Why can`t Crawford be the next Mayweather?

[JakeTheBoxer]

He is black, American, undefeated, now welterweight, he has, lets say elite skills.

Why is he not even close to Mayweather? What is his biggest problem?

[SplitSecond]

Mayweather was fortunate that Mayweather didn’t exist before Mayweather arrived on the scene. Guy’s fought back then.

Well, to be fair, at the moment, it seems like PBC is actually trying a little harder to make some fights during these quarantine times.

[Mammoth]

Mayweather was in big fights

[Roadblock]

He is black, American, undefeated, now welterweight, he has, lets say elite skills.

Why is he not even close to Mayweather? What is his biggest problem?

Simply the quality of opponents, Floyd fought and beat everyone that was anyone TC has not.

[bluebeam]

Floyd had opponents with fanbases.

Pacquiao
Cotto
Canelo
Hatton
De la hoya
Mosley
Marquez
Gatti.


You gotta have the right opponents to become a superstar

Bud potential opponents are good fighters. But they lack fanbases

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

This new era of boxing is strange to me, now a days it's all about collecting as many belts as possible to call yourself a 2 or 3 division champ, yet a lot of fighters who do it never have been a unified champ or even fought any serious competition. Crawford checks the box for unfied champ(undisputed actually), but at the end of the day people don't call Ali the greatest because he was a multiple time champ, they call him the greatest because he beat guys like Frazier, Foreman, Norton, Shavers, and Spinks.

Boxing has always been about who you beat not how many weight divisions you were a champion in. Julius Indongo was a unified champ, aint NOBODY with sense about to fix their lips and say he is some great fighter.

[deathofaclown]

You need the opponents, Floyd fought big names.

Crawford’s best win still might be Postol. Josh Taylor beat Postol after about a dozen fights.

That’s not a knock on Crawford, I’m
A fan and think he’s excellent but He simply hasn’t fought in big fight against big names, whether that’s his fault or not is another matter.

Not to mention he’s already coming up 33.

Then you have to remember Floyd was also excellent at selling himself and playing the villain if he needed ,to and did it very well, like in the Oscar fight. Being a great fighter isn’t enough, you need a strong image and persona.

[Thuglife Nelo]

Crawford is too ******. Floyd was just lower middle class from the Midwest.

[GrandpaBernard]

Floyd is very ambitious and always worked hard to sell his fights

Determined to be the highest paid ever

Crawford hasn’t shown any of this yet

[NC Uppercut]

Never say never. He could shine extra bright if he reels in the right opponents, and fights successfully until 39-40, but it has to start now!