It's not a matter of any one specific "who". It's more a matter of how things play out the next several years. There's no one single name that will suddenly catapult him into that upper echelon of ATGs. Consistently facing and beating the best perceived challenges from his weight class will be the ultimate definer.
Just so you don’t think it’s impossible, Tommy Hearns went from 147 to cruiserweight , Roy Jones from middleweight to heavyweight so don’t make it sound like Fighting Crawford is impossible.
Well if it`s a lesser champ how does that make Loma an ATG? No point being bigger if you can`t exploit your advantages, look at Roy Jones v Ruiz, I`m sorry that did not make Roy an ATG, I don`t care what happened after that fight either.
Tommy hearns was like 6’1 . You need to listen to what floyd said about Loma and he said that he never fought guy this small , because loma is small compared to Floyd and Bud is much bigger than floyd.
Depends on if they have good reach also if they know how to exploit it and if the punch harder than the featherweights and SFW`s that Loma has beat. I don`t think Loma could of beat Pryor, he might have pushed him close but loads of straight rights would coming and more will land than Linares was able to land.
Crawford is far better than anyone Hearns or Jones beat at the higher weights, Benitez was great but started at welter (maybe light welter) and like all Hearns opponents didn`t have a reach advantage, Ruiz was no heavyweight Crawford, I can`t even remember who Roy beat to win his light heavy title, his legacy wasn`t built on opposition.
For the For the record I believe Bud is the best fighter today it’s just that Loma’s Resume is better and I’m taking Bud over Spence.
From what I’ve seen here since last night, according to his haters, Loma will have to travel back in time and KO every top 130-140lber in the last 5 decades. Then maybe he will be considered decent. I am thoroughly enjoying the demographic drawing up imaginary strawman arguments in attempt to marginalize the amazing win last night. Yes, an EE is the best current boxer in the game. Choke on it.