The Herd with Colin Cowherd - THE W.A.D.E. Concept - WEEK IN REVIEW - Canelo Vs Crawford FIGHT WEEK...

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

in this weeks WEEK IN REVIEW, Wade gives his thoughts on how both Canelo Alvarez and Terrence Crawford can beat each-other, interviews Dana White as he responds to Eddie Hearn and talks about the UFC white house card and instantly reacts to Crawford winning... 0:00 HOW CANELO WINS 19:41 HOW CRAWFORD WINS 39:20 DANA WHITE INTERVIEW 59:07 CRAWFORD WINS INSTANT REACTION #herdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And potentially one of the biggest fights boxing can make. In Canello v. Crawford, welcome back to the Way Concept presented by the Ring Magazine. And today, I want to start a two-part series that you guys will see today and tomorrow, outlining how each fighter wins this mega fight because as you've seen everywhere as the talk has been leading up to this, most people consider this a 50-50 fight, meaning both fighters can win this thing and it may come down to just one or two. Very small differences, but all week you're going to hear different opinions from boxing analysts and fighters and everybody else, and that's what makes this fight so special. Everyone will be talking about it. And speaking to talking about it, before we get into the video, this week I'll be doing a live show at

Radio Row for this fight. I've never done that. It's been one of my dreams to do a Radio Row live show for any sort of sport and having it in boxing for my first one's going to be amazing. I don't really know too much of what's going to go down. It's just kind of come across my schedule, but I know I'm going to be live Thursday and Friday. I don't know the times yet. I don't know the guests yet, but tune in right here on this channel because if it's anything like I imagine it, it's going to be something you don't want to miss. But today's video is why Canelo Alvarez beats Terrence Crawford. Again, do one for Terrence, so before the comments go crazy, just hold on there'll be another one tomorrow. But today we're talking Canelo Saul Alvarez and why he wins the breakdown. Let's go.

Number one, yes, Canello is the bigger fighter. And what do I mean by that? He is more experienced at 168 pounds, meaning he has fought at the higher weight class. For far longer, he has fought some of the biggest names and the most experienced guys at this weight class 160 and 175 in this era. He has a more natural aptitude for 168 when it comes to his frame, right? Look at Canello and look at Terrence Crawford. Canello is more of a stockier, shorter, dense, thick boy, however you want to go about it. He's more broad in his shoulders. He carries the weight it feels like better at 168.

Today, they had their first face off at the Bellagio and the fountains were going off. By the way, they were on a floating pedestal. I don't know how that happened. It was Dana. It was Turkey Ella Shake. It was Canello. It was Crawford on some sort of floating platform. How did they get out there? Remains to be seen. But you look at that face off and you see Canello and Terrence are not different in height. Like, Terrence might be the taller. I think he is the longer. I think he has like a three and a half inch reach fighter than Canello is.

And that'll be a factor when we talk about his video tomorrow. But the point is, Canello, just more dense, more solid, and fills into the weight a little better. Now, that is a clear benefit to Canello. And I want you guys to understand why. He has felt the punches of Kovlev. He's felt the punches of Triple G. He's felt the punches of triple G. He's felt the punches of Dimitri Bivol, who's not a massive power puncher, but he still hit Canelo with a lot of shit at 175 pounds. He has felt and not been at any point really hurt by those power punchers. And even boxers, he's found a way to maneuver past them and end up either hurting them, winning decisions that are clearly one-sided or stopping them. That has been Canello's bread and butter when he's made this move to 168 and 175. And again, I said we're going to be nuanced and we are, but one of Canello's.

strengths is his strength. It is his power. Even when Canello was a young lad, a young Canellito, a. Kahneman. Growing up in Mexico, you hear Eddie Rinozo and Eddie Rinozo's father who trained Canelo first, talk about how he was a big kid for his age. He was muscled up at 13, 14. When he started boxing in the gyms of Guadalajara, he was knocking out grown men by the age of 15, 16. And I know Terence Crawford was doing the same over in Omaha, Nebraska. My point is, Canello has always carried some power, carried some strength, carried some devastation in his hands, and that's gone up with him. And I know that people have questioned that because who really carries that kind of power going up. But Canello's been able to do it. And, you know, people like Manny

Paciow have been able to do it. Usually you go up and when you go up and wait, your skill carries the bill. And Canello has skill and Manny Paciapia has skill, but there's still that nasty, nasty power in his hands. And one of the things that we have seen is that Canello regardless if he's being outboxed maybe early in fights or regardless if people have landed on him look at the Caleb plant fight look at the Billy Joe Saunders fight again not saying they're the same talent level but he has found the button at many points of those fights even if he's quote unquote being outboxed he has found the button the one place that maybe didn't work as well or two places I would say were obviously Floyd mayweather demetre be able in the triple G fight because triple G was just made out of iron just like

Canello is right but usually that power carries him through so one of his strength is when he downloads, when he does dissect, when he does find the opening, he's able to capitalize in a big way. And all that boxing you did rounds one to six, it may have you up on the scorecards, but it leaves you vulnerable from round seven to 12, because Canello's hitting arms, and he's hitting shoulders, and he's hitting ribs, and those arms are getting heavier, and they're falling down, and all of a sudden here comes a chopping overhand. And it's funny, I said overhand at the end of that sentence, not even meaning to, but it segues to my next point. I think there are some holes in Terrence Crawford's defense that Canello can take advantage of and capitalize on with an overhand.

Now, let's talk about what I mean here. Number one, Terence Crawford is probably the best skilled brawler in boxing. And I don't mean that disrespectfully. I mean, he'll get in a dog fight with you. This isn't going to be Canello William's skull. This isn't going to be even Canelo Floyd Mayweather, which was a defensive to offensive master class from Floyd, right? Walking Canello into things and countering, but not being. there to be hit. Bud Crawford will be there to be hit in this fight. And I don't think he's going to do

a lot of going backward. I wouldn't advise him to do a lot of going backward. You'd hear Beaumack talk, that doesn't seem like that's their game plan. And tomorrow, I'll talk about who I think they're going to try to emulate to get the best to Canello. But one of the greatest and most highly touted things about Bud Crawford is the fact that he's a switch hitter. Right? We talk about him being one of the best switch hitters ever. Now, in reality, Bud Crawford is more of a Southpaw fighter than he is an Orthodox fighter. He really only goes orthodox if he's looking to. for that kill shot or if his backhand kind of leads him in to the Orthodox spot out of Southpaw. But usually he stays left-handed.

And it's because I think he's better defensively and offensively with his left hand. I do think he is more comfortable countering with his left hand. I do feel like when he's in Orthodox, it's mostly just offense, and it gets him into trouble sometimes. But I think for this fight, he will be Southpaw. But out of either stance, one of the things that gives Bud problems is an overhand right. And it's usually because of what I talked about a second ago. He is a skilled brawler.

One of the most skilled brawlers ever. He will sit in the pocket and look through volume. And in the midst of that, sometimes, not on a lot of occasions and very rarely, but sometimes he can be hit. And when he is hit, it lands flush. Let's take a look at the tape if you don't believe me. Look at that right hand. And this is, again, bud out of Southpaw.

And this is the point where it always happens. Watch again. As here comes the jab, and Bud wants to trigger that check hook over the top. This is one of his greatest attacks, and it sets up the left hand behind, but in an orthodox Southpaw matchup, you're going to see a battle of the backhands, right? Because what's a Orthodox killer in a Southpaw stance? It's the straight left hand, right? That's a straight left hand, straight down the pipe.

It's tough for right-handers to see because they're used to your lead hand, leading the action, and then the backhand. You go backhand first, and again, head off the center line. bang, it's tough for right handers to see, and they're usually trying to parry and catch the jab first and then the backhand. So if they miss that back hand, here comes the overhand. There's just a lot of, it's backwards for Orthodox fighters to see. But also, Southpaws are used to usually seeing Orthodox fighters, but just like the left hand is an Orthodox killer, the right hand without the jab or right behind it is the Southpaw killer. So watch right here. You see the jab to kind of post.

Boom, overhand right. Bud's gotten caught trying to check hook again, and he gets the right hand dropped off. Doesn't hurt him too bad, no big deal, but the point was that it landed, and it landed pretty flush. Bow, right there. And notice in all these clips,

this is Bud being offensive. This is Bud on his front foot. This is Bud looking to walk down his opponent. And honestly, I think they're going to try to do this to Canello. And it remains to be seen how well that's going to work for him, Again, there are some things that I think he can do to capitalize, and we'll talk about that tomorrow. But this is why I say I don't see Bud looking to go backward much in this fight. Whether it's going to work or not, I'm not sure, but I expect him to try to maintain position or move forward.

And again, you see it here. Overhand. Look at the extension from Bud trying to lean away from the shot, thinking probably it's going to be a straight right hand off the jab, but it's a faint jab, big overhand over the top. Now here's Sean Porter who comes in with a gazelle hook, right? Tries to get to range with it and looks for a right hand and then they break. Here comes another overhand where Bud instead of taking that back step to reset wants to come back with his check right hook. Again here, right? This is the clinch.

Instead of trying to reset, he's coming back left hand right hook. Upper cut or maybe body shot with the left hand. Here comes the right hand across, but here comes the overhand from Porter. Boom. He traded in that moment and he lost. The overhand right got there first. Every time Bud wants to come back with something, whether you've hit him or not, if he's in the pocket, it's boom, boom, boom, and sometimes he can lose that timing battle.

And when he does, he gets hit with big shots. And again, here's Gamboa. Now, this one is at an orthodox position, and this is probably the most hurt I've ever seen, Bud. But he was tuning up Gamboa here. He was styling on him a little bit. He got a little confident, hands came down, and, uh, he, he was, you know, he was styling. He eats another right hand though.

At Orthodox, boom, on the button, tagged him with the right hand. Because even out of Orthodox and Southpaw, Bud will still utilize that same combination, right? He'll still look to go boom, boom, or boom, boom, it's the same thing. He's just switched stands. So again, the vulnerability to the overhand right is definitely something that if you are a Bud Crawford fan, you don't want to see the Canelo land on him, because when Canelo land, overhand rights and I'm gonna show you a clip of triple G but watch how he chops that through the guard and drops Charlo who was at the time the 154 undisputed chance so

let's watch Canello now as he chops this right hand on on triple G watch how he sets it up right jab up top double jab level change boom behind it walking triple G down with that double jab right boom cover the eyes faint rip that is what I call a massive exploit and Terrence Crawford's defense. I know he is a great counterpuncher. I know that he uses his angles and he slides off and he gets his head off center and he's able to counter with big time volume and big time power at 140 at 147. But even when you watch this Madrimov fight and I'll play it here, Mademov over with the right, boom. If you stand in front of Canello, not to say he's going to do a ton of that,

but if you stand in front of Canello and look to trade with him, that's not going to be a great night for Crawford if he does that. And I expect them to be very aggressive offensively because you kind of have to be. One, I think there's a bit of pride in Terrence Crawford not wanting to be walked down by Canello, not wanting to be on the back foot, not wanting to be the defensive fighter, whereas a guy like Floyd Mayweather didn't really care about that. He was going to box very slick. He was going to catch Canello leaning. Conno was also 23 at the time, a bit of a baby. But the point is, Terrence Crawford is not, he doesn't fight the same way Floyd does. And I don't expect him to. I expect him to fight more like Dmitcher Bevold.

Triple G in some of those cases where he wants to bring the action. The problem is, I don't know that he has the chin of Triple G and I know he's not anywhere close to just the size and frame of Dimitri Bivel, who by the way, said that Canello hits harder and throws harder than someone even like Archer better be it. So when I look at this fight, I can see Terrence Crawford being the more skilled guy. I can see Terence Crawford landing more punches. In fact, I almost want to predict that that will happen. When we look at the final stats of this thing, If it goes the distance, I think it's going to be a super close fight. But if it doesn't, and Canello is able to stop Terrence Crawford, we're going to look at this and go, damn, Terrence was having such good rounds.

Almost again, like the Billy Joe Saunders fight. He was having such good rounds until he did it, right? Until the right hand comes through. And I really think that's going to be the difference maker. If Terrence wants to stay in the pocket and look for multiple counters, which I think he should, because when Terrence plays that risky game, that I think he has to play in this fight, and I think it's just the reality of the fight.

He has to be risky to beat Canell. You have to enter the fray. Look at the guys that have won with the skill sets they have, right? No one has Floyd May with their skill set. So the other guys that have given Canello problems, they've gotten risky, right? They've played the game with Canello or they've been able to back him up and use their volume. I think Terrence is going to have to try to do that. But again, in that fray, you risk getting knocked out cold or in that fray, you risk getting beat up with right hands and chopped on with the left hook, right?

And another thing, Canello will throw that left hook out, even out of the South Popization, just to see where you're going to move your head, right? Or to lead you back into that big overhand right. But I think that's probably the biggest factor in this fight. It's not just the right hand. It's not the susceptibility to right hands. It's Terrence Crawford's willingness to play the game, to be risky, right? And I bring up the whole right-hand scenario to say this.

It's not just about Canelo landing a right-hand, and the only susceptibility from Crawford is the right hand. It is what you see in those clips that merge the two together is that Terrence is willing to play the game. He's going to try to stand in front of Canello. He's going to try to counter him with multiple punches, which again, I think is probably the path to victory. But in that path, somewhere along it, there's going to be roadblocks or potential street shutdowns. When Canelo decides, I'm done playing this back and forth, here comes an overhand.

Or I found your timing. I found the spots in between with my head movement, with my upper body movement, and you can't hurt me like I can hurt you. That may be the difference maker. When Terence feels like he's gotten all the power that Canello has, when Terrence feels he can't. hurt Canello. When he gets confident in the pocket and he throws those combinations and he stays just a little bit too long in there, right? Little bit too long in the kitchen and Canello finds that right hand or Canelo finds that left hook or Canello progressively over the rounds where him hitting you in the shoulders early on it didn't really hurt as much but now round six and seven's coming and it's

harder to hold your hands up and you still got to do that game plan. You still have to be in front of him. You still have to walk him down because if you get on the back foot then things really start going downhill and I know everybody's super impressed by Terrence Crawford's footwork and he may actually be able to fight a great defensive fight should he get up early in the cards but I'll offer you this reminder not just how you play the game not just the power difference but remember this is this first fight at 168 pounds this will be a bit of a different feel in there so yes while you have success early what happens if you do get a little tired late on right what happens if you do want to transition to a more defensive posture later on and those feet are a little heavier than they

felt at 147. Well, heavier than they felt in the Madrimov fight at 54. Terrence didn't look super spry in that fight. So, again, this video being Canello's path to victory, I look at all those scenarios and say, Terrence could be up early. I almost expect him to be up early in this fight. Landing combinations, having success, but Canello having more damage when he lands, having more effect when he lands, and round by round by round, starting to accumulate, and Terrence starting to slow down. Again, not being used to the weight, not being used to himself at the weight, not just fighting a guy in Canello that's more dense, but just himself. And then the power from Canello sets in. And then the timing starts to become

equal. And then those risks that you were taken earlier and getting away with because you refresh, because you had prepared well, they start to fall by the wayside. Because if Canello is not hurt, which I don't expect him to be, and Canello is still trying to find that opening and he's still throwing hard punches, eventually the levy will break. And that's why I love. I love it. And that's why I lean more toward a Canelo knockout because it'll be a, we've talked about a 50-50 fight. I think it'll be tougher for Canello to win a decision. I do. Just because of the skills and the ability and the well-roundedness of Terrence Crawford,

if he decides to really take that fight to Canello early and really leave no doubt in the judge's mind. But again, that back half of the fight will be so important. And if he falls off a cliff, whether it's, you know, the stamina, whether it's just the power that Canello has gotten his hands that eventually takes a toll, how does that back half look and caninello make the comeback on the fight? I truly think that it'll be an early successful fight for Terrence Crawford, which may be the biggest dose of poison for him in this fight, if that makes sense. Because that success and him continuing to engage with that success, ultimately, I think will lead to his demise.

Is the success early, the willingness to trade, the willingness to be in the fire, again, I keep calling him this, and I don't mean it disrespectful, but to be a skilled brawler, to be there, When Canello's throwing, not backing away from punches, getting head off the center, trying to look for the check hook over the top, trying to look for the left hand of the body, and the combinations. Just eventually, you either are perfect in those exchanges, or Canello finds one, or he finds two, or he finds one that leads to two, then three, then four. I know Terrence has sparked big guys.

I know that he's got Lester Martinez in camp. I know all that, but eventually, Charlo found it. Plant found it out. Kovalev found it out. Demetri Bevo even said it. Saunders found it out. these bigger guys found out that the power with Canelo, regardless of what you felt before, is different. If you take too many, they will accumulate. And eventually, that will be the reason

he finds the knockout shot. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how I feel Canello Alvarez can win this fight. I think it would be a slower start for Canello. I think Terrence Crawford would have a lot of success early, but eventually playing that game of roulette, right? We're in Vegas and Terrence Crawford gambling that much, risking that much, playing that game of roulette over and over and over, eventually Canello will find the button. And as many right hands as I've seen Terrence Crawford take, especially when he wants to trade, especially when he wants to counter over the top of your shots and doesn't look to get out of range, I just think it'll be devastating. To lead off fight week, that is how I think Canello wins this spot. And you guys know

that I am predicting Canello to win, but it doesn't mean that's how it has to happen. Tomorrow, I'm coming back with a breakdown of how Terrence Crawford can win this fight. And honestly, there's a lot of avenues there. This isn't just Canello land and Terrence has no shot. I'm telling you right now, they're calling this a 50-50 fight for a reason. Terrence Crawford's skill is far better than Canello has seen in a very long time. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Let me know what you guys think down below.

I already know you guys are going to slaughter me because, again, you think this is me saying Canello is going to win and this is the only scenario. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just giving you this video as a reference to how I think it can happen. Tomorrow, Terrence Crawford's turn. But if you disagree with what I said here, let me know why down below. And who do you think wins and why? Because I don't have those answers, but we're only four days away.

So Saturday, September 13th, live, an Allegiant Stadium presented by the Ring Magazine. It's Canello, it's Crawford. Both men fight for Legacy. One will walk out the winner. Who will that be? Guess we'll find out. All right, so we're back. On the Way Concept presented by the Ring Magazine. I am here at the Fontaine Bleu. I don't even know if it's French. I just say it that way. here in Las Vegas for Canelo versus Crawford Fight Week.

Folks, do not forget. I don't know if I said this already in my last video, but I am going to be live on this channel, Thursday and Friday, for Canelo Crawford Radio Row. There's going to be a ton of boxers, fighters. I heard WWE wrestlers, celebrities, and the who's who of people in Vegas. And we're going live, and we're going to try to talk to the people.

We're going to try to get predictions live on the show. It's going to be guests. It's going to be interviews. It's going to be a blast. and I don't want you guys to miss it. So make sure you're tuned in. I think it's going to be Thursday at 9.30 a.m. PST, which is 12.30 p.m. EST.

I think the same thing on Friday. But stay locked in. Here on the channel, it's going to be fun. But today I want to talk about a couple things. Number one, today was the grand arrivals. We got to see Canelo Saul, Canelo Alvarez. We got to see Terrence Bud Crawford. Both guys look confident.

Both guys looked to be in great shape. Terence Crawford dispelled the rumor. And again, I might have contributed to a bit of the misinformation here. so I apologize, but he's in shape, all right? He is cut up. He is shredded, and he looks big for the weight class. I will not lie. He looks like he's filling into 168 pounds very well.

But again, it's not just about the size difference. It's about the difference in the size of the fight that Terrence Crawford is taking on. Super middle weight is not welterweight is not super welterweight. It is two, maybe three weight classes above where he's comfortable fighting. We'll see how that affects him. Canelo was aura farming. I can't lie. He showed up looking like the Pope.

People were screaming, babies were flying in the air, and he ascended up the escalator and did, like, the Queen's wave to the people. It was insane. I couldn't believe a fighter had that much aura in boxing. Canello still runs this shit. Now, today I promised a part two of the series that I started yesterday talking about why one fighter wins this fight. Yesterday was Canello. Today is Terrence Crawford. So why does Terence Crawford beat Canello? How does Terence Crawford beat Canello? And can it actually be done? Well, I think so, and here's why. The breakdown, let's go. So first and foremost, let's address the things that I said in yesterday's video.

If you haven't seen that, make sure you watch the Canello video, then come back here. But I said yesterday that there was going to be some things that Crawford had to do that may get him into trouble. There was going to be some weaknesses that Crawford had. Number one, yes, it's his brand new fight at 168 pounds. It is going to be a bit of a mystery, how he comes into this weight class. there were some rumors of a shoulder injury. I'm not putting any stock into that because I don't think we can unless there's anything official really out there. Point being, there's got a lot of question marks around Terrence Crawford. This video, we are going to suppose that those question marks are answered in full force by Terrence Crawford being an absolute monster at this weight class. It's a lot of assuming, but it's kind of what we have to do to see the best version of Terrence Crawford in this fight. So let's assume the weight doesn't bother him. Let's assume he is fully healthy, not injured. Let's assume that Canella, power is not too much from him coming up from 147, 154 to 168. Let's assume all that's true.

How does Terrence Crawford win this fight? Number one, he has to get Canello's respect early. Terrence Crawford is not going to fight this fight on his back foot, circling around the ring like William Skull or Edgar Berlanga, any of these guys that got hit by Canello and went, ooh, no, I don't want any part of that. That can't happen. And do not forget, by the way, that Charlo was 154 undisputed champion coming up

and fighting Canello in his own right, and Canello made that easy work, light work. And I know that Charlo is not Terrence Crawford. My point is it's not easy to do. So you have to get Canello's respect. He is someone that is going to try to walk you down until you stop him. The guys that got his respect and turned the tie to their fights were Triple G and Dimitri Bivol. And for different reasons that we're going to go over. Floyd Mayweather danced on Canello.

He was able to manipulate Canelo's walking down forward pressure, flat-footed, plotty kind of movement to walk him into space and counter him circle out. I don't see Terrence Crawford taking a Floyd Mayweather role here. For everybody saying Terrence Crawford's a runner, he's going to run from Canello. I'm not even sure people have watched Terrence Crawford fight. When has he ever run from anyone? And you don't change what got you to the dance, regardless of the weight you're fighting at. You may have to do some things differently. You may not be able to engage on every single exchange, but he's not just going to become a back foot, defensive, slick shoulder roll fighter that doesn't throw punches and tries to just navigate with his jab and circle.

That's not him and that's not who he's going to be in this fight. And honestly, yesterday I talked about there being risk in him fighting in the pocket with Canelo, but I believe he needs to take that risk. I think coming out and establishing himself early in this fight is the risk necessary for him to win. Because what Canello is is a very flat-footed plotting, power-punching, manipulator of space at his best, he is a great counterpuncher that uses slick upper body movement to make you miss and that he makes you pay with big time punishment. But those punches come usually one at a time or one and two at a time unless he's setting things up and moving forward offensively

or he'll double that jab up and bang the right hand. If you get Canello in the pocket and fighting in the pocket, he's most of the time he's going to try to make you miss and then counter with one or two big ones. What I think Terrence Crawford's best path to victory here is, is utilizing something like a triple G style of fighting that was controlled with the jab and then heavy combinations after the fact where he got Canello to back up was because when they both entered range where they both were in the pocket, Canello would make Triple G miss a couple of times, but then Triple G would keep firing or Canello would make him miss and throw one or two and Triple G would try to make a miss or take a punch and throw two, three, four. He was outstriking

Canello in their first fight continuously, and he was kind of beating Canelo at his own game and pushing Canello backward and making Canelo settle to being on the ropes and calling Triple G on and being like, you can't hurt me. If Terrence Crawford has any semblance of that and is able to outwork Canello in the pocket and is able to make those risks that he eventually has to take, right, being in the pocket looking to make Canello miss with those big power punches and then capitalize on that check right hook and that left hand down the pipe. If he can do those things, it's going to give Conello real problems. And it's going to make Canello break his rhythm. And that's one of the bigger things that Canello thrives on is being a bit of a rhythm fighter.

Again, you're not going to see a ton of output from Canello in this fight. You're not going to see him throw 60 to 70 punches around. That's not him. He is going to try to make every single punch count. But if you're Crawford, what have you thrived on your entire career is making people that throw heavy punches pay for their lack of output and their output of strength at the same time by catching in between the punches and being very snappy with your replies? I fully expect Terrence Crawford to be a Southpaw most of this fight, just because I do think it gives him the advantage of working his jab and staying away from the big right hand of Canelo Alvarez.

I don't think Terrence wants to circle toward the power hand of Canello where he's trying to jab his way into that overhand. We've seen my last video, Terrence does sometimes get himself caught with overhands by being in the pocket and looking to exchange. I think him staying Southpaw and if he is going to pivot out pivoting away from that big power right hand, yes, Canello has a dangerous left hook. And that liver is going to be there from a Southpaw fighter. Bud's probably going to be for most of this fight. But I think his best avenue and his best talent, honestly, is him as a Southpaw fighter. People talk about Bud being a switch hitter. And maybe that can be useful in the sense of switching and combination or using it as a cover to gain range or get back into the pocket or to exit out.

But to fight for elongated periods out of Orthodox, I don't think Bud should do in this fight. I think that's a bad idea. So that's number one. You've got to get Canello's respect. And I said this in my video yesterday, which was, me breaking down how Canello wins. But I'll say the same thing here. I think Bud Crawford is going to win two to three to four of the first six rounds. I do believe that it will take Canello a little bit longer to get going. And I assume both guys are going to be a bit patient in the first couple of

rounds where no one's going to really, you know, exceed and exude a ton of energy. But I expect Crawford to be a little more busy. And I expect him to be, I don't want to call it a pride thing, but I do think there is a bit of a message, a tone that needs to be set from Crawford that Canello's just not going to take over this fight, and it's not going to be the Canello show, meaning Crawford gets going early and he gets going off. And we're going to find out what Crawford's power translates like to 168. It was a big deal from him at 135, 140, and 147. At 54 against Madrimov, he still hit Madrimov with some big stuff, and he still left Markslo over his face, but he didn't hurt him with anything. I don't know if that was the style of

fighter, because Madramov is more of a, you know, a Soviet kind of Eastern European boxer or what that was because. But there is going to be a point early in this fight where Conello, is going to download how hard Crawford is hitting him. There's places for Crawford to use some of his bait and switch tactics here. What I mean is control Canello with that jab, touch him a couple of different times with some soft jabs and bang, a big jab down the middle and snapped the head back of Canello. That would be something that interrupts the Canello pressure and the Canello timing and his rhythm of fighting. We talked about this earlier. I would say that's the next point we need to go to. Crawford trying to break the rhythm of Canello. Canello's already, like I said, a low,

output fire, meaning he's already not poised to throw a ton of punches. If you break his rhythm while he's trying to get to range by continually snapping that jab off and making sure the tone is set when he walks forward, he's eating that lead hand. That was something again, I keep bringing Triple G back into it because I think, again, out of the Southpaw stance, but I think there are things that Crawford can do that Triple G really took advantage of. He broke a lot of Canello's rhythm with his jab. Same thing with Dimitri Bevo. Bevo kept things super simple. Jab, circle, jab circle, combination circle. Again, I don't see Bud fighting that way.

It's not the way he fights. But the jab was the most useful part of what Bivol did. And I thought one of the biggest things that changed the fight and changed the outlook of that first fight for Triple G was the fact that he was just consistently making Canelo reframe and consistently making him restart and consistently getting him out of rhythm. If you just diminish Canello offensively and make him become a little bit more defensive or frustrate him to where he's winging out shots from way back. Canello already is at a reach disadvantage here with Terrence Crawford.

If he stays long with that jab, gets Canello to fire something, wing something off that's not even close, sees the shots, gets underneath it or slips outside of it and is able to then come back with that second counter, that second wave of combinations. That's where Terrence Crawford lives. That's where his bread is fucking butter. And that's what Beaumack and those guys have been talking about when they say, we're going to push him back. We're not going to get bullied in there. We're going to see who the bigger man is, right? They're talking that talk because they are confident. one, that Crawford can take Canello's punches, if need be, but two, that they're not going to have to

because they're going to interrupt Canello's rhythm. They're going to make sure they're the ones getting off, even if it means they get off first more, even if it means they go first and make Canello counter, slip that counter and come back with their own, playing the game within the game. And I said it yesterday, Terrence is going to play the game. Have no doubt about it. He's going to be there, the risk reward of standing in front of Canello Alvarez. He's going to do it. And it's not just a pride thing, but it's kind of the way he has to fight because that's how he fight. You don't just change everything when you get to this level. You have to be you, and that is who Terrence Crawford is.

I don't mean this disrespectfully. I mean in the most high regard, he is the most skilled brawl-style fighter you'll find. And I don't mean he's just winging punches. I mean he's ready to throw down. Stand there in the middle, not flat-footed, but be in the pocket looking to counter as soon as you throw. Watch when Terrence Crawford's biggest shots when he hits someone like Errol Spence in between. It's when Spence is a little hesitant. He's throwing one or he's throwing that backhand and Crawford is triggering.

As soon as he sees a twitch, he comes with the hook bang or the bang, bang, over the top. Or he goes body shot upstairs, uppercut. There was a couple of different times in this camp that I've seen Crawford working that triple lead hook. Ma, ma, ma, right? Not that he's going to throw that a ton, but really showing that lead hook to maybe get Canello to either bend underneath it and roll it. And here comes that uppercut. There's another shot of Beaumack, and I think Terrence Crawford work in the midst. And again, everybody works on different combinations, but a lead uppercut from Terrence Crawford.

And I think that is because Canello is so upper body centric with his defense. Canello will stand in front of you. He will plant his feet, and he will look to move his head to get in positions to throw his counter shots. But sometimes that means that head comes down, rolls underneath, down, rolls underneath. And I kept seeing Terrence Crawford out of the South Post. stance, work those uppercuts like backhand lead, bang. No setup, just boom, go. And I have a feeling that's to establish Canello, you can't just stand in here and move your head. If you do, if you try

to roll underneath something, if you go here, boom, that uppercuts coming underneath it. And they're going to throw it with some big time power. So those are the keys, I think, for Terrence Croft. You got to get respect and not get pushed back against the ropes and playing Canello's game where he walks you down and you're trying to Floyd Mayweather to the shit, go high guard, shoulder roll and try to counteroff it. That's not Terrence Crawford. He has to get respect, stand in the middle of that ring, and say, I'm not going backward. He has to be early, and he has to be often with his jab, and I think with the counter volume, stifle Canello. Do not allow him to just dictate the pace of this fight by slowing everything down, and now you're throwing one, and he's throwing one, and you're

throwing two, and he's throwing two. Everything is you go, I go. He's not shutting Canello's offense down. Instead, he's letting him get off just to find ways to try to counter behind it. He's got to stifle Canello a bit and frustrating. And here's the last part of this, which it's not going to sound very nice, but it's the truest statement. You have to beat Canello convincingly. Point blank period, you have to. Let's be honest, in boxing, there is a such thing as an ace side judging or preferred judging sometimes. And I'm not saying that's going to be the case tonight, but we've seen it even in Canello's past. You go to the first triple G fight. You go to some other fights that you people even say the second triple G fight was pretty close.

But the point being, there have been times where Canello has gotten favorable scorecards when it was clear to most people that he did not deserve that. How do you avoid it? You have to clearly beat Canello. And I don't even mean knocking him out because as many scenarios as I come up with, I just don't see Terrence Crawford knocking Canello out. So to act like there's a way to do it, I'm sure there is, right? If Canello didn't see a punch, he gets clipped by something,

regardless of, you know, Canello's neck strength and he hasn't really ever been hurt like that. You don't see something and you get clipped. It's boxing. Everybody can go down. But Terrence Crawford, in my opinion, has to clearly beat Canello. I mean, get up on those scorecards and run away with this thing. And again, those points that I laid out earlier is the way he does that. He has to continue to keep pressure on Canello. He has to continue to stifle Canello and he has to clearly beat it. I just see Terence Crawford, if he's going to win, he's going to have to win by three, four, five rounds, which means, again, you want to rack those first four out of six. You want to be able to maintain it late into the fight.

You're going to have to play risky. You're going to have to do things that normally you wouldn't have to do. You're going to have to be in Canello's face. There's a lot of things that Terrence Crawford is not used to that he's going to have to do this time around. But out of the two of them, who is more equipped to do that? That'd be Terrence Crawford. I do think he's the more well-rounded fighter in terms of his offense to defense, his selection in punching, his accuracy while punching, going forward, going backward.

Yes, his ability to fight him both. stances, but more so his ability to counter whilst not being out of the pocket, keeping exchanges, being in the pocket, being defensive in the pocket, but also countering with feet, angle switch, and making people pay for winging power shots that aren't necessarily set up with much, which is kind of what Canello has been doing over his last couple of fights. So if you have a ploddy fighter in Canello, who is, regardless of what you think, over the last couple of years, definitely slowed down, has not been the same Canello that we even saw a fight Caleb Plant.

Terrence Crawford can take advantage of that. With the things that we've seen him do to fighters that are ploddy, to fighters that haven't been able to keep up with his pace. And quite frankly, with the last point we'll end off on, Terrence Crawford has an inability to lose that Canelo just doesn't have right now. And I'm not saying Canelo's a loser or anything like that. But Terrence Crawford has never lost as a professional. And that has to count for something, right?

Canello has seen defeat. There have been ways that you can say that is how you beat Canello because people have beaten Canelo doing it. Floyd Mayweather. Defensive prowess, making Canelo miss, making him pay, being very slick on the back foot. To meet your bevo. On the front foot, stifling Canelo's offense with a jab,

with a right hand, with movement, with circling, combination, circling, stifle. Triple G, in my opinion, the first fight around. Being able to stifle Canelo whilst remaining in the pocket with him, throwing more punches, being more volume heavy, being able to take power punches from Canelo, but fire back with even more sting. These are the things you can say work against Canello because you've seen them work and you've seen people beat him.

Terrence Crawford has been hit by punches. Terence Crawford has been losing fights in some cases, but he has never lost a fight. And at the end of the day, if you're a Terrence Crawford fan, you can take to the bank that notion to say, listen, Canello might be one of the greatest ever ever. He might be the greatest Mexican boxer that's ever lived. He might be one of the greats of all time. But my guy's never lost. So when it comes down to it, when shit hits the.

fan, I'm backing him because I just feel he's going to pull it out the fire. I just feel at any point he doesn't know how to lose and he will will himself to victory. I know that sounds like a lot of like motivational speech talk, but sometimes that's real. When you have convinced yourself that you're unbeatable, when you have never tasted defeat, when you're a bit ignorant to what quitting means, to what losing means, to what feeling that switch of, well, it's not my night tonight. If you don't know what that feels like and you only know winning, then sometimes that's a superpower in any sport. It makes guys confident to a delusional level that somehow works to make them even more invincible or to make them more resilient in some way to just go, oh no, this is not happening to me. I don't lose.

I win. So that's a real part of this fight and one that potentially couldn't be a major factor. So with all that said, Terrence Crawford having an inability to lose, being the man that just wins. Terrence Crawford being the more, I think, well-rounded of the two right now, seen as Canelo has foregone a lot of the things that he used to be in this new form of himself, which is much more of a plotty power puncher. I don't know which one's going to show up. Eddie Ronozo saying the best Canelo in 20 years is going to show up, so who knows.

But you combine that with the fact that if Terence Crawford can back Canelo up and gain respect early, if he is able and willing to risk it for the biscuit, capitalize with volume punching, if he's able to establish his jab, all those things. and get started early, that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Terrence Crawford will beat Canello-Hauver is. There it is, comment below where you think I'm wrong here. And give me your prediction. You think Terrence Crawford is going to win this fight because we're only a couple of days into fight week. Still so much more to go over, the press conference, the way in, stuff we're all going to talk about here.

And also, guys, we're going to be live Saturday. I don't know if we're going to be still in Vegas. I'm not really sure what the plan is, but if we're not here in Vegas, I can catch a flight, be home in 45 minutes. and we could be live from the studio. Have some guests. Have a fun time. But regardless, let me know what you guys think. Who wins Saturday and why?

Because I don't have those answers. But I guess we'll find out. Yes, sir. Come on through, Dana. Appreciate it, Dana. Wade, nice to meet you. I'm liking that ring shirt. You're rocking today.

Ladies and gentlemen, President of U.C. Dana White is with us now. You just got done with nightcap over there. The boys, man. Shannon and Ocho. How was that? Great. I love those guys.

Yeah, man. So Vegas, we're here. Talk to me about why this. This was the fight Dana White decided to come into boxing to support and grow the sport. Well, it's not that this was the fight that I decided to do. This was the fight that I was offered, you know, by shake turkey. He said, I put this fight together and I would love for you to be the promoter of it. Yeah.

And who the hell would say no to this? I can't, yeah, nobody, yeah. You'd have to be mentally ill to not want to promote this fight. Right. So this whole thing, this buildup, Netflix, the entire thing, is this the big push for and a white to do more in boxing. I've heard you talk about this new contender series you're going to do. Obviously, Zufa Boxing now come to life. Is this the first of a minute? When shake turkey asked me to be the promoter this fight, we went out, we cut the television

deal, we went out and cut the arena deal. You know, we did all the groundwork for this thing. And then obviously we're putting together to production, you know, all the nuts and bolts and all the things that go into a fight, we did. This is a lot. This is a lot. This is a is going to be the third biggest fight in history. Crazy. Right? And I know a lot of people like to talk shit. Take it however you want to take it, boys.

Number one fight of all time, Mayweather Pack, yeah. Boom. Number two, Mayweather McGregor. Boom. Number three, Crawford versus Canello. What do two of the three have in common? Yeah. I've been a part of two of the biggest fights in the history. Talk to your shit. of boxing. So, yeah.

And then I'm going to do my own thing in 26 with Shake Turkey. You know, he's got a lot of other plans. But the thing that I'm most focused about is this thing that I want to do in 26. I think that I – The contender style. I think that I can add a lot of value to the sport and to a lot of these young up-and-coming guys. Yeah. I saw Eddie Hearn who –

I was just going to ask you about this. This just happened. I love and respect this guy. I consider him a friend. I was surprised, but not surprised, to see him talking shit today. I'm letting you know. He said, listen. I guess my responses, I look forward to it too.

My brother, I look forward to it too. I'm an MMA guy as well as a boxing guy. You would love to compete. I love. And so does Eddie. And you guys being, you know, going, he said he wanted to go one-on-one with Dana White. That's got to fire you up. Yeah, well, I think that he's, you know, I, and I only, listen,

I don't listen to what the media says. I've only seen clips. To be fair, he said he wanted to compete. He was like, listen, I want to show that I'm the better boxing promoter, which is, I think, what everybody wants to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think he's looking at it wrong. He's like, he's not doing anything that's, you know, that's different than anything we've ever done. And I don't disagree with that.

I mean, there's only so many things to do, but there's certain ways to do it. And fair enough to him, where he says that he thinks that. I don't know enough about the boxing business and all this stuff. Look at that smart. I'm going to stay in my little world like I always do. Like I live in my own little world, you know, with UFC and lots of things in my life. I'll tell you how in my own little world I live. I just discovered Billy Eilish like two weeks ago.

Had no idea who she was. Had no idea who she was. I'd never heard of her. We're the biggest superstars on the planet. Never heard of her. Never heard any of her songs or saw her of her things. and I saw this thing on Instagram where when she was 16 years old,

she did this festival. It was like the Reading Festival or something out of California. Have you seen that clip? I've heard about this thing you're talking about, yes. So this girl who was probably 14 or 15 years old with her brother when she wrote this music goes out to this festival, which is in the afternoon she wasn't even the main act that day.

It was that night. And the way that the crowd reacted to her and sang to her song is one of the cool. I watched it 150,000 times. Seriously. I'm not even kidding. My guys are like sick of hearing it. Like, I, Dan, enough Billy Irish. Yeah.

I love that kind of stuff. I love that this young, talented, you know, girl and her brother wrote this music. And the way that the fans reacted to her song at this thing has just blown me away for the last couple of weeks. and I can't stop watching it. But I was just an example of how in my own little world I live. And then I looked at the, it's bad guy or tough guy. I don't know the name of the song. But then when you look at the official video, it's got 1.3 billion views.

And you're like, holy cow, I'm just discovering this. No, I love it. No, I love that type of stuff. And I think that no matter what business you're in, what sport you're in, or whatever walk of life you're in, you always have the ability to find somebody that connects with people. The Connor McGregors, the Ronda Rouseys, the Billy Elishes, you know, these type of people,

I love going out and trying to find those kind of people. I think that's kind of, you're talking about this new... Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. You're talking about this new contender. It seems like you want to invest in the youth of this sport. If you look at the contender series with the UFC. It's insane, man.

What you're doing over there is incredible. I mean, we have... multiple world champions. You can't even put them on two hands. It's all the people you're seeing and you go back through their career highlights and oh, they started on the Contender Series. Oh, wait a second.

And then they're world champs or whatever else. This is what I love and this is what I'm interested in. And I'm not looking to say, oh, I'm going to go in and I'm going to overhaul boxing and I'm going to do things that nobody's ever seen. I can tell you this. I'm going to put on a much better production

than anybody's seen in boxing. I think that we will innovate the productions side of the sport. I think that we will elevate in how the sport is presented in the way that we do it. I think we will bring new things that people haven't seen, and I think we'll make the sport more exciting. So that's where I disagree with my good friend Eddie Hearn. But I look forward to it too, Eddie. Oh, I can't wait to see that. That's a one-on-one matchup I got to see. talk to me

I heard there's potential room and you guys have had some fighters signed potentially with Zufa is there any fighters you could tell me potentially? We do we do have guys signed again after I get this weekend behind me we'll go out more

I say this all the time when I'm doing something new whether it was the UFC Power Slap and other things we've done watch what we do in the next two years UFC and all the other things that we're doing, including boxing. Watch what we do in the next two years. Well, talk to me about this. We're here, obviously, for Saturday.

I know you want to focus on that. Canello Crawford, massive fight. I know you can't really lean one way or the other, but how do you think that... No, this is how I always lean. How I always lean is I want to be a part of, you know, shows that when people fly to Vegas, buy tickets, spend money on hotel rooms and dinners, or stay home and watch it, or watch it in a bar. They're not bummed out that they wasted their time watching my events.

That's my goal every Saturday, no matter what I'm doing. So there's a lot of things that go into that and a lot of attention to detail that I think every boxing promoter, not just some of them, doesn't do. And that's where Dana White comes in. I just think that's the difference between me and everybody else. Yeah. Well, talk to me about some of this stuff. You're balancing a lot right now.

Obviously, you have this event. You're going to do more in 2026, but there's another big event that's coming in 2026 that I got to talk to you about. The rumors are swirling about it's this White House event for the UFC. I saw something today where they said there's going to be about 5,000 people. I don't know if you said this or somebody else, potentially on the lawn and then some bigger screens going on. how excited are you about this?

Because it looked like when this became a potential, you started getting fired up. Oh, yeah. Listen, I love one-of-one type events like the sphere last year for UFC Noce. This event, the fact that I'm doing two fights in two different states on the same night. Crazy. And we've lined it up so that everybody can watch both. And everybody who's watching this right now,

including yourself, can't tell me that you haven't been home watching two college football games at the same time, two NFL games at the same time, maybe even two fights at the same time. that's what we've lined this up to do. This is a special one-of-one event too, and then the White House is literally the unicorn of one-of-one events. We're going to be on the South Lawn. We'll have under 5,000 fans on the South Lawn, and then the park

that is connected to the White House, we'll have 85,000 people with screens. You know, we're doing a big stage over there. We're going to do concerts. We're literally going to take over Washington, D.C. that entire week. We're going to do, you know, we're going to do international fight week there. Yeah. So UFCX will be there and lots of other things that we're working on. Has every single fighter on the roster has to be on this card? Pretty much, yes. Pretty much. I don't know if you've seen, I know that you essentially had ruled out John Jones being a main inventor on that card. He says he's training five days a week, Dana. He says he's trying

to get on that car. What does John Jones have to do to get on a White House card in your opinion? Well, John Jones doesn't have to train five days a week now. The fight isn't until next, you know. He just looks like he's jazzed up, he's ready. This is a renewed John. He has made it very clear to me that this is what he wants to do. But I need people on this card that I can count on. No matter what happens, opponents get switched out or whatever happens, I need guys that I can absolutely count on that are going to show up that night.

So listen, I'm not saying no to John Jones, and I respect the fact that he's pushing this hard. But John Jones and I just had a deal that he pulled out of. You know, so he's not on the top of my list, even though I say it all the time, you know, he's the greatest of all time. I still know that to be a fact. Oh, you know, the comments are going to come after you once again. He's not the greatest of all time guy you can count on, you know, that you know for 100% is going to be solid and be there. Yeah.

And say what you want about Connor McGregor, because people like to talk shit about that too, but he is that guy. Yeah. And he's always been that guy. I've been in the room. I've been on the phone. I've been, you know, lots of people like to talk tough publicly. But behind the scenes, it's a whole other ballgame. Yeah.

When the shit hits the fan, who's really willing to go out? And Connor McGregor has always been that guy. So you said John's not at the top of your list for that one. You know, maybe don't rule it out, but who is? Can you give us a little bit of... I just said Connor McGregor. Connor McGregor. So that's the minute you want.

Conner has always been that guy. Rhonda Rousie, too. Yeah. Chuck Liddell has always been There's a laundry list of people that And a lot of these people that are super talented Are almost like dealing with artists

You know They have their quirky little things And everybody's different in this game And fighters are always personality Completely different They're going to show up at this point Going to show up two hours Let you ever know some time

So yeah absolutely Now this White House card A lot of people are super excited about Obviously people are excited about the Noce event as well going on the same day, but let's say Saturday night ends, whoever wins this fight, this is going to change the sport of boxing, I feel. I could not agree with you more. I think this is going to bring back this, especially here in America,

because I've worked with a bunch of different companies in the UK, and that's a big boxing hotbed right now, but America needs boxing, in my opinion, to ascend back to, let's talk about the early 1900s, number one sport in America, No one sport in the world. And we haven't had that. And I think this could be a tipping point for it. When has there ever been a business or sport or whatever you want to call it that has generated trillions of dollars in revenue?

And at the end of the day, there's nothing there. And to be honest, you know, it took Saudi money to make this kind of stuff happen. If you look at what MBS and shake turkey have done in the sport of boxing in no time at all, Like this. It's absolutely amazing. But that's what it took. And it also, you know, said to me, this is the right time to do it. This is the right time to jump in.

If it's ever going to work and it's ever going to be great again, right now is the time. Why do you think that is? Because these guys are so aggressive and so willing to make these big fights. And the other thing that is incredibly impressive is, I mean, you're seeing it now with me. There's so much hate in the sport of boxing. Everybody hates everybody, all this crap. And these guys are willing to get all the biggest haters together to pull off these fights.

Do you enjoy that a little bit? I don't enjoy it. I absolutely love it. Yeah. I love it. Because it feels like, again, competition has been your tipping point has made the UFC what it is, now coming into boxing. People that maybe you like Eddie,

but there's other guys like an Oscar de La Jolla that people that you may not get along with but I think that might fuel you even more. But that's the thing about the fight business. Even in my business and the UFC, there's guys that I like and there's guys that I don't like. There's guys that I don't like the fight for me. For sure.

I don't like them. We don't have to like each other to work together, you know? But yeah, everybody hates everybody in the boxing business. And now guys that I was absolutely cool with are talking shit and coming. But that's part of the business. Is it surprising to you that he did that? that today? It is in some ways and it isn't. You know, Eddie's a guy who when you look at what his

father has accomplished and incredible. And whatever. Match room, incredible. It's very hard being a son of somebody so successful for you to carve out your own niche and create your own identity. Yeah. And Eddie has done that. Yeah. You know, and like I said, I really like and respect Eddie Hearn. always have and that's never going to change. Yeah. Let's talk about this. I look forward. I look forward to competing.

I can't wait. Make a whole spectacle of it. You know, they did the 5V5 with Eddie and Frank. They got to do something with you and Eddie now in the same kind of vote. That'd be sick. You get your roster together, you know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's going to be lots of different opportunities. But what's great for it, you know, there's a lot of shit talk about how much boxers make and all this stuff. A handful of guys do. Oh yeah.

The other tens to hundreds of thousands of fighters out there don't make that kind of money. The fighter pay talk has been loud. I can tell you this. And people talk shit about the pay in my sport. There are guys who come off the contender series who have made millions and millions of dollars already. Yeah. Where nobody knew who they were. We built them up.

And they now make millions and millions of dollars. Yeah. So I will do the same thing in the boxing business. It won't just be 10 guys that make millions of dollars or seven or however many there are. Yeah, something about boxing that's, I think you want to change, and I think Turkey does as well, is the introduction of, you know, stacked cards, cards that you care not just about the main event, but you care about that undercard and you build, you use that main event to build your undercard versus, I mean, you've called it a going out of business sale, right?

When you have these cards that are loaded with fighters you don't really know or care about. And then there's that big main event and that price and that purse gets in that main event. and everybody else is kind of left behind. This is what I will guarantee you I will do. In no way, shape or form, if I come into this boxing thing, arrogant, saying, oh, I'm going to change the whole sport, and I'm going to do, I'm the savior of boxing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Never have I said any of that.

Right. But here's what I will say. I am going to, within the next couple of years, we'll have people tuning into all the fights from the first fight of the night until the end, consistently. Yeah. like the UFC. Yeah.

None of these boxing guys can say that they've done that or that, you know, what I'm doing isn't unique or different than anything, you know, that's ever been done. Yeah. That is definitely unique. It hasn't been done. You don't have any of these promoters where people are tuning in, you know,

to the first fight of the night. Yeah. I got celebrities that come to the UFC. Yeah. And they're sitting in their seats. The O'Von. The first fight of the night. The O'Von, your guy.

All right, Dan, I know you're going to have to wrap up. Do me one favor. Can you really quickly talk to me about Callum Walsh? I know you're very excited about his fight. And then give me one fight, Dana White would like to promote. Outside of this mega fight here, another fight you'd like to promote in boxing. Well, I'll tell you this. I heard that Fernando Vargas Jr. was saying, not only am I fighting Callum Walsh on Saturday night,

I'm fighting Dana White and Shake Turkey, meaning that he feels like the deck is stacked against him because, you know, I got behind. Callum, that's not true. I put these fights together. I do all the bells and whistles. Who wins and loses is up to you. That's up to you, yeah. If it's you, Fernando Vargas Jr., I respect your father and what he did in his career and everything else.

And Saturday night's up to you. We're giving you the opportunity. I was going to say it almost get you. You're the co-main event in the fight of a lifetime. Yeah. You are the co-main event. I respect you as much as I respect anybody else on the card, including the main event. Saturday night is up to you.

I promise you, you do not have shake turkey or myself, you know, against you on Saturday. You go in and do what you do and Callum's going to do what he does. And this is an opportunity for both of you to not only, you know, build your name and your legacy, but, you know, make a lot of money. Yeah, man, I'd argue your involvement helps that. But Dana, I appreciate it. You have one message to the people watching for this Saturday, whatever you got in the future coming out boxing. Let me say this.

If you are a UFC fan, right? Saturday night is your opportunity to tune in and watch. You already know what UFC Noce is. It's sold out in San Antonio. You're going to watch that card. Now you have the opportunity to watch a stacked boxing card of great fighters all the way up to the main event, right? If you are a boxing fan and you are a fringe UFC guy,

you have the opportunity to tune in Saturday night, watch an unbelievable card with a badass main event. So the bottom line is this. If you are a fight fan or a fringe fight fan, Saturday night is the greatest night in combat sports history. Enjoy everyone. We'll leave it off on that. Ladies and gentlemen, UFC president, now Zufo Boxinghead.

Dana White coming through. All right, folks, welcome back to the Wake Onset presented by the Ring Magazine. It just happened. Terrence Crawford just beat Canelo Alvarez decisively to become the new super middleweight undisputed champion of the world, three times undisputed, and I'm just going to say it. He's one of the greatest boxers of all time. We have to talk about it all. But before we do, guys, really quick, I want to say a big thank you to the sponsor of today's

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I was completely wrong about how this fight would go. I know you guys are going to let me know in the comments. But let's legitimately talk about this. Terence Crawford just decisively beat Canelo Alvarez. He didn't just narrowly beat him. He didn't just get a robbery or slim decision. No, he decisively beat Canelo Alvarez, and he did it by just being the better boxer. That's legitimately what we saw tonight.

Terence Crawford outboxed Canelo Alvarez, and he didn't just do it by being on the back foot and running. Before you get in the comment section doing that, I'm giving you the Matumbo finger wag. Nata, that's not what happened. He was able to, yes, use his legs when needed, but when he was also on the offensive, on the attack. He was sitting in that pocket and he was able to catch the shots from Canelo. Counter. Catch counter. Catch counter. He had far more fundamental discipline with his boxing that Canelo did. And we knew coming into this fight, it was going to be a question of how would Terence Crawford respond to the power punching of Canello? And quite frankly, he ate it up and asked for some more.

He was talking to Canello throughout this entire fight. And Canello showed what we thought potentially he would get him in trouble in this fight, which was one shot at a time, allowing Terrence Crawford to utilize the ring, not being able to cut him off, not being able to get to him. And even when he did step to Terrence Crawford and got in that space in the pocket, Crawford was beating him there as well. It wasn't just that Crawford was jabbing on the outside and circling. He was beating him in the pocket.

When he needed to use his legs, he would. And when he was able to stay in that pocket, he was landing one, two, three at a time to Canello one stagnant shot at a time. It was very evident from round one all the way through that Terrence Crawford, when he was able to match Canello's intensity and even go past it, Canello couldn't match him. And that was something I did not anticipate. Also, Terrence, at moments when Canello started to pressure him

and get in his face and hit him with big punches and it felt like maybe the momentum was turning, Terence squashed all of that, right? He took water and threw it on the fire. If Canello was starting to burn, he was starting to quell and find ways to be offensive and be successful, getting to range, even though Canello's jab was almost non-existent tonight, I don't know where that was, but he wasn't able to capitalize. Anytime he built momentum, Terrence got right back on that front foot, met him in the pocket, and met him with big counter shots. Again, while Canello threw one, was the right hook, was the left hook to the body, was the chopping right hand over the top, Terrence was catching or even if he was getting hit, he was finding a way to answer back. with punches that were more crisp, more tight, more fundamentally sound. While Canello, even when he was able to get to range, it wasn't a lot, it wasn't often, he was having a hard time landing clean because everything was super wide and out here and to the body,

out there. And Crawford would either circle out to that same side to Canello's lead hand side. He would circle away because Canello would step straight to Crawford and chase him and not necessarily cut him off. And even when he threw that hook, I was looking for the hook from Canelo right hand as he stepped through, right? Corral with the lead hand,

bang the right hand because you're fighting a south paw. So yeah, your jab may not be as effective in landing and managing distance and all those things, even though for Terrence it kind of was. For Canello, I was expecting a lot more of that right hand down the middle and over the top. And him jab in his way, faint jab right hand, and then that lead hook that I thought he would be able to corral Crawford

because Crawford did want to move away from Canelo. He did. He wanted to move away from that power hand, smart to do. Canelo never took that extra step to step outside of Crawford's lead foot. Again, that Orthodox Southpaw matchup, it's always going to be a battle of that lead foot. He never took that next step to get outside of that lead foot and then step through Crawford, step to his left where Crawford was going and land his right hand. He just felt like he was falling off to his right with his right hand. And once he fell off to his right after he threw the right hand, there was no follow-ups because he was off balance.

and Crawford was out the gate and circling back to reset the action. This was a masterful display from Terrence Crawford. And again, I looked at this fight and I don't want to do the thing where I said, oh, you know, Canello's washed, he's over the top, he's old. Terrence Crawford's older than Canello. Is he as weathered as far as fights are concerned? No. But you can only do one thing when talking about this fight.

And that is give credit to Terrence Crawford. If you want to say Canelo looked old, that's fine. That's on you. I'm not going to say that. I think that Canello looks a bit stagnant, yes. I think his footwork is not the greatest. But Canello, as a pound for pound great, as someone that has been able to move up,

it's because his power carry. It's because as he's moved up, some of those guys have been a little slower, and he's been able to utilize his speed as an advantage even while moving up in weight, because while he's not the greatest mover from his feet up, he is from his waist up. And he's been able to make guys miss

and make him pay with his hand speed. Terence Crawford had faster hand speed tonight. And it was because everything was here. When he got outside, everything came back. When he was there, back. And it was really just super impressive to watch. And that's why I don't want to take away anything by Colin Canello, washed or old.

I don't want to hear that. We said coming into this, if either guy won, they should get the credit. But for Terrence Crawford to move up from 147 to 154, really from 135 to 140 to 147 to 154 then go you know what forget 160 i'm going to 168 and become the undisputed champion at super middleweight making his third undisputed championship that is history making stuff that's the legacy win he needed that is the biggest win of his career and it speaks to how he prepared to how he put himself in the best position possible

his build, his frame. He's got a crazy reach, by the way, for 5-9. He's got like a 75-inch reach. He utilized it all. And again, it was confidence throughout the fight. Look at the last round of the fight. Forget the first rounds and where Terrence was boxing well and he was on the back foot a little more.

He was moving. As the fight went on, he adjusted to the intensity Canello was bringing and he was able to do it in a way that was not only just, it was smart because he was on his bike when he needed to be and then he would sit down in that pocket, and especially early in the rounds, he would trade with Canelo and win those exchanges. He would get the better of Canello

in the spots where you thought Canello would get the better of Terrence Crawford. And Caleb Plant told me this before the fight when I interviewed him. He said Crawford would be better when he was on his jab, on the way out, like fully extended at jab range, long range, or fully inside the pocket. And man, was he right? Shouts to Caleb Plant, because when Terrence Crawford was all the way in

and it was a matter of make you miss, make you pay, go back and look at some of those replays. The sneaky shots Terrence was hitting him with, the check hooks, boom, on the inside. Just little stuff, bang, little stuff, boom, boom. And it didn't take a lot of effort because Canello was coming in with full force like Canello throws. He throws everything hard. So when he was coming in and winging out those shots, everything was out here,

and here come Terrence Crawford, bang, on the inside, boom, bang, on the inside. Before Canello could get to the punch, Terrence Crawford had already countered and it followed up with two or three more. And this is not to say Canello didn't have any success. He did in moments, in spurts, in rounds. And Canelo did win maybe three, four rounds.

I know it was 116, 112, and then 2, 115, 113. It was not that close to me. And again, we know Canello fighting in Vegas, things are going to look a little closer on those scorecards than maybe they actually are. But regardless, The right decision was made. I thought it would look more like a 9-3-8-4 fight.

Maybe some people are going to go crazy and say it was 12-0. I don't know about all that. But it was a definitive, dominant, decisive win for Terrence. To me, for Terrence Crawford. And I think the most important thing and the most impressive thing about it was when it was time to dog it out, when it was time to meet in the pocket, whether it was Canello doing the chasing or Crawford coming out aggressive, Crawford was willing to answer that.

it got to the point where Crawford felt Canelo couldn't hurt him. And that was super impressive to me. I said this a second ago. Go back and look at that last round. Look at round 12 in the end of the fight where Canello is a bit stumbling all over himself because he's a little bit more frustrated.

And that's something I also saw that I was pretty surprised at was Canello being a bit more frustrated in this fight. Visibly, body language. The things that you don't usually see out of a stoic Canelo Alvarez where you think at any point he could turn the fight with his power, with his boxing IQ with his defense.

That went out the window late in this fight, and you could see Conello get more frustrated, having to reset himself and get back to work. And it wasn't because he was frustrated with the way Terrence Crawford was fighting. He was frustrated because he couldn't win. He couldn't win the exchanges. Couldn't get to Terrence.

He would start Terrence would jab him, make him reset. He'd start, Terrence on the inside, hit him with something, circle, reset. And it was something I've never seen from Canello with a fight, that body language. But in that 12th round, I watched Terrence sit down on punches turn and go after Canello and hit him with some big stuff. There were multiple points in this fight where each guy got clipped with some big shots,

but Terrence has felt like he felt like the stronger guy. I got to be honest, he felt like the shots he was landing were bigger. That straight left hand, the left hand around the guard, leaving the wealth on Canello's eye. The most damage Canello landed was to the body I felt in this fight. And if you thought that Canello's body work was going to slow Terrence Crawford down, He thought it was going to slow him to the point where he was going to make a difference. It just didn't.

And whether that was because Canello didn't land a ton or because Terrence had just built into the weight class the right way and the weight truly did not make a difference. So for the people that tried to tell me, you were right. I was wrong. The weight class, the weight for Canelo didn't make a difference. Now, if that's another bigger 168-pounder, you know, maybe it would. But Canello wasn't and the weight didn't matter.

and that's just the truth of the entire thing. The weight just wasn't as big a deal as I thought it was going to be. And Terrence Crawford was a much better boxer than Canello was, which I expected. But I did expect Canello's power and his sustainability to be better this time around. I expected him to be a bit more volume heavy with his jab. But Terrence just shut all that down. It wasn't like Canello just couldn't, you know, maybe it was a mindset.

I don't know. but Terrence's ability shut it down. Like there was no consistent jabbing from Canello. There was no consistent, really, attack outside of the one punch at a time and Terrence took advantage of that. Like, listen, if you're just going to throw one at a time,

I'm going to two, three, four times it. I'm going to tee off on these exchanges and then get out of Dodge before I get hurt. And he was so smart about it. I can't say enough about the performance, man. Wow. What a performance. And it leaves us with the question

that I think everybody coming into this fight wanted to know about Terrence Crawford the question was was he as good as his record indicated for this fight 41-0-301 knockouts was he as good as that record indicated was he as good as the two times undisputed was he as good as advertised

because well, Aero Spence after the car crash which I fully believe is not the same Aero Spence that he was before him not taken away from Terence Crawford's win what he did was incredible that night well, the Mademov fight didn't look super crazy. Do we just look at Mademov and go, damn, Mademov's pretty fucking good now?

Or was it just a Stiles makes fights thing? What I learned tonight was not only is Bud Kropper as good as we thought he was, he's better. That's the craziest part of it. I didn't think we were going to come out of this fight and say, but is better than I think. And I'm doing that right now. He is better than I thought he was.

the way he completely dismantled Canelo Albrez. I mean, Dmitri Bivo did something similar, but this was a smaller man taking some of that power. Again, smaller man. Didn't really make a difference. He was big.

Taking that power, dealing with it, and getting to work, and making Canelo deal with him and his power and his volume and fighting his fight. That was the craziest part of it. Outboxing Canelo completely and utterly.

And then the question becomes now, not is he as good as we thought he was. Is Terrence Crawford one of the greatest boxers ever? And when I say that, I mean, is he, you know, on Mount Rushmore? I don't know. That's so tough. That's four places. Four places in boxing. And I don't want to be the guy that gets caught up in the moment and gets prisoner of the moment.

But I'll say this. He is one of the greatest of this generation. He is the greatest, by the way. of this generation. Not one of them. I'm sorry. I misspoke. He is the greatest of this generation. And when we're talking about greatest of all time, I can put him there. If we're talking top 10, yeah, Terrence Crawford. I think he's in there. Top 15 at least. But as far as Mount Rushmore goes, I mean, it's so tough. You have Floyd Mayweather there. You have Manny Pacquiao there. You have Roy Jones there. You have Muhammad Ali there. There's so many guys.

that have put on that list, Julio Cesar Chavez, senior, there's so many and it's really tough to start picking between 1 and 10 and you can interchange

some people and all of that. But he's definitely one of the greatest fighters, boxers, I have ever seen. And tonight proved that. I just, I can't say enough about impressed I am.

I know I picked Canelo. It did not go the way I thought it would. And I am happy with that because I got to see a generational performance. That's what I got to see. Whether you guys enjoyed all of the card or not. Listen, Christian and Billy and Lester Martinez was an insane fight. Fight of the year candidate.

Callum Walsh and Fernando Vargas Jr. Probably shouldn't have been in the co-main event, but still, good enough fight. How about, by the way, how about Boeach and Adams? That was another insane fight. I can't say enough about, I think, a success here, a massive success, we'll see what the numbers look like, but I couldn't give a shit really. But a massive success, I think, for the Ring Magazine, for Zupa Boxing, for Netflix, by the way, John Anick,

Max Kellerman, Andre Ward on the comms tonight, did that not feel like a breath of fresh air? I don't care what you guys say about John Anick. I've seen people be, oh, you know, he's an MMA guy, sounds like an MMA guy. Get the fuck out of here. He absolutely killed that shit. Andre Ward, he has this just innate ability to make very difficult things to describe, very easy to describe.

Like, the way he walks you through a fight and what's happening. And then you've got Max who's rolling off of that and feeding it back to Andre. And it was, that was an incredible call on all their parts. Max had great questions for both fighters at the end. I thought, stupendous. well done all around, but the night goes to Bud Crawford. And I don't really know what happens next with him. I was going to ask the question that we leave off with.

I genuinely don't know. I think he might retire. And I think it would make all the sense in the world if he did. Is he going to stay at 168 and defend those belts? I doubt it. What's left for him to do below that? You know, the boots fight? Virgil Ortiz. because I assume he'd want to go back to 154.

What else is there? Maybe a rematch, but do we really need to see one? I'm sorry, I'm not trying to sound disrespectful to Canelo, but do we really need to see a rematch? What goes differently, that next fight? Does Canelo all of a sudden become a changed fighter, a different fighter than we saw tonight? Does he become someone that is now volume heavy,

light on his feet, is able to track down? No, not to me. because what I saw from Canello tonight is what I saw from William Skoll. What I saw in the Iger-Berlanga fight. This is how Canello fights now. And that's just where it is. I will say for Canello, what else does he really need to do? You know, one of the greats in this generation, not the greatest.

That goes to Terrence Crawford now. But what else does he have left? I'm not sure where he would go next. Again, outside of a rematch, what I think he might be done. maybe not maybe there's other fights out there i'm just going to say this and people before you get upset at me this is the only thing that just popped into my head it probably won't happen this way there is a fight with jake paul out there i don't know if that's something that canella would do i don't know if that's something the ring magazine would want probably not but it's not as

wacky, I think now as it potentially was when it was first being talked about. And I don't know if the Canelo even wants it. I'm just saying, whatever happens with this Jake and Tank fight, the Canello one would be a little less wacky than that. Wouldn't it? I don't know.

But my voice is almost gone. And I just wanted to get this video out to you guys ASAP as soon as possible and just let you know that this, I hope you understood what you just saw from Terrence Crocker. as someone that has seen his competitive nature up front and personal

as someone that has watched this entire build, has watched his confidence grow and grow, has seen what he put on Twitter after, I don't know if it was him or somebody else, on Twitter after he won, what do he say? This one's for the nobodies.

Is that what he said? Yeah, for all, look at this, for all the nobodies, for all the nobodies. And then there's this. Me. He's going to be me. I don't care about anybody else.

And you will see that. You. So when I beat you is you going to be a nobody? When I stup a mud hole in your ass is you going to be a nobody. Same shit. Everybody else been saying since I moved to 147, I ain't fought nobody. Every last one of them, stump a mud hole in their ass and he's going to be next. Watch.

He said it there and he did it tonight. Terrence Bud Crawford is the new undisputed super. middleweight champion of the world, three times undisputed, 42 and 0, 31 knockouts. He left no doubt. Now, with all that being said, I think it's time to admit that he is one of the greatest of all time as far as what happens next for him, Canello. I don't know.

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