The last fight of Mexican boxer Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez was very disappointing for the 35-year-old (born July 18, 1990) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, as he lost for the third time in his great career by unanimous decision (116-112; 115-113; 115-113) to the stellar American Terence Crawford and with it lost his status as undisputed super middleweight champion with the belts he had from the World Boxing Council (WBC), the World Boxing Association (WBA), the International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the World Boxing Organization (WBO).
As announced last month, the fight that took place on Saturday, September 13 at Allegiant Stadium, home of the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL), was the last fight in the fabulous career of the man nicknamed ‘Bud’, who at 38 years of age (September 28, 1987), has decided to hang up his gloves after winning all 42 professional fights he fought with 31 decided by knockout.
How did Terence Crawford beat Canelo Alvarez?
“I’m not going to lie, I did think it would be harder (the fight vs. Canelo Alvarez). When I got in there and started to feel him, I said, ‘OK, I got it.’ First round, second round, I thought, ‘OK,’ he wasn’t throwing punches at me, we weren’t exchanging anything,” Terence Crawford told streamer Adin Ross. “The only thing he was trying to do was to press me more and more, but if he did that I was going to counter him. And that’s the situation, a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about how big he is, his resistance to punches, that he was going to knock me out, that he was going to run over me, that I wasn’t going to be able to hurt him.”
These words, while not surprising coming from the Omaha, Nebraska native, do put into perspective some of the criticism that the Mexican boxer has received, who was also accused by his last opponent of underestimating him before stepping into the ring.
Did Canelo Alvarez underestimate Terence Crawford?
“Nobody said I was going to hit him, or that I was going to hurt him or things like that. You can see it in the fight, he respected my power a lot, he was frustrated because he couldn’t believe that I could hit him like that, I think a lot of people underestimated me, my strength, my power to hit and I think Canelo did too, that’s why he was surprised,” concluded the first triple undisputed world champion in boxing history in the era of the four aforementioned organizations.
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