Comments Thread For: Porter's a Live Dog, But Crawford's a Different Breed

[mxtali]

Porter didn’t win his belt from Paulie, he won it from Devon. The Brook fight was his second defense. Come on get it right. Paulie at no point was ever the IBF champ.

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Porter didn’t win his belt from Paulie, he won it from Devon. The Brook fight was his second defense. Come on get it right. Paulie at no point was ever the IBF champ.

That's EXACTLY what I was about to write, but you beat me to it. Maybe we should be writing blogs here, mxtali instead of Lyle Fitzsimmons, who can't even get his facts right, much less his analysis. Should he change his name to Liar Fitzsimmons?

[Liondw]

Fitz says not a welterweight alive beats Crawford. Have you seen some dude named Jaron Ennis? Have a look.

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I think this fight gives Crawford the chance to prove the hype correct, if he was to stop Porter it's a statement if he struggles he really is no better than the other guys that recently went with Sean, this fight to me is a breakout fight for Bud.

I mean Crawford is already better than Thurman, Spence, and Danny simply because he's on his 3rd weight class and he unified at 140. At least Danny had success at 140 but Keith and Errol were never the best in their own division yet they were supposed to be P4P?!? On whose list ?!?!?

[adeathnote]

Fitz says not a welterweight alive beats Crawford. Have you seen some dude named Jaron Ennis? Have a look.

I don’t think many people are of the opinion that Ennis beats Bud right now. Bud has all the next level tools and the experience of 3 divisions and undisputed at 140. He also is going to have to wait in line, he doesn’t really offer much to any of the top guys accept risk.

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I don’t think many people are of the opinion that Ennis beats Bud right now. Bud has all the next level tools and the experience of 3 divisions and undisputed at 140. He also is going to have to wait in line, he doesn’t really offer much to any of the top guys accept risk.

If the fight ever happens that guy will say who has Ennis beat bla bla bla and add that TC needs to fight whomever they assume will beat him or move up in weight...rinse and repeat. Same old song about anyone in the p4p conversation.

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Yeah me too I just ordered the fight $40 .

How did you get it for $40?

[STREET CLEANER]

The article downplays Porter. Even in his loses they were tough competitive fights against prime undefeated champs. Crawford has yet to do that. He was content with defending against mandatories that no one ever heard of and getting the easy UK money with washed up popular fighters.

If Crawford wins convincingly he will get full credit from me. This is a riskier fight that most would give credit for and it is about time. Got off Crawford's band wagon when you look at his record and he does not have one marquee name.

[F l i c k e r]

I don't see a "different breed". I see absurd power but that's it. If you'd show me Nicholas Walters and told me that's Terence Crawford, I really wouldn't know a difference. I implore you to put Nicholas Walters and Terence Crawford highlights side-by-side and tell me you see a difference outside of, Crawford punches absurdly harder than Walters.

We've never been made to see Crawford's heart, punch resistance, or forced into fighting beyond his power. So it'll be interesting to see what Porter brings, if anything at all.

Porter isn't the best boxer in the world. But if he proves to handle Crawford's punch and can damage Crawford as well?

It'll be no surprise if Crawford loses like many who share Crawford's prototype way of boxing. Like Shane Mosley vs Vernon Forrest. Or more recently, Wilder vs Fury. All power and hand speed. But what happens when that doesn't work?

[ArturoBalboa]

To call Porter a ‘jobber’ is just plain disrespectful. He has been among the elite fighters at this weight just below Bud and Spence in my opinion (and below Ennis now). He gave Spence a hard time. The Brook that Bud beat had already suffered at the hands of GGG and was no longer the fighter that beat Porter. Porter’s performance against Spence is a far better measure of his ability. Swarmers like Porter are difficult to dominate because they make it difficult to establish a rhythm easily.

That said, Bud knows how to deconstruct a fighter and his ring IQ is second to none. I reckon he either wins late by TKO or unanimous decision. Porter is no Barrera but he has an outside chance of an upset in the same way Barrero stopped Naseem Hamed not by charging in aggressively, which was his usual style, but by boxing cleverly from the outside, counterpunching and avoiding Hamed’s vaunted left hand.

Absolutely spot on, was about to post the same thing.
Really poor article to even try and compare best performance of his career Brook to the one that had bounced up and down weight classes, had both sides of his face caved in, been stabbed in the leg and trained himself for the Crawford fight.
Like yourself I thing Porter is right up there in his division and underrated because he fights a rugged style. It’s not without technique or timing though, Spence saved himself from a loss with that knockdown in my opinion.

Don’t know why the writer expected a Garcia win either, when Garcia fights someone who can fight back he lets his hands go about ten seconds a round and maybe thirty seconds in last round. Was always getting out worked that fight.