Bring on Troyanovsky and Broner.

..two fights Crawford dominates, IMO. Stylistically he is a complete nightmare for both of them.

At that point he's undisputed and what's even left? Figueroa?

Pacquiao will have no choice but to stay retired or face him (or finish up at WW, and Thurman's lurking up there...)

 

He would get tooled even worse than Broner or Trojan. Almost made to order.

 

I dunno. He is 28, and was making LW as recently as twenty months ago.

I think he can move up to welter and be effective (and be a player in the mix automatically), certainly, but not sure he needs to, despite the 157lbs rehydration.

Do we know what his FN weights have been previously in his light welter campaign? In the same ballpark?

He can probably squeeze out another year, enough to put all 4 belts together, which is easy work for him on paper and great for the legacy. After that, however, yeah, pretty much every remotely appealing payday will have dried up and it will be time for a climb - not because he can't make the weight anymore but to get those big names awaiting him one division north.

 

Troyanovsky/Broner/Figueroa/Lipinets (obviously this is highly optimistic; boxing politics means we should be lucky to get even two of the four) and then a jump up to beat Thurman would make for a 1st ballot HOF resume, conceivably as young as 30.

Doubly impressive since he only really burst onto the scene and fought his first significant opposition three years ago (despite having turned pro eight years ago)

 

I'm probably Matthysse's biggest (and certainly longest-running) fan on here, but sadly I think he is done...and would get badly hurt & embarrassed if he stepped in with TC.

 

Burns? Crawford thrashed him already.

I mean, credit to Ricky for snapping his rough 1-3-1 skid (which should have been 1-4; he lost to Beltran...another Crawford victim) and putting three stoppages together culminating in scooping up a vacant belt versus Di Rocco, but he is hardly in anybody's way of supremacy in the weight class.