Putting Crawford's Domination & Stoppage of Errol Spence Jr. Into Its Proper Perspective.

"The boxing world" is filled with reactionaries who buy into the hype far too often and are frequently incorrect in their assessments. For what it's worth, I'm not saying Spence is necessarily a hypejob in this article, merely that he was a carefully managed somewhat protected solid up and down fighter, who used his size advantage and pressure against featherfists to great effect, nothing more.

 

Oh well... I guess that means I'm even more perceptive than the great Roy Jones. Because this was never remotely a 50/50 fight.

 

You didn't real any of it did you? I said in my opening paragraph that I wasn't writing this to gloat. He's a good fighter, never said he wasn't. But he isn't a great or special fighter by any means. And I have no problem being in the small minority, that's where I've been most of my life and I'm more than comfortable with that location, because I'd rather be right than popular.

 

Well.... it's not necessarily Crawford's fault that his body has such terrible timing. But he always seems to be either outgrowing a division or moving into one, at the most inopportune of moments. He dominated the weakest era in recent memory of Lightweight, moved up right before Mikey and Loma showed up. Dominated 140 when it was straight up ass, left right before Taylor, Prograis, Matias, Ramirez showed up. Then moved into a derelict wasteland at 147, well past it's glory days. No Mayweather, no Pacquiao, no Cotto, no Margarito, no Marquez, no Bradley, all he has is Spence, who was feasting on the also rans, blown up 140 pounders and drained 154 pounders, most of whom had one foot out of the door. So yeah, you can unify two divisions, if they're **** divisions, just look to Claressa Shields if you want a perfect example of that. Hell, Bud could probably move up and unify 154 now, but it's also a **** on a stick garbage division at the moment.

Fine, you want me to be consistent, it's always annoyed me that Inoue bailed on Super Flyweight, and ducked fighting Gonzalez, Sor Rungvisai, Estrada and Ioka. Do I think he was scared of them and that he wouldn't beat all four? Absolutely not. I just think it was a case of him being a growing boy who couldn't make the weight anymore and literally had to bail. Which is a pity, because wins over those four, would be GOAT level stuff. But his body simply wouldn't allow him.

 

Where did I say they'd beat him? Like I said, poor comprehension.

So... you're saying they're not infinitely better than ****ing Postol, Diaz, Jean, Indongo, Dulorme, Lundy and goddamn John Molina Jr.?