It's fight week already and the WBA champion, Israil Madrimov is not backing down to the challenge of being the first to beat Terrence Crawford. Madrimov not just wanted to beat Crawford but he wants to win in style. Terrence Crawford of course is expecting another achievement on his already legendary career by becoming a 4 division world champion after fight night.
Yes, and it's interesting to see that Crawford is bigger than Madrimov in their face-off. I thought that Madrimov as natural 154 lbs should be the bigger guy,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRc6Oc6hRwThat death stare of Crawford is scary to watch. So I will go with Crawford here in this fight, I will wait for more interesting betting lines though. I'm looking for Crawford to soften up Madrimov early and then going for a kill in the middle of the rounds. Sort of like what he did against Spence Jr, he will try to read what he can offer and then counter in the body and head later for a knockout win.
Meanwhile, Saudi's Turki Alalshikh continues to lure Canelo Alvarez into a mega-fight with Terrence Crawford. We'll see if that happens as the money is pretty sure not a problem to stage the fight.
I think it's not the question whether he can bait the hen here, it's the amount of the bait that HE Turki Alalshikh can offer to Canelo. It was reported that Canelo is looking like for $150 million to fight Crawford in Saudi. So we will see that, and for sure HE Turki Alalshikh bag is deep.