Just Being Honest, Both Spence & Crawford are overrated.

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  1. BoxingIQ

    BoxingIQ Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Both are very talented but can we honestly say they are actually "proven"

    Best names on Crawford's resume is

    1.Khan(past his prime and has been knocked out numerous times)
    2. Postol who was nothing special and was beaten by Josh Taylor
    3. Indongo who Prograis stopped earlier than Crawford
    4. Benavidez who was basically fighting on one damn leg

    Best Names on Spence resume

    1. Brook came down from 160 and took a beating from GGG
    2. Mikey Garcia a natural 130 pounder who went up to 147 to fight the naturally bigger and stronger fighter. Mikey was a significant underdog.

    All in all, Spence does have better names on his resume and I have no doubt that Brook and Mikey would've beat the Khan that Crawford has fought. But my god, if we had prime Floyd, Manny, Oscar, Tito, Vernon, Margarrito, and Mosley in this era, I have no doubt that these two would've been exposed already. Crawford gets hit too much and has yet to fight an A-level fighter. Spence is talented but he also has asterisk on his resume. right now, I do not know who comes out on top in this 147. Hopefully, if Thurman gets back to his old self he can make things interesting, but right now, the welterweight division is clearly the most overrated division in boxing.
     
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  2. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    I agree. Their record is very thin. They look good, especially Crawford, but it's all about who you beat.
     
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  3. ellerbe

    ellerbe Loyal Member Full Member

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    As overrated as Loma or nah?
    Oh by the way Taylor got past Postol, while Crawford completely dominated him.
     
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  4. BoxingIQ

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    Loma has Walters, Rigo, and Linares on his resume. That is head and shoulders above anything Crawford has faced. Usyk also unified a much better division than Crawford did.
     
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  5. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    They have to be very highly rated before they can be overrated. Examples of how they are highly rated?
     
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    Rigo? The nearly 40 year old moving up 2 weight divisions that had been extremely inactive and hadn't had a meaningful fight for half a decade? Walters? You mean the guy who was coming off a year lay off and best wins are career old shot flyweights? Linares? The guy who was losing on the cards against Mitchell and only fought UK bums and has been stopped more than Khan?

    That was easy :risas3:
     
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  7. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Horn is a better win than all of them.
     
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  8. ellerbe

    ellerbe Loyal Member Full Member

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    This guy had the nerve to call Garcia a natural 130 pounder when he's fought at 140, but then try to credit Loma for a win against an old asf Rigo who had not had a meaningful fight for half a decade and was moving up 2 weight classes lmao. Loma fangirls really have no shame!
     
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  9. BoxingIQ

    BoxingIQ Well-Known Member Full Member

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    You don't believe that.
     
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  10. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    I don't know this guy but there's always an agenda involved when calling Crawford and Spence overrated. Nobody overrates them.
    It seems loma fanboys can't appreciate him without rubbishing Bud and Spence. If anybodys resume is overrated , its Loma's.
     
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    Rigo, Walters, and Linares are P4P better than anyone on Crawford's resume
     
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    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    The Rigo win means nothing to me after his pitiful performance
     
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  13. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    No it isn't
     
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    ellerbe Loyal Member Full Member

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    :risas3::risas3::risas3: sure I'll give you Rigo if they were fighting at 122 not 130 LMAO, where he's already tiny at. But Walters and Linares? :risas3::risas3: stop overhyping them. Who has Walters beat? Career flyweights? He didn't look so spectacular once moving up did he. Undefeated Postol > Walters easily. Postol would beat every guy that Linares has beat too lmao and wouldn't get knocked out by the bums he got knocked out by. Horn would also beat every guy Walters and Linares beat without getting KTFO too, disagree, tell me the opponents Linares/Wlaters beat that would beat those guys. And I'm saying p4p obviously if they were the same weight. Gamboa is also far better than Linares and Walters.
     
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    ellerbe Loyal Member Full Member

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    Dude was obviously a loma stan with an agenda, was too obvious.
     
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