Analysis: Why Danny 'Swift' Garcia beats Terence 'Smoke' Crawford

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

Crawford's offensive skills are pretty good, but that man's defense is as leaky as my grandma's old rusty spigot in her backyard. He gets hit entirely too much with shots he really shouldn't get hit with. They put that Ricky Burns fight up on YouTube and while Crawford was beating him, Ricky Burns never stopped touching Crawford, no matter how badly he was losing. Gamboa was touching Crawford. Benavidez was touching him, Mean Machine, Khan landed a bunch of jabs. Even Hank Lundy was touching him. Ironically enough the three easiest fights he has had in his whole career since moving up to elite level were Postol, Indongo, and Horn which is completely backwards given they were champs at the time.

From what I see Crawford vs any top welter is a 50-50 fight until I see otherwise.

[bballchump11]

How does Danny deal with Crawford's footwork and jab? And how often will he be able to actually land?

[Combat Talk Radio]

How does Danny deal with Crawford's footwork and jab?

Same way Kavaliauskas did

[bballchump11]

Same way Kavaliauskas did

I don't think Crawford will be as aggressive vs Danny as he was vs Mean Machine. I'd expect more of a Postol like game plan.

[h2k]

Same way Kavaliauskas did

Man this guy shouldn't dream of fighting the pacman he will get embarrassed in the ring, money may will win every second against this pretender.

[Richard G]

Maybe I have it all wrong but it seemed to me that Crawford messed around with the pretenders like Benavidez and Khan in contrast to when it was serious against title holders like Horn. Then he showed what he really had.

[abracada]

To all the people on NSB that say Swift is unskilled simply because he lost to two of the top dogs.

Crawford's temper is tailor made for Swift. Kavaliauskas two-pieced him with ease, then wobbled and dropped him. The two-piece was fresh off a bait trap.

AND, Danny already beat the man in the ams. But since then, Danny's had way more experience against top, tough opposition than Crawford.

If Danny Swift throws his No Look Hook™ off a beautiful feint counter like he did Morales after Crawford rushes in like he did against Kavaliauskas, OR if Crawford is ****** enough to stand and **** with Danny, Crawford WILL get hit. That's when we'll know if he's packing glass.

Crawford gives Danny an absolute utter schooling, Swift loses TKO round 6.

Danny, the one that was outdone by Thurman and Porter and looked poor against Morales the old aged obese pensioner in the first fight.

[abracada]

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

Maybe I have it all wrong but it seemed to me that Crawford messed around with the pretenders like Benavidez and Khan in contrast to when it was serious against title holders like Horn. Then he showed what he really had.

In no way shape or form was Crawford 'messing' around with Benavidez that was one of his tougher fights, in all honesty I was shocked it was given Benavidez was one legged and never was a major player at 147, he was decent at 140 though.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Maybe I have it all wrong but it seemed to me that Crawford messed around with the pretenders like Benavidez and Khan in contrast to when it was serious against title holders like Horn. Then he showed what he really had.

What you're saying is that Crawford willingly ate punches. Don't agree. He plays around in every fight and eats punches. He can't do that against Swift and he has to engage. He's not going to be able to potshot him, Keef tried that and it almost cost him.

It's like someone mentioned already. Danny got closer and closer as the fight went on. Your GIF shows us why.

Danny threw half-hearted to lul Khan into a false sense of comfort, then timed him when he got overconfident. Same as Morales. The result was both spinning right round like a record. Swift could do that to Crawford because Smoke would definitely be ****** enough to take the bait.