Usyk probably 5th, but he suffers the same issue as Inoue, lack of competition in a weak division. Let’s see how he does at HW. Crawford is there because he dismantled Horn at WW who was coming off that robbery win against Pac. Beat khan more impressively than Canelo did (Canelo was losing early rounds) and people thought including myself that khans speed would at least trouble him in a boxing match. And the rest of his wins in the most stacked division, by far. Historically and by having the most participants, WW has always been the most stacked division. So it’s no coincidence that the p4p to guys usually are from LW-MW, the most stacked divisions where fighters move up and down between them.
What? You said that Crawford beat Khan better than Canelo did. Nonsense. Canelo laid out Khan with one of the best KO's in years. Khan quit in the Crawford match.
oh **** right off. the boxing community is the absolute worst with these overreactions. donaire had an amazing performance, and inoue, if anything, showed us that he had more in his arsenal than just power
Even past his prime fighter can perform like prime or at least close to his peak, if he still has a heart, discipline and physically not completely shot to ****. Donaire looked like a young, hungry contender, knowing that he must KO his opponent to win, complete opposite to Kovalev. After the fight i knew for sure this version of Donaire would beat anyone at bantam except Inoue.
If that’s your argument fair enough, I thought your argument was that Crawford fought a damaged version of khan because Canelo laid him out. That said, Khan is chinny, Canelo is 3 weight divisions bigger than him and can punch. It’s obvious that if Canelo lands a big one, he knocks khan out. In terms of p4p though you have to analyse skills, Canelo was getting outboxed. Had he been a LW sized guy, he may not be able to stop khan with 1 punch and be outpointed over 12 rounds. Meanwhile Crawford won every round clear. That tells me Crawford is better than Canelo p4p.
Inoue is still pound for pound #1. Loma has rough spots against Tank's son and Euro level Campbell. Crawford goes rounds with guys not rated in the top 10. Inoue beats down a rejuvenated Donaire, while eating some bombs along the way. He cemented his #1 Status.
@126 that's a bit different Loma barely makes 135, he looks like a little hulk at 135. He looks like a welterweight. 126 he would just be a corpse, ffs Prince Patel would probably take out Loma at 126. Surprised Loma can even make 135 tbh