Canelo vs. Crawford: Why Max Kellerman sees shades of Marvin Hagler vs. Roberto Duran 1983

The commentator Max Kellerman considers the Matchup of Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford on September 13 as similar to the 1983 confrontation between the unified mid -Marvin Hagler unified champion and the old light Robert Duran.

Comparison of Kellerman’s Canelo-Crawford, Hagler-Duran

Over the years, Duran had moved through the weight classes, from 135 to 154, before challenging Hagler for his mid-weight titles IBF and WBC on November 10, 1983. Duran gave Hagler a difficult time to lose a unanimous decision of 15 rounds for the 144-142, 144-143 and 1465 scores.

Duran’s career was never the same after this fight. He was wiped out in his next contest, and went out in both rounds and continued to lose against a good opposition. Although it is a pleasant story that Duran gave Hagler a difficult time, he was not the same fighter after this fight.

Crawford’s age, the last struggle worries

Could we see what the same thing happened with the 37 -year -old Crawford? He is even older than the then Duran, 32, when he fought against Hagler, and seemed terrible in his last fight against Israil Madrimov last August.

“He (Hagler) was the mid -weight man, just as Canelo is the Super Middleweight man. He is the champion (four undisputed belts),” said Max Kellerman in Ring A Magazine A XComparing the struggle of Hagler vs Duran with the Canelo vs. Crawford. “And Duran moved from medium -sized mid -point weight, but started lightly (Correction: Duran started Super Feather Pweight) just like Crawford.”

Hagler’s pre-duran curriculum examined

What happens to Kellerman is that Hagler had not faced many high -level fighters during his career before fighting Duran. Marvin was the IBF and WBC champion at that time, but his resume was filled with numerous European and goal fighters. Hagler had been a draw for Vito Antuafermo, a fighter who twice lost to Alan Minor.

The other Hagler Curriculum wins were a mixture of level B and C. There was no level A fighter or at the elite level that Marvin had fought before facing Duran. As such, it was not a surprise that struggled to fight the little ones, weakest and oldest of Roberto.

“I thought of this struggle, I thought,” Hagler will kill him. It’s too big. “

Kellerman’s naive overload exceeded

As Max points out, was just a child When he saw the struggle; Therefore, he had naively overvalued Hagler, he was not large enough to examine his resume to know that mostly ham and Eggers has been beaten, and not the talented burning of crop fighters. Older fans who followed the sport at the time acknowledged that Hagler could lose because he finally faced an elite level fighter, albeit much smaller and weaker.

“So, this is the type of struggle I see here,” Kellerman said about the Canelo vs. Crawford. “I think this will be a very competitive struggle.