The Ring Magazine - The Bible Of Boxing, August 2025 • Volume 102, No. 9
26 THE BIRTH OF CANELO TODAY HE'S KNOWN BY A SINGLE NAME, BUT SAUL ALVAREZ BECAME THE FACE OF BOXING THROUGH YEARS OF WORKING IN OBSCURITY By Doug Fischer 34 AZTECTRADITION CANELO’S CHAPTER IS THE LATEST IN A STORY WRITTEN BY THE FISTS OF MEXICAN GREATS By Ernesto Amador 40 THE STANDARD-BEARER CANELO DISCUSSES THE PRESSURE OF FAME AND HIS PREPARATIONS FOR THE CRAWFORD FIGHT By Ernesto Amador 46 THEREDEEMER AS TERENCE CRAWFORD PUNCHED HIS WAY INTO BOXING HISTORY, OMAHA GOT A MUCH- NEEDED CHAMPION By Vershan Jackson 52 A NEW LEGEND? A VICTORY OVER CANELO WOULD PUT CRAWFORD IN AN ELITE CLUB OF WELTERWEIGHTS WHO DARED TO BE GREAT By Wallace Matthews
60 THE LONG BATTLE FOR RECOGNITION CRAWFORD SHARES HIS THOUGHTS ON THE EVE OF HIS BIGGEST CHALLENGE By Tom Gray 67 ROAD TO COLLISION AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNEY TO A LONG-AWAITED SUPERFIGHT By KronkAAArt 84 BATTLE PLAN: CANELO SIZE CAN MATTER, SAYS TRAINER RUDY HERNANDEZ, BUT ONLY IF CANELO GOES ON THE ATTACK By Steve Kim 90 WHO'S PICKING CANELO? 92 BATTLE PLAN: CRAWFORD TRAINER STEPHEN “BREADMAN” EDWARDS MAPS OUT CRAWFORD’S PATH TO TOPPLING CANELO By Adam Abramowitz 98 WHO'S PICKING CRAWFORD? 102 168 B.C. THE SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION HAS A CLEAR LEADER, BUT THE YEARS BEFORE CANELO WERE A WILD RIDE By Don Stradley
108 MASTERCLASS CANELO HAS FACED THE BEST OF FOUR WEIGHT CLASSES, BUT 168 IS WHERE HE REIGNS SUPREME By Thomas Gerbasi 114 DOWN TO EARTH THE PAST IS RIFE WITH STARS WHO WERE HUMBLED WHEN THEY CHALLENGED THE CHAMPIONS OF HIGHER DIVISIONS By Ruth Raper 120 THECONTRARIAN HISTORY MAY SUGGEST THAT CRAWFORD IS IN TROUBLE, BUT THAT SUGGESTION ISN’T LIKELY TO BOTHER “BUD” MUCH By Corey Erdman
DEPARTMENTS 8 OPENING SHOTS 15 COME OUT WRITING
23 RINGSIDE By Doug Fischzr 100 THE FACE OF BOXING By Wojtek Urbanek and Thomas Hauser 126 FINISHING SHOTS
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