Comments Thread For: Spence on Crawford: Against Gamboa, He Reacted In a Courageous Way; Gets Meaner When He Gets Hurt

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I want to see Spence and Crawford touch the canvas!!

I really hope that Spence vs Crawford delivers a great fight!!!

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When Roy Jones was dropped by Lou del Valle, for the first time in his career, it mentally F'd with him. del Valle should in no way have taken that version of Jones to the final bell, but he did.

When Keef was dropped by Pacquiao, for the first time in his career, Keef is on record that it F'd with him mentally and at that point, he was performing for a draw because he thought he would have no chance of winning (which was a ****** mindset).


When you get dropped after years of not getting (officially) dropped, it messes with you mentally. Don't care who you are. If that had been called, the Kavaliauskas fight might have looked way different. Especially if Crawford lost his temper, went to war and got clipped again because he hadn't yet fully recovered (ala Bradley/Provodnikov).

Ok... that is fair. It actually may have made a difference. We will never know, and if nothing else Kavaliauskas should have been able to say he did something no one else has- knocked down Crawford. Wallin has made a career out of cutting Fury, so it does kind of suck he got ripped off after thinking about it.

I do not think someone as mentally as strong as Crawford would have folded, But we will never know. I can accept the argument. Good point.

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....and it happened because Crawford got lured into a back-and-forth and got clipped. Same as Kavaliauskas. Briefly wobbled against Porter.

Which is why I expect him not to engage against Spence.

but he did

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but he did

He did engage - because he was able to drop Spence, and even Crawford admitted it was a flash knockdown that he didn't expect to happen.

But go back to what I said. Because I called that part perfectly:

When you get dropped after years of not getting (officially) dropped, it messes with you mentally. Don't care who you are.

A case could be made that Spence might have won the first 3 rounds if he hadn't gotten dropped in - what, the second? - but round 3 onward, he wasn't anywhere near as confident. And as I also said, Spence always starts slow, so going after him is the best strategy against him. Which is why I didn't want Crawford to do that.

Jacobs/Quillin. That's what you saw, an extended version of Jacobs/Quillin.