{"id":297919,"date":"2025-12-04T03:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/297919\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T03:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:51:14","slug":"former-champion-antonio-margarito-didnt-hesitate-when-asked-if-canelo-can-ever-beat-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/297919\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Champion Antonio Margarito Didn’t Hesitate When Asked If Canelo Can Ever Beat Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antonio Margarito has summed up Canelo Alvarez\u2019s chances of securing a future victory over Terence Crawford.<\/p>\n

The Mexican superstar was handed the third defeat of his career when he locked horns with \u2018Bud\u2019 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on September 13, surrendering his undisputed super-middleweight championship in the process.<\/a><\/p>\n

It has been suggested in the last few weeks that Canelo could now be set to pursue a rematch with his American rival at some stage in 2026<\/a>, after it was initially expected that a second encounter between the pound-for-pound greats would not take place.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Fight Hub, retired former world welterweight champion Margarito admitted that he believes Crawford would beat Canelo \u2018easier\u2019 than he did in their first meeting, should a rematch take place next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re talking about a rematch. I think he [Crawford] beats Canelo easier, I believe so. Well it\u2019s Crawford\u2019s style right? I think Canelo can\u2019t beat Crawford now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Margarito was then asked what he believes Canelo could do differently to make a potential rematch with \u2018Bud\u2019 closer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, what we all know, I think he needs to exchange punches, throw more shots, you know? But it\u2019s boxing, and they\u2019re both well-prepared now. If Crawford beat him once and knew how, I think he can win again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should Crawford not meet Alvarez for a second time, he may consider a move down to middleweight to pursue world titles in a fifth division. He has publicly stated that he \u2018has his eyes\u2019 on unified champion Janibek Alimkhanuly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antonio Margarito has summed up Canelo Alvarez\u2019s chances of securing a future victory over Terence Crawford. The Mexican…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-297919","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\/297919","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=297919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}