If Inoue moved up to 147 and stopped Crawford

You don't say. lol

 

LOL Inoue the Sardine can killer will someday move to Middle weight and beat ClembuteNelo LOL.
Keep hyping

 

OK, 17. My bad.

 

Lol your hate for Inoue is real. This is coming from someone who claims they're from "Japan". And yes of course it's ridiculous to think Inoue would be slightly competitive with Crawford and not get blasted out in a round. But I can sense the hate from you. Where are you really from? Your filipino dick riding makes me assume you're a flip.

 

What's your beef with Inoue?

 

That would make for a spot-on analogy if Crawford had just fought a weight bully with a natural middleweight's frame - like say Jarrett Hurd - boiled to 147lbs, and been mangled & left worse for wear directly before Inoue fought him.

 

He hates Japanese fighters in the same way that you hate Filipino fighters. Except that he doesn't have the self loathing component that you clearly harbor.

 

I have nothing against Filipino fighters. Pac and Donaire are 2 of the best from the previous generation.

 

Short memory you've got. It took a while for Cotto to look "good" in the ring again, following Margarito I. Jennings was a British level guy who proved hopelessly outmatched at world level, so he doesn't count. Many felt Clottey deserved the nod over Cotto. And then shortly after Pac, he struggled to stop a crippled Yuri Foreman hobbling around the ring on a single leg for several rounds. It wasn't until he fought Mayorga, three years after Margarito I, that Cotto began to "get his groove back", carrying that momentum into Margarito II and then his creditable showings against Mayweather & Trout. After that of course he linked up with Freddie Roach and rediscovered his inner pressure-fighting seek-and-destroyer from his 140lb days, and was able to enjoy a bit of a late-career resurgence vs. D-Rod, crippled Martínez, and Geale - and somewhat respectably acquit himself vs. Canelo before the kinks in the armor began to show vs. Kamegai, exploited once and for all by Ali.

 

I'll admit that I don't think Cotto would have necessarily beaten Pacquiao anyway if you subtracted the Margarito loss and sent him into the match undefeated. Pac did indeed have a lot of speed, and enough snap on those speedy combos to carve up Junito's paper skin and test his shaky chin - and IMO you can't altogether ignore the psychological (if not physical) impact the Margarito loss had on Cotto, even if taking it from the equation wouldn't affect the result necessarily.

That brings me to another point, though, which pokes a hole in the analogy - the chin of Crawford so far apparently >>>>>>>>> that of Cotto, until proven otherwise...as is, arguably, his skill-set. Therefore, were Inoue to move up and stop him i would in fact be more difficult and impressive than for Pac to move up and stop Cotto.

 

You're just a hater.



Cotto was doing well. He pumped out a brutal jab, boxed well, showed good speed, and his punches were ridiculously heavy. Then he got caught. And then he got caught again. Then Pac's speed, angles, and workrate took over and overwhelmed him. You discredit the victory, but it was the very victory that had Floyd on the backfoot launching diatribes about PED use. Surely if it was soooooo obvious that Pac fought a badly damaged and drained fighter and was such an obvious case of good matchmaking that the great Floyd Mayweather wouldn't have leapt to the conclusion that it could only be due to PEDs.