Crawford opens up Chavez, keeps the jab in his face and the lets the counters come themselves, offsets his timing and rhythm with it, so when Chavez does commit, he’s throwing blindly, and Crawford is able to see it coming and counter him. He’d measure him and time the head movement of Chavez as he ducks and as he pulls back out. It’s a horrendous style matchup for Chavez.
JCC was still at super feather in 1987 until November of that year when he moved up to 135 to fight Rosario. But since the proposed battle ground is 140 I’ll play along. And in truth, junior welter WAS arguably Chavez’s best weight ( or in my opinion. ) Bud Crawford didn’t spend much time at 140 but he got a lot of work done unifying the belts and beating the best around. And he did it over the course of perhaps 7-8 fights ? He also showed tremendous success both above and below super lightweight. In addition, when I look at the tremendous fights Roger Mayweather and Meldrick Taylor gave Chavez it’s hard to imagine Terence not doing at least as good perhaps better. I’m leaning toward Crawford by a decision.
This content is protected Those tactics have been tried before. Chavez had some answers for it. His defense was underrated, especially his blocking and parrying punches, his ability to cut the ring off., Chavez's righthand lead was kinda quick and sneaky.
Crawford has a better judgement of distance and ability to think steps ahead than the guys who tried to pull it off. He has a lot of tricks that are very subtle, he can make it look like there’s a target, but then take it away, he moves off of the ropes effectively, and he does so with a perfect sense of range and awareness of where he and his opponent is in the ring. Crawford can defend at any range and let his hands go at any range, he can set you up with endless methods, and if I mentioned all of them, I’d be here all day. He can pull away at an angle, post with his lead hand, and deflect the punch over his shoulder. He’d time the left hooks of Chavez with check lead hooks, he’d get Chavez to open up, think there’s not a threat and time him. Crawford is a master at making you leave yourself open by making you think there’s no threat.
