{"id":28083,"date":"2025-07-28T06:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28083\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:26:08","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-delivers-new-verdict-on-canelo-vs-terence-crawford-i-know-boxing-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28083\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya Delivers New Verdict On Canelo vs Terence Crawford: “I Know Boxing Inside Out”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> has spoken out once again ahead of the upcoming \u2018mega-fight\u2019 between Canelo<\/a> Alvarez and Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pound-for-pound greats are gearing up for their highly-anticipated showdown which takes place on Saturday September 13<\/a> at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

Canelo is set to make the first defence of his undisputed super-middleweight world championship, just months after he achieved this feat for the second time in his career with a comprehensive points victory over Cuba\u2019s William Scull in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Crawford will make his first appearance at 168lbs when he faces the Mexican icon, having spent almost the entirety of his professional career campaigning at welterweight, although he did make a brief outing at 154lbs last August when he dethroned former WBA world champion Israil Madrimov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Ring Champs with Ak & Barak<\/a>, legendary fighter-turned-promoter De La Hoya was asked if he believes \u2018Bud\u2019 has a legitimate chance at defeating Canelo in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the million dollar question [if Crawford as a chance] because I\u2019m a historian, I love boxing, I love watching it, I love studying it, I know it inside out. When I watched Terence Crawford get rattled and rocked by Yuriorkis Gamboa, who\u2019s a natural 30 pounder? That to me is going to be a huge problem when he gets hit by Canelo, who\u2019s a natural what super-middleweight maybe? But you know what he fought at 175? So he fights at 175, he\u2019s fighting these big monsters, he\u2019s not getting rattled at all, Berlanga\u2019s a big kid so it makes me think I mean how is Crawford gonna keep him away for 12 rounds? Canelo\u2019s gonna come at him hard.<\/p>\n

But then again I think about Crawford\u2019s abilities and his IQ and his footwork which Canelo cannot handle and we know that for a fact.<\/p>\n

In this game power means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

There have been concerns over Crawford making such a big jump up in weight, but the unbeaten 37-year-old could write his name into the boxing history books should he be victorious by becoming the first ever fighter to win an undisputed championship in several weight divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya has spoken out once again ahead of the upcoming \u2018mega-fight\u2019 between Canelo Alvarez and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-28083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28083","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=28083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}