1. It all started when Crawford went to the U.K. to fight Ricky Burns. Instead of giving TC credit for the win, they called him a paper champion because Ray Beltran was the true lightweight champion. TC goes on to shut out Ray Beltran in a one sided schooling. Of course, Beltran was dismissed after the fact.
2. Next up was Viktor Postol. Postol put out a fake press release how Crawford ducked him and NSB jumped all over it. The Crawford ducking Postol discussions gained steam and several Postol fans emerged. "Postol is the more skilled fighter. Crawford only picks on little guys. Postol is too risky."
Sure enough, Crawford won damn near every round and dropped Postol. These Postol fans are nowhere to be seen.
3. Most recently, we have Felix Diaz. I have an entire thread addressing those who felt Crawford was ducking Felix Diaz because this fight was too risky.
What happens ? Beatdown.
So now I will give the TC critics a platform to select the next boogeyman that TC will avoid because he is too risky.
I cannot see anyone 140 even being competitive with him now. 147 though has some strong guys.
Spence, Thurman or Porter might not be as talented, but they present real welterweight size and strength.
If I recall correctly there was a BoxingScene article suggesting that Crawford had turned down Diaz. It's not like people just pulled it out of their arses, we can only go by the information we are given. And Diaz is legit regardless of the result yesterday. I was quite drunk but I thought he did some good work in the early rounds, he was just athletically overmatched
Anyway I want Crawford to face Indongo next, but if he does that his critics will probably accuse him of avoiding the welterweights. Oh well
Yeah but that always happens. One fighters team leaks info to the media to get more money or put pressure on the other side. Crawford has no history of ducking
It's the same old shyt. These clowns who say, "he's not even that good" between fights, then try to talk about who he DIDN'T fight when the guy just smashed someone.
I don't get worked up about it. I've just been saying the same thing with Bud as I said with Ward, "Watch, you'll see."
If I recall correctly there was a BoxingScene article suggesting that Crawford had turned down Diaz. It's not like people just pulled it out of their arses, we can only go by the information we are given. And Diaz is legit regardless of the result yesterday. I was quite drunk but I thought he did some good work in the early rounds, he was just athletically overmatched
Anyway I want Crawford to face Indongo next, but if he does that his critics will probably accuse him of avoiding the welterweights. Oh well
Probably Indongo. Just like with Diaz, it's easy to pick an unknown contender and claim Bud doesn't want none in hopes he goes for a name instead. That's why people were so quick to claim he ducked Diaz when the Molina fight was made.
This is my pick too.
Next week we will see "Comments Thread for: Team Indongo: Crawford rejected our offer and will fight Granados"
And then the roaches will come out and eat up the crumbs.
Probably Indongo. Just like with Diaz, it's easy to pick an unknown contender and claim Bud doesn't want none in hopes he goes for a name instead. That's why people were so quick to claim he ducked Diaz when the Molina fight was made.
This guy is such a class act, I'm struggling to see who's going to stop him. He was so far out in front of everyone at 135 before moving out and it's the same here at 140. Don't know how the move in weight class is going to work out for him but if he can carry the weight up I can't see who's going to stop him there either. Some physically big guys up there like Spence, Brook, Thurman so hard to comment until we see him in action but a great addition to that weight class in any case.
In no way did people think he ducked Diaz.
Saw a couple of posts saying that Diaz would whoop him and that Carawford would try to avoid the fight......that was a few months ago though.