Gabriel Rosado gives his take on what transpired in this past weekend’s super middleweight fight, when Terence Crawford dethroned Canelo Alvarez to go undisputed for a third time. Rosado says for him the surprise wasn’t the fact that Crawford moved up two weight classes to clearly beat Canelo, but really what Canelo didn’t bring to the table.
“What surprised me was that Canelo couldn’t make adjustments,” Rosado said. “That’s what surprised me. I’m like yo, ‘this is a pound-for-pound vs pound-for-pound’
so I’m thinking it would’ve been like a chess match where Crawford maybe have the upper hand for maybe a few rounds but then the tide will switch and then Canelo will have his rounds. But it never happened, it was just Crawford all through the fight. It was like Canelo was throwing one punch at a time, it was no jabs, no combinations so that’s what surprised me.
“You can’t put the blame game on (the trainers), I think it’s just Crawford, he’s tricky, good hand speed, and here’s the thing, bro — fundamentals and basics wins fights. Crawford didn’t do nothing special. He just mastered the fundamentals and the basics. What he did was jab, one-two, know when to step out, know when to create an angle, know when to pressure. Everything he did was fundamentals and basics mastered. And with Canelo it was more like he was relying on the speed or the power, but guess what? It wasn’t there.
“And if it ain’t there, that’s when you got to go in your toolbox and bring that jab out, that double jab, that triple jab. Double hook. But it was difficult. For whatever reason he couldn’t get that rhythm.”
