Terrence “Bud” Crawford vs Gary “Mr.” Russell Jr. @ 144

Russell Jr trying to be Henry Armstrong and I'm all for it if that is what he wants It is crazy because Henry Armstrong at the same height and weight as Gary Russell ironically enough went from Featherweight to as high as Middleweight winning Championships in each of those Divisions. Then of course you have another more current Legend in Pacquiao who Jumped from 135 to 145 for the Oscar Fight It is not happening, Arum already shot the Idea down so moving on! Pac went from 135-147 not 145. Circumstances of Pacs ascension were very different from Armstrong... Pac fought over the hill champs at catchweights, rehydration clauses, coming off losses, and he did it all while refusing drug testing. A rather large asterisk

GRJ is a midget.

Right now this is a stupid fight. Russell has done absolutely nothing above 126 and there is zero reason he should get a shot at welterweight champ Crawford plus catchweights are stupid. Crawford would look real bad giving Russell a title shot. If Russell beats a legit top 10 welterweight then give him a Crawford fight but he has no win above 126. This fight really shouldn't even be up for discussion. It's that stupid.

I think Crawford wins by early and easy KO. The welterweight champ against the featherweight champ is a bad mismatch unless the featherweight champ is Henry Armstrong and Russell is not remotely in Armstrong's class.

GRJ's getting stopped if that happens. There's zero reason for bud to be fighting GRJ, he's got a legacy to carve out and it can't be done fighting Russell over 8 so I wanna see him concentrate on trying to unify the division

till Crawford fights one of the live dogs at 147, nobody should mention his name in P4P again!

Russell Jr trying to be Henry Armstrong and I'm all for it if that is what he wants It is crazy because Henry Armstrong at the same height and weight as Gary Russell ironically enough went from Featherweight to as high as Middleweight winning Championships in each of those Divisions. Then of course you have another more current Legend in Pacquiao who Jumped from 135 to 145 for the Oscar Fight It is not happening, Arum already shot the Idea down so moving on! Its sounds a great jump dont it all those divisions, what is Russells and TCs fight night weight that is what really matters and is the only real weight, with Manny he was inside 4-5 pounds fight night all the way from 135 to 150, so he didnt really jump up much at all for real, but jumped up lots on our paper label system. Fans love adding up divisions like these guys moved 50lbs, not trying to take anything away as 4-5 pounds is a lot with the top guys just keeping real.

would probably be fun for a bit...like brook/golovkin was till brook finally got clipped...i called brook/golovkin a farce and id have say the same about this no matter how you wanna break it down and try to make it interesting russell isnt a big enough of a name or a payday...he doesnt bring UK crowd or money the way brook did...its a lose/lose for crawford...its a tough fight people will talk bad about him...he wins people will say "so what he beat up a 126lb fighter".....its really that simple imo

Russell Jr trying to be Henry Armstrong and I'm all for it if that is what he wants It is crazy because Henry Armstrong at the same height and weight as Gary Russell ironically enough went from Featherweight to as high as Middleweight winning Championships in each of those Divisions. Then of course you have another more current Legend in Pacquiao who Jumped from 135 to 145 for the Oscar Fight It is not happening, Arum already shot the Idea down so moving on!

put it on the tyson undercard