{"id":617016,"date":"2026-06-02T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617016\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:08:08","slug":"canelo-alvarez-admits-he-made-one-big-mistake-against-terence-crawford-thats-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617016\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez admits he made one big ‘mistake’ against Terence Crawford: “That’s it”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez<\/a> has pinpointed exactly where he went wrong against Terence Crawford<\/a>, promising to rectify such mistakes and produce a more accomplished performance in his next outing.<\/p>\n

The Mexican suffered a unanimous decision defeat to \u2018Bud\u2019<\/a> last September, losing his undisputed super-middleweight crown in convincing fashion.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but Crawford was moving up two weight divisions following his points victory over Israil Madrimov, which saw him claim the WBA world super-welterweight title in August 2024.<\/p>\n

The American was, in other words, a sizable pre-fight underdog against Canelo, who had remained unbeaten since getting unanimously outpointed by Dmitry Bivol<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, it was not quite so one-sided but still, Crawford appeared the quicker and more skilful fighter through large spells of their contest.<\/p>\n

Talks of a potential rematch were then scuppered after Crawford announced his retirement in December, meaning his four major titles at 168lbs all became vacant.<\/p>\n

If a second encounter had remained on the table, though, then Canelo believes he would have made the necessary adjustments to emerge victorious.<\/p>\n

In particular, the 35-year-old told Inside the Ring<\/a> that he would not have focused so much on Crawford\u2019s style, but rather on his own strengths.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes your body doesn\u2019t respond the way you want [it to]. But I know what my mistakes [were], and I can adapt everything to make everything perfect.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see a lot of mistakes I made; I tried to be faster for his style and everything. No, I just need to do my job and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than rematching Crawford, Canelo is now gearing up to face WBC world super-middleweight champion Christian Mbilli<\/a> in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has pinpointed exactly where he went wrong against Terence Crawford, promising to rectify such mistakes and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617016","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\/617016","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=617016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}