Comments Thread For: Crawford Drops Kavaliauskas Three Times, Stops Him in Nine

[Mister Wolf]

I'm not sure he could've have. Crawford looked really thick, and had a birthday that just passed. He may be just a little past his prime. I didn't see the same bounce to his step. He looked heavy and he moved heavy. I know it will get written off as "he chose to fight like that." Yea, but he didn't choose to not get out of the way of those right hands.

Choosing to come out southpaw was ****ing ******. Anybody who has watched Egis knows he has an educated right hand. On top of that Crawford stubborn ass refused to switch.

[SplitSecond]

Does anyone else think that if Crawford boxed more the fight might have been easier?

No. Kava had a better jab, and was the faster fighter. His weakness is poor stamina. He was outboxing crawford at range, Crawford needed to do exactly what he did, get close to actually be able to land and push the pace to overheat the machine.

Even if Crawford still won it would have been a close fight if he never exploited Egi’s stamina.

[pretty ste]

He would beat Shawn porter it would be a smarter bud if they fight

[SplitSecond]

The thing about Spence is he had already admitted willfully that because he has to lose so much weight he can only performed at 70-80% of his ability at 147. He knows full well he can't beat Crawford at that level. He'd really have to ask to fight Crawford at a catch weight...

I’ve seen his fights above 147. There’s no improvement, he doesnt have what it takes. Not the power, strength or boxing skills.

[Realizniguhnit]

I'm not sure he could've have. Crawford looked really thick, and had a birthday that just passed. He may be just a little past his prime. I didn't see the same bounce to his step. He looked heavy and he moved heavy. I know it will get written off as "he chose to fight like that." Yea, but he didn't choose to not get out of the way of those right hands.

Your accessing the fight totally wrong. EK was unwilling to open up in the 1st few rounds for fear of being countered like Khan did so he decided to wait to see if he could catch TC slipping at the expense of entertainment value.

Crawford played along but as soon as he heard the boo's he decided to press the action earlier than he normally would while unusually fighting in a southpaw stance for long as he did. Those 2 factors cost him to get caught in between exchanges he wouldn't otherwise get caught with...

Normally he would have just boxed around until EK slowed down and took him out in the same fashion. Either way we were going to get the same outcome.

[pretty ste]

Outboxing Crawford idk what fight you were watching kid after the 4 rounds bud was putting on a whooping

[Realizniguhnit]

I’ve seen his fights above 147. There’s no improvement, he doesnt have what it takes. Not the power, strength or boxing skills.

I've seen every Spence fight. I tend to believe what he says but I agree to the naked eye you won't see much of a difference when he fought at higher weights.

Just because he may feel Or actually be a bit stronger and feel better at a higher weight won't change the fact that he is quite limited in the skill department. His style is just very basic all around but to his credit he is very good at being very basic.

[_Maxi]

Crawford just got knocked down by this dude fool.


You see the fight?



Who's talking about Floyd kid?

Floyd also has an uncalled KD against Judah. Just saying

[Corelone]

What the heck was Bud doing down there, looking for change? Anyway, I'm glad he didn't pull an AJ and take off running.

[HarvardBlue]

I haven't been too impressed with Crawford at WW. He just seem to get hit too easy. Kavaliauskas was timing him and he hardly did anything to adjust. Mayb he's fighting down to the level of his competition but that's not a good look for him.