{"id":418022,"date":"2025-09-12T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418022\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:46:08","slug":"paul-williams-on-a-canelo-alvarez-fight-that-never-was-plus-terence-crawfords-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418022\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Williams on a Canelo Alvarez fight that never was, plus Terence Crawford\u2019s chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TheProudLunaticFri Sep 12, 2025, 6:05 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;..I was going to back up all night and let him follow me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right.<\/p>\n<p>PW only had one way of fighting and that&#8217;s going forward.<br \/>\nThrowing 1000 punches to land 10.<br \/>\nWasting whatever size advantages he had.<br \/>\nAnd smothering his on punches by being so eager.<\/p>\n<p>This is why a troglo dyte like Margarito was able to make<\/p>\n<p>vitruvianFri Sep 12, 2025, 2:25 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Lots of new fans don&#8217;t know or remember Paul Williams but the dude was a dog. He beat a pre-discovered concrete handwraps Antonio Margarito and got some other decent wins against Kermit Cintron and Sergio Martinez. I didn&#8217;t realize until this article that he had signed a fight with a young Canelo. Man that would have been a war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TheProudLunaticFri Sep 12, 2025, 6:05 AM UTC &#8220;&#8230;..I was going to back up all night and let him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[111205,1935,4851,143171,34978,100771,29913,64149,79,22178,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-418022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-antonio-margarito","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-canelo-alvarez","11":"tag-canelo-crawford","12":"tag-floyd-mayweather","13":"tag-paul-williams","14":"tag-saul-alvarez","15":"tag-sergio-martinez","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-terence-crawford","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115190456897154987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}