Joe Smith Jr vs Oleksandr Gvozdyk

Puncher avoidance is a thing and LHW has been Puncher Central for many years and almost all the top LHWs have been dropped or stopped. Bivol and Smith are the only ones in recent times who haven't

Artur doesn't avoid punchers

Gvozdyk is a very hard puncher

Marcus Browne can crack

Hot Rod had as many first round finishes (13 ) as Artur had fights when they fought each other

Tavoris Cloud was a legit banger. Campillo said that he was the hardest puncher he'd fought, albeit this was before he fought Beterbiev and he amended that after doing so.

Prieto hurt Eleider Alvarez with single shots more than Smith did. Granted Smith took Alvarez out with a vicious right hand but that was an Alvarez who'd taken a real beating and lots of seriously heavy blows prior to the finish

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And obviously Beterbiev fought a ton of punchers during his 300 odd amateur bouts, including up at HW when he was giving away at least 14lbs or so

How many punchers have the P4P top 10 Crawford and Spence fought in 39 fights and 27 respectively?

Especially their own size?

Think about it

 

Both are ranked in the P4P top 10 and neither have fought many legit punchers despite having a lot more fights than Beterbiev. The one time Crawford did fight one his own size he got hurt and dropped. The risk of that happening or getting KTFO obviously increases when you fight punchers.