Canelo Alvarez will defend his unified super middleweight title against Terence Crawford in a Riyadh Season event at the 65,000-seat domed Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on September 13th.
According to The Ring, this will be the “first-ever boxing card” at Allegiant Stadium. There’s no word on who will be on the undercard or the PPV price. If it’s a stacked undercard, fans will be more willing to overlook this being a mismatch with Canelo destroying the 37-year-old Crawford.
What will also upset fans if Crawford moves & holds for 12 rounds, following the Mayweather blueprint, and hoping to duplicate his success from 2013 when he beat a then 22-year-old Canelo.
No Gauntlet, Just Gold
It’s unbelievable that Terence is getting his golden parachute mega-money retirement contest against Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) without at least one proving fight at 168. Is it too much to ask for Crawford to run a mini-gauntlet through David Benavidez and David Morrell? What happened to the need to achieve to earn something? If
Crawford will have to bulk up big time and find some power somewhere to have a shot at beating Canelo because he looked weak and old in his last fight. Even though Terence bulked up for the Madrimov fight in his debut at 154, he showed no power.
Madrimov resembled ‘Little GGG’ with how he bounced artillery shells off Crawford’s head all night. He wouldn’t miss with his right hand. In one sequence, Madrimov hit Crawford with five consecutive head-snapping right hands. If that were Canelo landing those shots, Terence would be taking a long sleep.
Boxing fans want to be entertained, and Crawford has historically not been an exciting fighter to watch. The casual boxing fans who haven’t followed Terence’s career since 2008 only know him from his fights against Errol Spence and Israil Madrimov. They were fooled into believing that the way Crawford fought Spence was how he’d fought his entire career, and that was not the case.
He was always a boring counter-puncher. In Terence’s last fight against Madrimov on August 3rd, his Cinderella moment was over, and he reverted to being his old self. Man, that was pure boredom watching that fight.
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