Mayweather states that Bud is P4P No.1 right now

Yeah he is

Assuming that is you believe that

Rehydrating 15-18lbs in every weight class you've campaigned in

Often having a significant weight advantage over your opponents

Rarely ever being at a weight disadvantage and especially a significant one

Have never once been at a reach disadvantage in any of your world title fights

Beating up on C level opponents in your home country with a freakish amount of home country officials working your fights

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Beating up on opponents who you're often giving away huge advantages in weight and reach to

You're usually the one who is giving away a significant amount of weight and reach and rarely ever have advantages in those departments yourself and on the few occasions you have those with convenient amnesia suddenly remember that **** matters and make a huge song and dance about it even though they're as silent as church mice about it when it applies to the likes of Crawford which it does way way way more

And have beaten a higher level of opposition and have never once fought in your home country or had a home country ref or judge working your fights.

We know Crawford can look ''dominant'' against C level comp he has a significant weight, reach or both advantages over on his own turf but he hasn't proven he can even beat world class ones who have significant advantages in weight and reach on him yet, let alone on the road.

Which world class opponents has he beaten who have between 5-10lbs and 2-7'' in reach on him? I'll wait. Much more difficult to ''dominate'' opponents who have huge physical advantages on you, let alone doing so time and time again,.

His best win is either Gamboa or Postol. He had 7lbs and an outrageous 9'' in reach on Gamboa (yeah you read that right) in a fight between a blown up 126-130 pounder vs a natural 147 and Gamboa looked like garbage in his only previous outing at 135, struggling to a very competitive UD against Darleys Perez who was KO'd by light-hitting supposed ''bum'' Anthony Crolla a few fights later.

Chinny Gamboa had been dropped four times in four separate fights going into the Crawford fight and that was against opponents his own size, has been knocked down in something like 10 of his fights, has only stopped 2 of his 11 opponents at 135 and one of them was shot to bits and had only fought once in three years lol.

Crawford had 5lbs on Postol and believe it or not he even had a slight reach advantage against the Ukrainian beanpole. Postol's entire claim to fame is beating a semi-shot Lucas Matthysse on a freak eye injury after octopus grabbing him to death in the first half of the fight. Postol was dropped x 2, once heavily, by a 9-0 rank novice in his very next fight after facing Crawford and his legs were so wobbly after hauling himself up after the heavy KD he was surely only a clean punch or two away from being on the receiving end of a KO loss. And it's highly doubtful he would've got the decision in that one had he not had home advantage and four home officials working the fight because like I keep saying that **** really matters

And then in his next outing Postol did lose to a 12-0 novice Josh Taylor who had only fought one world class opponent before, had never been past 9 rounds, would've weighed about the same as Postol, and who was giving away 3'' in reach.

And if you want to try and make the claim that Crawford ruined Postol, as many have, then 1. kindly explain to me how you ruin someone my spending the entire duration of the fight on your bicycle, and with the exception of a couple of flash KDs one of which was a rabbit punch, inflicting minimal damage on your opponent? Crawford fought like he was in against a savage KO artist in that one even though Postol isn't a puncher.

2. And if Crawford ''ruined'' Postol by spending the entire duration of the fight on his bicycle inflicting minimal damage on him, then what the **** did those three absolute wars for the ages in three of Lucas' previous four fights prior to facing Postol take out of him?? Lucas sustained a horrendous amount of punishment in those fights and his opponents were all legit KO punchers. Danny Garcia, Ruslan, and John Molina.

Loma was dropped by a much heavier and longer Linares in his debut at 135 when he'd been fighting with a serious shoulder injury from the 2nd round onward, Crawford was badly hurt, rocked down to his boots, made to do a little chicken dance and it took at least 60 seconds for his head to clear by a blown up 126-130 pounder who he had huge advantages in weight and reach on. If Gamboa weighed the same as him that right hand probably would've finished him, but if he'd had the kind of weight advantage Linares had on Loma it probably would've sparked him out cold.

And he was dropped in one of the rare instances where he's been in against a legit banger (Egis) and certainly one where his opponent would've weighed about the same as him or nearly as much as him even though he (Crawford) was campaigning in his third weight class lol. Funny how the home ref opted not to count it too and those judge's cards looked how they did, eh?

Egis was lighting Crawford up for the first 3 or 4 rounds in that one but imagine what he would've done to him had he had at least 7-8lbs and 3'' reach on him as opposed to a being at 3'' reach disadvantage and weighing roughly the same as him?

 

I do actually rate him highly, though