Sebastian Fundora encounters Canelo Alvarez, quoting Crawford’s absence from Super Middleweight Division

Sebastian Fundora is choosing Canelo Alvarez on Terence Crawford in his next superfight in ten days on September 13 in Las Vegas.

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Fundora supports the Canelo experience

Sebastian claims that the Super Weight and Super-Taps champion in the middle (63-2-2, 39 kos) has fought at 168 and has the experience. He says he does not see Crawford (41-0, 31 kos) as a real 154 pounds fighter after fighting once in the division. This was a year ago, and now Terence is going through two weight classes to 168.

Fundora believes that Crawford should have struggled at Super Middleweight to prepare, but chose not to do it.

It is a mystery why Crawford chose not to make at least a struggle at 168 in the last 13 months that it has been outside. I could have easily fought someone in the mid -weight division to prepare -better.

Crawford only chases a day of payment?

Some social media fans believe that these are the reasons why Crawford chose not to fight in weight class:

• Fear to be exposed: Crawford seemed to be unwittingly in his move up to 154 in his last fight against Israil Madrimov on August 3, 2024. He approached him. Fans and media criticized Bud’s representation. Could Crawford be afraid that if you were lost or bad, Turki Alralikh would change your mind to put it with Canelo?
• Inertia: Some fans believe that Crawford did not want to fight more than once a year because he does not like hard work and the pain involved. Therefore, opting for not tune to 168 would feed the belief that these fans have on him. The training field to fight a half -middle weight would have been hard. Crawford fights once a year since 2021. It is a red flag for a fighter who does not like hard work and does the minimum to keep it occupied.
• Focusing on money: Critics believe that Terence is only seeing Canelo’s struggle as a retirement payment of golden parachute. So he was not going to work hard to prepare against someone in a adjustment to Super Middleweight, especially after the way he set himself in his struggle at 154. If Crawford’s reason is not to fight in 168 first, Turki Alralikh made it easier to insist that he won the fight against the Canelo defeating one or two better combatters. This would have been the ideal to have Turki Placed in place as safeguarding To prevent Crawford only from coming to the retirement day. Making Crawford won the fight against Canelo fighting David Benavidez and Christian Mbilli would have been silent by critics, who feel he does not deserve the fight.

“Canelo”, said Sebastian Fundora in media Today, when he was asked who chooses the struggle of Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford on September 13. “It is (Alvarez) comfortable in 168. He has been fighting there. He went and picked up all the belts in this class of weight.”

£ 168 pound advantage

“Of course, Crawford has a chance. He has a great opportunity, being one of the pounds of pounds in the world. It’s just the advantage of being there first. You know what to expect in this class of weight,” said Fundora.

Canelo struggles with the Super Middleweight Division since December 15, 2018. As Fundora says, he did the hard work to collect the four titles of 168 pounds one by one. He did not stay out of the ring for a year, waiting until he was given the title opportunity in a silver dish. Worked hard for them. This is one of the criticism of Crawford. He captured three of his four belts by beating Errol Spence to become the indisputable heavy weight champion.

Now, Terence is fighting for the four titles in 168 without having ever set foot in the division. It has the style of boxing of the boxing upside down when a fighter has without working opportunities for them.

Crawford’s lonely struggle at 154

“Crawford reaches a 154 struggle (Israil Madrimov) that he fought last year. Therefore, I really do not consider him a 154. Has been fighting at 147 for a while. He had that struggle in 154, and then stopped fighting a year again. So, of course, it has probably been training, “said Fundora.

Sebastian proposes a good point. Crawford cannot be considered a real 154 -pound fighter if his confrontation against Israil Madrimov in 2024 was his unique struggle in the mid -junior half -weight division. It is still 147 pounds and a larger one. Crawford turns 38 on September 28.

To be a true 154-pound fighter, you have to fight more than once and face a different opposition. Fans say that Crawford was not well in his fight with Madrimov, only to searched himself with a unanimous decision of 12 rounds. The fight could have easily gone to the other side.

The toll of a new weight class

“Once again, a upper class fighter, but to be comfortable in 168, you have to make some fights there. Entering and fighting against the indisputable champion, it will weigh,” said Fundora.