Strength Coach Warning: Terrence Crawford’s 180 pound power feed will lead to disaster for Canelo Alvarez

Strength and Conditioning coach Rob Acosta believes Terrence Crawford is heading into trouble by eating his path in the 180s for the September 13 battle with Canelo Alvarez at Riyadh’s super middleweight.

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Is it too big or too fast?

Crawford has been gaining weight rapidly since his last fight in August, and he ate the road to 168. He doesn’t seem to be tight anymore and you can say he’s doing a power feed. Crawford looks like a typical fighter I’m riding in a feed bagovergrazing, he believes that eating alone can turn himself into a super middleweight.

He says Crawford will lose weight to 168 and gain weight, staying hydrated until the mid-170s and try his hand at Canelo in the Belt (62-2-2, 39 KOs). The extra weight Crawford places for the fight won’t change him into something else Gennadiy Golovkin Power aspect. He is not something he has never been designed. He’s going to be extremely slow at overweight welterweight.

Crawford will compete for 175 people for the first time in his 175 professional career, facing fighters who have been competing for that weight for many years. In other words, it’s not going to work for Crawford, 38, anytime soon. He will be slower, weaker and more harder than he ever hit.

“Crawford came from 154. He’s going to skip 160 and go straight to 168,” strength coach Rob Acosta said. fighthype About the expansion of talent Crawford from 154 to challenge Canelo Alvarez with a unified title at the Super Middleweight in September. “Suppose Crawford is walking around at 180. He’s off those 12 rounds and it’s 168.”

Crawford’s decision not to stop at 160 to compete with one of the top guys in his first weight class was a mistake. If he was against the idea of ​​tuning at 168 to wet his feet, at least he felt he was stopping at 160 and fighting Janibek Alimkhanuly and facing a bigger fighter with more power. Janibeck was one of the biggest punchers in the middleweight division and would have better prepared Crawford to fight Canelo in 168. Was Terence afraid of being exposed to middleweight?

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“He ate the road to 180. Understand that. He wasn’t going down the road to 180,” Acosta said. “That’s the difference. So, assuming you’ve sparred heavy people just by eating, eating, eating, getting heavy weight, and you’re there a lot of times and you can play at a higher level against a guy (Canero) who’s really comfortable with this weight and coming down from heavy weight. That’s a totally different animal.”

Crawford is not the same as overseeing the inexperienced, slow Leicester Martinez and fighting a murderer like Canelo. If Bad spooks someone Osleys Iglesiaswhich would have been Canelo’s better preparation, but the man would repeatedly knock Crawford out at camp. The last thing Crawford needs is to come to battle with Canelo, already halfway from a few weeks of sparring with Iglesias.

“Because the last two weeks of camp are when the stupidest things go wrong,” Acosta said. “It’s very difficult to come all the way from 154 to 168 within a certain time frame and perform like 140, 147 and 154. I’ve already seen what happened when he went from 147 to 154. That wasn’t a bad performance.

“Crawford took some good shots. He took them well. What do you think will happen at 168? Canelo hit GGG, one of the toughest punchers in boxing.

“What does he (Crawford) hydrate? 175? You wander around at that weight. Let’s see what happens when you go there with top competitors like Canelo,” Acosta said.