Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Terence Crawford, Tim Bradley, Spence-Thurman, More

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The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards tackling topics such as Terence Crawford, Year-End Awards, the recent run by Teofimo Lopez, Errol Spence vs. Keith Thurman, the career of Tim Bradley, and more.
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[Smash]

well there u go, buds an ATG and looks like he doesnt even need spence to prove it

[PittyPat]

If Bread doesn't go whenever Katholo writes in rambling about Crawford and Spence...

[millcitymauler]

"Hi Bread,

I'm one of your biggest fan and your name is like respectable by any publication. Your mind I will consider up there with Bert sugar, max kellerman, dougie fischer. You 4 are considered as Mt Rushmore in Boxing analysis."

^^^The *** suckery is getting off the charts with some of these Bread Superfans...

[Curtis2]

Excellent points from Katalholo! Your lead off post position is well deserved… great to see clarity with T Crawford’s career/skill set and truth spoken about Haymon…

[dan-b]

I gave up after that first letter veered off into some irrelevant ramble about apartheid.

[SteveM]

I love what Bread writes - his wisdom is on another level but ... one thing I don't agree with which he obviously believes deeply but I believe it is plain wrong.

He keeps saying that there are more people welterweight size than under featherweight size in the WORLD. This is just plain wrong. There are more black male fighters who are WW size (than lower weights) and there are more North Americans who are at WW size (than lower weights) - but absolutely not in the world.

So making a case that Crawford has more competition than Inoue is just wrong. Japan, the Philippines, Mexico and Thailand all have a glorious boxing tradition - their combined populations are 435 million as compared to the total USA pop. of 331 million. There are very few welterweights from east or South-east Asian countries and just a few from Mexico (compared to how many Mexican fighters at lower weights).

Guessing, I'd say the global median weight of male boxers is likely at 130lbs or close to. Certainly not WW or MW.

[SteveM]

well there u go, buds an ATG and looks like he doesnt even need spence to prove it

Neither BUD or anyone else currently active is an ATG - they are still quite a few steps away. I think soon we need to start using the term Modern Times Great because the eras have changed so much with boxers fighting less and compiling less than stellar resumes compared to standouts from previous eras.

[Liondw]

Interesting on the part about Robinson and they fought with six ounce horse hair gloves in that era.

That sounds like it was fairly more brutal in the old days.

[Cyborg Fangerloo]

Neither BUD or anyone else currently active is an ATG - they are still quite a few steps away. I think soon we need to start using the term Modern Times Great because the eras have changed so much with boxers fighting less and compiling less than stellar resumes compared to standouts from previous eras.

it is very sad but I agree with you. This is why every time fury or the monster or guys like that waste someone, all of the haters immediately dog their résumé instead of giving them kudos for a great performance. It is very unfortunate, but it is the sad state of boxing right now that even the guys who won fights cannot get them.