Putting Crawford's Domination & Stoppage of Errol Spence Jr. Into Its Proper Perspective.

Excellent work.

As you all know, I'm one of the world's leading authorities on chin and punch resistance science but the scary and baffling thing is you don't need to posses my level of expertise in that field to know that Spence is and always has been chinny. In fact, you don't need any type of qualification at all because it was blindingly obvious and the signs were always apparent.

How many other fighters can you think of you've heard me say I really don't like the way they react to getting hit? You can't think of one because there aren't any. But I've been saying this about Spence forever. Sure I've criticized or questioned the punch resistance of many fighters but Spence is the only one I've had that particular concern about and the most alarming factor is he often reacts like that after getting hit against light to average punchers.

The KO% of his opponents is embarrassing and then when you factor in all but two of the world champions he's fought were career 140 pounders or 135 Mikey it makes it even more so. The fact he's fought so many complete featherfists, so few punchers, and so many career 140 pounders and 135 Mikey isn't an coincidence.

Look at the model E-Hearn has followed in manufacturing Conor Benn's career so far. It's a tried and tested formula and one which many others have used to manufacture a fighter's career when they're coming up: Stick them in with light to average hitters, avoid punchers, and as you want to gradually step them up to world class feed them world class fighters or former champions from lower divisions who they're naturally bigger or much bigger than or past it or well past it former champs who bring name value and experience.

As said, Spence has fought a grand total of two career 147 world champions his entire career (Brook and Porter) and he struggled badly against both. Every other champ he'd fought was a career 140 or blown up 135 Mikey who came up and most of them were complete featherfights or average punchers at best.

He's been on mission clean out 147 of all its career 140 pounders who came up and he'd fought one career 147 pounder champ since winning his first world title six years ago against the only other one he's ever fought and he hasn't fought any of the young power punching hungry lions like Super Boots, Ortiz and Stan. The later has had to step aside twice and wait for his shot for forever and best believe Al had a word in his ear and convinced him do so at least one of those times.

I'd favour or give all three of those a good chance of stopping Spence. If Super Boots did so he'd receive a lot of credit, Ortiz would too, but if Stan did so you know damn well he'd receive a mere fraction of it even though he's had to step aside twice already. Spence would universally be deemed shot to hell after the car crash and if you argued that he looked good stopping Ugas it would be countered with Ugas previously having lost three times to nobodies and D levels at 140 and Manny being way past it, nearly 43 and not having fought in over two years when Ugas beat him.

Spence is a good fighter and a nice enough likeable guy but so many have been desperate to propel him up the P4P rankings way prematurely and this goes right back to him beating Brook, a damaged goods Brook at that who was coming of a stoppage loss, a beating, back down from two divisions North after bulking up to fight up there and most importantly a terrible eye injury, gruesome surgery to repair it which entailed having his eyeball removed via his mouth so they could repair the broken bone.

People don't realize how much that affected Brook mentally. He didn't only think his career was over he didn't know if he would even be able to see properly again out of the eye and his surgeon told him one more punch could've blinded him. So how in god's name do you think he felt as soon as he suffered the exact same injury to his other eye in the Spence fight, his next fight back after the surgery, when he knew he risked losing his sight in the eye and would have to go through the exact same hell he'd just been through after his previous fight all over again?

Even worse his surgeon was sitting ringside and he shook his head at Brook when Brook looked over at him after suffering the injury. He was more than holding his own prior to the eye injury but he was a different fighter after suffering it and quite understandably so given everything he'd been through after his previous fight.

Fact is Spence should never have been ranked in the P4P top 10 as prematurely as he was and even when he maybe did deserve it the insane lofty ranking he was afforded was never remotely warranted. He should never have been top 5 period and there isn't a single fighter in the current P4P top 10 he would beat if they were the same size as him.

The amount of people who have had him #1 for ages is comical beyond words. I've personally seen people say that all the time on social media