all the other things that we're doing, including boxing. Watch what we do in the next two years.
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A
Well, talk to me about this. We're here obviously for Saturday. I know you want to, you want to focus on that Canelo Crawford massive fight. I know you can't really lean one way or the other, but how do.
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B
You think this is how I always lean? How I always lean is I want to be a part of, you know, shows that when people fly to Vegas, buy tickets, spend money on hotel rooms and dinners or stay home and watch it or watch it in a bar. Yeah, they're not bummed out that they wasted their time watching my events. That's, that's my goal every Saturday, no matter what I'm doing. So there's a lot of things that go into that and a lot of attention to detail that I think every boxing promoter, not just some of them, doesn't do.
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A
That's where Dana White comes in.
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B
I just think that's, that's the difference between me and everybody else.
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A
Yeah. Well, talk to me about some of this stuff. You're balancing a lot right now. Obviously you have this event. You're going to do more in 2026, but there's another big event that's coming in 2026 that I got to talk to you about the rumors are swirling about. It's this White House event for the ufc. I saw something today where they said there's going to be about 5,000 people. I don't know if you said this or somebody else potentially on the lawn, and then some bigger screens going on. How excited are you about this? Because it looked like when this became a potential, you started getting fired up.
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B
Oh, yeah, listen. I love one of one type events, like the Sphere last year for UFC Noche. This event.
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A
I was going to say that I'm.
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B
Doing two fights in two different states on the same night.
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A
Crazy and ever.
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B
And. And we've lined it up so that everybody can watch both. And everybody who's watching this right now, including yourself, can't tell me that you haven't been home watching two college football games at the same time, two NFL games at the same time, maybe even two fights at the same time. That's what we've lined this up to do. This is a special one of one event, too. And then the White House is literally the unicorn of one of one events. We're going to be on the South Lawn. We'll have under 5,000 fans on the South Lawn. And then the park that is connected to the White house, we'll have 85,000 people with screens. You know, we're doing a big stage over there. We're going to do concerts. We're literally going to take over Washington, D.C. that entire week. We're going to do, you know, we're going to do International Fight Week there.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So UFC X will be there and lots of other things that we're working on.
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A
As every single fighter on the roster asked to be on this guard.
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B
Pretty much, yes. Pretty much.
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A
I don't know if you've seen. I know that you essentially had ruled out Jon Jones being a main eventer on that guard. He's. He says he's training five days a week. Dana. He said he's trying to get on that card. What does Jon Jones have to do to get on a White House card?
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B
Jon Jones doesn't have to train five days a week now. The fight isn't until next. You know, he's.
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A
He just looks like he's jazzed up. He's ready. You know, this is a renewed John.
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B
He has made it very clear to me that this is what he wants to do. But I need people on this card that I can count on that no matter what happens, opponents get switched out or whatever happens, I need guys that I can absolutely Count on.
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A
Yeah.
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B
That are going to show up that night. So listen, I'm not saying no to Jon Jones and I respect the fact that he's pushing this hard, but Jon Jones and I just had a deal that he pulled out of.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You know, so he's not on the top of my list. Even though I say it all the time. You know, he's the greatest of all time. I still know that to be a fact.
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A
Oh, you know, the comments are going to come after you.
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B
He's not the greatest. He's not the greatest of all time guy you can count on. You know that. You know, for 100 is going to be solid and be there.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And say what you want about Conor McGregor, because people like to talk about that too, but he is that guy.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And he's always been that guy. I've been in the room, I've been on the phone, I've been. You know, lots of people like to talk tough publicly, but behind the scenes, it's a whole nother ball game.
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A
Yeah.
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B
When. When the shit hits the fan, who's really willing to go out. And Conor McGregor has always been that guy.
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A
So you said John's not at the top of your list for that one. You know, maybe don't rule it out, but who is. Can you give us a little bit of.
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B
I just said Conor McGregor, Connor.
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A
So that's. That's the minute you want.
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B
Always been that guy. Ronda Rousey, too. Yeah. Chuck Liddell has always been that. There's a laundry list of people that. And a lot of these. These people that are super talented are. Are almost like dealing with artists, you know, have their quirky little things and.
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A
Everybody'S different in this game. And fighters are always personality. Completely different. They're going to show up at this point. Gonna show up. Two hours. Let. You never know sometimes. So. Yeah, absolutely. Now, this White House card, a lot of people are super excited about. Obviously people are excited about the. The Noche event as well, going on the same day. But let's say Saturday night ends. Whoever wins this fight, this is going to change the sport of boxing.
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B
I feel I could not agree with you more.
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A
I think this is going to bring back this, especially here in America, because I've done. I've worked with a bunch of different companies in the UK and that's a big boxing hotbed right now. But America needs boxing, in my opinion, to ascend back to. Let's talk about the early 1900s. Number one sport in America. Number one sport in the world. And we haven't had that. And I think this could be a tipping point.
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B
When has there ever been a business or sport or whatever you want to call it, that has generated trillions of dollars in revenue, and at the end of the day, there's nothing there. And to be honest, you know, it took Saudi money to make this kind of stuff happen. If you look at what MBS and Shake Turkey have done in the sport of boxing, in no time at all like this, it's absolutely amazing. But that's what it took. And. But it also, you know, said to me, this is the right time to do it. This is the right time to jump in. If it's ever going to work and it's ever going to be great again, right now is the time.
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A
Why do you think that is?
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B
Because these guys are so aggressive and so willing to make these big fights. And the other thing that is incredibly impressive is, I mean, you're seeing it now with me. There's so much hate in the sport of boxing. Everybody hates everybody. All this. All this crap. And these guys are willing to get all the biggest haters together to pull off these fights.
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A
Do you. Do you enjoy that a little bit?
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B
I don't enjoy it. I absolutely love it.
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A
Yeah, I love it because it feels like, again, competition has been your. Your tipping point has made the UFC what it is. Now, coming into boxing, people that maybe you. You like Eddie, but there's other guys, like an Oscar De La Hoya.
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B
Yeah.
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A
That. People that you may not get along with, but I think that might fuel you even more.
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B
But that's the. That's the thing about the fight business. Even in my business, in the ufc, there's guys that I like, and there's guys that I don't like. There's guys that I don't like to fight. For me, for sure, I don't like them. We don't have to like each other to work together.
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A
Right.
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B
You know, but, yeah, everybody hates everybody in the boxing business. And now guys that I was absolutely cool with are talking shit and coming. But that's part.
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A
Thing is it's part of the business, if anything. Is it. Is it surprising to you that he did that today?
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B
It is. It is in some ways. And it isn't. You know, Eddie's a guy who, when you look at what his father has accomplished and whatever, match room, incredible. It's very hard being a son of somebody so successful for you to carve out your own niche and create your own identity.
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Yeah.
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B
And Eddie has done that.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You know, and Like I said, I really like and respect Eddie Hearn. Always have. And that's never going to change.
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A
So, yeah, let's talk about.
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B
But I look forward.
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A
I look forward to competing for this. I. I can't wait. Make a whole spectacle of. You know, they did the 5v5 with Eddie and, and Frank. They got to do something with you and Eddie now in the same kind of boat. That'd be sick. You get your roster together. You know what I mean?
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B
Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's. There's going to be lots of different opportunities, but. But what's great for it. You know, there's a lot of shit talk about how much boxers make and all this stuff. Handful of guys do.
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A
Oh, yeah, you do.
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B
The other tens to hundreds of thousands of fighters out there don't.
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A
The fighter kind of talk has been.
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B
Loud, I'll tell you this. And people talk shit about the pay in my sport. There are guys who come off the contender series who have made millions and millions of dollars already.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Where nobody knew who they were. We built them up and they now make millions and millions of dollars.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So I will do the same thing in the boxing business. Ten guys that make millions of dollars or seven or however many there are.
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A
Yeah. There's something about boxing that's. I think you want to change and I think Turkey does as well. Is. Is the introduction of, you know, stacked cards, cards that you care not just about the main event, but you care about that undercard. And you build. You use that main event to build your undercard versus, I mean, you've called it a going out of business sale. Right. When you have these cards that are loaded with fighters you don't really know or care about, and then there's that big main event and that price and that purse gets in that main event and everybody else is kind of left behind.
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B
This is what I will guarantee you I will do in no way, shape or form if I come into this boxing thing. Arrogant saying, oh, I'm going to change the whole sport and I'm going to do. I'm the savior of boxing, blah, blah, blah, blah. Never have I said any of that.
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A
Right.
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B
But here's what I will. What I will say I am going to. Within the next couple of years, we'll have people tuning into all the fights from the first fight of the night till the end, consistently. Like the ufc.
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A
Yeah.
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B
None of these boxing guys can say that they've done that or that, you know, what I'm doing isn't unique or different than anything that's ever been done that is definitely unique. It hasn't been done. You don't have any of these promoters where people are tuning in, you know, to the first fight of the night. I got celebrities that come to the UFC and they're sitting in their seats. The first fight of the night.
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A
The ovon your guy. All right, Dan, I know you're going to have to wrap up. Do me one favor. Can you really quickly talk to me about Callum Walsh? I know you're very excited about his fight. And then give me one fight Dana White would like to, outside of this mega fight here, another fight you'd like to promote in boxing?
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B
Well, I'll tell you this. I heard that Fernando Vargas Jr. Was saying, not only am I fighting Callum Walsh on Saturday night, I'm fighting Dana White and Shake Turkey, meaning that he feels like this, like the deck is stacked against him because, you know, I got behind Callum. That's not true. I put these fights together. I do all the bells and whistles. Who wins and loses is up to you.
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A
Up to you? Yeah.
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B
If it's you, Fernando Vargas Jr. I respect your father and what he did in his career and everything else. And Saturday night's up to you. We're giving you the opportunity.
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A
I was going to say you're the.
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B
Co main event in the fight of a lifetime.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You are the co main event. I respect you as much as I respect anybody else on the card, including the main event.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Saturday night is up to you. I promise you. You do not have Shake Turkey or myself, you know, against you on Saturday. You go in and do what you do, and Callum's going to do what he does.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And this is an opportunity for both of you to not only, you know, build your name and your legacy, but, you know, make a lot of money.
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A
Yeah, man. I'd argue your involvement helps that, but, Dana, I appreciate it. You have one message to the people watching for this Saturday, whatever you got in the future coming up.
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B
I'll say this. If you are a UFC fan, right, Saturday night is your opportunity to tune in and watch. You already know what UFC Noche is. It's sold out in San Antonio. You're going to watch that card. Now you have the opportunity to watch a stacked boxing card of great fighters all the way up to the main event. Right. If you are a boxing fan and you are a fringe UFC guy, you have the opportunity to tune in Saturday night, watch an unbelievable card with a badass main event. So the bottom line is this. If you are a fight fan or a fringe fight fan, Saturday night is the greatest night in combat sports history. Enjoy everyone.
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A
We'll leave it off on that. Ladies and gentlemen, UFC president now Zuva boxing head Dana White coming through. All right, folks, welcome back to the wake I said presented by the Ring Magazine. It just happened. Terence Crawford just beat Canelo Alvarez decisively to become the new super middleweight undisputed champion of the world three times. Undisputed. And I'm just gonna say it. He's one of the greatest boxers of all time. We have to talk about it all. But before we do, guys, really quick. I want to say a big thank you to the sponsor of today's video, First Form. That is right, guys. First form is the only spot for me to go to when I need my assist. Essential supplements to make my lifting and to make my full health and fitness better. And something I really enjoy about first form is they care about me, the person, more than they care about selling me supplements. I'm sometimes just trying to maintain my muscle, sometimes get stronger, but also just feel better. So with that being said, I use first form and I use specifically the formula one. That's right, the whey protein my body needs and desires from First Form. I also use their level one bars because as you guys know, I'm on the go a lot. I'm not always at home. I don't always have a meal ready for me waiting to go. So sometimes I need that meal replacement. And first form hooks it up. And if you guys want to enjoy all the NSF certified products at first form, that means they have been tested and approved for healthy use. Then click the link in the description. And when you do and you spend over $100 using the link in the description, you're going to get free shipping on all of your products and try it for 30 days. You just can't stand it, which that's not going to happen. You can send it back for a 110% refund. Like I said, the link is in the description. Make sure you use that. And if you spend over a hundred dollars, you're getting free shipping. Thank you to First1 for sponsoring this video. And now let's get into that breakdown. So folks, like I said, this is insane what has just happened between Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez. And I'll be the first to admit it. I was completely wrong about how this fight would go. I know you guys are going to let me know in the comments, but let's, let's legitimately talk about this. Terence Crawford just decisively beat Canelo Alvarez. He didn't just narrowly beat him. He didn't just get a robbery or slim decision. No, he decisively beat Canelo Alvarez. And he did it by just being the better boxer. That's legitimately what we saw tonight. Terence Crawford outboxed Canelo Alvarez, and he didn't just do it by being on the back foot and running. Before you get in the comments section doing that, I'm giving you the Mutombo finger wag. Nada. That's not what happened. He was able to, yes, use his legs when needed, but when he was also on the offensive, on the attack, he was sitting in that pocket and he was able to catch the shots from Canelo. Counter, catch, counter, catch, counter. He had far more fundamental discipline with his boxing that Canelo did. And we knew coming into this fight, it was going to be a question of how would Terrence Crawford respond to the power punching of Canelo. And quite frankly, he ate it up and asked for some more. He was talking to Canelo throughout this entire fight. And Canelo showed what we thought potentially would get him in trouble in this fight, which was one shot at a time, allowing Terence Crawford to utilize the ring, not being able to cut him off, not being able to get to him. And even when he did step to Terence Crawford and got in that space in the pocket, Crawford was beating him there as well. It wasn't just that Crawford was jabbing on the outside and circling, he was beating him in the pocket. When he needed to use his legs, he would. And when he was able to stay in that pocket, he was landing 1, 2, 3 at a time to Canelo's one stagnant shot at a time. It was very evident from round one, all the way through that Terence Crawford, when he was able to match Canelo's intensity and even go past it, Canelo couldn't match him. And that was something I did not anticipate. Also, Terence, at moments when Canelo started to pressure him and get in his face and hit him with big punches and it felt like maybe the momentum was turning. Terrence squashed all of that, right? He took water and threw it on the fire. If Canelo was starting to to burn, he was starting to quell and find ways to be offensive and be successful. Getting to range, even though Canelo's jab was almost non existent tonight, I don't know where that was, but he wasn't able to capitalize. Anytime he built momentum, Terrence got right back on that front foot, met him in the pocket and met him with big counter shots again. While Canelo threw one was the right hook, was the left hook to the body, was the chopping right hand over the top. Terrence was catching, or even if he was getting hit, he was finding a way to answer back with punches that were more crisp, more tight, more fundamentally sound. While Canelo, even when he was able to get to range, which wasn't a lot, it wasn't often he was having a hard time landing clean because everything was super wide and out here and to the body out there. And Crawford would either circle out to that same side to Canelo's lead hand side, he would circle away because Canelo would step straight to Crawford and chase him and not necessarily cut him off. And even when he threw that hook, I was looking for the hook from Canelo right hand as he stepped through right corral with the lead hand, Bang the right hand. Because you're fighting a southpaw. So, yeah, your jab may not be as effective and landing and managing distance and all those things. Even though for Terence, it kind of was for Canelo, I was expecting a lot more of that right hand down the middle and over the top and him jabbing his way, faint jab, right hand, and then that lead hook that I thought he would be able to corral Crawford because Crawford did want to move away from Canelo. He did. He wanted to move away from that power hand. Smart to do. Canelo never took that extra step to step outside of Crawford's lead foot. Again, that orthodox southpaw matchup, it's always going to be a battle of that lead foot. He never took that next step to get outside of that lead foot and then step through Crawford, step to his left where Crawford was going and land his right hand. He just felt like he was falling off to his right with his right hand. And once he fell off to his right after he threw the right hand, there was no follow ups because he was off balance and Crawford was out the gate and circling back to reset the action. This was a masterful display from Terence Crawford. And again, I, I, I looked at this fight and I don't want to do the thing where I said, oh, you know, Canelo's washed, he's over the top. He's old. Terence Crawford's older than Canelo. Is he as weathered as far as fights are concerned? No. But you can only do one thing when talking about this fight, and that is give credit to Terence Crawford. If you want to say Canelo looked old, that's fine. That's on you. I'm not going to say that. I think that Canelo looks a bit stagnant. Yes. I think his footwork is not the greatest, but Canelo as a pound for pound, great as someone that has been able to move up, it's because his power carry, it's because as he's moved up, some of those guys have been a little slower and he's been able to utilize his speed as an advantage even while moving up in weight. Because while he's not the greatest mover from his feet up, he is from his waist up and he's been able to make guys miss and make him pay with his hand speed. Terence Crawford had faster hand speed tonight and it was because everything was here when he got outside, everything came back when he was there back, and it was really just super impressive to watch. And that's why I don't want to take away anything by calling Canelo washed or old. That's not. I don't want to hear that. We said coming into this, if either guy won, they should get the credit. But for Terence Crawford to move up from 147 to 154, really from 135 to 140 to 147 to 154, then go, you know what? Forget 160. I'm going to 168. And become the undisputed champion at super middleweight. Making his third undisputed championship. That is history making stuff. That's the legacy win he needed. That is the biggest win of his career. And it speaks to how he prepared to how he put himself in the best position possible. His build, his frame. He's got a crazy reach, by the way. For five, nine. He's got like a 75 inch reach. He utilized it all and again it was, it was confidence throughout the fight. Look at the last round of the fight. Forget the first rounds and where Terrence was boxing well and he was on the back foot a little more, he was moving. As the fight went on, he adjusted to the intensity Canelo was bringing. And he was able to do it in a way that was not only just. It was smart because he was on his bike when he needed to be. And then he would sit down in that pocket and especially early in the rounds, he would trade with Canelo and win those exchanges. He would get the better of Canelo in the spots where you thought Canelo would get the better of Terence Crawford. And Caleb Plant told me this before the fight when I interviewed him, he said Crawford would be Better when he was on his jab on the way out, like fully extended at jab range, long range, or fully inside the pocket. And man, was he right. Shouts to Caleb Plant because when Terence Crawford was all the way in and it was a matter of make you miss, make you pay, go back and look at some of those replays, the sneaky shots Terrence was hitting him with, the check hooks, boom. On the inside. Just little stuff. Bang. Little stuff. Boom, Boom. And it didn't take a lot of effort because Canelo was coming in with full force. Like Canelo throws, he throws everything hard. So when he was coming in and winging out those shots, everything was out here. And here come Terence Crawford. Bang on the inside.
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Boom.
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Bang on the inside. Before Canelo could get to the punch, Terence Crawford had already countered, and it followed up with two or three more. And this is not to say Canelo didn't have any success. He did in moments, in spurts, in rounds. And Canelo did win maybe three, four rounds. I know it was 116, 112, and then two 115, 113s. It was not that close to me. And again, we know Canelo fighting in Vegas, things are going to look a little closer on those scorecards than maybe they actually are. But regardless, the right decision was made. I thought it was looked more like a 9-384-fight. Maybe some people are going to go crazy and say it was 12 0. I don't know about all that. But it was a definitive, dominant, decisive win for Terrence, to me, for Terence Crawford. And I think the most important thing and the most impressive thing about it was when it was time to dog it out, when it was time to meet in the pocket, whether it was Canelo doing the chasing or Crawford coming out aggressive, Crawford was willing to answer that. And he. It got to the point where Crawford felt Canelo couldn't hurt him. And that was super impressive to me. Go. I said this a second ago. Go back and look at that last round. Look at round 12 and the end of the fight where Canelo is. He's a bit stumbling all over himself because he's a little bit more frustrated. And that's something I also saw that I was pretty surprised at, was Canelo being a bit more frustrated in this fight, visibly. Body language, the things that you don't usually see out of a stoic Canelo Alvarez, where you think at any point he could turn the fight with his power, with his boxing iq, with his defense, that went out the window late in this fight. And you could see Canelo get more frustrated having to reset himself and get back to work. And it wasn't because he was frustrated with the way Terence Crawford was fighting. Was frustrated because he couldn't win. He couldn't win. The exchanges couldn't get to Terence. He would start Terrence with Java, make him reset, he start Terrence on the inside, hit him with something, circle, reset. And it was something I've never seen from Canelo in a fight, that body language. But in that 12th round, I watched Terrence sit down on punches, turn and go after Canelo and hit him with some big stuff. There were multiple points in this fight where each guy got clipped with some big shots. But Terrence has felt like he felt like the stronger guy. I gotta be honest, he felt like the shots he were. He was landing were bigger. That straight left hand, the left hand around the guard, leaving the welt on Canelo's eye. The most damage Canelo landed was to the body. I felt in this fight. And if you thought that Canelo's bodywork was going to slow Terence Crawford down, you thought it was going to slow him to the point where it's going to make a difference, it just didn't. And whether that was because Canelo didn't land a ton or because Terrence had just built into the weight class the right way and the weight truly did not make a difference. So for the people that tried to tell me you were right, I was wrong, the weight class, the weight for Canelo didn't make a difference. Now, if that's another bigger 168 pounder, you know, maybe it would, but Canelo wasn't, and the weight didn't matter. And that's just the truth of the entire thing. The weight just wasn't as big a deal as I thought it was going to be. And Terence Crawford was a much better boxer than Canelo was, which I expected. But I did expect Canelo's power and his sustainability to be better this time around. I expected him to be a bit more volume, heavy with his jab, but Terrence just shut all that down. It wasn't like Canelo just couldn't, you know, maybe it was a mindset that I don't know, but Terrence's ability shut it down. Like, there was no consistent jabbing from Canelo. There was no consistent, really attack outside of the one punch at a time. And Terence took advantage of that. He was like, listen, I'm. If you're just going to throw one at a time, I'm going To two, three, four times it. I'm going to tee off on these exchanges and then get out of dodge before I get hurt. And he was so smart about it. I can't say enough about the performance, man. Wow, what a performance. And it leaves us with the question that I think everybody coming into this fight wanted to know about Terence Crawford. The question was, was he as good as his record indicated for this fight, 41 0, 31 knockouts, was he as good as that record indicated? Was he as good as the two times undisputed? Was he as good as advertised? Because, well, Errol Spence after the car crash, which I fully believe is not the same Errol Spence that he was beforehand, not taken away from Terence Crawford's win. What he did was incredible that night. Well, the Madrimoff fight didn't look super crazy. Do we just look at Madrimoff and go, damn, Madrimov's pretty good now? Or was it just a Styles makes fights thing? What I learned tonight was not only is Bud Crawford as good as we thought he was, he's better. That's the craziest part about this. I didn't think we were going to come out of this fight and say, bud is better than I think, and I'm doing that right now. He is better than I thought he was. The way he completely dismantled Canelo Alvarez. I mean, Dimitri Bivol did something similar, but this was a smaller man taking some of that power. Again, smaller man didn't really make a difference. He was big. Taking that power, dealing with it and getting to work and making Canelo deal with him and his power and his volume and fighting his fight, Fight. That was the craziest part of it. Outboxing Canelo completely and utterly. And then the question becomes now, not, is he as good as we thought he was? Is Terence Crawford one of the greatest boxers ever? And when I. I say that, I mean, is he, you know, on Mount Rushmore? I don't know. That's so tough. That's four places. Four places in boxing. And I don't want to be the guy that. That gets caught up in. In the moment and gets prisoner of the moment. But I'll say this. He is one of the greatest of this generation. He is the greatest, by the way, of this generation. Not one of. I'm sorry, I misspoke. He is the greatest of this generation. And when we're talking about greatest of all time, I can put him there. If we're talking top 10. Yeah. Terence Crawford, I think he. He's in there top 15 at least. But as far as Mount Rushmore goes, I mean, it's so tough. You have Floyd Mayweather there, you have Manny Pacquiao there, you have Roy Jones there, you have Muhammad Ali there, you. There's so many guys that have put on that list. Julio Cesar Chavez senior. There's so many that it's really tough to start picking between 1 and 10 and you can interchange some people and all that, but he's definitely one of the greatest fighters boxers I have ever seen and tonight proved that. I just, I can't say enough. How about impressed? I am. I know I picked Canelo. It did not go the way I, I thought it would and I am, I'm happy with that because I got to see a generational performance. That's what I got to see. Whether you guys enjoyed all of the card or not. Listen, Christian and Billy and Lester Martinez was an insane fight. Fight of the year candidate Callum Walsh and. And Fernando Vargas Jr. Probably shouldn't have been in the co main event, but still good enough fight. How about, by the way, how about Boachek and Adams? That was another insane fight. I can't say enough about. I think a, a success here, a massive success. We'll see what the numbers look like, but I couldn't give a really. But a massive success, I think for the Ring magazine, for Zufa, Boxing, for Netflix. By the way, John Hannock, Max Kellerman, Andre Ward on the comms tonight. Did that not feel like a breath of fresh air? I don't care what you guys say about John Anick. I've seen people be, oh, you know, he's an MMA guy. Sounds like an MMA guy. Get the out of here. He absolutely killed that Andre Ward. He has this just innate ability to make very difficult things to describe, very easy to describe. Like the way he walks you through a fight and what's happening and then you got Max, who's, who's rolling off of that and, and feeding it back to Andre and it was, that was an incredible call on all their parts. Max had great questions for both fighters at the end. I thought, stupendous, well done all around. But the night goes to Bud Crawford and I don't really know what happens next with him. I was going to ask the question that we leave off with. I genuinely don't know. I think he might retire and I think it would make all the sense in the world if he did. Is he going to stay at 168 and defend those belts? I. I doubt it. What's Left for him to do below that, you know, the Boots fight, Virgil Ortiz, because I think. I would assume he'd want to go back to 154. What. What else is there? Maybe a rematch, but I. Do we really need to see one. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to sound disrespectful to Canelo, but do we really need to see a rematch? What goes differently that that next fight? Is Canelo all of a sudden become a changed fighter, a different fighter than we saw tonight? Does he become someone that is now volume heavy, light on his feet, is able to track down? No, not to me. Because what I saw from Canelo tonight is what I saw from William Skoll, what I saw in the Edgar Berlanga fight. This is how Canelo fights now. And that's just where it is. I will say for Canelo, what else does he really need to do? You know, one of the greats in this generation, not the greatest. That goes to Terence Crawford now. But what is. What else does he have left? I'm not sure where he would go next again, outside of a rematch. What. I think he might be done. Maybe not. Maybe there's other fights out there. I'm just gonna say this. And people, before you get upset at me, this is the only thing that just popped into my head. It probably won't happen this way. There is a fight with Jake Paul out there. I don't know if that's something that Canelo would do. I don't know if that's something the Ring magazine would want. Probably not, but it's not as wacky, I think, now as it potentially was when it was first being talked about. And I don't know if the Canelo even wants it. I'm just saying whatever happens with this Jake and Tank fight, the Canelo one would be a little less wacky than that, wouldn't it? I don't know, but my voice is almost gone. And I just wanted to get this video out to you guys ASAP as soon as possible and just let you know that this. I hope you understood what you just saw from Terence Crawford. As someone that has seen his competitive nature upfront and personal, as someone that has watched this entire build, has watched his confidence grow and grow, has seen what he put on Twitter after. I don't know if it was him or somebody else on Twitter after he won. What do you say? This is one. This one's for the nobodies. Is that what he said? Yeah, for all. Look at this. For all the Nobodies for all the nobodies. And then. And then there's this you. Oh, me. It's gonna be me. I don't care about anybody else. And you, you will see that you.
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B
So when I beat you, is you.
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Gonna be a nobody. When I stump a mud hole in.
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B
Your asses, you're gonna be a nobody.
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Everybody else been saying since I moved to 147, I ain't fought nobody. Every last one of them stump a mud hole in their ass. And he gonna be next.
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Watch.
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