Canelo Alvarez lost on UD to Terence Crawford.
Last September in one of the biggest fights in years in boxing in the super-middleweight division in a huge Netflix fight in Las Vegas.
The bout brought the sport to great levels and both boxers did well. But Crawford was the better boxer on the night.
Speaking to Ring Magazine Canelo Alvarez said now the dust has settled on it:
“A lot of things. My body doesn’t respond the way I really want. I want to move faster and all that, but then I don’t recuperate my weight like I need to. So I feel a little bit tired. My legs feel a little tired too. But you know, he deserves all the credit. He made a better strategy than me. But I think I did well—even if my body didn’t feel the way I really wanted, I did well. But it is what it is. You need to take the losses, learn from them, and keep going.”
Credit to Alvarez as well for his assessment but the fight was just against a man who is thought of now as one of the best boxers ever.
Terence Crawford would have given Roberto Duran, Mayweather, Ray Leonard and Hagler problems.
He would have. That’s the fact of it.
Alvarez of course will come back this year and we think at middleweight of 160 pounds would be best for him.
He is lethal at the middleweight limit.
Far more so than at super-middleweight.
That’s up to him though.
Alvarez remains a pound for pound rated fighter for us — despite only losing to one of the great boxers of the last 30 years or so.
