Crawfish got exposed!

just read that. why would he even be considering retiring if he felt he could compete at the top? who plans on leaving after their biggest career win and positioning himself for a multimillion dollar payday? obviously something had been lost. if not physically, then surely mentally.

 

Spence might be a bad choice at this point, yeah, i tend to agree. Might correct myself and switch to Teofimo or Loma or so. Teofimo has so much upside and a very high ceiling at this point. Also regarding higher weight classes.

 

Adds moonlight to ignore list...

 

1. Taylor is ahead of him, based on a razor thin win over Prograis? His second best win there is a guy who should’ve lost to Postol in his previous fight. They both became undisputed at 140 with Taylor having the best single win. Aside from being undisputed at 140, Crawford was the lineal, legitimate champion at 135 and now is a legitimate titlist at 147. I don’t see how Taylor can be ranked ahead unless your criteria is personal liking(both the personalities and the styles). The same goes for Spence. He has the better body of work at 147, but what about Crawford’s undisputed crown at 140? (which was enough in itself to put Taylor in p4p top10 with only 1 better win than any of Crawford’s wins there) Or him being the man at 135 before that?

2. The fight last night was definetly close. It was 5-4 either way going in to 10th, Crawford sealed the deal with 2 knockdowns. Shawn’s father/trainer knows him the best, literally and didn’t like his body language. Shawn himself was on his hands and knees for 5 or 6 seconds, beat the count at seven and barely protested the stoppage. And who the hell are these Crawford fanboys? As far as this forum is concerned, a tomato can like Dillian Whyte gets more fanboying for him than Crawford.

Future H2H match ups are subjective. And Crawford’s personality is completely irrelevant to the discussion, don’t know why It would effect anyone’s ranking of a fighter.

 

Bud himself is 34 and had been out of the ring for a little over a year

 

stoppage is technically correct, it was the bullshittiest stoppage of stoppages tho

 

Doesnt seem like a stoppage worth complaining about. He got dropped twice in the round and his own corner stopped it... Good on Porter for showing up and doing well.

 

Now that is one low wattage comment

 

He may have made up his mind to retire but he didn't make up his mind to lose. Also his last fight was three months before Crawford's last fight. Fact is that Crawford proved to be the better fighter. Bottom line.

 

I think Crawford had more left and wasnt intending on retiring after the fight.

Porter was already at that point prior to the camp for the fight that he had enough.

That makes a big difference.

Despite all of that I thought Porter easily held his own in there up until the reckless lunging into the inside line proved suicidal.

 

yes. im sure bud prepared for the lunging in crouched forward to avoid the jab that porter does, its his trademark. he kept throwing that right hook as porter started forward, or throwing the left uppercut, depending on position. kept at it till porter was no longer fast enough to avoid them flush. as he wore down he got inches slower and more reckless and predictable.
bud made some in fight adjustments too. he was getting hit by porter early when he pulled back cause he allowed porter that extra step while hes pulling back. he started holding ground just outside porters lead punch as he rushed in, forcing porter to end up square and vulnerable.
i saw vulnerabilities in crawford too.