A no hate thread: for those of you who think Crawford is P4P #1...

Indongo is packing serious glass in his mandible and his CV is featherfist central (it really is comical when you take a gander at it). He's been stopped every single time he's fought anyone who can punch a bit and the only time he wasn't was because his opponent didn't land a punch

All 4 of his losses via TKO/KO and all within 4 rounds

Crawford
Prograis
Yelussinov
Mwakinyo

Gamboa, who has always been chinny even when facing opponents his own size has been dropped in like 10 or 11 separate fights and 20 times or so in total IIRC, was a grotesque size mismatch and it was only Gamboa's second fight at the weight. Crawford had 7lbs on him and a whopping 9'' reach advantage. Gamboa should be 7-5 at 135 and he's only stopped 2 of his 12 opponents at that weight.

Benavidez's a peg-leg cripple whose leg is so messed up he shouldn't even be fighting and it clearly hinders him a great deal and causes him immense pain even during training.

Horn's only claim to fame is receiving a hometown gift from the judges against Manny who the ref allowed to slice his face up with butts and elbows all night. He got stopped by a stripper and Tim Tszyu for goodness sake.

Even The Ring Magazine had Horn ranked #98 in their annual end of year Ranking the World's 100 Best Fighters feature in 2017 after the Manny fight which says it all. They like the vast majority had him losing that one.

As for Crawford being more dominant against Postol than Taylor was

Lots of context there

Taylor unified an entire division in just 18 fights, Crawford didn't even become a world champion until his 23 fight

And when Taylor fought Postol he

Had only fought one world class opponent before (a past prime Vazquez)

Had taken part in zero world title fights

Had never been past 9 rounds before

Was giving away 4'' in reach


Whereas, conversely, when Crawford fought Postol he was 28-0

Had fought 6 or 7 world class opponents

It was his 7th world title fight

Had been into the 10th or further 5 times including the full 12 twice

Had a slight reach advantage over the Ukrainian (Crawford has never once been at a reach disadvantage in any of his fights against world class competition)

And on top of that he spent the entire fight on his bicycle stinking out the joint like he was in against a murderous puncher


Crawford unified against the light hitting Postol and Indongo, both of which in his home country with 7 of the 8 officials coming from his country too. Taylor won his world title at home, unified 2 belts at home but all the judges came from neutral countries albeit he had home refs, but he unified all four away and the ref and all three judges were from the US. So he didn't have a single home judge in any of those fights whereas Crawford only had one single foreign one for his and he had home refs for all his fights.

Taylor didn't even take up boxing until he was 15 y/0

Whereas, Crawford was 7 y/o when he took up the sport