Anybody give Crawford a shot at Mayweather?

[dibzvincent143]

Where did I mention KO? Crawford wins no more than 3-4 rounds in a 12 round fight.

I'm not sure why you mentioned Maidana. Crawford fights nothing like him



No problem



Do you think Crawford beats Floyd by fighting him like Castillo/Maidana?

Or do you think TC would outbox Mayweather?

I say no to all of the above because Crawford isn't a pressure fighter, nor is he the slickest boxer. I've seen him get hit clean by ordinary fighters. Similar to Floyd, Crawford loses early rounds, but makes adjustments around the 5th or 6th.

Problem is, Floyd makes adjustments to adjustments. No way in hell, would Crawford outthink Mayweather in a technical boxing match. And he doesn't have the grit/brawler mentality to go for broke and eat 4 punches to land one.

Mayweather is 41, but has the body of a 25 year old and the boxing IQ of someone capable of teaching Hopkins a thing or two in class.

It's a bad matchup. The only rounds Crawford wins are the ones early around 2/3 before Mayweather adjusts and shuts him down

Floyd didn’t even muster much offense against past prime pac and trash berto. And that was 3 years ago.

Let alone against a live pound for pound dog right now after 3 yrs retirement.
I’m not even a fan of crawford, and if they fight today i’d support floyd but cmon, im just being realistic here.

Hopkins is a bad example actually as they fight nothing a like. Floyd uses his superior speed and reflexes to counter and box well even in his advance age he still relied on that.
Hopkins meanwhile relied on clinches, on butts, on tricks and he makes it as ugly as possible without giving much offense.

[Boxing Goat]

Hypothetically, if Floyd came out of retirement right now, I'd give Crawford no more than 3-4 rounds

Lol! Crawford is WAY too much for Floyd right now.
You can't be serious. Floyd would not fight him or Spence. You see how he hasn't so much as muttered their names. At all.

[Chollo Vista]

If we gonna go by entire career comparison then Floyd beats any version of TC. 42 year old Floyd would wash 42 year old TC.
30 year old Floyd would wash 30 year old TC.
The problem is right now the other guy is way past his prime. Crawford doesn’t have to be maidana or castillo he just have to be himself. He is now at a point where he can outspeed, out time, outstamina and outpower a 42 yr old version of Floyd. If it’s so easy Floyd would have grab this payday as it is too good and a much needed addition of a prime name in his resume. But it ain’t.

Body of a 25 yr old?? It’s clear you’re not closely watching Floyd’s career. If so, you would have seen the significant drop in workrate, movement, reflexes and speed leading towards the twilight.
And how do you know of that today?? As he wasn’t in a serious fight for 3 years now??

Floyd is great. But let’s not be fanboys here and believe a 42 yr old 3 yr retired guy would then have an easy day with a current prime and arguarbly number 1 welter and pound for pound.

Like I said put past prime Floyd in there with horn and he ain’t gonna have an easy time. He ain’t knocking horn in 9 like crawford did.

View this post on Instagram

Not bad for one week of training #UNDEFEATED

A post shared by Floyd Mayweather (@floydmayweather) on Sep 21, 2018 at 8:26am PDT

Is he out of his prime? Sure. Can an out of prime Mayweather, that's still in great shape and hasn't taken years of punishment still beat a sub-prime/prime Terrance Crawford that has 1 fight at Welterweight? Absolutely

[Chollo Vista]

Floyd didn’t even muster much offense against past prime pac and trash berto. And that was 3 years ago.

Let alone against a live pound for pound dog right now after 3 yrs retirement.
I’m not even a fan of crawford, and if they fight today i’d support floyd but cmon, im just being realistic here.

Hopkins is a bad example actually as they fight nothing a like. Floyd uses his superior speed and reflexes to counter and box well even in his advance age he still relied on that.
Hopkins meanwhile relied on clinches, on butts, on tricks and he makes it as ugly as possible without giving much offense.

Why are you comparing how Mayweather fought Pac and Berto to how he would fight Crawford?

You're using triangle theories. If your method of thinking actually made sense then why did Andre Berto land more punches on Floyd than Marques and Pacquiao? Why was Maidana a tougher fight for Mayweather than Canelo and Cotto?

Styles make fights.

Crawford simply doesn't have the style to cause Floyd issues. He's not going to outbox him and he's not going to out power him and rough him up. Just not gonna happen even if Floyd did take the fight

[Chollo Vista]

Floyd didn’t even muster much offense against past prime pac and trash berto. And that was 3 years ago.

Let alone against a live pound for pound dog right now after 3 yrs retirement.
I’m not even a fan of crawford, and if they fight today i’d support floyd but cmon, im just being realistic here.

Hopkins is a bad example actually as they fight nothing a like. Floyd uses his superior speed and reflexes to counter and box well even in his advance age he still relied on that.
Hopkins meanwhile relied on clinches, on butts, on tricks and he makes it as ugly as possible without giving much offense.

Please point me to the fight that tells you that Crawford can beat Mayweather? Was it the Jeff Horn fight? Was it the Dierry Jean, Hank Lundy or John Molina fight? Was it the Gamboa fight? Was it the postal fight?

Who has Crawford beating that's even pound-for-pound? You're making a bunch of assumptions with no real proven fight history for Crawford

[dibzvincent143]

View this post on Instagram

Not bad for one week of training #UNDEFEATED

A post shared by Floyd Mayweather (@floydmayweather) on Sep 21, 2018 at 8:26am PDT

Is he out of his prime? Sure. Can an out of prime Mayweather, that's still in great shape and hasn't taken years of punishment still beat a sub-prime/prime Terrance Crawford that has 1 fight at Welterweight? Absolutely

Pac sergio cotto mosley marquez, they’re all ripped af what makes you think you can base it on a pic?
Floyd is great, but they are limitations to the human body. And nope, I don’t want him to come back only to have his past prime self suffer for the benefit of haters. Science won’t back you up on this one.

Reflexes, speed, stamina all go down when you’re 42.
Like I said if it’s easy like you’re saying Floyd would have been licking his chops to fight those million ppv paydays. But he’s smart to know his limitations. Look who he’s been calling out, which is totally understandable, a rematch with Conor a ufc fighter or Manny, a 40 yr old as well.
When did he ever mention guys like spence, crawford or thurman???

TC now > Ortiz, Ghost, Guerrero, Berto at the point semi prime Floyd fought them.

[RuleOfTheSpear]

No. Mayweather wont give Crawford any shot at fighting him.

[pillowfists98]

Floyd would never fight Crawford now. He is well past his prime.

[dibzvincent143]

Please point me to the fight that tells you that Crawford can beat Mayweather? Was it the Jeff Horn fight? Was it the Dierry Jean, Hank Lundy or John Molina fight? Was it the Gamboa fight? Was it the postal fight?

Who has Crawford beating that's even pound-for-pound? You're making a bunch of assumptions with no real proven fight history for Crawford

I’m not even big about crawford. I’m saying he wins majorly because Floyd is past it. Not because of his resume.
Or he’s better.
Past prime Pac couldn’t KO Horn. Neither will Floyd, and that’s a style Floyd wouldn’t like to deal at this point as well, like against Maidana.

I’m not using triangle theories at all. I’m merely pointing out the physicality of the Horn fight.

[elfag]

View this post on Instagram

Not bad for one week of training #UNDEFEATED

A post shared by Floyd Mayweather (@floydmayweather) on Sep 21, 2018 at 8:26am PDT

Is he out of his prime? Sure. Can an out of prime Mayweather, that's still in great shape and hasn't taken years of punishment still beat a sub-prime/prime Terrance Crawford that has 1 fight at Welterweight? Absolutely

Floyd's 60 year old dad still has visible abs. Roy Jones in his late 30s early 40s came in every fight looking cut like his 20s self and he got knocked out every time. Thats just genetics and exercise.

You can be in great shape, have great endurance and use peds to turn back the clock to an extent. But you cant do anything about declining reflexes, they happen to everybody.