Crawford says he’s better than Canelo! But no mention of fighting him!

[Richard G]

Resume. Who did you beat? That's all that matters when measuring what someone's capable of. Not how many journeymen you TKO. That's what got Naseem Hamed in trouble.

We can say Crawford is a good fighter. But there's no way he can be considered "better" than a guy who's resume in the last 8 years ALONE destroys Crawford's entire career. There's just no way.

Ha ha, wondered if you'd pick up on that. Once you get away from those sorts of statistics it does of course get into opinion territory.

My opinion is based on Crawford's demolition of Horn, particularly the way he did it. Horn if anything exposed the ***** in Pacman's armour yet C in his clinical merciless way exposed Horn when there was plenty of opinion that it could be a close fight. To emphasise, it was the way that C did the job that stamped him for me as a truly awesome tactician with sufficient punching power to beat anyone.

[LetOutTheCage]

Yeah he is better than Canelo technically, much better. Canelo was getting easily outboxed by a washed up Kovalev before the KO. Crawford dominates his opponents.

And no why should he call out Canelo who is signi8bigger than him, that's ******

[Mr. Philadel]

how about just not opening his big dumb mouth?

A closed mouth don’t get fed

[CLUE]

He is better, and so is everyone else on the top ten with no PEDS on their record. That tints it all.

[lopetego]

Canelo would flatten Crawford

this lowly pretender with his overrated resumen should stop speaking about the Great One

he needed a low blow to put Khan out of there

[Mr. Philadel]

Spence at one point readily admitted that Thurman was above him - which is why he wanted to fight him.

Great fighters acknowledge when someone's above them as their reason to keep going up the ladder.

Unlike Crawford who claims to be the best but fights the Kavaliauskas's of the world and collects $3 million guarantee, while others dare to great.

Everybody is not cut from the same cloth...if Spence said that then that’s his twist...but why would a fighter at the top of his game and in the conversation for P4P best believe that another fighter is better than him?!?...Why put in all that work just to believe that someone else is better?!?... That’s not how the GREAT ones tick!

[Combat Talk Radio]

Ha ha, wondered if you'd pick up on that. Once you get away from those sorts of statistics it does of course get into opinion territory.

My opinion is based on Crawford's demolition of Horn, particularly the way he did it. Horn if anything exposed the ***** in Pacman's armour yet C in his clinical merciless way exposed Horn when there was plenty of opinion that it could be a close fight. To emphasise, it was the way that C did the job that stamped him for me as a truly awesome tactician with sufficient punching power to beat anyone.

Except that the fight was delayed due to a su****ious 'hand injury' from Crawford. Which delayed the fight and threw off training camp for Horn. We don't know if that affected him. Second, Horn was still throwing back at the time of that stoppage. I call it a bad stoppage. In the books, but a bad stoppage.

Zerafa? THAT is a quality win over Jeff Horn. THAT is what I expected Crawford to do and he didn't deliver.

I've never once criticized Crawford's power. I saw how he lifted Khan off his damn feet with that blatant low blow. Of course he's got power. My problem is that he can't seem to cleanly and clearly beat 147'ers with no asterisks for some reason.

Everybody is not cut from the same cloth...if Spence said that then that’s his twist...but why would a fighter at the top of his game and in the conversation for P4P best believe that another fighter is better than him?!?...Why put in all that work just to believe that someone else is better?!?... That’s not how the GREAT ones tick!

Notice that throughout history, with the exception of Floyd Mayweather, every fighter that's gone out there and called themselves the best later got their ass kicked.

Ali - multiple people
Joe Frazier - George Foreman
Larry Holmes - Michael Spinks
Bernard Hopkins - Calslappy
Chris Eubank - Calslappy
Broner - Maidana
Thurman - Pacquiao
Cotto - Margacheato
Roy Jones - Antonio Tarver
Mike Tyson - Buster Douglas
Victor Ortiz - Maidana
Freddie Norwood - Derrick Gainer
Nassem Hamed - Marco Antonio Barrera
Erik Morales - Zahir Raheem

etc etc etc.

That's not to say that a fighter shouldn't be confident, but they need to be realistic. If a guy is above you, they're above you. I respect a fighter who understands their limits.

For example, if Bradley were active now, he would still say Crawford is better than him. I frankly don't agree, but I'm not Bradley, so I can't speak for him. I respect it even if I don't like or agree with it.

Even Tyson Fury (at least before the fight) told Joshua that Wilder was the best HW. Shannon Briggs has repeatedly said Wilder is the best HW. Multiple guys have said that Wilder is the best HW. They all know he'll get outboxed, but they also know he's one punch away from a win every time. Fury now believes he is better than Wilder as a boxer but I guarantee you that Fury if asked would admit that Wilder is the best HW puncher right now. Not him.

That's called respeck.

[FredRekk]

Crawford can’t even sell $300K PPV buys...gtfoh.

[Bandman]

Canelo way above Bud and Loma on the pound for pound list.

[Richard G]

Except that the fight was delayed due to a su****ious 'hand injury' from Crawford. Which delayed the fight and threw off training camp for Horn. We don't know if that affected him. Second, Horn was still throwing back at the time of that stoppage. I call it a bad stoppage. In the books, but a bad stoppage.

Zerafa? THAT is a quality win over Jeff Horn. THAT is what I expected Crawford to do and he didn't deliver.

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Incidentally Horn's coach is copping heaps for mismanaging Horn's career (middleweight WTF?) and lacking skills coaching ability.