How does Bud Crawford fair against Sugar Ray Leonard ?

If Leonard can figure out Hearns and Duran, he'd have no problem figuring out Bud. I think he'd stop him.

 

He didn't really beat Duran2, he used constant taunting which should had been limited or warned, like Joe Cortez did to Hatton against Floyd. Hearns2 outboxed and defeated Ray. Possible that Bud could land some counters that would hurt him.

The more you watch Hagler-Leonard, the more you favor Marvin, so, likewise, Leonard could similarly sway a decision win especially for a first match. Bud is physically strong (might be stronger than Ray) and equally as big.

 

Highly confident Ray beats and likely stops Bud, especially if 15 rounds

 

Bud has no chance at all against the same guy that beat Duran, Hearns, and Hagler. On top of being smart, skilled, and very fast Leonard was also an assassin in the ring. The fast combos that he threw with mean intent would be too much for Bud.

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Oh come on, Duran was pummeling Buchanan

 

He doesn't....

 

Until Bud can beat someone the caliber of Duran, Hearns or Hagler you have to favor Sugar Ray Leonard. Crawford has to at least beat Canelo to show he is that caliber. The current generation of boxers are starting to face each other, but they got kind of screwed out of a few legacy fights. If Crawford had beaten someone like Pacquiao or Mayweather then yeah you could say he is that ATG caliber. We have too many excellent fighters who can't seem to be beat, retire, and it's a bit of a black box of how good the new guys are.

 

He loses.

 

Just NO, CT.

He did hit him low, but that's not what win him the fight.

 

Clearly, it was more egregious to hit low as that is against the rules.
I don't know of any rule that SRL broke in his second fight with Duran.

It's absurd and and it's not an idea that I would ever espouse.
I think you are conflating me with a different poster, CT.

In the post to which you responded, I said...

"He did hit him low, but that's not what won him the fight.."

Duran was well ahead in the fight and Buchanan was unlikely to make it to the final bell anyway.

Buchanan continued fighting AFTER the bell for the end of round 14 and Duran obliged him.

Aside from Buchannan's antics, the low blow was far from the worst I've seen.
It's even a possibility that Buchanan wanted a way out at that point.

Had the fight gone to the scorecards at the sound of the bell ending round 13, Duran would have won by a wide margin, therefore I unreservedly disagree with the notion that the low blow won him the fight.

 

One question here, CT...

Did the referee rule the blow to be low ?

If he ruled it a low blow, then he would be obligated to give Buchanan five minutes to recover.

That did not happen.


If he did not rule it a low blow, then it was his prerogative to look at Buchannan and stop the fight.


I don't remember it being ruled low.

I could be mistaken on that point.

 

If it wasn't ruled low, then it would seem that the ref decided it wasn't a foul, and so, a fair stoppage.