I got Postol over Crawford all day

[Mr.MojoRisin']

Postol has more experience at the highest level than Crawford, he's actually been in there with a legit threat.

Matthysse is better than anyone that Crawford has fought but Crawford has been in there more times with top guys. Look at it like this Crawford fought several 8/10 fighters and Postol fought only 1 10/10 fighter. Crawford is going to learn a lot more from several 8/10 fighters than Postol will from 1 10/10 fighter.

[John Locke]

Matthysse is better than anyone that Crawford has fought but Crawford has been in there more times with top guys. Look at it like this Crawford fought several 8/10 fighters and Postol fought only 1 10/10 fighter. Crawford is going to learn a lot more from several 8/10 fighters than Postol will from 1 10/10 fighter.

Crawford hasn't been in with any 'top guys' except Gamboa, but I don't consider that an impressive win because of the difference in size

Dierry Jean, Dulorme, Lundy, Beltran, Presoctt etc are C level at best, there's absolutely nothing impressive about beating this guys.

Postol has fought Aydin, Lundy, Corley as well btw.

[The Big Dunn]

I am picking Postol by UD.

[FrankieClutch]

The winner of this certainly will have a spot in my P4P top 10. This is a helluva fight and I can't wait to see it. I don't think anyone is wrong for picking either fighter, but I'm giving the slight edge to Crawford

[Mr.MojoRisin']

Crawford hasn't been in with any 'top guys' except Gamboa, but I don't consider that an impressive win because of the difference in size

Dierry Jean, Dulorme, Lundy, Beltran, Presoctt etc are C level at best, there's absolutely nothing impressive about beating this guys.

Postol has fought Aydin, Lundy, Corley as well btw.

Dierry Jean was ranked 6, Dulorme was ranked 5, Beltran was ranked 1, Gamboa was ranked 6, and Ricky Burns was the champ which you seem to have forgot, Sanabria was ranked 10 when Crawford was ranked 5.

[UFC_Boxing]

How did Crawford embarrass Gamboa? If anything that fight showed that Gamboa is a levels above Crawford in terms of skill. Gamboa is naturally 2-3 weight classes smaller than Crawford and he easily won the first 4 rounds of that fight, he then got carried away like he always does and it cost him against a much bigger man.

Crawford also struggled with Dulorme for the first 5 rounds, he gave away 3-4 rounds in that fight, against a guy who's C level at best.

I really don't see anything out of the ordinary about Crawford.

This message just show you did not even watch Gamboa vs Crawford. Round 1 to 4 were fairly close, Gamboa probably won 2 rounds of thoses. Round 1 could go both way, there wasn't much that happened. Round 2 to 4 were also pretty close, but they gave thm to Gamboa because he was 'the agressor', but at the same time i think Crawford landed more punches still. Then from round 5 to the stoppage Crawford dominated the olympic gold medalist. As for Dulorme, he, at best, hardly landed some power punchs but could never follow up on anything, i'm not even sure he on any round against Crawford.

[John Locke]

Dierry Jean was ranked 6, Dulorme was ranked 5, Beltran was ranked 1, Gamboa was ranked 6, and Ricky Burns was the champ which you seem to have forgot, Sanabria was ranked 10 when Crawford was ranked 5.

lol nobody takes governing body rankings seriously bro, it's all politics. Jean, Dulorme weren't even top 20 fighters at 140, Beltran and Burns were top 10 at 135 but that's probably the weakest division in boxing, both of those guys are low level fighters.

[Dean_Razorback]

i think is 50/50 and i have the feeling it will be a very boring fight

[John Locke]

This message just show you did not even watch Gamboa vs Crawford. Round 1 to 4 were fairly close, Gamboa probably won 2 rounds of thoses. Round 1 could go both way, there wasn't much that happened. Round 2 to 4 were also pretty close, but they gave thm to Gamboa because he was 'the agressor', but at the same time i think Crawford landed more punches still. Then from round 5 to the stoppage Crawford dominated the olympic gold medalist. As for Dulorme, he, at best, hardly landed some power punchs but could never follow up on anything, i'm not even sure he on any round against Crawford.

What point are you trying to make? The first 4 rounds were clear Gamboa rounds, I'm not saying Crawford didn't take over from that stage or he didn't win the fight fairly, what I'm saying is the big difference in size played a major part. Once Gamboa got caught, he lost discipline and started trading like he usually does, only this time he was fighting a guy naturally 2-3 weight classes bigger than him.

Dulorme won a minimum of 3 rounds against Crawford, you're obviously either new to boxing or don't know what you're talking about

[soul_survivor]

How did Crawford embarrass Gamboa? If anything that fight showed that Gamboa is a levels above Crawford in terms of skill. Gamboa is naturally 2-3 weight classes smaller than Crawford and he easily won the first 4 rounds of that fight, he then got carried away like he always does and it cost him against a much bigger man.

Crawford also struggled with Dulorme for the first 5 rounds, he gave away 3-4 rounds in that fight, against a guy who's C level at best.

I really don't see anything out of the ordinary about Crawford.

This is a good assessment which leads us to Crawfords biggest problem, he has a very low work rate for almost 5 rounds. But then he picks up, starts finding his range and hits guys pretty hard. That's what will help him win the fight because Postol is going to get caught with some sweet counters and unlikely to win down the stretch.