Comments Thread For: Defining Terence Crawford?s defining win ? Errol Spence or Canelo Alvarez?

[A.B Counterhooks]

Oh my how much do we forget? Revisionist history is 50/50. Before the fight no one gave Crawford a chance including you.

All of you said that Bud was too small, there are weight divisions for a reason, Canelo was going to knock him out and he wouldn’t be able to take punches from a naturally larger and stronger man.

However, he proved all of you doubters and haters wrong. I was the only voice of reason in this joint. I rocked very hard for Crawford that he was going to defeat Canelo because he was simply the better fighter and y’all thought that I was crazy.

Canelo only took the fight because he thought Crawford would be an easy challenger due to his smaller size but at the end of the day. Skills pay the bills.

Thats a blatant lie bro, I personally was very aware of Bud chances to close the gap and be able to pull it off him being a skilled fighter even tho I picked Canelo UD(post history backs me up), dont try to act now that you were the only human on planet earth that picked Bud to win, plenty folks gave him a shot ,obviously the ginger was the favorite as usual being the former king at 168 and the weight difference , also we saw Bud wasn't so little after all if you payed attention how big he looked in front of Canelo, also keep in mind the significant reach advantage which he used perfectly by establishing the Jab(something Canelo never could didnt bother to try) let me also remind you Canelo took the fight cause Turki offered him 150 millions reasons not because Crawford was precisely the weakest link. Again, calling TBud a cherry isn't smart as he clearly is anything but a cherry.

[champion4ever]

If bud is really great, he should fight Benny at 175lb. Yes, bud was confident hed best nelo as he studied him hard. But would be be as confident with benny?

So I see you like to throw around hypotheticals. So let’s see how you like this one.

I got one better. How about Crawford cut back down to 147 and fight Manny Pacquiao?

After all, Pac is still an active fighter you know.

[champion4ever]

Thats a blatant lie bro, I personally was very aware of Bud chances to close the gap and be able to pull it off him being a skilled fighter even tho I picked Canelo UD(post history backs me up), dont try to act now that you were the only human on planet earth that picked Bud to win, plenty folks gave him a shot ,obviously the ginger was the favorite as usual being the former king at 168 and the weight difference , also we saw Bud wasn't so little after all if you payed attention how big he looked in front of Canelo, also keep in mind the significant reach advantage which he used perfectly by establishing the Jab(something Canelo never could didnt bother to try) let me also remind you Canelo took the fight cause Turki offered him 150 millions reasons not because Crawford was precisely the weakest link. Again, calling TBud a cherry isn't smart as he clearly is anything but a cherry.

Damn! My bad chief! If you did give him a chance at winning then I was wrong and owe you an apology. There were a lot of people picking Terence to defeat Canelo.

I never said I was the only one. However, those who didn’t kept referencing the size differential. Everything you said I’ve already explained in detail prior to the fight. The reach, size and power were all non-factors.

When it got right down to it. Terence Bud Crawford was just the better fighter plain and simple. There are levels to this fight game and obviously Canelo is and never was on Bud’s level.

Not a cherry-pick? Not enough money in the world could have gotten Canelo in the ring with Benny. That was the fight that boxing fans actually wanted to see not Alvarez vs Crawford.

Neither Haymon or Turki were able to persuade Canelo to step inside of that squared ring with David Benavidez. If a 150 mil couldn’t do it than nothing could. He settled for the perceived lesser challenger of the two.

Which was a fight that boxing fans never demanded or wanted. He picked Bud by choice and not force. That makes it cherry-pick.

[hilljr]

I am gonna take a different route.....I don't think Bud's defining win was against either of those guys. I think the victory that will always define who Bud is to me is his victory over Viktor Postol. I know Postol's career after he got washed by Bud is not good.....But alot of that has to do with the fact that after Bud he took almost three years off before he fought again. Before they fought, Postol was seen as the most avoided man in boxing, and had just come out of a near two year stretch as 140s boogyman. He literally ran Danny Garcia, Lucas Mattyse, among others out of the division.....Hell Danny straight ducked him to fight a dude named Rod Salka.

Postol's style at the time was seen as too tricky and not worth the risk....and Bud knocked him down twice, and straight schooled him. That victory showed me more than anything that Bud's true strength is the versatility of his style. He was exceptional in that fight. That combined with the competitive toughness he showed against Gamboa, in what was his first major TV opportunity sealed him as not just my favorite boxer, but the label that came to define his career: Your favorite boxer's favorite boxer.