De La Hoya Dismisses Canelo Vs. Crawford As “Not The Biggest Fight

The promoter Oscar de la Hoya rejects the idea that Canelo Alvarez is against Terence Crawford “Bigest fighting in boxing.He notes that Crawford (41-0, 31 Kos) will be 38 on September 28 and achieved poor performance in which he was exposed by Israail Madrimov last August.

De la Hoya adds that Canelo is “35” and has been “exposed” in the past three years. Alvarez is actually 34, but will be on July 18. However, he fights as if he were 44 and looked 100% washed in his last three fights.

Age has decimated both fighters

Turki Alalshikh is the one who said that Canelo Crawford is “the biggest fight”, but you can understand why he would be torn a little. He has to market the fight to the public, and if he believes it is the “biggest fight”, you will tend to buy the event on PPV. In addition, Crawford is one of Turki’s most popular fighters.

So he is enthusiastic that he fights against what is left of Alvarez, who looks like he was operating in the professionals with a capacity of 40% after 20 years. Canelo is comparable to an old car with 300,000 miles, the blue smoke spit out of the zip and cannot be driven at high speeds. That is why he fights with a glacian slow pace and only throws a handful of blows. His engine is shot. Canelo only threw 152 strokes in his last fight against William Scull, and even with this small number he was gassed.

Crawford looks as old and shot as Canelo. He doesn’t even try to fight one of the murderers with 168, 160 or 154 after his bad experience against Madrimov. This is a red flag that Crawford does not want to be found out by the public and sees how little it has. If Terence would accept one of the APEX predators in the super middleweight, Osleys Iglesias or Christian Mbilli, he would have serious difficulties. He would lose and then this canelo fight could be good.

Do not insult the legends with it

Fans sometimes compare crawford Sugar beam Leonard And Sugar beam Robinson. But do you think these two talents had played on the safe side like Crawford last year? They also had a lot better than he had. Crawford is empty, except for the Errol Spence and Madrimov, decorated with the box. You can count none of them as high -ranking victories for Crawford because he didn’t fight against the best.

So listen to me
Crawford will be 38
And Canelo is 35
Crawford has not fought for a year and was exposed by Madrimov IMO
Canelo has been suspended in recent years
Can someone please explain to me how this is the “biggest fight in boxing”?

– Oscar de la Hoya (@oscardelahoya) May 14, 2025