Comments Thread For: Terence Crawford: 'The cream always rises to the top, I'm the last one standing'

[TheOneAboveAll]

Are you serious? You struggled to give Madrimov 4 rounds? What do Crawford’s nuts taste like? Lmao. Madrimov landed more or equal power punches than Crawford 9/12 rounds. He cleanly outlanded Crawford in total punches in 5 out of the 12 rounds. 115-113 was a pretty **** on score. Those saying Crawford won by more than that could be countered by saying Madrimov deserved at least a draw. There were a couple of swing rounds where if madrimov was the “A” side he might’ve got the nod for and the scores read in reverse. Crawford fans are just too dumb to see any reason lol

I had Madrimov winning close. If everybody would re-watch the fight, accept that there were some objectively even rounds (especially those first 3 rounds, for lack of punching) and then score those rounds 10-10, they would all have cards that make some kind of sense. When you force yourself to split hairs to find a winner (usually your guy) then you're going to consistently end up with a biased card while thinking everyone else is insane or biased. I thought Madrimov outsmarted and outboxed Bud, but I regard any card that has either guy winning by no more than a point or two as reasonable.

[TheOneAboveAll]

Madrimov is good but he’s not top 3 in the division

I think Madrimov vs any of the JMW elite is a pick 'em fight. He has the athleticism, IQ, endurance and punching power to contend with and beat any of them. I personally think he picks apart and destroys Fundora. I give him the edge over Tim Tszyu as well, but that's a great fight. I think Ortiz is his toughest fight, but who know what Ortiz has left against Bohachuk.

[MulaKO]

You Idiot, what I have been saying this entire time was that madrimov is cherry picked to make Crawford look good, because he only has 10 wins. And I said that because all the budse×auls said bud was going to dominate and stop him. Well none of that ended up happening. So next time if you're going to quote me, then please do a better job.

Yeah you got it
Fughin clowns

[Corelone]

I see what I don't want to see. Bud is getting old. He's still gifted, but not like he was. Madrimov did good late in Buds career, he lost and I don't see where he goes from here. If Bud beat him, younger, bigger, stronger anybody gots a shot.

[BoxWhere]

Yeah you got it
Fughin clowns

Just STFU budse×aul.

[Hous]

Madrimov is good but he’s not top 3 in the division

For what its worth, Ring Magezine has him at No. 2, only behind Crawford in the JMW division. I fully expected Crawford to beat him more decisively, not because Madrimov is not a good champion, but because I thought Crawford always looked good against these big strong guys. What I didn't expect was Madrimov to come in with some slick upper body movement and feints for 12 rounds. Thats what I mean by tricky. I was impressed by Madrimov and thought Crawford did a great job not losing his cool and doing enough to beat a tricky fighter.

[JakeTheBoxer]

154 should be his last destination.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Madrimov is good but he’s not top 3 in the division

Sure he is.

Who is top 3? Ortiz jr.? WE are not even sure how will Ortiz jr. look in his next fight.

[JakeTheBoxer]

For what its worth, Ring Magezine has him at No. 2, only behind Crawford in the JMW division. I fully expected Crawford to beat him more decisively, not because Madrimov is not a good champion, but because I thought Crawford always looked good against these big strong guys. What I didn't expect was Madrimov to come in with some slick upper body movement and feints for 12 rounds. Thats what I mean by tricky. I was impressed by Madrimov and thought Crawford did a great job not losing his cool and doing enough to beat a tricky fighter.

You expected him to dominate a 154 guy? In Crawford˙s first fight at that weight?

Maybe you expect too much. We have weight classes for a reason.

[Hous]

You expected him to dominate a 154 guy? In Crawford˙s first fight at that weight?

Maybe you expect too much. We have weight classes for a reason.

Yeah I did based on his movement up to Welterweight. Bud dominated strong fighters in Jeff Horn and Benavidez when he initially moved up in weight to WW. Stylistically, I think (and thought) Madrimov is pretty similar to Horn and Benavidez so I thought his dominance would be similar.