Coach Derek ‘Bozy’ Ennis believes that WBA junior middleweight champion Terence Crawford would cease IBF champ Bakhram Murtazaliev if the 2 met for a unification combat. Bozy feels that Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) has an excessive amount of technical capability for Murtzaliev (23-0, 17 KOs).
Bozy feels that Crawford’s capability to punch and transfer would lead him to victory over the highly effective Murtazaliev, who seemed devasting in his latest victory over Tim Tszyu.
Many followers really feel that Crawford lacks the ability and youth to defeat Murtazaliev. The 37-year-old Crawford seemed previous and weak in his latest debut at 154 on August third. Crawford took a shellacking in opposition to Israil Madrimov, and seemed all of his age after which some.
If Madrimov was extra standard, he would have gotten the choice as a result of he hit Crawford with the higher photographs in each spherical of the combat. The judges scored the combat like an novice affair moderately than knowledgeable bout.
Father Time Knocking On Crawford’s Door
You can inform from watching his combat in opposition to Isrial Madrimov that Father Time is knocking on Crawford’s door. If he sticks round to tackle a younger killer like Murtazaliev, he may very well be sorry for it later.
It wouldn’t be an enormous deal for Crawford to threat his neck in opposition to Murtazaliev if he wasn’t nonetheless hoping that the tooth fairy would ship the Canelo Alvarez combat to him.
Crawford is saving himself for that dream combat, and he’s not anticipated to take any dangerous fights in opposition to somebody like Murtazaliev and have him mess issues up.
“Terence is a approach totally different fighter than Tim Tszyu. Extra strategic and extra technical. I feel Terence would cease him within the tenth or eleventh spherical. He must beat him up and work on him. The identical as he did in opposition to Postol,” stated coach Greg Hackett to YSM Sports activities Media when requested about his ideas on a combat between Terence Crawford and Bakhram Murtazaliev. “He must work on him.”
Hackett, utilizing Crawford’s win over Viktor Postol in July 2016 for why he’ll defeat Murtazaliev is a poor instance. Crawford was 28 when he fought Postol and was preventing at 140 in opposition to a weaker fighter. He’s preventing at 154 now, older, slower, and could be going through a a lot larger and stronger fighter than the slender Postol.
Hackett is true about Crawford being totally different than former WBO junior middleweight champion Tszyu. He’s much less highly effective than Tszyu, older and fewer bold. The photographs that Bakhram Murtazaliev dropped Tszyu with would have accomplished the identical to Crawford, and certain so much sooner as a result of he’s by no means been hit like that in his profession.
For Crawford to have any probability of beating Murtazaliev, he would want to get within the trenches in opposition to him and take some large photographs within the 12 rounds for him to win a choice. I don’t assume Crawford may deal with six rounds of getting hit by Murtazaliev with out doing down for the rely or needing to be pulled out by his long-time coach Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntyre.
Bozy Predicting Crawford Knockout
“I feel that might be an excellent combat for Terence, and I might put my cash on Terence,” stated coach Derek ‘Bozy’ Ennis to YSM Sports activities Media, predicting a win for Terence Crawford over IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev in the event that they had been to combat.
“I feel Terence would deal with that man. I do know he’d beat him. Terence’s fashion. He can field, he can punch and he can transfer. Bear in mind, Tim Tszyu was proper in entrance of him, strolling proper to him. Terence isn’t going to be strolling like that.”
The Omaha, Nebraska native Crawford confirmed in his debut at 154 in opposition to Israil Madrimov on August third that he’s not the identical fighter on this weight class as he was up to now. Every thing is totally different now for Crawford, who’s a junior middleweight, in opposition to these younger killers. He doesn’t possess the ability in his punches on this weight class as he had within the different three divisions, and he’s gotten previous.
Crawford seemed like a 40-year-old in opposition to Madrimov, consuming proper fingers like they had been sweet. He didn’t get out of the best way one proper hand in that combat and seemed like he’d been run over by a practice on the finish of the combat. Crawford’s face was swollen and marked up.
“Terence goes to be shifting his head, utilizing his jab, utilizing totally different angles, and setting him up. Terence would have an opportunity to cease him. I’ll wager on it going the gap. Terence would break him down. Terence is actual sensible,” stated Bozy.
Bozy is basing his views on Crawford for his wins over the fighters he beat a few years in the past at 147, 140, and 135. That was way back in opposition to weaker, smaller, and fewer gifted fighters than Murtazaliev. Furthermore, the 37-year-old Crawford isn’t a spring rooster at this late stage of his 16-year profession. He’s additional harm his recreation by preventing solely every year for the final 4 years since 2020, and that has so much to do with the cash he’s made.
Crawford was getting hit so much by proper fingers in his combat in opposition to Israil Madrimov, and it didn’t matter that he was shifting his head. He was consuming proper fingers all the combat, and was fairly lucky to get the choice. If Madrimov had been busier and possessed the identical highly effective left hook that Bakhram has in his arsenal, he’d have overwhelmed Crawford.
