Were you impressed with Crawford?

Before Crawford steps in with the truly elite of 147, he should maybe take one more fight at this weight against a solid contender but nobody crazy. A fight against Amir Khan or Lamont Peterson comes to mind. He beats one of those guys in solid fashion, he will be ready for Spence/Thurman after.

 

That's true, but Linares is more seasoned and battle tested than Horn. Linares was also more physically imposing on VL than Horn was on Bud. Linares had a significant reach advantage on VL, approximately 3 ½ inches, whereas Bud had a 2 inch reach advantage on Horn. When your opponent has that great of a reach advantage, flash knockdowns can happen.

So stylistically, I think it was a more difficult matchup for VL to take on Linares than it was for Bud to take on Horn.

Both Linares and Horn had success on VL and Bud, and both VL and Bud were impressive. Horn did land several clean right hands on Crawford in the early rounds, and several combinations when he got inside.

I don't see how Bud really decimated Horn. Bud didn't really hurt Horn to the extent that VL hurt Linares with that brutal body shot. It was unclear if Horn was even going to be stopped. If anything Horn just looked exhausted like his energy level wasn't right. The body shots surely were contributing to that, but I don't think decimated was the right word. Bud was impressive, but he was getting hit and though he may not have lost a round, several of the rounds were close. Even as late as round 7, while Bud seemed to take that round over in the 2nd half, was a round that Horn started well and may have been winning the round at the half way point.

Your "truth" I think is a little misleading. Horn is a solid fighter, but comparatively and given the reach advantage / disadvantage involved, it's not exactly a 1:1 comparison. Given the reach advantage, I think it's fair to argue that Linares was a tougher matchup stylistically for VL than Horn was for Bud.

The knockdown of VL was noteworthy, but outside of the knockdown, both Linares and Horn had similar levels of success overall. The difference though was that Linares had better stamina than Horn had and a much better reach advantage, two things that can't be ignored.

And finally, if you are going to compare both performances, you have to also consider that VL had a much more impressive knockout of Linares with the body shot than Bud had on Horn. VL brutalized Linares to the body leading to a more legit stoppage, whereas Bud's stoppage of Horn was premature / questionable.

 

140 is one of the weakest divisions in the sport. A glass jawed mediocre Namibian held 2 titles there.

So you watch his fights (you forgot to mention that Linares outboxed DeMarco before he got cut) and you came to the conclusion that Linares is on Jeff Horn's level. OK dude, whatever.

 

Linares had lost by KO 3 times before Loma to nobody of significance. His best performance is a life and death win over Luke Campbell. Damn you guys are so desperate and gullible.

 

And Jeff Horn's only notable performance is when he beat the corpse of Manny Pacquiao in a controversial fight which is about as meaningful as Kevin McBride beating Tyson.

 

I will be impressed when he beats in the same fashion Spence or Thurman or Brook because i dont rly rate Garcia and Porter.Or if he beats even faded Pac in impresive fashion.

 

The stoppage was horrible, horn could have easily made it all 12 rounds. Crawfords power and finishing skills are overrated. He had postol hurt and still couldn't get the job done. Lomachenko is finding ways to stop his opponent. Crawford had the perfect opponent in front of him last night to show off his skills on and wasnt even that impressive, he did a lot of running and holding. I feel like even old manny pac hurt horn worse.

 

not tremendously. He is a well established fast young fighter who most people thought could beat Horn. If he does this to Canelo for example, I would be very surprised.