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

Plenty of us said he wasn’t as great as he was hyped to be. We went through it all week.

 

Liked what he had to say here but when will people stop speaking the absolute lie that is, "Inoue fought nobody"?

 

HBO was building up a fight against Roman. They put Inoue on his undercard. Inoue called him out and his team made Roman an offer. Roman said no to fighting the 11-0 Inoue citing money.

And Estrada, Rungvisai, and Cuadras never really showed real interest in fighting Inoue.

 

The problem with a rematch is, Bud will be 36 years old in September. There's only so many fights left for him while he's still considered "PRIME". (even though according to some people you can't be prime at 35 let alone 36)

Crawford's been fighting once per year, which is probably why he's still PRIME at 35/36 because he rarely in the ring. Now, Spence has made it clear that he has no plans on fighting at 147 ever again, which creates a problem for a rematch. Why would they fight at 154 in a non-title fight in December when Crawford just became Undisputed at 147? That makes no sense whatsoever.

I don't know where he goes from here. He just got completely destroyed by Bud at 147. If Bud intends on defending Undisputed at 147, then it's not going to be Spence. What does Bud have to gain to rematch him at 154? And another thing, wouldn't the rematch clause be at 147 for all the titles? What kind of a rematch clause would require Bud to fight him in a non-title fight at 154? If Spence wants to move up to 154, then does it really make sense to go straight into a showdown with Jermell Charlo? I mean Spence at this point is going to be a heavy underdog, pretty much no one would give him a chance against Charlo or any top 154-er after the beatdown he got by Crawford.

This reminds me of Kambosos when he lost to Haney, got dominated but he had a rematch clause, then they went into a pointless rematch where the exact same thing happened again. Does anyone really think Spence would do better in a rematch? The whole idea is dumb, especially with Spence wanting to move up to 154.

So the real question is what's next for Bud? Who do you want to see him fight next? Who at 147 is worthy to challenge him for Undisputed? Or does he move up to 154 to fight Jermell Charlo? Would he seriously want to move up all the way to 168 to fight Canelo? I doubt it. He's Undisputed at 147. I guess we'll have to see what happens with Canelo and Jermell in September. if Jermell somehow beats Canelo then Bud vs Jermell at 154 instantly becomes the biggest fight in boxing. If Canelo wins, then Bud vs Jermell at 154 is still an option but is that really what Bud wants, to become Double Undisputed? Or will / should he stay at 147 and finish his career there? What do you think?

Also how many more years does Bud have in the sport? Will he continue to fight once a year and into his 40s? How long can Bud stay "PRIME"? So many questions after what happened last night.

 

For the record, I got Inoue smoking them all. Not fanboyism. He's just a level above in every category.

 

Neither did IBF champion Ancajas, WBA champion Kal Yafai, his WBO mandatory, the next mandatory up, hell even Ioka turned down the offer to move up a division and challenge Inoue, who beat the number one ranked Omar Narvez. They effectively waited him out of the division, and somehow that gets turned into a stain on Inoue.

 

I agree it’s not surprising that Crawford who is far and away the best fighter in the world dominated Spence who telegraphs his punches a little too much.

 

Spence is a very good fighter, he’s just not Bud Crawford who is a legitimate generational fighter.

 

This is exactly why guys don’t regularly take these kind of fights. You lose and it’s “he sucks”, he’s a “hype job”, etc etc. Bud is just that good, doesn’t matter who you put in there last night, Bud was/is a very serious problem.

 

I've never heard any of them call out Inoue. They all kept Inoue's name out of their mouths, cause they all know they would get annihilated.