roy for sure. he beat a drained inactive spence and now hes on par with guys like RJJ, hagler, and leonard?
Thats a weird matchup Roy was green as hell and by the time Terrence gets to 154 he will be almost 40. I dont think Crawford can take Roys power. The gap in experience would be huge but Roys physical gifts would be too much to overcome imo I think Roy blasts any welterweight, not named SRR, out spectacularily. Crawford against Floyd is to me the better matchup.
RJJ is the best fighter I have seen in my lifetime(Im 50). I think you could put prime him in with anyone from any of his weight classes(not heavyweight) and he would probably beat them or at worse be close Discounting Heavyweight as he would be too small to beat the majority of the best HW's.
A hill I am absolutely willing to die on is that RJJ is not a h2h beast at LMW. He only made LMW up until 1991 and never made it since. A gifted prospect yes, but p4p number 1 material, absolutely not imo.
Crawford has been a pro 16 years and has had 40 fights and barely fought any legit punchers, let alone ones his size. There are lots of complete featherfists and average punchers at best on his CV and lots of leprechauns, plodders and cripples too. The closest thing to an athletic phenom he's fought in all that time and all those fights would be tiny natural 130 at best leprechaun Gamboa who had no right being up at 135, let alone against a gigantic 135 who was a natural 147 who was much heavier with a 9'' reach advantage, and whose form at that weight is trash. To be fair, Roy's CV isn't exactly Puncher Central and his chin was made out of a composite of wafer, chicken bones, and transplanted old lady mandible section. That being said, even a 4-0 Roy was that power punching athletic fast-handed phenom who is completely absent from Crawford's 40 fight CV. Roy is like a way bigger Gamboa on steroids, literally albeit Gamboa was implicated in a PED scandal himself, and he would knock Crawford spark out. The only legit puncher Crawford has ever really fought his size is Mean Machine and he dropped him.
This is sort of funny to think about. A green pro debuting RJJ vs a 36 year old Crawford moving up to 154 for the first time. The speed of RJJ would definitely present problems but perhaps Bud's experience and skill set would be able to deal with it to some extent. The question for me is would Bud be able to deal with the foot speed of RJJ, would he be able to cut off the ring and actually land on RJJ. Bud for all his talents is pretty flat footed, he doesn't really move around the ring fast, so how he would keep up with even a young green RJJ I dont know.
Yeah, RJJ made mistakes but you have to be pretty special to take advantage of them, especially at 154-160.
