David Haye thinks that one of Canelo Alvarez or Terence Crawford is going to get stopped when the fight in Las Vegas this weekend.
This super fight pits current and two-time undisputed super-middleweight ruler Canelo against former two-weight undisputed champion Crawford in one of the most high-class match-ups in the sport.
Alvarez is now 35-years-old and a veteran of 67 fights, 63 of which he has won, while Crawford is 37 and is the slightly smaller man coming up the divisions. He has won all 41 of his fights, 31 by stoppage.
The fight has garnered the attention of the entire boxing world, and now former cruiserweight and heavyweight world champion Haye has weighed in with his verdict.
Speaking to ProBoxingFans, Haye broke down why this is such a tough fight to call but could end in a KO.
“If one of them gets hit by a massive shot, it won’t be one shot; it will be one shot followed by three, four, five shots and at least one of them is going down. I can see that happening; they’re both that good.
“They’ve both got great chins but once again, something’s got to give, something’s got to break on one of them, and who has less miles on the clock. They’ve both shown they have the heart and the punch variety.
“If it was a computer game they would both be 9 and 10 across the board – defensively, experience, they’re just two perfect boxers mixing it so you just don’t know what’s going to happen.”
He admits he was leaning towards Canelo, but having seen them side by side, now finds it hard to pick a winner.
“I was picking Canelo to start with until I started thinking about it and seeing them next to each other. In my mind, there was three or four inches difference, but they look the same.”
Whoever comes out on top will shoot up the pound-for-pound rankings and could well trouble Oleksandr Usyk for the number one spot.
