We can argue all day whether Crawford is #1, but there is no arguing that the man is a top P4P fighter. OP is a fool for suggesting otherwise.
Beat Josh Taylor, Josh Kelly, Shakhram Giyasov in the amateurs. Has an olympic gold medal at welterweight, has a gold and a silver at the world championships and dominated welterweight at world level as an amateur. He's coming to give Spence and Crawford a schooling they'll never forget.
Crawford, nothing special? Hmm. He has already done quite a bit even if he is yet to beat a fellow P4P-caliber fighter. The same can be said of Usyk but I doubt there's much consistency there. Truly guys like Estrada, Nietes, Ioka, and Srisaket should all be valued much closer or equal to some of these "top 5 P4P guys" than most seem to pay the due for.
Danny Garcia. You didn't "light up" anyone if you got knocked out in less than one third of the fight without hurting your opponent. Canelo Alvarez, same as above except an extra two rounds. But yeah, ultimately I agree it's stupid to say someone who TKO'd Khan didn't do well because they got touched a little. If the point is that he landed punches and won at least a round against every opponent other than Breidis Prescott, then yes.
Postol was the second coming on this forum. He was hot off tapping Matthysse into submission. Half of folks were calling him the legit goods, though you may not know that if you weren't around here back then based on how quick the 180 was done on Postol... Crawfords' argument lies more with quantity than quality. But his resume can get sold short by some. Perhaps worse than a handful of others, it is literally one of the best in the sport right now and that people have to see things in such extremes is a bit annoying.
Crawford is top 5 but no way #1 or #2. Loma (only active fighter to have beaten 2 RING mag p4p'ers at the time he beat them, and stopped both in 1 sided contests) Inoue (3 weight champ and has never been in a competitive fight to boot) Usyk (1st EVER 4 belt cruiserweight champ and beat a murderers row to do it too. Also beat good heavyweights in WSB) Crawford (2 weight title holder and lineal 140 lb champ, but beat so-so to good opposition (indongo,postol) to do it.
Umm, you were going good until you went full ****** and said Usyk's resume is better than his countryman's. Usyk did unify a hella good division but he has not a single p4p'er on his resume. Loma has two and one was in his prime and fighting at the same weight and hi-tech no massed his ass. Loma is far and away #1 p4p
Last I counted 135, 140 and 147 is THREE weight classes for Crawford. Crawford has simply beat everyone that they have put in front of him.
