Thoughts on Crawford's opposition?

[IronDanHamza]

It's decent.

I was impressed with the Gamboa KO despite the size advantage.

I thought Prescott was an OK win considering it was on short notice and was at 140 when he was competing at 135 at the time.

[boxinggod101]

Its not a P4P resume. I wasnt impress by the Gamboa KO since Gamboa didnt belong at that weight class and even at 140 Crawford is big so imagine at 135. He was getting outboxed pretty easily too before landing big. Hes good but I want him to be match vs someone that makes sense ASAP.

[bigjavi973]

I wanna see crawford vs a puncher 1st

[Jsmooth9876]

Crawford benefitted greatly from being at TR. I was hoping he and Postol would fight next. It is disappointing to see him fight what IMO is a lesser opponent tha the last 3.

I expect him to take on better opponents this year but it appears all the best 140lb guys are with Haymon.

Herrera, if doable, would be a good next fight.

Who at 140 with Haymon beats Postal?

[sicko]

Only his 3rd fight at 140 what are some of these other fighter excuses who been in 1 Division for YEARS and still haven't stepped up in Competition but yet they're getting so much HYPE right now

Crawford stepped up and took Challenges like stepping up and fighting Prescott on short notice and stepping up and fighting Gamboa when Mikey Garcia wasn't interested I guess because of his Issues with Arum

I'm seeing some at the edge of their seats waiting to jump up and start bashing Crawford who don't see this coming. Very typical in boxing today, love you today and hate you tomorrow.

[Tom Cruise]

His LW resume is good. He was the clear no.1 by the time he left.

At JWW id class his opponents as cautious but acceptable. He isnt setting the world alight but they are ok world level fighters. Top 10-20 types.

I think they can afford to be a bit more ballsy, but they seem to trying to find the right opponent to break out against. Potentially was going to be Manny but that obviously hasn't played out. Postol and Matthysse would be very watchable/winnable/makeable fights

[Pigeons]

Beltran was the #2 lightweight at the time and that fight established the lineal champion at the weight.

[soul_survivor]

Crawford's last 3 opponents have been:

Dierry Jean
Thomas Dulorme
Raymundo Beltran


These guys aren't bums, very solid contenders who had a shot to win (including Jean), but they are nothing to brag about. None of these guys are former World Champions and more importantly none have ever beaten a name.



This time he is fighting a "fringe" contender in Hank Lundy who is worse than all 4 and has defeats to Dulorme and Beltran. For someone being built as a superstar, what do you make of such underwhelming opposition?


Thoughts?

I agree, his opposition has been weak and I'd go so far as to say they didn't even have a shot at winning but TC did beat Burns, a recognised and established champ at 135 AND it's not too long ago that he stopped Gamboa, albeit an undersized Gamboa.

I think a lot of the ravings on TC, me included at times, is the fact that he has shown so many different facets to his game, there's fighting at range, fighting up close, there's the skill to win over the distance or the power to stop guys. He is also very popular and one of the few boxers in America I've seen build up a regional following, especially in recent years.

Having said that, there's a glaring omission in his game and that is a very, very poor work rate in the early rounds. Pacquiao would eat him up, Bradley would build a huge lead and Khan would overwhelm him with punches early. Crawford has to up his early punch output and I'm not sure what the issue is. May be stamina? As a lot of young fighters have that issue these days.

[Dr Rumack]

It would be nice to see him in with a significant name at 140/147. He's shown that he's a cut above those mid-level contenders. But beating a name that rings out has to be the objective now. With all due respect to Hank Lundy he's not quite in that category.

[Baltimore]

If he would have planned on Lundy from the start I would understand the complaints but he thought he had a real chance at fighting Manny. MANNY. I mean it don't get any bigger than that. It's not Bud's fault that fight didn't happen. Also apparently Postol wanted to wait to fight him and Ruslan/Herrera wanted to fight each other again. The Lundy fight is a mismatch but hopefully it's only being made to keep Bud on somewhat of a schedule and his next fight will be against a step up since they will have more time to plan for it.