As great as Crawford was, he never fought an opponent with elite hand speed, Gamboa was the only one he fought who had fast hand speed.
The Ring Magazine Top 10 fighters of the 21st Century
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Post Hatton he gets credit for cherrypicking oppenents who were non threatening. The better fighters were already shopworn
What were his weaknesses iyo?
Yes he made mistakes in the ring and he paid when he did. So they did exploit them, he just was resilient and came back. That deserves credit.
But he didn’t fight a steady diet of them. He fought HOFers, champions and top ranked boxers. That is why he is #1.
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see the recently uploaded sparring footage on Timmeh’s channel of him sparring with a young prospect TBud
TBud could be got with rights upstairs and downstairs
And still recently too
but most telling from the sparring is how TBud did his best work on the back foot
highest ring iq most accurate right hand ever igga Floyd would 116-112 him
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