{"id":296171,"date":"2025-11-20T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296171\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:35:07","slug":"canelo-alvarez-shares-the-simple-reason-he-wasnt-able-to-beat-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296171\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez shares the simple reason he wasn’t able to beat Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez<\/a>\u2018s career suffered a major setback in September when he lost to Terence Crawford<\/a> in their super-middleweight encounter.<\/p>\n

Entering their contest as the undisputed champion at 168lbs, many felt that Canelo\u2019s physical advantages would prove too significant for his naturally smaller opponent to cope with.<\/p>\n

As it turned out though, Crawford produced one of his career-best performances<\/a> to outfox and often frustrate the Mexican through large spells of their showdown.<\/p>\n

It soon became clear that \u2018Bud\u2019 was not only in possession of the more calculated strategy, but also had the right temperament and technical advantages to put his gameplan into action.<\/p>\n

It came as no surprise when Crawford was announced as the unanimous decision winner and in turn cemented his legacy by becoming a three-division undisputed champion.<\/p>\n

That achievement is remarkable in itself, but even more impressive was the optics of a 38-year-old, seemingly coming towards the end of his career, being able to clinically dismantle his much bigger rival.<\/p>\n

It would appear that there is not so much a particular attribute for Crawford, but rather a well-rounded approach, that almost makes him the full package. That much, at least, was expressed by Canelo during their post-fight press conference. When asked why he fell short on the night, Canelo simply put it down to not being able to figure out his opponent\u2019s style.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew Crawford is a great fighter. I did what I was supposed to do I tried every way.<\/p>\n

I tried very hard. He deserves all the credit. I tried my best. I just couldn\u2019t figure out his style.<\/p>\n

He has everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford\u2019s skills could be about to be put to the test again, with a potential move down to middleweight on the cards as he sets his sights on one man in particular.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez\u2018s career suffered a major setback in September when he lost to Terence Crawford in their super-middleweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-296171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296171","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=296171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}