Comments Thread For: Kenny Porter: I Can See Ennis Beating Crawford, Spence is Tougher Fight

[Combat Talk Radio]

Boots gets hit as much as anyone in the division with all his flashy moves in the ring. Crawford is a much better puncher than anyone he's faced and has the footwork to frustrate someone's offense. I don't have it as 50/50 with Crawford. I think it's more 50/50 vs Spence just based on the fact he's less of a moving target and his attacks are in a straight line as well as when he retreats. Boots has a way of nullifying hard jabs, which is what Spence uses to set up his body shots that break down his opponents. Crawford is too much of a chess match for anyone in the game.

Crawford was getting tagged at will by Gamboa, Kavaliauskas, Khan, Brook, Benavidez, Burns, Porter and Avanesyan.

They both get hit. That's why it's 50/50, because of WHY they get hit.

Boots slowed down by the 7th. Spence preserves shots and ratchets it up late (Ugas). That's what Chukhadzhian tried to exploit but didn't have the power. Meanwhile we saw that Chukhadzhian took some bombs from Boots and never went down. Spence has one of the best chins in the game (Porter), and isn't affected by body assault, he gives it right back (Ocampo), plus he doesn't easily fall for traps (Danny Swift, Mikey, Algieri, Brook).

Crawford gets hit because he gets frustrated easy (Brook, Khan, Porter) or he gets drawn into a mistake and gets frustrated, wanting to retaliate (Gamboa, Kavaliauskas). In the Porter fight BoMac was screaming at him to calm the hell down every round. Meanwhile, Crawford appears to be packing glass, as we've seen him go Gumby on three occasions (Gamboa, Porter, Kavaliauskas). Boots has never been wobbled to that degree despite eating shots flush.

Spence is all wrong for Boots.
Crawford is 50/50 because of his temper.

Mark it down if they ever fight.

[Paulstevens]

if I were this guy Ennis I would stay far away from Crawford and Spence at this point in time! they will destroy his carrier for him.those guys are wicked in the ring especially Spence! nothing stylish about these "Demolition men" at all! they don't play in the ring and so difficult to hit them.they are brute beasts in the ring so young Ennis stay out of their way if you want to be making money for yourself.

[Paulstevens]

50/50 with Crawford? really? Crawford is a very bad thing for Ennis at this point in time.Crawford is an elite fighter who will not entertain these kinds of petty tricks of this small boy Ennis!. Ennis loves to play in the ring to gain attention for himself and this takes his away his focus at times! but Crawford hates jokes and get down to business.I'm sure those pushing Ennis in this direction wants him to stop boxing at this time in his life.

[Oregonian]

None of those WW’s announced a specific fight date while walking around weight with 20 days to the fight date- have you ever heard of a fake lead on? Apparently not..

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So according to you, Spence is the one that set a date, he also didn’t want some dubious $50 mil, didn’t give Bud transparency and killed the fight? Is that what happened?
Why can’t Bud name the hedge fund? Even better, screw Spence … how about fight Boots instead of Avanesyan?

You respond to everything except the clear ducking of Boots in favor of a lesser guy.

[Bronx2245]

Ideally, Thurman would've fought Stanionis after Barrios, and GGG would've fought Andrade. Sometimes it hurts to be a boxing fan, especially when your favorites start behaving in selfish ways. Over time, we learn to accept that bitter feeling of disappointment, and to always appreciate the fights that don't fall through due to politics/injury. It takes tremendous effort to stay positive through all the bullshxt, but it isn't impossible.

And to top it off, we (on the East Coast of the U.S.) have wait until Midnight EST to watch the fight! It's definitely hard to remain a fan of the sport!

[Boxing2695]

I think its the other way round tbh. Spence is very good at what he does but he's not as dynamic as someone like Crawford he's not a guy who can move aswell with his feet he's a guy who likes to work behind a jab an control center of the ring an break guys down that way we're as Crawford can move laterally better he can switch stances he gives you more looks than spence does an I think just from a style perspective I think boots would have a tougher time with Crawford because yeah spence is bigger but boots is a very big welterweight so it's not a factor if spence fought him he woudnt be outsized. He's bigger than Crawford that's a factor for him but guys who are big welterweights say one thing people underestimate about crawford is how physically strong he is for his size

[factsarenice]

Sounds like Kenny missed Boots last fight.

[Curtis2]

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So according to you, Spence is the one that set a date, he also didn’t want some dubious $50 mil, didn’t give Bud transparency and killed the fight? Is that what happened?
Why can’t Bud name the hedge fund? Even better, screw Spence … how about fight Boots instead of Avanesyan?

You respond to everything except the clear ducking of Boots in favor of a lesser guy.

It’s not ducking, it’s a process, a list of qualified, willing & available opponents with financial requirements included is presented to champions. Bud selected the highest ranked WW that pursued a fight. Boots didn’t pursue- Tell me how someone becomes a 3 time division champ by ducking anyone?? You can’t - never a mandatory side step or catch weight game with T Crawford..

[factsarenice]

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So according to you, Spence is the one that set a date, he also didn’t want some dubious $50 mil, didn’t give Bud transparency and killed the fight? Is that what happened?
Why can’t Bud name the hedge fund? Even better, screw Spence … how about fight Boots instead of Avanesyan?

You respond to everything except the clear ducking of Boots in favor of a lesser guy.

They paid Crawford 10 million for Avanesyan.... They offered 50 million and Hayman isn't having it because....Spence (Hayman) only works with Rabbis, Priests and *******....GTFOH.

Hayman is afraid Crawford and everything else is BS. The only guy being ducked is Crawford.

For years all we heard from Spence was the "other side of the street", "Crawford isn't a real welterweight", "Crawford doesn't have a belt", "who has Crawford fought" , "I want more money". Excuse after excuse after excuse.

They paid Crawford 10 million for Avanesyan.... They offered 50 million and Hayman isn't having it because of some new lame excuse to go with the other BS excuses....GTFOH.



I got a question for you.....Why is Spence ducking his mandatory, in house, easy to make fight with Boots?

[factsarenice]

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So according to you, Spence is the one that set a date, he also didn’t want some dubious $50 mil, didn’t give Bud transparency and killed the fight? Is that what happened?
Why can’t Bud name the hedge fund? Even better, screw Spence … how about fight Boots instead of Avanesyan?

You respond to everything except the clear ducking of Boots in favor of a lesser guy.

Seriously? This is a joke right??

Boots last fight guaranteed $125,000 with no back end. 125k doesn't pay enough to fight a cold.