The blueprint to beat Crawford: How Madrimov’s performance against ‘Bud’ gave Canelo a winning strategy

Israil Madrimov created the blueprint on how to defeat Terence Crawford a year ago, bringing it down to the ground in front of a large crowd on August 3rd, 2024, in Los Angeles. What Madrimov created with that performance was a perfect plan on how to solve the Crawford puzzle that confused 40 of his previous opponents.

Crawford’s weaknesses highlighted by Madimov

Although Crawford won a unanimous 12-round decision by the scores 116-112, 115-113, and 115-113, fans considered it a victory or, at least, a draw to Madrimov. It didn’t care that the side fighter and with all the support, Crawford, won; The blueprint on how to defeat it had been created by Israil.

Canelo Alvarez and his coach, Eddy Reynoso, have been studying Madrimov’s performance against Crawford, learning from the technical guru to come up with ideas to use for their battle on September 13th in Las Vegas. There is a lot of alvarez and the eagle reynoso can get it from the battle for use against Crawford.

He played age, inactic, and moved up at a weight of 147 to 154 small parts in Madrimov and revealed it. Mostly, the flaws in his game were revealed by the more technically skilled European fighter.

By the focus of that fight, Crawford was looking lost. You could see the way he was talking to his coach, Brian ‘Bomac’ McIntyre, between rounds that he craved for answers. But none of them came from Bomac, as he had no idea what to do.

After the sixth, Bomac said, ‘Just boxing him.’ That did not work because in the seventh, Madrimov nailed him with four right hands in a row, one after the other. Each punch captured Crawford’s head back, making him resemble Bobblehead.

How Madrimov solved the Crawford puzzle

Former amateur star, Madrimov (10-2-1, 7 ko) showed Crawford (41-0, 31 kos) beaten by pressure, sizes, precise punching pothot. Bud is an anti-Puncher who flourished on taking advantage of his opponents’ throwing combinations.

Madrimov did not. He focused on throwing single power shots to catch Crawford naping. Israil’s footwork also played a part in what many fans felt was a well -deserved victory. Terence kept to guess with his movement, because he never knew when the Uzbekistan native would attack him.