Comments Thread For: Arum: Crawford is Best Welterweight Since Sugar Ray Leonard

[pasawayako]

Beamish, you need a reality check so let “me make it clear”
Floyd cannot be the best Welterweight since Leonard because Floyd never had the boxing ballz to face an IN PRIME African American Fighter , let alone any real IN PRIME fighter. Real Great WW like Leonard, Hearns, Duran, Whitaker, De La Hoya, Mosely, Cotto, Pacquiao and Bradley fought tough IN PRIME fighters not just in WW but also in other weights.
PAC earned the Greatest Fighter of the Decade 2000-2010 because he dared to be great and fought the toughest fighters in various weight classes to be first and only 7 and 8 weight champion as well as first and only 5 weight lineal champion... NO ONE ELSE ACCOMPLISHED THIS...
Only the greatest overall fighter of the last generation could have done this and that was Pacquiao... Greatness earned, didn’t have to talk about it, because he went out and DID IT! Like a true ATG.

No one will come close to pac in a next 100 years.

[Noelanthony]

Crawford needs more credible wins at 147 before he can be compared with Sugar Ray.

Before he can be compared with Spence and Thurman , talk less of Sugar Ray. Maybe he meant sugar Shane Mosley?

[Noelanthony]

Beamish, you need a reality check so let “me make it clear”
Floyd cannot be the best Welterweight since Leonard because Floyd never had the boxing ballz to face an IN PRIME African American Fighter , let alone any real IN PRIME fighter. Real Great WW like Leonard, Hearns, Duran, Whitaker, De La Hoya, Mosely, Cotto, Pacquiao and Bradley fought tough IN PRIME fighters not just in WW but also in other weights.
PAC earned the Greatest Fighter of the Decade 2000-2010 because he dared to be great and fought the toughest fighters in various weight classes to be first and only 7 and 8 weight champion as well as first and only 5 weight lineal champion... NO ONE ELSE ACCOMPLISHED THIS...
Only the greatest overall fighter of the last generation could have done this and that was Pacquiao... Greatness earned, didn’t have to talk about it, because he went out and DID IT! Like a true ATG.

Jesus he did all that? The two fights that stick in my memory was when he beat a lanky old scarecrow in Oscar and when he got Flattened my Marquez and made the commission introduce a face friendly material for canvas incase the unthinkable happened and a boxer falls flat on his face with no use of his arm to soften the blow

[Bronx2245]

"Crawford's the best welterweight since Sugar Ray Leonard; he'd be comparable or maybe even a slight favourite against Sugar Ray Leonard." - Bob Arum

Well, that's Bob! Hasn't seen him with anyone like Duran, Benitez, Hearn, or Hagler, but yeah, he's better than SRL! Very Disrespectful!

[Nomadic]

Before he can be compared with Spence and Thurman , talk less of Sugar Ray. Maybe he meant Sugar Shane Mosley?

Thank you for putting out the fire. Who ever wrote the article made a huge typo.

[marvin douglas]

No one will come close to pac in a next 100 years.

didn't pac get ko'd by jjm?

[pasawayako]

didn't pac get ko'd by jjm?

Is anyone became a 7 division champion? The highest is dela hoya who is only 6 division champion while pac is 8 div champ.

[pasawayako]

Jesus he did all that? The two fights that stick in my memory was when he beat a lanky old scarecrow in Oscar and when he got Flattened my Marquez and made the commission introduce a face friendly material for canvas incase the unthinkable happened and a boxer falls flat on his face with no use of his arm to soften the blow

Lol.
8 division champion.
5 division lineal champion
FIGHTER OF THE DECADE.

if anyone from the past to present and future can achieve that award then that would be a miracle.

[marvin douglas]

Is anyone became a 7 division champion? The highest is dela hoya who is only 6 division champion while pac is 8 div champ.

Yeah, but didn't pac get ko's by jjm?

[alexnation]

Yeah, considering SRL beat Benitez, Duran and Hearns, he needs a lot! He could beat Spence, Thurman and Pac, and still may not be there. I know Arum is hyping his fighter, but a ridiculous statement, considering we've had Sweet Pea, de la Hoya, Mosely, Mayweather, and Pac all who were better welterweights over the past 25 yrs

FFS stop bringing up Pac's name in every welter conversation. Beating today's Manny doesn't get you anywhere, he is past his prime. Talk current champs