Comments Thread For: Derrick James: "The Basic Skills and Technique Beats Glamor Every Day Of The Week"

[P4P Forever]

People talk about Crawfords boxing IQ but his temperament is all wrong for a fighter like Spence. That dog is going to get him in trouble because Spence keeps ****ing to the body no matter what. Winning, losing, getting hit; he just never stops chopping that wood. And if Crawford is foolish enough to stand there in front of him trying to prove he is tougher, Spence is going to break him.

If Crawford sticks and moves all night they'll call him a coward but he'll win. Outside of that, as the rounds roll on those 36 years in the game are going to finally be exposed. Crawford wins a boxing match with Spence 6/7 out of 10 times. But a fight, Crawford loses a fight with Spence 8 out of 10 times.

So who you got?

[Toffee]

Reading these comments and it seems like boxingscene bloggers know more than the BWAA 2022 Trainer of the year who was also a professional fighter. Interesting!

Trainer in 'believes in his fighter' shock.

He's not giving an objective opinion.

[joseph5620]

Odd statement. Crawford is highly skilled with excellent technique.

[Spartacus26]

I totally agree with D. James here. His statements makes perfect sense in so far as the contrast in styles between Spence and Crawford. I wouldn't venture to say that he means glam as far as Prince Naseem Hamed flashy because Crawford is technically sound, but more in the narrative that Crawford because of his switch hitting offense, has a more eye catching style. Fundamentals DO tend to overcome a more colorful style as we have seen over the years and decades with Fighters like Ali who could never really nest a fundamentally sound Ken Norton, Roy Jones had titanic struggles with the more textbook Tarver, Canelo with Bivol etc.....just some examples out of many. At any rate I can see Spence winning this because the truth is his resume at 147 is far superior to Crawfords. That's just a fact. Spence fought the top welterweights while they were still good and closer to their peak form. Crawford wasted prime years fighting Bob Arums Top rank second tier stable of in house fodder.

[BronxPride67]

Seems a little doubtful - going into a fight with Crawford, you better not have doubts!!!

[Topdogggbm]

Spence wins if he can fight exactly like he did Mikey. Boring, in and out UD.

Bud isn't flashy. He has old school KO power and an uncanny ring IQ. Spence has to be perfect or he will get stopped.

I’ll bet my entire salary which is more than it should be, that NEITHER gets stopped. It’s ridiculous the amount of comments about this fight where people are saying “He’s going to sleep” (and “he” meaning whichever fighter the commenter thinks will lose). These are two of the best fighters in the game. This will be a decision, if they fight 3 times they will all be decisions. Very good elite fights with powerful moments for sure!! Maybe even a knockdown or more. But no one is getting counted out or exposed. This is a well rounded fight