Bud chose a dog fight over an easy win.

[ruedboy]

Distance is everything in boxing and Crawford chose to stay in the challengers wheelhouse rather than box, counter and win a decision.
Maybe it was the P4P talk before the fight and Bud wanted to make a statement, who knows?
Anyway kodos to Bud, this fan appreciated it.

[GorillaDog]

Anybody can pretend to be Fraud Moneh Mayweather running out of punching range, feinting, and pot shotting. Even everybody's god Prime Pretty Boy Fraud Joy Sinclair was getting pieced up by b-c level fighters when he tried to walk guys down. You get hit if you come forward which is why I respect Loma so much. Its hard to make a guy miss coming forward.
T Bud chose to go toe to toe. And he got hit. Would you rather him just outbox the guy from the outside.

[Ray*]

Yep, he fought mean machine’s sort of fight and beat him at it too. He could have box from the outside and win an easy decision. He went out there to truly entertain the crowd, maybe it would mean the other guys looking at him as being vulnerable now. Then they would be more respective to fighting him.

[deathofaclown]

Well, i think he almost had to. Kavaliauskas deserves some credit, it wasn’t just Crawford’s choice.

Kavaliauskas showed excellent timing and was able to time Crawford and hit him flush and drop him when Crawford was trying to be patient and box. It wasn’t just a case of “Crawford could’ve easily beat him from the outside” - Sometimes you just get two fighters that synch up well and the lesser skilled fighter can just time the other really well.

Crawford had to start taking the fight to him to deter him.

Impressive from Crawford that he can do that though, a lot of highly skilled boxers can come unstuck if they need to get into that kind of fight.

[DaNeutral.]

He is without doubt the number 1 at 147. The PBC guys are smart to duck him. Bla Bla resume cry cry dont wash. Its just the PBC excuses. Hell of a fighter.

[Lopez_Boxing]

He didn't want a repeat of the AJ fight.

Bud showed if you are a true elite fighter you can beat a guy MANY ways

[Randomum]

Anybody can pretend to be Fraud Moneh Mayweather running out of punching range, feinting, and pot shotting. Even everybody's god Prime Pretty Boy Fraud Joy Sinclair was getting pieced up by b-c level fighters when he tried to walk guys down. You get hit if you come forward which is why I respect Loma so much. Its hard to make a guy miss coming forward.
T Bud chose to go toe to toe. And he got hit. Would you rather him just outbox the guy from the outside.

What Floyd did was the essence of the sport of boxing man.... Yes I prefer a Pacquiao vs Marquez technical offensive match but that was the point of boxing, and the scoring rewards that style of fighting. The point is to hit and not get hit.

[Mister Wolf]

And that's fine. He still was being dumb staying southpaw when he saw he was getting hit by the right hand. Very stubborn guy. He could have switched to orthodox after getting hit by those rights in the second round. The third round never needed to happen like that if he wasnt being prideful.

[SplitSecond]

Well, i think he almost had to. Kavaliauskas deserves some credit, it wasn’t just Crawford’s choice.

Kavaliauskas showed excellent timing and was able to time Crawford and hit him flush and drop him when Crawford was trying to be patient and box. It wasn’t just a case of “Crawford could’ve easily beat him from the outside” - Sometimes you just get two fighters that synch up well and the lesser skilled fighter can just time the other really well.

Crawford had to start taking the fight to him to deter him.

Impressive from Crawford that he can do that though, a lot of highly skilled boxers can come unstuck if they need to get into that kind of fight.

A lot of these casuals seemed to have missed this. Good post.

[ShoulderRoll]

It was the complete opposite of Anthony Joshua last week. Who chose an easy win over a dog fight.