Who has the better defense: Crawford, Inoue, or Usyk

He's ranked #4 overall but his numbers have obviously gone down in numerous categories and indeed overall because of the huge physical advantages he's routinely giving away, advantages that no one else in either the top CompuBox top 10 or the P4P top 10 is, even Usyk who has only had 5 fights at HW and in one he had a longer reach and the same reach in one of the others.

 

It was the same at CW, ellerbe. He employs different styles too. Look at his boxing masterclass performance against Gassiev but against some of those other CWs he just stood right in front of them with a high guard and subsequently got hit more. He chose to do that.

And the thing is whilst Usyk is faster than AJ and Dubois they're both pretty fast for huge behemoths and fast enough to land the bomb on a smaller, faster and more elusive CW like Usyk. That's the thing which worried me most other than their savage power. Usyk had to be super switched on and very conscious of that for every single second of every single round because the slightest mistake could've proven fatal.

Not slow

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And the same thing can be said about defensive magician Floyd. He fought an awful lot of bigger, slower plodders.

 

The most amazing thing about Loma still being ranked #4 by CompuBox even though he's fought much better opposition than everyone ranked above (3 more champions than the rest have combined in way more fights) him in the top 10 (other than the win for Bivol over Clenelo) and is routinely giving away huge physical advantages that no one else in the CompuBox or P4P Top 10s are fighting in a division full of giants (and almost all these 135 pounders he's fought are very big or massive for the weight) is that when he was down at 126 and 130, and he was often giving away weight and reach (almost always reach) down in those divisions to, he was racking up Floyd numbers

'Following his dazzling performance vs. Nicholas Walters, Vasyl Lomachenko takes over the #1 spot on CompuBox's Plus Minus List with a +20.9 rating. He's the highest rated fighter since Floyd Mayweather (+24.5). Lomachenko also ranks #1 in opponents connect pct. at 16.1%-- .7% higher than master boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux.

This stat is so impressive given Loma is the busier offensive fighter (22 of 59.5 per round) to Rigos 11.6 of 49.4 per round. Normally a busier fighter is more susceptible to opponents counters. Mayweather avg'd 16.9 of 38.9 per round.

Money opponents landed 18.9%. Lomachenko lands 49.4% of his power punches, 12.1% higher than the CompuBox average. Lomachenko's opponents land just 22.7% of their power punches, 14.6% lower than the CompuBox average.'

And if you want to talk about someone facing fast opponents

GRJ, Linares, Rigo, and Teofimo are/were all top 10 fastest in the game IMO and a couple top 5 and many also consider Haney one of the fastest in the sport or at least very fast


GRJ was considered the fastest in the entire sport and Loma restricted him to landing 10% of his punches. That's only one of two times Loma has enjoyed a reach advantage and it was only 1'' (Loma is giving away just under 6'' in reach regularly at 135)

Linares has blazing quick hands

Rigo's counter left is lightening quick

Teofimo is super quick too

And then also factor in how beautiful he makes it look too. He makes it look like art

 

I think it suits it

 

Great band