Crawford is just like Ward- when the going gets tough, resort to cheating

Crawford got dropped and hurt several Time's against Gamboa, but never went dirty. Low blows happen, not all are deliberate. I believe Crawford's low blow was completely accidental.

 

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Crawford is not like Ward. Ward does not cheat when the going gets tough. Ward cheats before , during, and after the going gets tough.

 

Them few shots that Khan managed to get off were like feathers, Crawford was walking right through that and delivering a brutal response. People can hang their hats on that low blow but the fact is that Crawford was delivering blows to the body and head with each blow more powerful and deadly than it's predecessor.

 

Never seen the going get tough vs Crawford.
Try again

 

No

 

He got hit 5 punches total in the whole fight

 

Khan was starting to catch Crawford clean, Khan was taking big risks rushing in and they were actually paying off to some degree. Just a coincidence that's when Crawford threw the low-blow? Probably not, frustration.

 

I don't know about that. Crawford got away with a lot of pushing against Gamboa and hitting with an open glove that if he wasn't the house fighter he would've definitely got a warning and maybe even lost a point. That said Crawford won the fight, but Crawford has shown numerous times that he isn't above bending the rules if it will give him an advantage or make a fight easier. Crawford is talented enough that he doesn't need to resort to dirty tricks to win, so it just seems to be a natural part of his personality.

 

I agree with the OP except to compare it to Ward Kovalev 2. Ward had Kovalev hurt with legal body shots / borderline belt-line shots. The last shot was definitely low but Kovalev was already hunched over and in pain by that point. Ward Kovalev 2 was completely different than Crawford Khan. Kovalev wasn't starting to come on then Ward feeling that he was in trouble decided to resort to clear no-doubt about it low blows. That didn't happen. What happened was Ward started working the body and Kovalev became hurt as a result. Ward didn't just decide to throw a blatant low blow out of nowhere out of frustration.

Crawford on the other hand did just that. Khan was starting to get into a rhythm was starting to land big shots on Bud, and Crawford out of nowhere decided to throw a very low blow. It was aimed extremely low.

I'm not trying to get into a fight with Kovalev fans, I recognize that Ward's last shot was low, but the circumstances were completely different. Kovalev had already been hurt from borderline / belt-line shots and was about to be stopped before that last shot occurred. And Kovalev was hunched over so it wasn't as if it was easy for Ward to hit the body when a guy is hunched over like that. I'm not at all justifying Ward's low blow, but lets not act like he was getting tagged like Bud was and resorted to a low blow out of frustration like Bud did. The circumstances were totally different.

Bud clearly aimed the shot well below the belt-line after he had just been tagged by a nice one-two and Khan was starting to find his rhythm.

 

This is the first time I've heard of Crawford being dirty. Kind of funny if you ask me. It was a low blow, but look at what Khan was doing. Khan had his arms wrapped around Crawfords head pulling him down. No one seems to notice that. Suddenly Crawford is a cheat. SMFH

 

agreed and outside rd 1 he didn't look p4p

 

No one seems to notice that Crawford ducked down on his own to avoid the jab and started winding up his low blow before Khan did any "holding". Khan was not "pulling him down", several posters have made this argument as to "excuse" Crawfords low blow, that's not what happened.

You can see clear as day that Crawford dipped down to avoid the jab and started to throw that shot low before Khan had a hold of him. And Khan never appeard to pull Bud down, he was just holding on to Bud's back with his left hand, not pulling him down.

 

Dude, if khan was finding rhythm n all that crap you’re talking then his confidence would have been building and he woulda taken the damn 5 minutes. Or just kept going so as not to lose that rhythm. Plain n simple. He had a free 5 minutes. Don’t care how much it hurt, if he was feeling like he was starting to catch Bud he would’ve taken 5 n seen how it felt after. Crawford has no history of dirty tactics and he was winning comfortably. Khan is a world class p#ssy for punking out and a world class douche bag ******* for doing it with the amount of money he was making and how much money people had paid to see it. He didn’t care. He got a check and he will cash out against brook in England n retire.