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Andreas HaleSep 12, 2025, 01:29 PM ET
- Andreas Hale is simply a combat sports newsman astatine ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas' escaped time, helium plays video games, obsesses implicit euphony and is simply a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is besides a big for Sirius XM's Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a elder writer astatine DAZN and Sporting News. He started his vocation arsenic a euphony writer for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z's Life+Times. He is besides an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker arsenic a shaper for the animated abbreviated movie "Bridges" successful 2024.
LAS VEGAS -- Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford some made value up of Saturday's clash astatine Allegiant Stadium wherever Canelo volition support his undisputed ace middleweight rubric against erstwhile two-division undisputed champion Crawford.
Both fighters weighed successful astatine 167.5 pounds.
It was a vocation precocious value for Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs), who volition determination up from 154 pounds to 168 pounds to situation Canelo. Should Crawford win, helium would beryllium the archetypal antheral boxer to go an undisputed champion successful 3 antithetic value classes. In his past combat against Israil Madrimov successful August 2024, Crawford weighed 153.4 pounds.
Canelo (63-2-2, 39 KOs) has campaigned astatine 168 pounds for 10 of his past 11 fights. His erstwhile vocation precocious was 174.4 pounds for his May 2022 combat with Dmitri Bivol.
Crawford and Canelo are presently ranked No. 3 and No. 8 connected ESPN's pound-for-pound list, respectively.
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