Comments Thread For: Arum: Crawford is Equal if Not Better Than Sugar Ray Leonard

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Jeff Horn's reign as WBO welterweight champion has come to a crashing end at the hands of Terence Crawford, who claimed the belt with an utterly dominant display on Saturday in Las Vegas. Crawford was a class above from start to finish, totally overwhelming Horn to hand the Australian a comprehensive defeat - his first in 20 professional fights - with a ninth-round technical knockout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
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[Madison Boxing]

Who needs Duran,Hearns and hagler when you can beat horn, indongo and some guy who drew to Peterson.

[Armchairhero]

When they make these sweeping statements it would be prudent to add “potentially “ beforehand

[A-Wolf]

Right.

Leonard ran the gauntlet against a murders row of ATG beasts and monsters straight out of Greek mythology and Terence Crawford, slayer or Jeff Horn and John Molina Jr, is "better than Ray Leonard."

Ok.

[v.cassiusali@ya]

not yet..crawford has not yet fought someone like hearns, or a hagler or duran..he's still to be tested

[Sheldon312]

The boxing community is the only community in sports that accepts mediocrity.

[Boxing56]

He said the same thing about Floyd. Leonard was special. No welterweight today would have the guts to fight a Tommy Hearns.

[SteveM]

How can this be? Arum going into overblown hype mode. Crawford has a reasonable resume now and he dominates fighters like Loma mostly does. The Linares of the WW division is Thurman. If Crawford can stop Thurman as Loma did Linares his resume improves. A lot.
Then if he can dominate Spence he's have a lock on P4P unless Loma can beat Mickey.

And with all that accomplished he still wouldn't have a resume as impressive as SRL's. There simply aren't the boxers around these days to match Duran, Hearns, Hagler and Benitez. Nobody speaking about '4 Kings' these days.

[Tony Mangtana]

This statement is a joke

[Teetotaler]

Srl was a bum