Vergil Ortiz - Terence Crawford At 154 - Who Wins?

You'd have to favour Crawford just based on accomplishments but the common opponent who Crawford is on record saying gave him the hardest fighter of his career, along with the tiny way smaller Gamboa who even Crawford admitted himself was undersized and should've been campaigning down at 126 or 130, Egis aka Mean Machine says that Ortiz actually hits harder and is faster than Crawford and Egis did drop Crawford albeit predictably the US ref chose not to count it as a legit KD even though we all know it was.

Sure Egis hurt Ortiz too but he wasn't hurt near as bad as Crawford was against leprechaun Gamboa who despite only having stopped like 2 of his 13 opponents up at 135 hurt Crawford very badly with a solitary right hand, had him on non-hetero street and it taking about a minute for his head to fully clear before he was back on hetero street again, and had him a clean punch or two away from a KO loss, so if Egis says that Ortiz hits harder and is faster than Crawford, which he's adamant about, then Crawford's chin is at real risk in this match up because he would be facing someone who actually hits harder and is faster than him. Hopefully we get to see it at 154

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He was hurt for sure but Crawford was in cloud cuckoo land from a solitary right hand from a way smaller natural 126/130 and his head didn't fully clear until about 60 seconds and he had to hold Gamboa a bunch of times to buy himself time and avoid getting clipped again, whereas, conversely, Ortiz was hurt by a roughly same size legit banger in Egis and he had to withstand a furious assault from him and he was hit with a bunch of other big shots during that spell where he was hurt. Crawford was able to disguise it a bit better because he held and was in evasive mode.

 

True but Egis didn't catch Crawford like Gamboa did. Gamboa caught him with a big shot he didn't see coming when he was out of position. Had Egis caught Crawford him with a shot like that it would've been lights out.

Egis didn't catch him like he caught Ortiz either, and I mean specifically with a sustained follow up attack.