Saul Canelo Alvarez believes his loss to Terence Crawford had less to do with physical readiness than his state of mind on fight night last September.
The former undisputed super middleweight champion completed a strong training camp before facing Crawford, but he admitted he was not mentally locked in once the opening bell rang. Canelo believes that lapse caused him to abandon the fundamentals that had carried him through the biggest victories of his career, contributing to one of the few defeats on his record.
“You cannot control the results,” Alvarez said. “Even when you do everything good, things don’
