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Just landed back from Vegas. Hence why I haven’t posted in about a week. Honestly what an event, kudos to TKO for putting this together. Atmosphere was great, the Mexicans came out, Omaha too. Best event I’ve been too in well over a decade.
For me this could be the greatest single victory in boxing history. Crawford was the smaller man, the older man, he was moving up essentially 3 divisions to a weight class far above his optimum weight, he’d been inactive for over a year and he was coming up against a modern great, a guy universally ranked top 10 P4P who’d dominated 168 for 5 years. There was no catchweight, no clauses, he was the B-side fighter but none of that mattered because Bud is just that damn good. I think what makes it so impressive is the way he won, he outboxed and he outfought Canelo, it was a truly magnificent and dominant performance.
For me personally, he’s the best I’ve seen live, the performance against Spence is probably the best performance I’ve seen live too. I’ve been privileged to watch guys like Floyd, Usyk, Inoue, Loma etc but Bud is easily the most impressive to watch live, the tools he has both offensively and defensively are incredible. I think he’s the best Welterweight since Ray Leonard- which is a 50/50 fight for me. I’d confidently say he beats both Floyd and Pac at 147. I just think he has far more weapons than both those guys at Welterweight.
It’s obviously subjective where he ranks all time, some will have him higher, some will have him lower, but what isn’t debatable is Bud Crawford is now certainly in that conversation.
For me this could be the greatest single victory in boxing history. Crawford was the smaller man, the older man, he was moving up essentially 3 divisions to a weight class far above his optimum weight, he’d been inactive for over a year and he was coming up against a modern great, a guy universally ranked top 10 P4P who’d dominated 168 for 5 years. There was no catchweight, no clauses, he was the B-side fighter but none of that mattered because Bud is just that damn good. I think what makes it so impressive is the way he won, he outboxed and he outfought Canelo, it was a truly magnificent and dominant performance.
For me personally, he’s the best I’ve seen live, the performance against Spence is probably the best performance I’ve seen live too. I’ve been privileged to watch guys like Floyd, Usyk, Inoue, Loma etc but Bud is easily the most impressive to watch live, the tools he has both offensively and defensively are incredible. I think he’s the best Welterweight since Ray Leonard- which is a 50/50 fight for me. I’d confidently say he beats both Floyd and Pac at 147. I just think he has far more weapons than both those guys at Welterweight.
It’s obviously subjective where he ranks all time, some will have him higher, some will have him lower, but what isn’t debatable is Bud Crawford is now certainly in that conversation.
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