Tim Bradley took to his podium this week to put pressure on Canelo Alvarez to give Terence Crawford the fight he has been asking for.
This is the fight that Crawford, 37, urgently wants but has remained out of reach for him due to his unwillingness to earn it through hard work by defeating the top dogs at 168 and 175.
Golden umbrella
Bradley urges unified super middleweight champion Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) not to “run away” from the fight against Crawford. This fight does nothing for Canelo. It is seen as a way for Crawford to obtain a golden parachute to give him a soft landing upon retirement and allow him to comfortably live out his golden years in a giant mansion in Beverly Hills.
Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) looked terrible in his last fight against 154-pound champion Israel Madrimov on August 3rd and showed that he has reached the limit of how far he can go in moving across the divisions. Terence was eating right hands all night from Madrimov and looked like an old man in that fight. Why would Canelo want to fight Crawford after this performance?
“Canelo, don’t run away from this. You already ran away from the Benavidez fight,” Tim Bradley said. YouTube A channel talks about his desire for Canelo Alvarez to fight Terence Crawford. “You don't care what people say about you anyway about the fact that you didn't participate in the fight.
“You're walking around Mexico and obviously you don't care what people think about you about not getting this fight. Getting the fight with Crawford. It's a fight that everyone wants to see you get in, and it's going to give Crawford the opportunity to show you and show the world his greatness,” Bradley continued.
“Everyone's talking about weight. 'Oh, he's going to knock him out.'” When was the last time Canelo knocked someone out? You can stop saying, “He's going to knock Crawford out.” Canelo is the same height as Crawford (5'8″). Canelo started at weight “He's not a normal 168-pound person,” Bradley said.
Canelo is bigger, stronger and more talented than Crawford. Fans saw how 37-year-old Terrence barely beat Israel Madrimov in his 154-year-old debut last August, and rightly see the Nebraska native as too young and old to move up 14 pounds to 168 pounds to challenge Canelo over His unified titles. .
Proof of land
If Crawford is willing to prove himself by moving up to 168 and taking on the challenge David Benavidez, David Morrell, Artur Beterbiev, Christian Mbele, Fans won't hate for this fight to happen. But since Crawford is unwilling to do that, he is not setting up a fight against King Canelo. He is ignored like other needy fighters who beg Alvarez to give them an unearned fight.
To meet the king, you have to do something great. It's always been like this. Crawford is trying to skip this part and beg for a fight or have others try to pressure Canelo on his behalf.
“We just saw a fighter (Olexander Usyk) who was 50 pounds lighter than the other guy (Tyson Fury) that he faced, and he beat him. He beat him with his skill and his ability and his heart and his determination. Usyk is a great fighter. You know what kind of guy he is,” Bradley said. Also great is Crawford.”
The difference is that 36-year-old Tyson Fury is completely washed out in a clinical sense, always overrated, and manufactured, thanks to the careful matchmaking of his promoters.
Canelo is no hype piece and has actual talent to go along with his strength and size. More importantly, he proved his equalizer at PPV. Crawford is not a PPV draw and never will be. This fight is about helping Crawford financially and making his fans, like Bradley, happy.
This fight does nothing for Canelo. If Bradley is truly interested, he would pit Crawford against the Hitmen in the 154-pound division, which has several elements he still needs to fight. Bakhram Muratzaliev is waiting for Crawford, and if he wants to cement his legacy, he needs to fight him.
