Who looked more impressive beating Canelo: Bivol or Crawford

Bivol but he was the much bigger man.
That said it was more impressive of a feat to go up 2-3 weight classes & do that to canelo in his first fight at the weight class.

final answer = Crawford

 

Idk. Bivol absolutely schooled canelo but was also the bigger guy. Bud was more competetive but was coming up in weight. In terms of pure schooling id say bivol. In terms of beating the odds crawford

 

Consider all you want. Canelo was not green when Mayweather beat him. Again, 8 year pro with over 40 fights. If anyone can name another green fighter in the history of the sport with a resume like Canelo's at the time he fought Maywether, let me know.
There are 2 narratives I disagree with. Canelo was green and he improved significantly after Mayweather. I refute those claims by asking the question in the above paragraph and argued that Canelo never got better at fighting guys with a good ring IQ, good feet, good jab and good timing. Saturday proved me right again.

 

I believe we should give credits to Crawford for his performance, as Bivol was naturally bigger than Canelo and was more expected, where Crawford is naturally smaller than Canelo. On top of that, Canelo is famous with his body drainage and bulking up literally 50lbs overnight.

 

To my point, he never got better at fighting guys with good movement, jabs and footwork. I did not see a significant improvement after the Mayweather fight. That's not saying Canelo wasn't a P4P fighter, just that Floyd fought a complete fighter when he faced Canelo. I like how you try being slick by changing the definition of green. The very definition of someone being green is, being inexperienced in life or a job. An 8 year pro with 40+ fights is not inexperienced.

 

Bivol looked far more aesthetically pleasing beating Canelo and really discouraged him coming in

Against Crawford, Canelo kept on coming at him all night

 

He has never "literally" bulked up 50lbs overnight.

Such a dehydration would kill someone.

 

Ok, inexperienced at the elite level is the best way to put it. I can agree with that. But, there wasn't too many guys Canelo could have fought to prepare him for Floyd. During that time Floyd separated himself from the other elite fighters.

 

Bud landed more? Based on what, the stats? There's no way he landed more. Bivol was teeing off on Canelo at times. Bivol actually dominated. Can't take anyone that says Crawford won easier seriously.

 

I’d personally like to see less of the “size difference” argument being used. Bivol had dimensional advantages, sure, but no more dimensional advantages than Plant, BJS, Rocky Fielding, Kovalev and Callum Smith all had. The fight night weight estimates were 183 and 180 for Bivol and Canelo respectively. There was probably a similarly small discrepancy between Bud and Canelo (and Bud had a greater reach advantage over Canelo than Bivol did). Giving up weight is what Usyk does routinely, and what Loma was doing when he fought Teo and Haney.

 

Bivol, but someone who is 5'7 has no business fighting at 175!

 

Qawi was 5'6 and one of the best H2H fighters at 175.

Griffin was also pretty good at 175 aswell being 5'7 he beat Toney x2 and gave a peak RJJ a tough fight.