Naoya "Email PFP King" Inoue and his place among the least deserving PFP 1s.

and?

 

Inoue has taken much bigger risks. He's fought multiple opponents who are physically bigger than him, something Crawford didn't do once in his whole career, and Inoue has fought lots of guys in their primes, unlike Crawford who mostly fought people at the tail-end of their careers.

 

Name me one metric by which Crawford has ever been smaller than anyone. He has never fought anyone who has longer arms than him, he has only once fought someone who was taller (Benavidez) and all available rehydration weights for his fights show he was bigger, usually significantly bigger, than all of his opponents. Even Canelo's team said Canelo was aiming for the high 170s in their fight, BoMac said Crawford was looking to rehydrate to about 180, so at the least they would've been the same size. Crawford has literally never fought with any sort of disadvantage. It's just a fact. Saying 'Crawford is not a big guy' is just your feelings.

Inoue 'got on his bike'... and pitched a shutout against a guy in his prime. Crawford scraped by Madrimov and did very little throughout - despite being taller, having longer arms, and weighing more on fight night - but I don't see you saying he got on his bike?

You seem to have either a bias for Crawford, or just an irrational dislike of Inoue, likely a combination of the two. But Inoue has already surpassed Crawford quite clearly and he's not even done yet.

 

Hey chief, boxing hasn’t had same day weigh ins in over 40 years, weight divisions don’t mean what they used to mean, especially not with someone like Crawford who spent his career dehydrating dangerous amounts and rehydrating on the day of the fight so that he was always fighting smaller men. What’s actually relevant is the weight of a fighter on fight night and in that sense Crawford never fought at a disadvantage.

 

This. Weight classes are a joke now and most good these guys fighting today would have never been able to fight in those weight classes with same day weigh ins.
Its ridiculous watching a jr.middleweight fight..........and both boxers weigh in at LIGHT HEAVY.

 

There are rehydration weights available for some of Crawford’s early fights before he ever fought for a title, when he was at 135. Even in them he was always a couple lbs over 147 lbs, so he’s never actually stepped in the ring below the welterweight limit. If this was the era of same day weigh ins he might’ve been able to squeeze down to welterweight very early in his career, but he’d have spent most of his career at middleweight and above. To call him a ‘normal sized welterweight’ is just false.

Canelo actually challenged himself at 168 and especially 175 by fighting bigger opponents. Crawford never did this and was, as already stated, bigger than Canelo by every metric.

 

Everybody knows why they have same day weigh ins and guess what ? People took advantage of it especially fighters who are bank rolled.
Hearns weighed in at 145lbs Leonard at 146lbs for a WELTERWEIGHT title fight.
Spence weighed in at 165lbs and Crawford was 168 lbs when they both entered the ring.
So you had 2 SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHTS fighting for the WELTERWEIGHT title.

 

lol… Inoue is regarded as generational talent by almost all pundits of boxing.
He is well deserved to be there.. it was not handed to him..
For the record I also have Usyk and Crawford a one in a generation type of fighters.