Terence Crawford's defensive skills

[Flo_Raiden]

How do you guys rate Bud’s defensive skills? I honestly think he has holes in his defense and he seems to get hit with unnecessary shots these day. To me he's always been more of an offensive fighter who likes to scrap rather than a boxing defense wizard, although he is highly skilled with a mean streak. Always likened Bud to Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson.

I give his defense a B.

[KTFOKING]

He's always taken clean shots and part of the reason is indeed due to him being as aggressive as he is. Crawford is going in there to hurt you.

Look at the Dulorme, Gamboa, Benavidez and Mean Machine fights. Took some FLUSH shots in all those fights.

He is also susceptible to losing some early rounds, but no one has yet won any rounds in the 2nd half of the fights against him.

[Mister Wolf]

Good. But he enjoys pulling back and often gets hit with straight right hand. Its like he assumes he can get away with it until you(the opponent) shows him he cant.

[deathofaclown]

He’s there to be hit with good timing, but that’s because he’s happy to open up and be aggressive.

He’s good to watch for that reason. He’d certainly not some defensive wizard, nor does he try to be really.

His defence is solid enough most of the time though. His overall skill set is very high because he does so much really well. I don’t think he obviously excels in one area over others, and he isn’t lacking badly in one area either.

[Flo_Raiden]

No one else has any opinions on Bud's defense? It's not the best but certainly not too bad. He's just good at giving the illusion that he's a slick fighter when he's really not.

[Redd Foxx]

One thing that confuses a lot of people is the fact that Bud doesn't use one style, one strategy, etc. He gets hit when he's willing to trade. He's a ghost when he wants to be. Look at the Postol fight. Here's a guy that had just retired Mathysse and he couldn't find Crawford. Bud has that much control over what he's doing.

You can make the same observations about Loma and the fights in which he got hit a lot (like his last one). Elite fighters sometimes choose to trade.

As for a more direct answer, I'd give him an 'A' on defense. Not perfect but excellent.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Porter likely stops him, that`s what I think.

[UNBANNED]

How do you guys rate Bud’s defensive skills? I honestly think he has holes in his defense and he seems to get hit with unnecessary shots these day. To me he's always been more of an offensive fighter who likes to scrap rather than a boxing defense wizard, although he is highly skilled with a mean streak. Always likened Bud to Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson.

I give his defense a B.

Terrence COULD be better defensively IF he fought safer, but he prefers to hurt and stop opponents. That's part of what makes him more fun than Floyd because he hurts you and CAN BE HURT.

Terrence is a great, great fighter. What's funny is HE'S MORE ENTERTAINING than Floyd, but gets none of the PPV buys Floyd got

[KillaMane26]

He only gets hit clean when he chooses to fight aggressive. He won't back down from a fight which gives Spence and Porter somthing to exploit....... Drag him into a war

[DumpkinsPlus5]

I was thinking about making a thread on this myself. Crawford's best defensive and overall performance was against Postol. Outside of that, he hasn't shown himself to be an elite defensive fighter. I think he's better than average, but he gets hit clean too much. And I'm not talking about a jab landing here and there. I'm talking about getting hit with power punches right on the button.