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

[tkoboxingscene]

How tf does this guy have bivol's trainee over Derrick James? Gtfoh... that's a ****8ng joke, zurdo is a hype job with a padded record. Also it was pretty obvious bivol was going to beat clenelo; barring any funny business from judges. Mell and got damn near all the belts between 147 and 154. How is there any trainer more deserving?

[ThrowbackBoxing]

Tim Bradley lost all 3 fights to Pacman but he has a grade A resume.

[L. Cipher]

Even by that South African dude's unhinged standards, that was the most bat **** mailbag entry I can recall in a long time.

[PredatorStyle]

I'm not sure I'm convinced that fighters a more athletic. I think that's just a style that May popularized, or at least just got popular in that era. I don't know if sport nutrition and makes them better athletes because I think that their bodies change over time anyway and adapt to diet and other conditions so I think it balances out. Plus 'folks were tougher in thems days.'

Man, Katholo - lol. Brining up 'white slave masters.' Yeah it's called capitalism, mate. Pretty much the whole of world history is about economic exploitation and colonization. Chill out.

[Oregonian]

Even by that South African dude's unhinged standards, that was the most bat **** mailbag entry I can recall in a long time.

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I thought I was the only one who thought that. What a rant of just toxic hate and illogical nonsense.

“I support Crawford in his career choices. He can only deal with who's in front of him and you expect no more, no less, from a fighter. Crawford is not a boxing power broker.”

The statement above is just ludicrous.

Dude from South Africa if you’re reading this; Bud is a free agent. Nobody is putting anyone in front of him anymore. He’s his own boss and Avanesyan was a joke of a fight for a guy that’s been sitting on the proverbial P4P list.
Bud is a power broker and the Spence fight didn’t happen because he walked away from it whether he was right or wrong.

Lastly, I hope for God’s sake he agrees to fight Spence. So we can see the mythical status you put on him plays out.

[The D3vil]

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.

The average man's weight worldwide is 171lbs., so that means somebody who's 130lbs is smaller than the average person in virtually every society.

That's what Bread was saying.

[The D3vil]

My guy Kathlolo was on fire

[SteveM]

The average man's weight worldwide is 171lbs., so that means somebody who's 130lbs is smaller than the average person in virtually every society.

That's what Bread was saying.

Think about what that statistic includes. How much of that 171lbs is attributable to the obesity epidemic. How much of that 171lbs is attributable to older men, men over the age of most active boxers? That figure includes all the obese men in the world - and as we know there's an obesity epidemic.

I'm talking about active male boxers - men who are aged between say 18 and 35 who are top athletes (although there are a few notable fatties as well) . And again, there is a reason I used the word median and not average - do you know the difference?

I hope Bread is not drawing on that same statistic, otherwise he'd go down in my estimation. I think he probably just has an Americentric viewpoint - as many US citizens do and as evidenced by he fact that less that 3 in 5 USA citizens don't have a passport. If you never travel outside of your own country how can you get an accurate view ff what other people and countries are like?

[Tag, You're Hit]

Think about what that statistic includes. How much of that 171lbs is attributable to the obesity epidemic. How much of that 171lbs is attributable to older men, men over the age of most active boxers? That figure includes all the obese men in the world - and as we know there's an obesity epidemic.

I'm talking about active male boxers - men who are aged between say 18 and 35 who are top athletes (although there are a few notable fatties as well) . And again, there is a reason I used the word median and not average - do you know the difference?

I hope Bread is not drawing on that same statistic, otherwise he'd go down in my estimation. I think he probably just has an Americentric viewpoint - as many US citizens do and as evidenced by he fact that less that 3 in 5 USA citizens don't have a passport. If you never travel outside of your own country how can you get an accurate view ff what other people and countries are like?

You make good points, SteveM. And I think median is the way to go. But regarding your point about traveling outside of the U.S., the obesity epidemic is a U.S. problem in my experience. Any time I leave the country and come back I see more morbidly obese people in the first hour of returning than during my whole trip abroad.

[L. Cipher]

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I thought I was the only one who thought that. What a rant of just toxic hate and illogical nonsense.

“I support Crawford in his career choices. He can only deal with who's in front of him and you expect no more, no less, from a fighter. Crawford is not a boxing power broker.”

The statement above is just ludicrous.

Dude from South Africa if you’re reading this; Bud is a free agent. Nobody is putting anyone in front of him anymore. He’s his own boss and Avanesyan was a joke of a fight for a guy that’s been sitting on the proverbial P4P list.
Bud is a power broker and the Spence fight didn’t happen because he walked away from it whether he was right or wrong.

Lastly, I hope for God’s sake he agrees to fight Spence. So we can see the mythical status you put on him plays out.

It's amazing how dude can get from Bud Crawford deserves more respect to Al Haymon is a worse person than literal slave traders in a couple paragraphs. You can literally see him whipping himself into a froth with each sentence he writes, wild.