Yeah, sounds about right to me, mate. Zoo was damn good, but he's far from the devilish killer he gets hyped up to be. Although, truth be told, he does have a pretty good style match-up, here. He liked it when people moved off him and tried to outbox him, since he could gather momentum and really enforce himself on them, but I think Crawford has the power (and more importantly size advantage) to keep Zoo off him for at least 7 rounds.
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Yeah, I recently watched Tszyu take Chavez apart but, I think the Crawford that unified the belts beats him in a good match.
Mikey Garcia kind of reminds me of Tszyu at times. Both guys have that steady mid range pressure and excellent timing. I think Tszyu would do quite well if he fought today.
Mosely wasn't going to waste his time at 140 when he was offered a fight with the biggest draw in the sport at the time. Only a fool would have done that.
Future Undisputed Super Lightweight champion of the World versus future Undisputed Welterweight champion of the World in the Light Welterweight final at the 1991 World Amateur Championships in Sydney (apologies if Serge has already posted it): This content is protected
That's my point. Mikey Garcia wasn't going to defend a title at 140 when he can make PPV money and DAZN millions at 147.
He'd likely be a favourite to beat anyone at 135-140 today, though a couple of fighters like Taylor could give him problems. As someone said, Tszyu wasn't a flashy fighter, but he did everything really well and hardly ever wasted a punch. It's pertinent to compare him to Golovkin, not because they're both Slavic Eurasians but due to the efficiency of their styles. You'd rarely see either man just wailing away mindlessly; every punch was always measured and delivered for a specific purpose. If a fighter wasn't in the position to land on then the punch wouldn't be thrown, or another punch would be employed to open them up to more damaging blows. Tszyu's actually one of my favourite fighters to watch for this reason. Aside from the fact that he was just damn tough and a brutal puncher, there's a degree of real craft and intelligence to his style that's missing in a lot of fighters today. He really demonstrates the science of boxing better than almost anyone in the modern era.
I always felt this way. Looking back you'd have to favour Floyd, but Kostya had great timing. He also didn't give much away/was hard to fluster (As Zab found out). He was good against pure boxers.
I'd love to have seen a prime Tszyu against someone like JMM. I think that would've been a real high class chess match with brutal punches being thrown by both sides.
