Hamzah Sheeraz predicts Canelo Alvarez’s victory over Terence Crawford: Disadvantage of weight category for “Bud”

Hamzah Sheeraz provides for a “stop” victory for Canelo Alvarez against Terence Crawford during their fight on September 13 in Las Vegas. He believes that there are “weight categories for a reason” and thinks that the jump to two divisions that Crawford (41-0, 31 KB) will do for this fight too much for his body.

Age, layoffs hurt Crawford

Crawford is not young, will be 38 years old in September and he deceives his career as a part -time fighter since 2020. You cannot get out of it with fights on a base once a year for so long before it does not make up for you.

We saw this in the latest Crawford fight, coming out of a 13 -month layoff, making his debut at 154, and he barely won. Rather than staying at 154 to prove himself against young Lions, Crawford moves two divisions to fight against the undisputed champion of the average weights of Canelo (63-2-2, 39 KB). It doesn’t look good for Terence.

Canelo’s strength, the size advantage

“My perspective on this subject is n ° 1, there are weight classes for a reason,” Hamzah Sheeraz told Combination When asked for his reflections on the fact that Terence Crawford sets two weight categories to challenge the undisputed champion of average weights Canelo Alvarez.

We have seen clearly in the latest Crawford fight at 154 that he had reached his ceiling of what is possible for his frame. He would not be the dominant fighter of the average junior weight he had been at 147, 140 and 135 in his time. If he had stayed at 154, he would probably be beaten by younger fighters, physically larger and stronger in this weight category.

Madrimov exposed the crawford ceiling

He will not return to this division because the writing is on the wall. Israil Madrimov has exposed it. Of course, Crawford would not go to 160 to fight the champions of this division, because it would be even worse for him. It would be too small and old.

“And if we are basically their latest performance, Canelo experienced a better performance, I believe, even if he had a negative fighter (William Scull) before him,” said Hamzah. “And, I have the impression that Crawford had a little trouble with (Israil) the physics of Madrimov. Yes, it was very physical, and I have the impression that he had trouble with it.”

Sheeraz says it lightly when he says Crawford fought against Madrimov. He was undoubtedly beaten by him, but bailed out by the three judges working the fight. They marked him 115-113, 116-112 and 115-113 for Crawford.

I looked at the fight and I had 7-5 for Madrimov (115-113). He landed the cleanser and much harder punch every turn of the fight. Crawford launched much more punches than Madrimov, 433 to 275, but only won 11 more. He had teased mentally linked to the knots.

Canelo’s strength, the size advantage

“You have to remember. Canelo is a big guy. He is strong,” said Sheeraz. “He knows how to use his size, but at the same time, at this level, you cannot harm fighters like Crawford because he is so skilful. So, his two weights, he could challenge the chances because he is a big generational.”

Crawford can get more shots than Canelo, but it will be similar to his fight with Madrimov. His shots will be considerably lower. The judges will not give Canelo the company because he is a superstar. They will mark him fairly and give him the decision. If you are Crawford, you should try a knock-out because he will not get a cheap victory as he did in his last fight.

“But if I had to put my money there, I would put my money on Canelo to win by stop,” said Sheeraz.

It will be difficult for Canelo to eliminate Crawford because he will probably be in motion for the 12 full towers, after William Scull’s plan on how to follow the distance with the Mexican star. It will be ugly, but at least Crawford can win a moral victory.