OVERALL: Who's a better boxer, Dmitry Bivol or Terence Crawford?

Bivol. He whooped the P4P#1 in their adopted backyard, Crawford hasn't been within a 1000 mile radius of an elite or A level fighter.

And if you want to discredit Bivol's win over Clenelo due to size then don't forget that Bivol is a small LHW and Clenelo a fully-fledged SMW who is built like a tank and there was no more than 3lbs or absolute max 5lbs between them and 1.5'' in reach on the night. Crawford has never been at a reach disadvantage and he's often had a significant or large weight and reach advantage. That being said, he's a great fighter and one of the most skillful in the world.

 

Bivol rarely loses a round, Crawford should've been behind on points against Dulorme, Kavaliauskas, Porter and Brook, when he scored the KO. Crawford's skills have been eroding for years, to the point where he's turning into one of those guys who literally needs to be bailed out by his power. Bivol barely gets out of first gear dominating far superior competition. The answer couldn't be more obvious.

 

Clenelo rehydrates at least 10-12lbs at 168 and Bivol between 5-8lbs at 175. Clenelo says he comes in at 170-180lbs and we can safely assume it's the later knowing him and his ginger lies, Bivol weighed 183lbs.

Bivol's a fully fledged LHW albeit a small one but the the reason I refer to Clenelo as a fully-fledged 168 is because people act like he's still a 160 pounder when he's not. He's very thick-set and built like a tank, strong like the oxen, and very powerful at the weight. He caved in BJS 2.o's eye socket/cheek.

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Detached Callum Smith's bicep.

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And broke both of Juan Ryder's nostrils

Some might consider that highly unusual and suspicious for a fighter who's campaigning in their fourth division to possess bone breaking and face and limb rearranging one shot power like that

 

Bivol hasn't only whooped the ass of an elite fighter, the elite fighter he whooped was the then P4P#1, is a modern great, and is arguably the Mexican GOAT in some people's eyes, and he whooped them in their backyard where everything was stacked against him.

All these LHWs he's beating sans Clenelo are bigger or a lot bigger than him (weight wise), whereas, even though Crawford has come up in weight twice he was gigantic at 135, still very big for 140, and even at 147 he's fighting opponents roughly his size at worst.

Crawford's a great fighter but he's fought very few legit punchers and whilst I think he'd cause Clenelo fits with his skills if they were the same size as each other he ain't putting a dent in that iron ginger chin, whereas, I'm not sure whether he could take the bone breaking power of an elite level highly skilled puncher like Clenelo like Bivol can.