Canelo Alvarez will take on Terence Crawford this weekend in a generational clash, with Tim Bradley offering up his assessments of the mega fight. Alvarez vs. Crawford goes down on September 13th, with the latter vying for super middleweight glory as the former enters the ring as the undisputed champion at 168 pounds.<\/p>\n
Bradley has the anecdotal experience of sparring Crawford and likes the chances that \u2018Bud\u2019 has to shock the world on Saturday as he jumps up multiple divisions to achieve legacy galvanizing glory. The sparring work took place in 2011 ahead of Bradley\u2019s clash with Devon Alexander, with the former two-weight world champion easily stopping the sparring partners he had prior to Bradley coming in, and in need of stiffer tests for that camp.<\/p>\n
At that point, Crawford had never been in a six-round fight as a pro, while Bradley was a long-time champ at 140 pounds, but the latter came out of the sparring session with an abundance of respect for the young \u2018Bud\u2019. Reflecting on the sparring session that Bradley\u2019s coach cut off after the fourth round after Crawford was laying into him [per Bradley\u2019s operative wording], in the context of how he sees Alvarez vs. Crawford playing out in the coming days, Bradley said [via Boxing Scene<\/a>],<\/p>\n \u201cCrawford\u2019s gonna win this fight with his mind\u2026 I\u2019m excited. I\u2019m full of anxiety about the fight itself. I\u2019ve been dreaming about the fight at night and thinking about it all day, the different ways of how Crawford can beat Canelo. Obviously size is a big factor in this. Size doesn\u2019t equate to strength; you can be small and be strong as hell. But when it comes to the brute bulk of Canelo\u2026he\u2019s like a damn bulldozer with skills.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe can absorb a whole lot. So when you look at it from that standpoint, and understanding what he\u2019s up against, it\u2019s a dangerous fight. I don\u2019t care how you look at it. Especially when you\u2019re coming up multiple weight classes. But that\u2019s why I like it. If Crawford can pull off this victory, man\u2026I know the odds are damn near even, but according to what we all say, \u2018there\u2019s weight classes for a reason. A great big man beats a great small man.\u2019 All of that\u2019s being put to the test.\u201d<\/p>\n Terence Crawford has been doubted his whole life, but if anyone can do something like this, it\u2019s Crawford, per Bradley<\/p>\n Further expounding upon why he is siding with Terence Crawford in this cross-divisional mega fight with Canelo Alvarez set to broadcast on Netflix, Bradley continued,<\/p>\n \u201cI feel that if any person can accomplish this feat, it\u2019s Crawford. Not only does he have skill, he has guts, he has heart, and he has the mentality to be able to pull this off. This isn\u2019t anything new for him. Crawford has been doubted his entire career.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s been doubted his entire life. From day one. This is a guy that always has a chip on his shoulder. This is a guy that still fights like he has two dollars in his f***ing bank account. Every time out, he\u2019s giving you everything that he has. He\u2019s a killer. That\u2019s what he is. And he has that mentality going into this fight as well. It\u2019s all or nothing for him.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez will take on Terence Crawford this weekend in a generational clash, with Tim Bradley offering up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,5051,82,13036,73479],"class_list":["post-135220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canelo-alvarez","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford","tag-tim-bradley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}