Jermall Charlo Delivers Honest Verdict On Canelo vs Crawford After Watching Brother Lose To Canelo

Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford are just a few months away from their highly anticipated showdown.

Canelo will be making the first defence of his regained undisputed super-middleweight championship against ‘Bud’ in September. The fight was made official just a few moments after Canelo was declared the winner against William Scull on May 2.

One man who has weighed in on the upcoming match-up between two of the best fighters on the planet is two-weight world champion Jermall Charlo, who witnessed his twin brother Jermell suffer the first defeat of his own campaign to Alvarez in 2023.

Speaking to Fight Hype, Charlo said that the fight comes down to how Crawford will handle the weight, with putting on pounds just to match the Mexican’s size the wrong strategy.

“I like Crawford, allright, my brother fought Canelo not me, I like Crawford in this fight and he gets to stay big but my brother even told me that was his mistake that he made, he thought going up in weight, ‘I got to get massive, I got to get big to beat Canelo.’

“It made him slower, it made his reflexes slower. He’ll tell you himself he didn’t feel like the Jermell Charlo that y’all seen him fight Tony Harrison, Crawford I feel like that’s the same thing as that.”

Crawford moved up to super-welterweight in his last outing against Israil Madrimov in August, dethroning the WBA champion after a competitive twelve rounds. The 37-year-old is now tasked with moving up another two weight classes like Jermell Charlo – who was knocked down in the seventh by Canelo before losing a clear decision – did.

As for Jermall, he returns tonight in Las Vegas to face Thomas LaManna in his super-middleweight debut. A win sets him on a collision course with Caleb Plant and he has made clear that he is targetting Canelo thereafter.