By: Sean Crose
“I strongly feel Canelo is going to beat Charlo,” says Oscar De La Hoya by way of FightHype. “They’re both talented but he’s the bigger fighter.” As far as De La Hoya is worried, it is a case the place dimension has the ultimate say. “The talented fighter whose the bigger fighter always beats the talented small fighter,” says the person referred to as The Golden Boy. “And people will say ‘Oh didn’t Pacquiao beat you? Well, I was already a dead man walking when I stepped up in the ring so that really doesn’t count.” Not that the Hall of Fame fighter turned promoter is writing Charlo off totally.
“I think Charlo’s going to have a great fight,” says De La Hoya. “I think Charlo is going to have a great performance, but the weight…jumping up two weight classes is a lot, and when you’re facing Canelo, when he keeps on pressuring you, I think he (Canelo) may even stop him in the later rounds.” Yet Charlo isn’t the one fighter De La Hoya is within the temper to offer credit score to. “I give (Terence) Crawford all the credit in the world for even thinking about possibly fighting Canelo,” he says, referring to information that the welterweight kingpin needs a chunk of the crimson haired star, “but if that fight ever takes place, I have Crawford one thousand percent.”
It could appear a wierd factor for De La Hoya to say, contemplating he was as soon as Canelo’s promoter. Still, De La Hoya has his causes. “Crawford is a big guy who can handle a Canelo because they’re the same size,” says De La Hoya. “Crawford is a guy who punches hard, but he doesn’t rely on his power. He relies on his footwork, he relies on his sped, on his changeup. He relies on his combinations. He relies on his mind and I believe that Crawford is a way better boxer than Canelo.”
There are little question those that heartily agree. Then once more, there are actually those that disagree. Although he could also be in a slight decline, Canelo fights at tremendous middleweight whereas Crawford guidelines the roost at welterweight. While they might have the identical normal body, there’s little question Canelo has way more expertise combating larger males than Crawford does. Then once more, after seeing Crawford’s sensible efficiency in opposition to Errol Spence this summer season, it’s laborious to doubt his potential at almost any weight class. Crawford, in spite of everything, is a one in every of a form expertise.
