Comments Thread For: Crawford Confident Spence Showdown Will End The Pound-For-Pound Debate

[Smash]

So bud is currently number 1, and then if he beats the number 3 spence... he becomes number 3?? lmaoooo u guys have funny logic.

I don't have a clear number 1 pound for pound fighter but u guys are always funny.

thats vulcan level logic right there

[theface07]

This has to be a joke LMAO

Uysk who hasn’t done nothing in the past 5 years except beat a shop worn Joshua?
Inoue who’s best W is a 40 year old Donaire?

Yeah let’s stop kidding ourselves, you might want them to be there due to favouritism but I assure you they won’t it’ll likely be Bud, Spence winner. Unless Uysk-Fury magically happens in the next few months and Uysk wins. But it looks like Daniel Dubois in August. That’s shocking opposition.. Inoue has Fulton which would be a great W. However his resumè is still thin.

You are a grade A moron. Firstly, you should know how to spell someone's name before you criticize their accomplishments. Secondly, Usyk wiped out the cruiserweight division and moved up to heavyweight and won 3 of the 4 belts when the majority of people were saying he was too small. I'm a big Bud fan but to say Usyk has done nothing in the last 5 years and Inoue hasn't done anything while praising Bud is a massive contradiction and reflects huge bias and a double standard.
Go back to watching soccer/football "messi".

[theface07]

Shouldn't that be labeled opinion instead of facts?

Don't forget because of Trump we're in a post facts world where opinion is considered fact as long as enough ****** people with little to no education or ability to process and interpret information for themselves believe it.

[crimsonfalcon07]

What if Spence wins? His resume is entirely at welter. Everyone else (Usyk, Inoue, Crawford) is a multi division and undisputed world champ. Are we rating Spence so highly just for his wins in Welter on his "side of the street" at a rate of about 1 fight a year?

[shenmue]

P4p doesn't exist, it's not real. This fight decides who is better at ww.

[joseph5620]

inoue beating a prime fulton is far more impressive than spence or crawford.

inoue has obliterated every opponent he's faced.
both spence and crawford fight once every 2 years, are past their primes, and share their claim to fame by beating shawn porter.

fact is most commoners don't even follow lighter weights, and base everything off of boxingrec.
it's not even worth debating.

He has to actually do it before you give him credit for it. If he loses to Fulton he's out of the conversation.

[crimsonfalcon07]

He has to actually do it before you give him credit for it. If he loses to Fulton he's out of the conversation.

Wouldn't be the first time a P4P stalwart got upset by a skilled technician after moving up in weight.

Props to Inoue for voluntarily signing a contract to never fight against easy opponents too. A lot of people here don't understand how good his resume is because they don't follow the lighter weights. Pity Chocolatito decided not to fight him "because he's not well known in the US". Would have been an epic battle.

[OldTerry]

P4p doesn't exist, it's not real. This fight decides who is better at ww.

True and it also only decides who is better that particular night.

[messi807]

You are a grade A moron. Firstly, you should know how to spell someone's name before you criticize their accomplishments. Secondly, Usyk wiped out the cruiserweight division and moved up to heavyweight and won 3 of the 4 belts when the majority of people were saying he was too small. I'm a big Bud fan but to say Usyk has done nothing in the last 5 years and Inoue hasn't done anything while praising Bud is a massive contradiction and reflects huge bias and a double standard.
Go back to watching soccer/football "messi".

Everything you just said went out the window, like I said he hasn't done anything worthy of being mentioned P4P in the last 5 years except for beating a past it AJ. Get rid of your emotions and think rationally. His CW run was more than 5 years ago, every fight since then has been a mismatch outside of the 1st AJ fight and he looked horrible against Chisora.
I had Uysk at #1 when he was at CW, it's definitely you that's the grade A moron.

[Fist_ti_cuffs]

For the general public, perhaps. People who follow the lower weights would know.

I haven't followed Inoue's career religiously, but could still recall the following off the top of my head:

Taguchi
Narvaez
McDonnell
Payano
Rodriguez
Moloney

The three I remember most were Narvaez, McDonnell, and Payano. Narvaez because that was a
changing of the guard fight, Narvaez having defended the flyweight world title 16 times and the super
fly 11 times. McDonnell too was memorable for the pre-fight antics -- deliberately showing up late to
the weigh in and other slights. Payano just for the contrast of the early feeling out and sudden,
one-punch KO.

Granted, Taguchi and Moloney only became champions after they fought Inoue.

When you beat one champ, you become the champ. How many have beaten ten?
Not many, I would guess.

Furthermore, for Inoue, it's also not just who he beat, but how he beat them: definitively, with zest, in style --
Narvaez, McDonnell, Payano, Rodriguez, all capable fighters, stopped within the first two rounds.

That sure is one terrible resume.