{"id":192441,"date":"2025-10-11T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192441\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:58:08","slug":"canelo-knew-it-was-all-wrong-says-hearn-on-crawford-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192441\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Knew It Was All Wrong, Says Hearn On Crawford Rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Promoter Eddie Hearn says he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea for Canelo Alvarez to fight Terence Crawford again after his loss to him on September 13th. He states that Crawford (42-0, 31 KOs) will beat him in a rematch, and it would be no different than the first fight.<\/p>\n

Rematch Clause? Pride Says No<\/p>\n

Canelo (63-3-2, 39 KOs) hasn\u2019t said who he wants to fight in the remaining two fights in his contract with Turki Alalshikh. Fighting Crawford again would give him a big payday, but he\u2019s already got a massive fortune estimated at $300 million. He doesn\u2019t need additional money if it means he\u2019s likely to lose again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe they have a rematch clause with some kind of wording because Canelo doesn\u2019t enter a fight without some kind of wording,\u201d said Eddie Hearn to Fight Hub TV<\/a> about whether Canelo Alvarez will take a rematch with Terence Crawford.<\/p>\n

Canelo likely does have a rematch clause, but given the embarrassment that he went through in his loss to Crawford on September 13th, it\u2019s unlikely that he would dare to attempt a second fight.<\/p>\n

Alvarez has always been calculated in the fights he\u2019d taken. He has pride and chose not to fight David Benavidez or take a rematch after losing to Dmitry Bivol. It\u2019s highly doubtful that Canelo will fight Terence again, even though he could make a lot of money doing so.<\/p>\n

Crawford\u2019s Style Still a Nightmare for Canelo<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just not going to be Terence Crawford. The style is all wrong for him, and the movement is all wrong for him,\u201d said Hearn. \u201cGoing into the fight, I thought Crawford would win with the style that he did. Canelo knew it was all wrong for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turki\u2019s $150M Gamble Backfired<\/p>\n

The money that Turki Alalshikh offered Canelo to fight Crawford is likely the only reason he agreed to this fight. He knew what he was getting himself into, but the $150 million made it worthwhile. Turki doesn\u2019t seem eager to put on a second fight. He\u2019s got to know that the match didn\u2019t live up to fans\u2019 expectations, and those were not $200 million-type performances from Alvarez and Crawford.<\/p>\n

They were like the type of fight one would get for fighters making in the thousands. Really, fighters on prelims put on more entertaining performances than Canelo and Crawford did. The biggest reason why Turki might not want to do a second fight is that the viewing numbers on Netflix were dwarfed by Jake Paul\u2019s match against Mike Tyson.<\/p>\n

Forty-one million viewers watched the Canelo-Crawford event on Netflix. In contrast, 108 million tuned in to see Jake Paul fight 59-year-old Mike Tyson on Netflix. If Jake\u2019s exhibition match against Gervonta Davis on November 14th does bigger numbers than Canelo vs. Crawford<\/a>, that would clinch it.<\/p>\n

Benavidez and Jake Paul Were Better Options<\/p>\n

There would be no point in Turki throwing more money away on a fight that fans aren\u2019t excited to see. It was a bad idea in the first place to use Crawford as Canelo\u2019s opponent rather than David Benavidez or Jake Paul.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who has got movement like Scull, and like Crawford, he really struggles against. The biggest money fight out there for him is a rematch with Crawford, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to want to do that,\u201d said Hearn.<\/p>\n

Canelo has never done well against movers, especially when that\u2019s their main strategy for winning, like we saw with Crawford and William Scull. Alvarez would be better off focusing on fighting stationary fighters for his final two fights on his contract with Riyadh Season than fighting Crawford and dealing with all that movement again.<\/p>\n

Jeepers Isaac has been covering boxing since 2020, bringing readers sharp ringside insights and timely analysis on the sport\u2019s biggest moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promoter Eddie Hearn says he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea for Canelo Alvarez to fight Terence Crawford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[71525,2560,6491,709,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-192441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-arts-culture-and-entertainment","tag-boxing","tag-celebrities","tag-fashion","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}