Canelo Alvarez says he thinks Terence Crawford lost his fight against WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov last Saturday night at the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
Like many fans, Canelo felt that Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) was beaten by Madrimov (10-1-1, 7 KOs) and walked with a controversial twelve-round unanimous decision. Canelo says he saw the Crawford-Madrimov fight as a loss for Crawford or a draw.
The Importance of Weight Classes
The Mexican superstar Canelo says that the Nebraska native Crawford, 36, now knows that weight classes are there for a reason. In other words, he’d hit his ceiling of what he could and suffered his first career defeat in real terms, ignoring the three judges that gave him a dubious win.
“For me, I think [Terence Crawford] lost; he lost the fight or draw. He knows why weight classes are there, right?” said Canelo Alvarez to @DanCanobbio about seeing Terence Crawford as having lost to WBA Junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov last Saturday night in Los Angeles.
The fans witnessed what happened last weekend, and they saw Crawford get beaten by a bigger, stronger, younger Madrimov but walk away with a decision he didn’t deserve.
Crawford should do the right thing now by fighting Madrimov in a rematch to show the fans that he can beat him without controversy, but he’s not expected to do that. An old-school fighter from the past would make that move, but Crawford isn’t that type. He will move on and treat his controversial decision as an affirmation that he’d won.
Unfortunately, the fans saw the spectacle, and his popularity took a big hit because this was not the type of performance they’d been used to seeing from Crawford.
Crawford’s Use of Canelo’s Name for Promotion
“Yeah, because he wants to sell the fight. If they don’t talk about me, they don’t sell anything,” said Canelo, reacting to being told that Crawford had mentioned his name a lot during the build-up for his fight against.
Using Canelo’s name as a promotional tool was pathetic because Crawford hadn’t been told by the Mexican star that he would fight him. That was so wrong. It would be understandable for Crawford and the promoters to mention Canelo 24/7 as a promotional prop if he’d given them hope that a fight would happen, but he hadn’t.
Canelo thought Terence Crawford lost to Israil Madrimov pic.twitter.com/bUeQCDxiwe
— Dan Canobbio (@DanCanobbio) August 5, 2024
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