{"id":323142,"date":"2025-12-03T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323142\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:57:07","slug":"roberto-duran-tells-canelo-how-to-beat-crawford-in-rematch-thats-what-he-was-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323142\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Duran tells Canelo how to beat Crawford in rematch: “That’s what he was missing”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roberto Duran<\/a> endured humiliation at the hands of Sugar Ray Leonard in their 1980 rematch and has now warned Canelo Alvarez<\/a> what he must do to avoid a similar fate in a potential second fight with Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dur\u00e1n\u2019s legendary win over Leonard in June 1980 was overturned five months later when the Panamanian quit at the end of the eighth round in the first defence of his WBC welterweight title.<\/p>\n

While the infamous \u201cNo M\u00e1s\u201d fight tarnished his reputation, Dur\u00e1n\u2019s broader career was littered with success before and after, securing his place among boxing\u2019s all-time greats.<\/a><\/p>\n

Canelo is two months removed from the third defeat of his career, having been convincingly beaten by Crawford in September<\/a>. The loss ended his reign as undisputed super-middleweight champion, but he is targeting a rematch with the American in 2026. Crawford\u2019s commanding performance exposed flaws in Canelo\u2019s game at a stage when his best years may be behind him.<\/p>\n

Dur\u00e1n, however, has identified the reasons he believes Canelo fell short and offered words of advice for a return bout in a video published by Izquierdazobox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, honestly, I saw him doing poorly. I saw him doing poorly because I thought Canelo was going to use more intelligence in his boxing. But it seems that when they boxed him, he didn\u2019t know what to do. So he still needs more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he should do now is spar with bigger gloves, so he can learn more about how to get in, how to get out, how to punch, and how to cut off the ring. That\u2019s what he was missing, because in my opinion his trainer didn\u2019t teach him anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canelo\u2019s defeat to Crawford came three years after an unsuccessful move to light-heavyweight, where he was outpointed by WBA champion Dmitry Bivol. Nine years earlier, the Mexican suffered his first career loss at the hands of Floyd Mayweather, who defended his unified super-welterweight titles with a points win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto Duran endured humiliation at the hands of Sugar Ray Leonard in their 1980 rematch and has now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-323142","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\/323142","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=323142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}