Oleksandr Usyk Vs Bud Crawford (resume and accomplishments)

Let's ask the fighters themselves.

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It’s like splitting hairs. They’re neck and neck.

 

I think we can let it rest there. Both amazing fighters, done everything asked of them. They should both ride off into the sunset imo

 

Crawford after last night. We'll see more cruisers who win the heavyweight title. I don't know if a 135 champ becoming undisputed at 168 will ever happen again*.

*s/o Dingaan Thobela

 

agreed.

I might give the edge to Usyk solely on the basis of him having to concede significant amounts of weight in the ring vs. some of his hw opponents.

But they're p4p #1 & 1a no matter what order you rank em

 

Crawford has weighed in from 135lbs to 167lbs but always fought guys the same weight as him

Usyk has weighed in from 198lbs to 227lbs, and fought guys as much as 55lbs heavier than him! He was 226lbs and Fury was 281lbs in their 2nd fight for example.

Usyk did everything on the road, whilst undersized at HW, all against big punching prime beasts. Whilst his country is at war.

Crawford would need to clear up at Cruiserweight or Bridgerweight, and beat some top guys in their foreign countries to be in the discussion of accomplishments with Usyk.

 

I was going to mention Thobela

 

And if we factor in Usyk's amateur achievements this wouldn't even be slightly thread worthy

 

If you think washed Spence and off roid Canelo matches Fury....you need help.

Crawford is incredible and sadly didn't get the quality on his resume he deserves. Usyk is godlike and regardless of his resume you cannot discredit him.

Crawford deserved to get that win under his belt. Without it it would have been very sad. A great talent somewhat wasted. Same for Usyk if he don't get his incredible Fury wins.

Now both have cemented themselves. Both have life left but both could retire happy now.

 

Nonesense. That's a historically impossible task. If Crawford cleared cruiserweight he would be the greatest boxer of all time. He would far surpass Usyk. Usyk is being overrated, his best win Fury struggled against Steve Cunningham. Usyk cannot be that far above guys like Michael Spinks, Evander Holyfield and Bernard Hopkins. Usyk is not even greater than Roy Jones

 

Ta hell with that put them in the ring … let’s see it!

 

Crawford has been a weight bully, he's the same size as Canelo. Your eyes are NOT deceiving you, despite all the lies about Canelo being bigger (Canelo is a natural light middleweight or middleweight, he's small for 168)

Usyk was much smaller than Joshua, Dubois and Fury. And he didn't have home country advantage and home officiating, unlike Crawford.

Usyk is STILL P4P #1.

Inoue wins impressively, doesn't run like Crawford, so he's a clear #2 and will be #1 when Usyk retires.

Excellent post.

 

Crawford is being overrated, he struggled with Gamboa, his best win Alvarez struggled against Erislandy Lara!. See how anyone can talk like that! Lets see Crawford beat 7 world class top guys in a row who outweigh him by 30 POUNDS in their backyards then come back to me!!
Usyk is streets ahead of all them guys haha he's surpassed them all, you need to deal with it. Jones got knocked out countless times lol Usyk has gone clear. Take your Biased American hat off.

 

Canelo is not a natural Jr Middleweight come off it.

Canelo was 11-0 in Super Middleweight world title fights clearly it was considered his best weight.