Comments Thread For: Canelo: 'Crawford - You're a F------ Great Fighter! I Like Spence, But Crawford Is Too Good'

[Oldskoolg]

Crawford is clearly the p4p best in the world and will probably go down as the greasiest fighter of the last 20 years not called Mayweather

[Jab jab boom]

Can you make a list of all the Ring top 10 fighters Canelo fought coming off a loss?

who said it would be coming off a loss? They’ll give him a comeback fight to win and then he’ll go to canelo. Let’s not pretend like Canelo doesn’t pick guys coming off trash performances or in someway have made themselves appear vulnerable. Fought angulo after he came off a loss. Fought khan after a life and death fight with Algieri. Fought Chavez jr 2 fights after he quit vs fonfara. Finally fought ggg after many thought he lost to Jacobs, fought Callum smith coming off a fight many thought he lost to Ryder. Fought Kovalev after he was 3-3 in his last 6 and just had a war with yarde 10 weeks earlier. Fought Saunders after he hadn’t looked impressive in years. Those are only a few examples. You just have to pay attention to know that looking vulnerable makes boxers more appealing to canelo. Why else did he avoid charlo in the last but suddenly want to fight him recently after a long layoff, trash performances and stories of depression/alcoholism?

[Tibburon245]

Spence got outclassed by Crawford so who wants to see Spence fight Canelo? Crawford should fight Charlo next year unless Charlo gets wiped out.

[boxingitis]

While they are both the same height, Canelo is used to fighting at 168, and rehydrating another 10-15 pounds.
Crawford packing on that much weight on his athletic frame would, would take away his most vaunted weapons of speed, power, and timing.
Leaving him a lethargic heavily weighted down, fighting at a much slower pace than he's used to, throwing off his timing, and lessening snap, crackle, pop, in his punches.
Crawford can move up, and fight, and beat Jermell Charlo, but it's to much of a load on Crawford's frame to load up to the 168 pound division.

He doesn't have to gain the weight. Pacman came underweight to fight Margarito.

[TheOneAboveAll]

Crawford is clearly the p4p best in the world and will probably go down as the greasiest fighter of the last 20 years not called Mayweather

Unless he moves up to 154 and becomes undisputed there, which is possible with his new PBC connections. If he does that, he has a legitimate claim to surpass Mayweather who was never undisputed at any weight. Crawford will never be the cross-over star or money-maker that Floyd was, but hardcore boxing fans would recognize an achievement as unprecedented as being the undisputed best fighter in 3 divisions.

Btw, did you mean 'greatest' or 'greasiest'? Paulie Malinaggi was the greasiest.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

Crawford is clearly the p4p best in the world and will probably go down as the greasiest fighter of the last 20 years not called Mayweather

He definitely has a chance and there's still fights left to be made.

[SplitSecond]

Unless he moves up to 154 and becomes undisputed there, which is possible with his new PBC connections. If he does that, he has a legitimate claim to surpass Mayweather who was never undisputed at any weight. Crawford will never be the cross-over star that Floyd was, but hardcore boxing fans would recognize his achievements.

No one cared about collecting all the belts a few years back. It honestly never even crossed my mind. All the fights were happening regardless. Undisputed = the guy that beat the other top dogs. In that regard, Mayweather was undisputed.

[TheOneAboveAll]

No one cared about collecting all the belts a few years back. It honestly never even crossed my mind. All the fights were happening regardless. Undisputed = the guy that beat the other top dogs. In that regard, Mayweather was undisputed.

I can agree with this to a point. The alphabet soup has been filled with countless average champions over the last several decades, but everyone knows that there were great champions in Floyd's divisions that he could have fought but never did. At JWW, Mayweather went after guys like Chop Chop Corley, Henry Bruseles and Gatti, all while a badass named Kostya Tszyu was undisputed JWW champion. At WW there were concurrent champions like Paul Williams, Antonio Margarito and Amir Khan who never faced Floyd, even though Floyd was the cash cow and ran the division by then. I'm not going to bash Floyd's resume too much because its one of the best overall resume's in the sport, but its not without asterisks and Floyd is almost as well known for who he didn't fight as who he did (and when he did).

[IceTrayDaGang]

canelo loves throwing the f bombs around LOL..

[-Kev-]

who said it would be coming off a loss? They’ll give him a comeback fight to win and then he’ll go to canelo. Let’s not pretend like Canelo doesn’t pick guys coming off trash performances or in someway have made themselves appear vulnerable. Fought angulo after he came off a loss. Fought khan after a life and death fight with Algieri. Fought Chavez jr 2 fights after he quit vs fonfara. Finally fought ggg after many thought he lost to Jacobs, fought Callum smith coming off a fight many thought he lost to Ryder. Fought Kovalev after he was 3-3 in his last 6 and just had a war with yarde 10 weeks earlier. Fought Saunders after he hadn’t looked impressive in years. Those are only a few examples. You just have to pay attention to know that looking vulnerable makes boxers more appealing to canelo. Why else did he avoid charlo in the last but suddenly want to fight him recently after a long layoff, trash performances and stories of depression/alcoholism?

Wanna bet Canelo doesn’t fight Spence?

Nothing big. Loser just admits they were wrong about Canelo.