Last Saturday at the Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, American pugilist Terence Crawford surprised most boxing experts by moving up from welterweight to the super middleweight division and winning by unanimous decision against Mexican gladiator Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, who had no answer with either his feet or his fists to the different challenges presented by his opponent.
The vast majority of experts, if not all, agreed to accept the superiority of the man born just under 38 years ago (September 28, 1987) in Omaha, Nebraska, have not only validated the opinion of the three judges who gave the victory to ‘Bud’, they have also ventured to say that perhaps no one had exposed the boxing shortcomings of the former world champion born in Guadalajara Jalisco 35 years ago (July 19, 1990).
Eduardo Camarena, a critic of Canelo Alvarez’s career
But one of the loudest critics is the experienced boxing commentator Eduardo Camarena, famous for working with TUDN and Televisa a few years ago, and currently doing so for Netflix, a company that exclusively broadcast the fight but did not program the aforementioned journalist at Canelo’s direct request.
Camarena was interviewed on Pepe Cardenas’ Radio Formula newscast on Monday, and the renowned host asked the boxing specialist to explain the reason why Canelo Alvarez lost so clearly against Terence Crawford after 12 intense rounds at the home of the Las Vegas Raiders of the NFL.
The reasons for Canelo Alvarez’s defeat against Terence Crawford
“Because they gave him a boxing lesson Pepe,” said Eduardo Camarena without hesitation. “It was a boxing masterclass from Crawford, first of all it was a big surprise, everyone or the vast majority of us were wrong in our predictions, we thought Canelo was going to win because he had a big advantage on the scales.”
“In this case, Crawford took Canelo to school,” Eduardo Camarena continued. “He outclassed him in everything, speed, skill, strategy, effectiveness, his punches were more accurate, more precise and I think he won quite rightly, even Canelo himself accepts with sportsmanship that he was outclassed by Crawford.”
Canelo Alvarez’s veto of Eduardo Camarena and Marco Antonio Barrera
On the subject of why he and former Mexican boxer Marco Antonio Barrera were not considered to narrate and analyze the fight, the soccer commentator was almost as harsh in his criticism as he was in the fight itself.
“In this case, since Canelo was the promoter, they couldn’t do anything (on Netflix),” said Eduardo Camarena. “Both Marco Antonio Barrera and myself have a contract with Netflix, a contract that Netflix fulfills to the letter and is a very serious company.”
“I’m not surprised that Canelo vetoes journalists, he thinks he has that right and that’s fine,” Camarena concluded. “Journalists are enemies of the people you criticize and who do not like criticism, but that he has vetoed a historic figure like Marco Antonio Barrera, a Hall of Famer, a boxer who has a legacy bigger than Canelo’s, it seems to me that it is a sacrilege and of course a lack of respect for a great world champion in retirement like Marco Antonio Barrera.”
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