Terence Crawford vs Canelo Alvarez - your prediction?

Dana White and WBC president Sulaiman banging heads. Sulaiman maintains he will present the WBC belt to the winner in the ring. Whyte making it clear he won't be allowing Sulaiman in the ring.

 

Except the part where TC moves up from 154 to 168. That's the point me and others are making. TC is not a natural SprMW. At his age, being a pro since 2008, and just now moving to 168...that's not a natural SprMw.

Sabastian Fundora is WAY taller then both, as tall as some big HWs. Is he a natural HW? No.

 

Very close for me, but pushed for an answer I say Crawford decision.

 

Crawford will win by decision.

It will be a close fight, with Crawford on the backfoot most of the time like Charlo was, but he will be given a UD by the Las Vegas judges.

 

Who will win?

 

Who knows? Some big egos at play there. We'll soon enough find out.

 

In an ideal world, both of them would be nowhere near this event. I still don't know why Dana is the promoter ahead of someone like Hearn.

 

Same reason they favored Franklin over Dychko.

They always favor the American fighter. Canelo is the "B" side, they will want Crawford to win.

When Canelo has received favorable judging, it's always been against foreign-born boxers like Golovkin.

 

This is the crazies thing that I've ever read...Canelo is NOT the B side to any current boxer in the U.S.

He is only 1 of only 3 cash cows in Boxing. You have to be new to boxing economics.

 

Canelo is too big and too skilled. Crawford has never been in the ring with someone like Canelo. Canelo KO9.

 

I can't even call that a robbery. Dychko was doing the minimum and got a point deducted for clinching 20 times a round

 

It was Franklin who kept moving in and clinching, although the very biased commentators didn't mention it.

But of course the boxer from another country was deducted a point by the dodgy referee.

Canelo started at super lightweight.

He's actually a bit smaller than Crawford - look at the photos.

 

Franklin was trying to throw lether on the inside. Dychko initiated most of the clinches tbh

 

Been back and forth on this one over the past couple of weeks.
Still finding it hard to separate these two, but in the end I'm picking Crawford UD. Just think his skills and speed will make the difference over the distance.