{"id":644411,"date":"2026-06-18T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:47:08","slug":"terence-crawford-says-there-is-a-specific-reason-he-didnt-knock-canelo-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644411\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford says there is a specific reason he didn’t knock Canelo out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> dethroned Canelo Alvarez<\/a> in September 2025 via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Canelo has now lost three times in his career, coming up short against only elite fighters; Floyd Mayweather, Dmitry Bivol and Crawford. The four-division world champion from Mexico has never been stopped or even knocked down during his 68-fight career.<\/p>\n

Against Crawford, Canelo suffered his first super-middleweight defeat<\/a>, despite Crawford moving up significantly for the opportunity to claim Alvarez\u2019s undisputed crown and become the first three-weight undisputed champion since Henry Armstrong in 1938. It was a comprehensive win, but, again, Alvarez did not look hurt, despite the 31 KOs on \u2018Bud\u2019s ledger.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience<\/a>, Crawford \u2013 who retired months after that final victory \u2013 explained that he believes he was unable to halt the Mexican icon inside the distance because of his \u2018ginger\u2019 genetics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say that red-heads are hard to knock out. It\u2019s proven, I googled it, what are they called? Gingers. I promise you.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, [they have a higher pain tolerance], I looked it up because my cousin, she is a nurse and she said, \u2018yeah, them gingers, they are hard to put to sleep, even when you give them the anaesthetics to go to sleep\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen she told me that, I was like \u2018Damn! That is why Canelo can take so many good shots\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Research shows that natural redheads often require about 20% more general anaesthesia to stay sedated and may show resistance to local anaesthetics. How that translates in the ring is less researched.<\/p>\n

Alvarez will looking to show his resilience again when he attempts to regain the WBC super-middleweight world title on September 12 in Riyadh, where he will challenge newly crowned champion, Christian Mbilli<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford dethroned Canelo Alvarez in September 2025 via unanimous decision. Canelo has now lost three times in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644411","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\/644411","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=644411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}