Comments Thread For: Terence Crawford outboxes, upsets Canelo Alvarez in historic win

[Oracle01]

Easy work. Canelo casuals exposed. Forget the Benavidez talk.

[megas30]

he wanted to but was told by his corner to maintain discipline and avoid a lucky punch... bud said he wanted to do more. I actually feared for canelo many times in the fight I thought he was going down.

Interesting. Canelo seemed ready to quit, and I felt like Bud senses that and attacked him in the 11th. I really thought the 11th was gonna be a stoppage either by Canelo’s corner or by the referee if Bud had turned up the pressure. Never seen Canelo behave like that before. Dude was even employing dirty tactics.

[Zelda]

Crawford was more disciplined, more tactful, and more aggressive throughout this fight.

Much respect to him for going up to meet another champion in his weight class and beating him like that. Canelo, I thought, was confused about how to handle Crawford and less aggressive in the fight. Being the natural middleweight and slightly younger, I would have expected Canelo to want this to be more physical (as in more and heavier punches) and less tactical, but either he was scared or was not allowed to do so. By the time he tried in the later rounds, he was mentally defeated and got hit more than he hit Crawford. Crawford dictated the style and pace of this fight, and that is a disadvantage for Canelo in my opinion.

Overall, the better boxer won tonight. Respect to Crawford for what he achieved today.

[dibzvincent143]

Interesting. Canelo seemed ready to quit, and I felt like Bud senses that and attacked him in the 11th. I really thought the 11th was gonna be a stoppage either by Canelo’s corner or by the referee if Bud had turned up the pressure. Never seen Canelo behave like that before. Dude was even employing dirty tactics.

yup that was a surprising scene to me.. as we've seen nelo ate Bivol and GGG's punches like nothing.

even though I don't have any horse in the race... I was still hoping for nelo not to get KOed and stop engaging in the last minutes of the fight lol

[Goatintheboat]

Crawford against Bivol?, damn bro the guy just got the belts at 168 pump those brakes a little lol. Besides Bivol has both Beterviev and Benavidez on the radar but in all honestly, do you really give Bud a shot against a full fledged undisputed 175 pounder like Bivol? I dont know about that one.

Yeah why not? Bivol couldn't hurt Canelo just like Crawford couldn't. They're the same size and Bivol and Crawford are both boxers not ****ers.

No one wants to see the Beterbiev trilogy and it looks like Bivol don't want that either. Benevidez..... let's see how it goes with Yarde first

[Toprope]

I thought Canelo signed a 3 fight deal with Turki and this was number 2?
Why wouldn't Crawford go again against Bivol? Neither hurt Canelo and it would be undisputed v undisputed again.

Bivol is not undisputed.

[Toprope]

Good for you Crawford. You climbed a serious mountain. He boxed in an absolute master class, but he threw no thunder in any point in the fight. Pitter patter doesn't do it for the fans. I am not a Canelo lover, but I am a lover in terms of effective aggression. This just was not very effective other than how it pertain to the scorecard. he did a great job at not crumbling under the hard shots. Canelo simply did not throw enough punches. His team should have warned him after round five or six.

Fck the fans, Canelo can fight Benevidez now...you will get your lover of effective aggression fight since Canelo has nothin' to lose anymore!

[JonEC]

“Effective aggression”? Do you mean the kind that EFFECTIVELY and clearly wins you the fight?

[Grimmer]

zzzzz

[Jack_sh*t]

First of all, congratulations to Terence. What a performance, I picked him to win but never thought he'd win so dominantly. Five weight world champion, up there with Tommy Hearns who I think he shares a lot of attributes with.

I lost my bet as I bet on the draw, thinking that Bud would outbox Canelo but get robbed on the cards. I didn't watch it live as I'm in the UK and it was gonna be at least 5am here by the time the ring walks took place and I'm too old to prioritise anything over a good nights sleep these days. So I already knew the result before I watched the fight. I think the cards overly favoured Canelo even in handing him a loss. I scored it 116-113 or 117-111 as I scored round 2 10-10 or 10-9 to Bud by a whisker.

I gave Canelo Rounds 1, 4, 5 & 8. However, I think I was compensating for leaning towards Bud but wanting to be entirely objective. A couple of the rounds I gave to Canelo were definitely swing rounds & I think had the result had gone the other way I would have been arguing for Bud, but I guess that's the luxury of knowing the result before I watched the fight. I wish I'd watched it live now.

Great fight. I've read some comments complaining that Crawford was pitty-patting and it's not entertaining enough. Listen, if you want to know who hits harder then maybe you're more a fan of arcade punchball machines than boxing. Try watching from the perspective of the fighter and appreciating what he does to negate his opponents offence and control the fight rather than criticise him for slipping punches. The sweet science is as much about not getting hit as hitting the other guy (or girl.)

This is a sport. Standing in front of your opponent taking punishment you don't need to out of some macho bravado might be entertaining but it's also a clown show one that is likely to lead to you slurring unintelligibly and struggling to remember the names of your kids & grandkids when your career is over. That's a big price to pay for your 15 minutes of fame.