Ismail Salas is a famous coach of Cuba . He has created many legendary Cuban boxers, such as Yurix Gamboa, Guillermo Rigondo, and Yodenis Ugas. In August last year, Salas guided Ugas to defeat the famous Manny Pacquiao , and announced his retirement shortly after he scored Pacquiao. In April this year, Saras guided Ugas to play Errol Spence again, but unfortunately he failed to do so. Ugas eventually suffered a heavy blow in his eyes and gave up the game. Therefore, Saras is very familiar with Spence. Spence is now in talks with Terence Crawford, and the winner will become the undisputed overlord of the 147-pound welterweight division.
Spence VS Crawford battle is regarded as the most eye-catching contest in its field after Manny Pacquiao VSFloyd Mayweather . At the same time, according to the strength of both sides, the outside world believes that this is a 50-50 victory or defeat. However, Salas does not think so. He is more optimistic about Crawford and believes that Crawford will defeat Spence in this historically rewrite game.
Salas said his initial impression of Crawford was the battle with Gamboa in 2014. At that time, Crawford was still the lightweight champion of WBO. Gan Boa upgraded and implemented the challenge. Many people felt that Gan Boa, as the 2004 Athens Olympics, was no longer in his peak period when facing Crawford, and could not overcome his huge physical disadvantages. But even so, Saras was still quite satisfied with Crawford's performance.
Gamboa vs. Crawford competed in the first few rounds, Gamboa was aggressive for a while until he was knocked down by Crawford in the 5th round. Since then, Gamboa lost his calmness and tried to suppress his opponent through offense, but he gave Crawford more opportunities. In the end, Gamboa was knocked down many times until he was completely defeated.
When asked who will win Spence and Crawford? Saras said: "Crawford! His tools are better than Spence, and he is also a very flexible person. What I mean by flexibility is to change the situation in all situations and make the right adjustments, and you will find that Crawford has this flexibility in any game."
Saras added: "Crawford has real-time ability, and is in the face of Gamboa, and when his opponent maintains his usual right-handed orthodox posture, Crawford becomes left-handed, especially when he sees Gamboa When Boa wants to attack himself, change his posture immediately. This is not something that everyone can do."
Crawford's agility and adjustment ability are indeed better than Spence, but the two are boxers of different styles. Crawford is a bit slow and is better at counterattacking by seizing opportunities. On the contrary, Spence is like a high-frequency attack machine, which will put pressure on the opponent from beginning to end, and Spence's offense and defense are very rigorous. In short, the confrontation with Crawford is very suspenseful, and it is more like a classic encounter between offense and defense.
It is not clear when Spence and Crawford will be able to showdown? The news from the past week disappointed boxing fans because of the contract issue, which delayed the contest originally scheduled for November. The rumors may wait until February next year at the latest, but I hope this is just a rumor.
