Did Crawford move up because he knew Lomachenko was coming for him

The thing is I wasn't even talking about the Crawford at 147 or 140 when I say he was three divisions heavier than Loma. I was talking about the 135 Crawford who fought Beltran and Gamboa. Loma vs the 135 versions of Crawford and Haney is akin to weight wise the 135 Crawford vs GGG and the 135 Haney vs Bivol coming in at his lightest weight 180 only difference is Crawford has a 4'' longer reach than GGG and Haney only has a 1'' shorter reach than Bivol, whereas, conversely Crawford has a 8.5'' longer reach than Loma and Haney has a near 6'' longer reach than Loma.

There isn't a single person either Crawford or Haney have fought that a same size version of Loma wouldn't toy with or KO, let alone a 1,2, or 3 division bigger version of Loma.

Loma is fighting guys 2-3 divisions bigger than him, or 4 in Haney's case, at 135 and very often with near 6'' reach advantages on him, and he's fought a lot of big punchers or KO artists, many bigger or way bigger and heavier than him, whereas they're fighting guys way smaller than them in Haney's case (the fact that Haney weighed 9lbs more than career big 140 pounder Rougarou for his 140 debut being the closest in weight to him speaks volumes about that) and Crawford who has often been the bigger or much bigger man, rarely the smaller one, and extremely rarely much smaller, is fighting opponents roughly his weight even at 147, his third division. Have you ever thought to yourself whilst watching him at 147 that he looks undersized or noticeably or significantly smaller than his opponents?

And neither have fought many legit bangers or KO artists, let alone ones their size

Haney has fought two punchers

An old washed inactive much smaller Linares who hurt him badly

And short reach Rougarou who cannot close the distance to save his life against a rangy back foot boxer so he barely landed anything heavy at all

And the only legit real banger Crawford has fought his size is Mean Machine and he dropped him. He's fought a handful of good/decent punchers but also a ton of featherfists and light/average punchers

Loma has fought a lot of big punchers and KO artists for a 20 fight guy, a whole bunch who are 2-3 divisions heavier than him with longer or much longer reaches who are big punchers or KO artists against fighters their own size in a division he doesn't belong in and obviously power is magnified when you're facing much bigger and heavier opponents so even the power of the light or average punchers who are much bigger than him he's fought is magnified against him

So he's doing something totally different to what either of them are or have done

 

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