McKenna says Crawford needs a catch weight of 164 pounds against Canelo

Middleweight Aaron McKenna says Terence Crawford would make a better fight for Canelo Alvarez if the fight was made at a catchweight of 164 instead of 168.

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He fought Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) and was impressed with his technical skills and power. However, McKenna believes the power and size of unified super middleweight champion Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) would be a problem for Terence unless he agreed to come in a little lower at a catchweight.

164 For a fair fight

Canelo is likely to agree to give the 37-year-old Crawford a handicap because he would be the star of his fight, and there’s no reason for him to help give the smaller fighter an advantage. Crawford has talked about wanting to move up to super middleweight to challenge Canelo for his three titles for “legacy” purposes, but if he’s not fighting at 168 pounds, that hurts it.

If Crawford wants the Canelo fight bad enough, he will agree to move up to 168 to challenge him. It would be useless for him to wait for a handicap.

“Canelo is the strongest fighter in the world at 168 at this weight. If it was a catchweight, I think it would be a very good fight at 164,” Aaron McKenna said at Sean Zittel on Terence Crawford having a better chance of defeating Canelo Alvarez if he is given a handicap for contests held four pounds under the 168-pound limit.

“Crawford definitely has the skills to give him a lot of trouble, and he has the timing and the range. It’s just that he can hold Canelo’s strength, but I think it would be a very good fight. 168, yes, but I think it would be even better if it was at a catch weight to make it more online.

“He’s hard to catch. You have to calculate. You can’t fall short. You can’t overshoot. It has to be perfect sparring,” McKenna said of Crawford.