Mikey Garcia: Spence a better fight than Crawford

Crawford and Loma are different types of mover. Lomachenko excels when he's able to keep things turning in ring center, but he isn't very adept at fighting in reverse gear around the perimeter of the ring, which is much more a forte of Crawford's. Garcia anticipating trouble with Crawford's movement should not be conflated with apprehension in regard to facing Loma. He identifies Terence as a 'runner', which Loma certainly isn't. Garcia-Lomachenko would come down to who can stamp his authority on the center of the ring, not Garcia chasing Loma around the four corners of it. Having said that, Mikey might be surprised at how much Crawford may elect to stand his ground with a smaller man in front of him. In the unlikely event of that fight ever happening, he may not have to go looking for Bud as much as he appears to think — Bud may, indeed, come looking for him.

 

If Leonard boxed these days he'd be considered a runner.

Nothing wrong with moving Well. Crawford hits plenty hard as Mikey would find out...

 

Mikey lost points with me on this one. He’s insulting two guys at once. Mikey is a boxer himself. He isn’t a come forward type of guy. It’s admitting that I can beat Spence and can’t beat Bud more than admitting that Spence will fight and Bud will move, lmao.

 

Sorry - I missed that

 

Spence would beat Crawford but crawford is a better p4p fighter than spence.

 

Maybe, but I'm not ready to cosign. I'm very interested in seeing Errol go up in weight once he's cleaned up welter.

 

Oh yeah, Bud and Loma are different type of pure boxers.
Loma has the best footwork in the game, very fast and very cunning, confuses the hell outta top boxers

 

I think he loses to both of them.. Hopefuly he gets to fight one of them at least.. Would be a cool fight

 

Bud surprises his opponents by switching stance and has very good accuracy and power with both hands. He's very calm and concentrated, calculates very well two three moves in advance and follows his gameplan to a T. He's a cold blooded killa and thats why I like him more than Loma

 

Imo crawford looks to outbox people more than spence does. While Spence looks to break people down, which becomes harder to do once you move up in weight. Imo crawford's style is better suited in going up in weight and beating bigger men.

 

I think most would see it that way, and that perception is precisely why I'm interested. Spence is able to be a terrific, clinical bully at 147 (which isn't meant as a putdown), and it'll be intriguing to see if he can show different dimensions and introduce more wrinkles as he climbs in weight. I'm not counting him out in that respect.