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Sweden is investing millions of euros in a silent war. The enemy to beat: an epidemic of solitude

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Sweden has declared a war, one that seems to worry especially to its authorities, which has been speaking for years and in which it is willing to invest millions and millions of euros. The enemy to beat? The loneliness. It makes all the meaning if you take into account that A sensitive part of its inhabitants suffers unwanted isolation, especially between the younger and older layers of society, and there are who considers To Sweden the loneliest country in the world. After all, loneliness is a “Public Health Problem” And something else: complicates the efforts of the authorities for Strengthen your defense civil. The loneliness numbers. It is not the same to live alone than feeling alone. Just as not all societies face loneliness in the same way. Throughout the last years, however, different agencies have published studies that give us an idea of ​​the scope of both phenomena in EU countries, including Sweden, a nation that has declared war to unwanted isolation. In 2017 Eurostat published A study which shows that more than half (52%) of Sweden households are formed by a single person, the highest percentage of all EU countries and significantly above the community average, which is around 33%. If what we are talking about is a population, statista calculates that 26% Of the Swedes live without any company, data that only exceeds Finland (32%). Do you feel alone? The thing changes slightly if we talk about loneliness, unwanted isolation. The percentages can dance based on the source and the approach, but confirm that the sensation is present in Swedish society. CE surveys show that most or all the time feel alone in the country Between 16 and 17% of the people, while The data of 2024 of the public health agency reflect that 13% of the population claims to have that feeling “occasionally” and 6% invades “often or constantly.” “Almost two million Swedes over 16 suffer isolation. 26% of children from 3rd to 6th year say they feel alone in school. One in three young adults experiences loneliness and isolation, as well as 40% of women and almost 30% of men over 85 years old,” needed The Government in 2023. “A health problem”. Sweden is not the only one country that deal with loneliness, but there the data is consistent enough for its government to have declared that involuntary isolation is “A public health problem” And want to stand up. “It is a growing problem and the elderly experience it more frequently,” warns The Minister of Social Security, Anna Tenje. On the table the executive has reports that show that the isolation affects above all to certain groupsas elderly, young people or unemployed people. A fact: 27 million a year. Convinced of the challenge that supposes, in Stockholm they have decided to move from words to the facts. In 2023 the government activated A triennial plan (2023-2025) that is around 300 million of annual Swedish crowns (around 27 million of euros) to support initiatives that “fight and prevent” isolation. In February the Public Health Agency even presented A strategy “Against loneliness and favor of the community.” And what are you doing? Your strategy touches several sticks. The government a few months ago advertisement For example, the distribution of 49 million Swedish crowns (4.4 million euros) between organizations that work precisely to reduce loneliness. It is not the first initiative in that line. Over the last years he has allocated funds to campaigns Health -centered, promote The socialization of the elderly, their stake in sports activities or The study of the phenomenon and its approach from different areas, such as The business either The educational. “Taking care of friends”. For now, Sweden has received recognition from WHO, which He has cited it as an example for initiatives deployed in the country. A few days ago the newspaper I monde He dedicated a report to a specific one: “Vanvard” (“Taking care of friends”), which is taking pharmacies employees to dedicate part of their day to fight loneliness. At the end of 2023 the Ministry of Social Affairs also promoted the creation of A business network With about twenty companies that work with the same purpose: to end marginalization. Defense earrings. I monde Slide Another key idea: loneliness is not only “a public health problem”, it also implies an obstacle in a country that He is strengthening your civil defense system, as well as Other nations Nordic. That effort collides with a complex reality: isolation. More than half Of the Swedes they barely know their neighbors. With that backdrop, last year the Swedish Civil Contingency Agency promoted a campaign with A slogan That speaks for itself: “When we know each other, it is easier to help us.” Images | Magnus Östberg (UNSPLASH), Eurostat and EC In Xataka | Loneliness is already a matter of public health. We have more and more evidence that animals help us to placate it

We are on our way to beat all temperature records in a month of June. The fault is of a “jam” in the atmosphere

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Heat is still installed in peninsular Spain. This week a Dana It seems aimed To give us a brief respite but experts anticipate that, as on previous occasions, this will be brief. An exceptional June. There is a week left for the month of June and experts anticipate the possibility of confirming as the hottest in the historical series. All that despite the appearance of tormentous episodes (some of enough intensity) interspersed between extreme heat days. For now the most warm June record The 2017 holds it. That year, the average temperature of the first month of the summer was 24.1 Celsius, three degrees above the average for the period 1981-2010 and 0.1º above the previous record, registered in 2003. That June 2017 was also slightly more humid than it is common for this month, with 3% more rainfall than the average of the period between 1981 and 2010. A stagnant circulation. According to Experts explain As the physicist, disseminator and researcher at Aemet JJ German, the situation could go worse after this week’s truce. An “stuck” atmospheric circulation would be, at least in part, responsible for this month of June anomalous and hot. The situation, if it changes, will be worse. According to German, during the next few days “Subtropical Anticyclonic Dorsal” capable of reaching in itself record levels on the Iberian Peninsula. Meanwhile, under the influence of a Dana. This seems to suggest that the thermal relief caused by the proximity of a Dana will be only temporary. Despite this, the presence of this depression in height implies that we must prepare again for the arrival of instability and rainfall. During the next few days, they will be in force various yellow warnings issued by the State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) to alert the risk derived from these storms. These notices will coexist with those emitted to warn of heat, will concentrate on the north, especially in the northwestern quadrant of the Peninsula. In Your forecastthe agency talks about storms and “locally strong” storms in the northern third, with hail and gusts “very strong”. The situation will affect particularly, says Aemet, north of the plateau, Cantabrian mountain range, Pyrenees and the north of the Iberian system. The risks of a warm summer. Last week, Aemet published its spring analysis and its forecasts for summer. In its presentation, the agency indicated that the first had stood out for high rainfall, while summer could stand out for warmer temperatures. The succession of a wet spring and a summer of heat implies certain health risks: the appearance of some insect pests have put the health authorities alert to the possibility of the appearance of potential vectors of diseases, such as the Tigre mosquito. The hot warm summers also tend to imply a greater risk of fire, although in this case, the rainfall of recent months could play in our favor. In Xataka | We do not know anything about El Niño at this point of the year. That is a meteorological mystery … and good news Image | ECMWF

Huawei is getting unstoppable. Everything he is doing seeks to beat Nvidia in both in China and beyond

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Huawei is determined to gradually absorb the market share that keeps Nvidia in China. Until just a few months ago this last company monopolized Something more than 90% of the Chinese market of the chips for artificial intelligence (AI), but after the entry into force of the last US sanctions package its leadership is all likely to be compromised. Even so, Nvidia has a very important asset that is helping her defend her presence in the Chinese market: CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture). Most of the AI ​​projects that are currently being developed are implemented on CUDA. This technology brings together the compiler and development tools used by programmers to develop their software for NVIDIA GPUs, and replace it with another option in the projects that are already underway it is a problem. Huawei has Cann (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks), which is its alternative to CUDA, but for the moment CUDA dominates the Chinese market. These are the two great buzas of Huawei to beat Nvidia Huawei wants to snatch the leadership in performance in AI applications from NVIDIA. His most ambitious proposal right now is the chip Ascend 910dwho seeks to overcome the performance of the GPU NVIDIA H100. However, this Chinese company has also recently presented its chip Ascend 920a solution that is clearly destined to occupy in the Chinese market the gaps that it will leave The H20 GPU of Nvidia. This proposal will enter large -scale production during the second half of 2025 using 6 NM integration technology that have presumably developed elbow with Huawei elbow and SMIC. It is evident that to grow in the market is essential have good hardwarebut it is also crucial to position itself strongly in training the great language models, in Inference processesor, better yet, in both contexts. “Training is important, but it only happens a few times. Huawei focuses mainly on inference, which will ultimately give us access to more customers.” This declaration of Georgios Zacharopoulos, a senior researcher of AI who works on the acceleration of inference in the Huawei laboratory in Zurich (Switzerland) clearly reflects The effort that this company has made for years to dominate inference: “Training is important, but only a few times. Huawei focuses mainly on inference, which will ultimately give us access to more customers.” Inference is broadly the computational process carried out by language models with the purpose of Generate the answers which correspond to the requests they receive. In any case, the information we have reflects that the GPU Ascend 910D will allow Huawei to compete with the chips for the most advanced NVIDIA both in inference and in training. The US response to the steps that Huawei is not taking long to arrive. And is that the Department of Commerce has approved a resolution whereby no country on the planet can buy the GPUs for the Ascend de Huawei. According to this American institution, this Chinese company has produced these chips using US technologies illegally, so its export outside the country borders governed by Xi Jinping violates the export controls of the Department of Commerce. In practice to the US it will cost a lot to control the commercial flow of the GPUs for Huawei outside China, especially when these semiconductors They go to allies of the latter country. Its strategy to exert pressure on countries interested in getting the Huawei chips is to announce fines, the possibility of revoking export rights, and even establishing criminal consequences. In Xataka | In a low voice, China has begun to remove some tariffs from US products. Your concern: the chips In Xataka | China’s domain of rare earths has nothing to do with geography: it is born from 39 university programs

Magnus Carlsen is considered the best chess player in history. He has not been able to beat the entire world

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Last April 4 began A very special chess chess game. With white pieces Magnus Carlsen, considered the best chess player in history. With blacks, the whole world. And the world managed to force the tables. Carlsen can’t with the world. On May 20 ended This game Freestyle chess, and did it surprisingly. After 32 movements, “the world” forced tables in a lady end thanks to the triple repetition rule. This rule allows a player to claim a draw (tables) if the same position on the board occurs at least for the third time during a game. Magnus vs. The World. The event, organized by the online chess platform Chess.comhe has faced the ex -champion of the world of classic chess – he had that title by not wanting to defend him – against more than 143,000 users of Chess.com who joined strength to try to beat him. Freestyle chess. The game did not use the rules of classic chess, but those of Freestyle chess, the new modality that Magnus Carlsen is promoting. In this modality, the positions of the pieces of the rear row (towers, horses, alfiles, lady and king) are chosen randomly, although two rules must be fulfilled. The first, that the bishops must be in boxes of different color. And the second, can be continued on both sides, so the king must always be between the two towers. Thus ended the game of Carlsen vs The World. Tables by repetition. A legend. Magnus Carlsen, 34 years old, became the world’s largest score player in 2010, at age 19, and has won five world championships. In 2014, it managed to reach the highest elo score in history, 2,882 points. In recent years, tensions with the FIDE and its own tiredness with the classic chess modality have caused the fight to defend the title of World Champion. He continues to play classic chess tournaments, but is especially interested in fast games tournaments and, in recent times, in Promote freestyle modealso known as Chess960 (chess 960) or random chess of Fischer. Voting movement. After each Movement of Carlsen, in the turn of “El Mundo” a voting system was followed that lasted 24 hours and in which all those involved in the game could participate. It was not mandatory to vote in each movement, and to help the players of “El Mundo” there were several “coaches” who shared their own reflections on the best movements with their analysis of the state of the game. A “solid” game. In statements After the game, Carlsen Indian That “in general,” the world “has played a very, very solid chess from the beginning. Perhaps he has not opted for the most entrepreneurial options, but has remained more in the normal chess line, which is not always the best strategy, but this time it has worked well. The world did not risk and worked. In the last movements the players of “The World” discussed whether to force the tables with triple repetition or try to continue playing to win it, even if that supposed the defeat. In the end the votes favored the most conservative strategy, and preferred to force the tables. The world lost against Kasparov and Anand. There have been previous events of this type. In 1999 Garry Kasparov played against more than 50,000 players via Microsoft Network and won after four months. Last year the great teacher Viswanathan Anand He won a game against more than 70,000 players at Chess.com. In both cases they were classic chess games. How was the game? Chess.com analysts have described the game as “a roller coaster” in which there were a couple of dramatic moments. Carlsen came to have a somewhat more advantageous position, but he could not take advantage of it and confesses that from that moment everything was aimed at the tables because “they did not give me a single opportunity.” Image | Frans Peeters In Xataka | A study says that AIs are “cheating” to chess. That’s what we want to think

LaLiga has found the best way to beat Cloudflare: ally with its competition

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LaLiga carries months at war with Cloudflare. Avoid the illegal emissions From soccer matches via services IPTV has led LaLiga to launch the controversial and criticized IPS indiscriminate blocks series. In that battle, however, LaLiga has ended up launching an unique offensive. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. What LaLiga has done is basically ally with several of Cloudflare competitorsthat have become entities that do present to specifically block domains that are violating the audiovisual rights that they try to protect LaLiga. Vercel, the great prominent. The case of Vercel is paradigmatic. On April 15, in full IPS block fever, the CTO de Vercel, Malte UBL, He published an article In the official blog of the company criticizing the IPS blockages that had also affected their customers. “Users in Spain now face indiscriminate internet block with legitimate websites ceasing to be accessible due to their association with shared IP addresses (…) What began as a measure against piracy has become an irresponsible form of censorship on the Internet.” Where I said I say Diego. That criticism in the blog was accompanied by A message in x of the company’s CEO, Guillermo Rauch, who confirmed how those blockages were already affecting their customers. Three days later the blog article was updated with a singular note: “We are working closely with LaLiga to quickly eliminate the illegal streaming contents.” The blockages were indiscriminate. What we have lived these months has sudo a constant indiscriminate block of IPS that made not only access to illegal broadcasts of football matches, but also thousands of legitimate websites, including companies that companies that They are suffering economic and reputational damage. One of the key questions was if selective and specific blockages could be made. The answer seems to be totally affirmative. But it may not be (if you are not in cloudflare). In LaLiga’s press release, a phrase stood out especially. In it those responsible for LaLiga explained that “collaboration prevents dynamic IPS blockages from being carried out may affect third parties“. That means that theoretically in Vercel, Akamai or CDN77 will be able to make these selective blockages and prohibit access only to domains that infringe Adiovisual rights, and not to all others who share IP with the offending domain. The question is, of course, how they do it. No technical details. We have contacted LaLiga, which did not have the technical details. We have also tried to contact Vercel to try to know how they perform that filtering, but for now we have not obtained an answer. A priori that selective block is feasible, but companies such as Cloudflare defend that they protect the privacy of their customers Thanks to technologies like ECH. Some collaborate in blockages, others do not. That extension of the TLS protocol The name of the domain masks and makes it basically impossible for the operators to know which concrete website the user is accessing when asking for an IP. In Cloudflare and Vercel (for example) the same IP is shared between hundreds or thousands of domains, but while Cloudflare does not collaborate with LaLiga when specifically blocking those domains, Vercel and others do seem that they will begin to do it according to Laliga’s press release. Another setback for cloudflare. This DNS, CDN and Proxy inverse provider has become a valuable ally for thousands of companies worldwide, but His obsession with protecting privacy of his clients he is putting in trouble. French justice – which already acted Against her, Cisco and Google Recently in its fight against piracy – it has recently forced it to Block illegal MotoGP retransmissions. That now its competitors reach agreements with LaLiga raises new difficulties. It is the application of a simple philosophy. Divide and win. With this tactic, LaLiga converts to Vercel, Akamai or CDN77 – in addition to other entities – in “collaborationists” of its cause, leaving cloudflare more and more alone. That can cause a domino effect: if users and companies confirm that “if we use Cloudflare we have problems with the blockages, but if we use Vercel, there can be no potential migration of those users and companies to the services of Cloudflare competitors. But. After these agreements there are still economic interests, and those users and companies end up sacrificing the protection of privacy offered by Cloudflare and other companies to avoid being harmed economic, reputationally or functionally. The problem with this sacrifice is that now the requested blockages are theoretically to protect illegal soccer broadcasts, but a probable threat arises. BLOCKS WITHOUT JUDICIAL GUARDIAN. As Román Ramírez explained (@patowc), cybersecurity expert and creator of Rootedconthis fulfilled in the legal battle against LaLiga. According to him, this “is a way of pressing and extorting.” If LaLiga achieves that collaboration, he adds, the entity has direct access to these suppliers to “cut whatever you want. It is easy to imagine that instead of being an IPTV it is a critical website with Thebes. Without judicial protection and without democratic control.” Image | Tourettes In Xataka | We have been in LaLiga IPS for three months. The worrying thing is that they are not going unless, but more

Nvidia has beat its income record again. Paradoxically, Wall Street does not seem to import much

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The Fever continues to spur Nvidia in the stock market. The company led by Huang has presented again record results for your fourth fiscal quarter. And it has been making the rupture of records into a while. Why is it important. This comes shortly after concerns about Deepseek’s impact and its efficiency in the market that dominates Nvidia. About the idea that less hardware and less power was necessary to continue advancing in AI. Which caused the huge hole in Nvidia bag. The most prominent point of the results was the Awesome Blackwell startthe new chips architecture for Nvidia. Colette Kress, financial director of the company, explained that Blackwell generated 11,000 million dollars in income, exceeding all expectations and becoming “the fastest product launch in the history of our company.” In figures. The data centers business, where technology is concentrated for AI, remains the main growth engine with 35.6 billion revenue in the quarter, 16% more than in the previous quarter and 93% more than in the same period of the previous year For the full fiscal year, this segment reached 115.2 billion, more than double the previous year. The total revenue of the quarter reached 39.3 billion, 12% more than in the previous quarter and 78% higher intelligible. Between the lines. Nvidia is changing her strategy to deal with competition. Jensen Huang emphasized The call with investors that are designing specific platforms for “reasoning AI”, a type of AI that requires up to 100 times more computing capacity than the “traditional” generative AI, which reinforces their most powerful need for hardware even against more efficient models. Reasoning models such as O3 of OpenAi, Deepseek R1 and Grok 3 They require much more intensive processing. Blackwell offers 25 times more yield for these models compared to the previous generation. Infrastructure demand for AI is promoting initial orders of Clusters of 100,000 Gpus or more. And now what? Nvidia has already announced that he will present Blackwell’s successor, called Blackwell Ultra, in the second half of this year, maintaining his annual rhythm. Jensen Huang has confirmed that this transition will be simpler than Hopper’s Blackwellsince it will use the same system architecture. The contrast. Despite the impressive results, Nvidia’s shares barely reacted in the market after the presentationa behavior very different from that seen in previous quarters. The reason: investors perhaps see with caution the reduction in gross margins (from 75% to 73%) and the lowest percentage growth compared to previous quarters, although it remains extraordinary for a company that has established itself as the second most valuable in the world. The big question. Will Nvidia be able to maintain your technological and financial domain against increasingly intense competition and that also threat from China? It seems inevitable that, although Nvidia’s position will remain strong, a certain decrease in demand in favor of new competitors comes. And above all, as the huge investments made by companies in AI do not have a clear and lucrative return, something that seems quite feasible. Maybe it is time to readjust expectations. Outstanding image | Nvidia In Xataka | I have used Claude 3.7 for hours. It is the closest to a human brain that I have felt with an AI

Sabalenka couldn’t beat Madison Keys

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The American Madison Keys destroyed all predictions at the Australian Open. It was not enough for her to overcome a match point in the semi-finals against the No. 2, the Polish Iga Swiatek. She completed her masterpiece by overthrowing the two-time champion and world No. 1, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, 6-3, 2-6 and 7-5 in 2h.02′. At 29 years old, eight after losing the final of the 2017 US Open to her compatriot Sloane Stephens, she experienced her moment of glory in world tennis. Recently married to former player Bjorn Fratangelo, since the party in November everything has been happiness for pupil and coach. They have won 13 of their 14 games, they have won the last eleven. She was able to beat the one who was called to be queen for the third consecutive time. Sabalenka was left without a hat trick, as she destroyed her racket once she completed her defeat. Madison Keys stronger in the end Keys coped well with the agony of a final full of emotions. Sabalenka was far from being the player who overwhelmed Badosa. Strangely, in her fourth Grand Slam final, she seemed more nervous than ever. Keys laughed and cried because she did not expect a better gift at Melbourne Park, adorned with her return to the world top-10: on Monday she will rise from fourteenth to seventh position. She has worked on it with great dedication and enthusiasm, believing in herself. Only with faith and tennis could Sabalenka be dethroned, who had 20 consecutive victories in Grand Slam and at the Australian Open, who was knocked out after eleven consecutive victories on the court. Keys’ performance was unexpected, overcoming the reaction in the second set of a rival without the inspiration of other days, too anxious. The world turned upside down, the champion of four Grand Slams suffered more than the one who is now making her debut, taking over from Sofia Kenin, the previous American winner in this Open, in 2020 at the expense of Garbiñe Muguruza. Historic first Grand Slam At 29 years of age, the tennis player from Illinois (United States) became the fourth oldest player to win her first Grand Slam title, behind the Italian Flavia Pennetta (US Open at 33 years old), the British Ann Jones ( Wimbledon at 30 years old) and the transalpine Francesca Schiavone (Roland Garros at 29 years old). This was Keys’ tenth title in his professional history, having previously lifted the trophies at Eastbourne in 2014 and 2023, Birmingham 2016, Stanford 2017, Charleston and Cincinnati 2019, Adelaide II in 2022, Strasbourg 2024 and also Adelaide in early this year, a contest that preceded this great achievement in his career. Before her conquest, 15 other North American tennis players had managed to win the Oceanic Grand Slam: Dorothy Bundi (1938), Doris Hart (1949), Louise Brough (1950), Maureen Connolly (1953), Shirley Fry (1957), Nancy Richey (1967), Billie Jean King (1968), Barbara Jordan (1979), Martina Navratilova (1981, 1983 and 1985), Christ Evert (1982 and 1984), Monica Seles (1996), Lindsay Davenport (2000), Jennifer Capriati (2001 and 2002), Serena Williams (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2015 and 2017) and Sofia Kenin (2020). The greatest exponent of the Australian Open continues to be the local Margaret Smith, who won 11 titles from 1060 to 1973. Continue reading: Madison Keys will seek her first Grand Slam title against Aryna Sabalenka at Australian OpenFormer tennis player goes viral for announcing divorce from her soccer player husband and incursion into OnlyFans on videoNovak Djokovic withdrew from the Australian Open semi-final amid boos from the public

Bob Arum does not rule out that Crawford can beat Canelo

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Bob Arum, Top Rank promoter, does not rule out Terence Crawford can surprise and defeat to Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez in the possible fight that they could star in at the end of the year for the unified 168-pound championship. In an interview with Fight Hype, Arum explained that Crawford He is a great fighter who drives his opponents crazy. for being ambidextrous and this could give Canelo Álvarez problems. “I think what Crawford is looking for is a fight like Manny Pacquiao and De La Hoya (in terms of style). I wouldn’t rule out Crawford in any fight because Crawford has a unique talent. He’s a great boxer, a boxer-puncher, and he’s completely ambidextrous, so he drives his opponents crazy, because the opponent trains to fight a right-handed boxer and ends up fighting a left-handed boxer. And that’s what happened to Errol Spence,” he said. Terence Crawford wants the fight with Canelo Álvarez to happen soon.Credit: Damian Dovarganes | AP According to some journalist reportsthe possibility that the duel between the two will occur has increased and September is considered as the possible date so that Guadalajara and Bud Crawford get into the ring. In fact, the Mexican unified champion assured that is willing to give the American a chance after meeting Turki Alalshikh at The Ring awards ceremony held this weekend in London, England. If this duel were to take place, many sports experts predict that Terence Crawford He will be at a disadvantage due to his weight and will not be able to defeat the Guadalajarawhile others believe that the size would not be a problem because the American has the necessary skills to beat the 168-pound champion on his own turf. For now, Canelo Álvarez is negotiating with Alalshikh a three-fight agreement and one of them will be against Crawford. Furthermore, according to William Scull – champion of the International Boxing Federation (IBF) – the Mexican will meet with him to plan a unification dispute. Canelo Álvarez could fight Terence Crawford in September.Credit: John Locher | AP Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez, 34, retained his unified 168-pound championship against Edgar Berlanga in September and now has a record of 62 wins (39 by knockout), two losses and two draws in his professional career. For his part, Terence Crawford, 37, became champion of four different divisions by beating Israil Madrimov and remains one of the best pound for pound. The American He now has 41 victories, 31 of them by knockouts. Keep reading:· Canelo and Crawford fight would already have a confirmed date, according to reports· Canelo vs. Crawford will not have a rehydration clause, according to reports· Canelo Álvarez is willing to give Crawford a chance

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