If resume matters why is Crawford and others ranked higher than Thurman

[Thraxox]

Thurman had his hands full but he landed the bigger and more effective hits. Danny Garcia and Porter trump anything on Crawford's resume.

But when you said Thurman beats porter "With ease" That is just false. He went life and death with him and some of them have porter winning me included.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Thurman has a better resume than Crawford and he is very skilled. He handled the most physical welterweight in the game, Shawn Porter with ease. And he made Garcia look silly. But yet he does not get the same level of respect as Crawford, GGG, Roman, and Loma who you could argue dont have as good of a resume. Why is this? Is it because he cant switch hit? Or is it because he isnt a loud mouth.

That was a close fight. I personally thought Porter edged him.

[danceswithfire]

to be fair , thurman was not as dominant vs porter but imo still clearly won it ..the garcia was not even close , thurman outboxed the **** out of em but the judges made seem closer

[The Time]

Thurman has a better resume than Crawford and he is very skilled. He handled the most physical welterweight in the game, Shawn Porter with ease. And he made Garcia look silly. But yet he does not get the same level of respect as Crawford, GGG, Roman, and Loma who you could argue dont have as good of a resume. Why is this? Is it because he cant switch hit? Or is it because he isnt a loud mouth.

You bring up a great point. The 140 division is weak. Besides Gamboa and Postol, not much else to look at on Crawfords resume. The skill is there definitely. But yeah Thurman should be up there as well if guys like Loma and Crawford are. Thurman's fight with Porter wasn't easy, but Thurman does have the better resume. You're right about that.
Great point and good thread.

[Sheldon312]

You bring up a great point. The 140 division is weak. Besides Gamboa and Postol, not much else to look at on Crawfords resume. The skill is there definitely. But yeah Thurman should be up there as well if guys like Loma and Crawford are. Thurman's fight with Porter wasn't easy, but Thurman does have the better resume. You're right about that.
Great point and good thread.

So why is Crawford ranked higher.

[Sheldon312]

"F" Shawn Porter. i think that its arguable that Postel at 140 and Rey Beltran and Gamboa at 135 were about the same level as porter at 147.

Crawford's top best wins(no specific order):
1. completely owned Diaz (u can call him a midget or whatever but he beat Lamont)
2. beat Postal in lame fight
3. beat a good version of Gamboa (not really past his prime yet)
4. Beltran b pretty tough and TC handled that easily(but was boring)
5. Burns (tough crowd road win Burns was ok at 135)

Thruman top 5(no specific order):
1. lame win over Garcia
2. very close win over Porter
3. Guerrero win (mostly crap version of Guerrero) and thurman had some issues late in the fight
4. Chaves (Thurman had issues here too)
5. Soto-K (not even really a legit contender at WW and still Thurmanator had problems in the fight)

i'll go with TC over Thurmantor when it comes to p4p resumes

Tf oit of here Guerrero and Chavez are much better than Beltran and Prescott

[-PBP-]

Crawford is a lineal champion in 2 different weight classes. Thurman is still working on his first.

Thurman has better recognizable names but not necessarily better fighters. Garcia passed on his mandatory with Postol where Crawford took the fight and took it to him.

Thurman still has work to do in order to reach Crawford's level.

[Tom Cruise]

How you perform vs those opponents is important as well. Thurman hasnt had a fight vs a top level guy where he has put it all together and looked sensational yet.

Crawford did that vs Postol

[The Big Dunn]

When it comes to p4p ranking, if you win a fight that turns out to be tougher than expected you usually get penalized. Thurman is hurt by never having a dominant performance in his biggest fights. He was very close with porter and he was well ahead against Danny then gave away the last few rounds to make it closer than it looked.

[John Locke]

Big Thurman fan here, but bruh you're gonna make people start disliking him if you keep tryna force him down their throats. Your last god knows how many threads have been about either Thurman or Crawford...

I agree that Thurman has the better resume and is generally underrated, but you don't need to make a thread about it every 20 minutes. The cream always rises to the top. Thurman does his talking in the ring, with his hands. He's gonna keep doing that, hopefully without developing a ******ed fanbase...