Is Crawford as skilled as Floyd was?

[TJ highway]

Crawford wouldn’t get in the ring with any version Floyd

Crawford hasn’t faced one very good opponent yet let alone a great opponent

Floyd beat great fighters sometimes handing out boxing lessons

Crawford would pull a Timmeh Bradley. Keeping Floyd’s name out their mouths

LOL! Bud is non existent to anyone out side of Top Rank. I've seen Inside PBC Boxing did a welter weight special with no mention of Bud and only mentioned Pac's once. Give me a break. The Chupacabra, Loch Ness Monster and the Cucuy are more real according to PBC's.

Gee willikers batman why did the show get canned?

[JakeTheBoxer]

Crawford must face Spence, Thurman, Porter, Manny... at least 2 of them to see what he is.

[pasawayako]

Floyd was beaten by the likes of castillo and maidana in his prime but was given a gift wins and he was schooled by a past prime dela Hoya while Crawford hasn't yet given a gift win in his career.

[SplitSecond]

Crawford is likely to go down the path I predicted for Golovkin. The elite fight’s will only happen once he’s passed prime, so people will underrate him. (Even though he has fought elite’s, not the one’s people recognize, for some reason).

Crawford would do well to create a falsity like Mayweather, fight only hasbeens, and for one reason or another, for some reason, keep the prime elite’s from ever happening. Mayweather built his record like that. Struggling with prime Castillo, Corley, Judah etc, whooping the old guy’s jumping up 3 weightclasses, coming out of retirement 3 year’s, recently ko’d, drain the big guy who’s not passed it etc, but go back to again struggling with a prime fighter even when it’s of Maidana’s lvl, or a guy like Cotto when he doesn’t stack everything in his favor.

What Crawford needs is that fake narrative. Wait for Spence to get Ko’d. Fight Charlo at 152. Bring Lopez straight from 135 to 147. Etc etc. Become, TBE.

[TheBoxGod]

No, he is above average but I dont think he is elite. He on a perfect diet for his skillset once they feed em something he dont like he will look average.

[hugh grant]

Floyd s skills are only not being hit

[STREET CLEANER]

Crawford passes the eyeball test but has not faced on elite fighter or former elite fighter.

His best win is Horn and that is not saying much.

Chasing Pac for a payday and avoiding everyone else. IMO he is unproven at the top level at WW.

[Carpe Diem]

Crawford is likely to go down the path I predicted for Golovkin. The elite fight’s will only happen once he’s passed prime, so people will underrate him. (Even though he has fought elite’s, not the one’s people recognize, for some reason).

Crawford would do well to create a falsity like Mayweather, fight only hasbeens, and for one reason or another, for some reason, keep the prime elite’s from ever happening. Mayweather built his record like that. Struggling with prime Castillo, Corley, Judah etc, whooping the old guy’s jumping up 3 weightclasses, coming out of retirement 3 year’s, recently ko’d, drain the big guy who’s not passed it etc, but go back to again struggling with a prime fighter even when it’s of Maidana’s lvl, or a guy like Cotto when he doesn’t stack everything in his favor.

What Crawford needs is that fake narrative. Wait for Spence to get Ko’d. Fight Charlo at 152. Bring Lopez straight from 135 to 147. Etc etc. Become, TBE.

You tried. The truth of the matter is that regardless of how Floyd’s career ended, he’ll always be viewed as a greater boxer than Crawford in terms of resume and in-ring abilities.

All those guys that you mentioned that he struggled against would be top quality wins on Crawford’s resume, and yet none of those are in Floyd’s top 10 best wins.

As i said, Crawford is good in his own right. He might arguably be the best WW in the division at the moment, but please don’t try to make it seem like he’s Mayweather’s equal in terms of all-around talent and skills.

There are good/great boxers(Canelo, Loma, Crawford, etc) and then there are generational once in a lifetime extraordinary boxers(Mayweather, Pacquiao, Roy Jones Jr, Sugar Ray R&L, etc).

[Madison Boxing]

best welterweight? based on what? who has he ever beat

[Ctx94]

Maybe I should say offensively, Crawford has more tools. He has a better arsenal of punches, he has more power in either hand with better ability to deliver it from either stance.

Floyd, especially later in his career, was really a master of a few things in different variations. Much of what he did was predicated on dictating the tempo of the fight, which allowed him the time to set up. The instances where Floyd was pressed into a dog fight, he looked much more limited. So much of what he did was based on hitting his opponent at a time where it’s hard for them to counter. He baits guys and then hits them when they move onto the front foot.

He never fought anybody with a longer reach... and every time he fought someone close in reach he took the biggest shots in those fights.

Judah, Mosley, etc....