Comments Thread For: Terence Crawford tops Israil Madrimov to become four-division champ

[Theshotyoudontsee]

Outlanded and outboxed him? Crawford was eating right hands that whole night,and never figured madrimov out. Landed 22% to madrimovs 31%. Oh and fun fact,madrimov landed at a higher percent than Crawford in 11 out of the 12 rounds of the fight. Canelo splatters Crawford inside of 6 rounds. Crawford needs to run this back,because in no world was this a clear win for him.

Crawford landed the better shots all night, and more of them. Madrimov was awkward and had a good gameplan but he didn't throw enough, higher percentage of low volume does not win a fight, and Madrimov was not landing anything to hurt Bud. Bud landed harder and more effective shots, ie he outboxed Madrimov. Not sure what fight you were watching or if you are just a Madrimov fan. Honestly hats off to Madrimov. He had a good plan and Bud never got into a rhythym, and that is where Bud hurts guys. Madrimov knew it and his awkwardness allowed him to go 12.

Canelo fights nothing like Madrimov. He would have the power advantage, but Bud is a better boxer and he would adjust to Canelo over a few rounds and hit him alot. Canelo isn't running him over, thiz fight with Madrimov was unusual in how Madrimov approached it. Canelo obviously could land something big and stop Bud, but Bud isn't fighting Canelo like he fought tonight. He has height and reach on Saul, and he would also put on muscle fighting at 168 and Bud is strong AF.

I knew after tonight's fight that people would be saying exactly what they are saying. And it is boxing, anything can happen. But Crawford outboxes Canelo IMO and wins a UD. Watch.

[mike1010011]

Crawford landed the better shots all night, and more of them. Madrimov was awkward and had a good gameplan but he didn't throw enough, higher percentage of low volume does not win a fight, and Madrimov was not landing anything to hurt Bud. Bud landed harder and more effective shots, ie he outboxed Madrimov. Not sure what fight you were watching or if you are just a Madrimov fan. Honestly hats off to Madrimov. He had a good plan and Bud never got into a rhythym, and that is where Bud hurts guys. Madrimov knew it and his awkwardness allowed him to go 12.

Canelo fights nothing like Madrimov. He would have the power advantage, but Bud is a better boxer and he would adjust to Canelo over a few rounds and hit him alot. Canelo isn't running him over, thiz fight with Madrimov was unusual in how Madrimov approached it. Canelo obviously could land something big and stop Bud, but Bud isn't fighting Canelo like he fought tonight. He has height and reach on Saul, and he would also put on muscle fighting at 168 and Bud is strong AF.

I knew after tonight's fight that people would be saying exactly what they are saying. And it is boxing, anything can happen. But Crawford outboxes Canelo IMO and wins a UD. Watch.

Would you be willing to bet your account on that prediction?

[dibzvincent143]

Bud clearly won. Jesus. Madrimov doesn't get point for feints and that was most of his offense. If wasn't a bad gameplan because he had obviously watched Bud and knew that to not get knocked out, he had to keep Bud from getting into a rhythym. He acheived that but he never hurt Bud and Bud outlanded and outboxed him regardless. And I said before the fight, Madrimov is a damn good fighter with an extensive amateur career, his pro record is deceiving. And Crawford was out of the ring for a year due to the Spence nonsense, he wasn't as sharp as he could have been.

Of course Bud's detractors will use this as fuel. But Bud will look better against Canelo than he did tonight. Canelo has one mode, and Bud has height and reach on him and will outbox him if the fight is made.

Damn you still going with this. Bud ate plenty of right hands tonight and i was rooting for him bad. Look at the punch stats before you say he outlanded him.. bud landed 22% of his shots the first 10 rounds it means he punched a lot of air while madrimov was landing 38% of his shots.

bud fought a tough good win, but to say he outboxed madrimov nahhhh. They were both in it in every round, it was competitive.

so if crawford’s punches couldn’t dent a 154lber after he threw the kitchen sink and landed 3 straight uppercuts you expect nelo or the elites of 160 or 168 to get hurt by them? If he was getting backed off by madrimov’s right hands (he really ate a lot) imagine nelo landing his right on crawford.. it will be night night.
And oh nelo will land and i don’t even like him. Bud is hittable he’s not a defensive genius it’s his combination of technicality and power that makes him really tough, but oh well, the latter didn’t matter tonight and for sure it won’t matter 2 weight classes up.

you heard him in the interview, he was turning the volume down when ask about nelo.. his voice was hesitant and cracking, he knows that fight is dead.

if you can’t hurt a 154lber, no you can’t hurt an elite 168lber. If big GGG couldn’t hurt nelo, i don’t think Bud would.. and no shame in that.

[BoxWhere]

Usyk has beaten some undefeated killers from cruiser to heavy with a way worse size disadvantage..

Lol he drew with breidis but got the win by majority decision. And against fury he won by split decision, another close fight. And in the second AJ fight, it was a draw but he got the win by split decision. And didn't he get KO'D by Dubois and blamed it on BS low blow.

[Theshotyoudontsee]

I have to disagree with you on that my friend. Crawford had no answer for the straight right hand, and was eating it clean all night,sometimes multiple times in a row. He was never able to set up a consistent attack,and was never able to take over or figure out his opponent like he as on all of his other fights. Crawford was tentative and hitting air for large stretches of the fight. Madrimov did more than enough to warrant a draw,and he has more than a good enough case for a rematch.

Go through and count the feints.

Every person I have seen online scoring the fight had Bud at least winning by 4 rounds.

Awkwardness and feints don't win a fight. Landing more effective punches in more rounds wins the fight. Madrimov won some rounds, but it was nowhere near a draw. Only a Madrimov fan or Bud detractor could say that.

[boxing IQ]

I have to disagree with you on that my friend. Crawford had no answer for the straight right hand, and was eating it clean all night,sometimes multiple times in a row. He was never able to set up a consistent attack,and was never able to take over or figure out his opponent like he as on all of his other fights. Crawford was tentative and hitting air for large stretches of the fight. Madrimov did more than enough to warrant a draw,and he has more than a good enough case for a rematch.

You're not wrong. It was close as s***. The early feel-out rounds were swingy, mid rounds almost impossible to score based on whether you prefer connect rate (Bud) or the more meaningful impactful shots (Madrimov), but the last rounds were 2 automatic rounds for Bud which seemed like what the whole fight came down

Bud's not going to run it back though. He doesn't have enough time left in his career. If they did though, I think it's like round 13, Bud makes the necessary adjustments, and wins more decisively. Pure boxers almost always win the rematches

[LAchargers373]

Go through and count the feints.

Every person I have seen online scoring the fight had Bud at least winning by 4 rounds.

Awkwardness and feints don't win a fight. Landing more effective punches in more rounds wins the fight. Madrimov won some rounds, but it was nowhere near a draw. Only a Madrimov fan or Bud detractor could say that.

No chance Madrimov won by 4 rounds I had it even going into the championship rounds. Madrimov won rounds 9 and 10 to even it up then bud swept the championship rounds to score a close but clear fair decision

[Theshotyoudontsee]

Would you be willing to bet your account on that prediction?

Lol. Sorry your guy lost and you are butthurt. No, I am not "betting my account", whatever that even means, on playing keyboard tough guy with you dude. I said in my own prediction, anything can happen, yes, Canelo may land a big one. I didn't say it is a certainty.

I said watch. If he fights Canelo, and loses, I will say, I was wrong. Can you admit Bud won tonight? Calm down there Chuck.

[Lance98]

Usyk has beaten some undefeated killers from cruiser to heavy with a way worse size disadvantage..

You are clearly confused and seem mentally slow. Usyk should have lost the dubois fight by KO where he went down in a heap from that body shot and tried to play that low blow card, and the ref protected him too.

[dibzvincent143]

All the lads who know nothing about boxing think that a fight against Canelo is dead and that Bud has no chance against him if they fought.
I remember Lightweight Roberto Duran challenging Middleweight champ Marvin Hagler (the greates middleweight of all time) it was a close battle and the fight was dead even after the 12th round, Hagler pulled away at the end to win a close 15 round decision.
Bud is technically better than Duran and Canelo certainly isn't Hagler.

duran didn’t jump 3 weight classes to fight hagler. Lol
he was already acclimated at the weight.. this is first weightclasses up of the 3 jumps crawford has to make and he didn’t thoroughly impressed. His power was nonfactor almost the entire fight, was missing 80% of his shots and was eating a lot of right hands.. believe me i was rooting for him but it was tough tough win.. so if he had a tough tough win at the first jump of the 3rd imagine fighting the elites at 168 when you’re already too small and struggling at 154lber. That’s just ridiculous.