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

For the record, I got Inoue smoking them all. Not fanboyism. He's just a level above in every category.

 

Neither did IBF champion Ancajas, WBA champion Kal Yafai, his WBO mandatory, the next mandatory up, hell even Ioka turned down the offer to move up a division and challenge Inoue, who beat the number one ranked Omar Narvez. They effectively waited him out of the division, and somehow that gets turned into a stain on Inoue.

 

I agree it’s not surprising that Crawford who is far and away the best fighter in the world dominated Spence who telegraphs his punches a little too much.

 

Spence is a very good fighter, he’s just not Bud Crawford who is a legitimate generational fighter.

 

This is exactly why guys don’t regularly take these kind of fights. You lose and it’s “he sucks”, he’s a “hype job”, etc etc. Bud is just that good, doesn’t matter who you put in there last night, Bud was/is a very serious problem.

 

I've never heard any of them call out Inoue. They all kept Inoue's name out of their mouths, cause they all know they would get annihilated.

 

Let's look at the last 5 years of Spence's career and you'll see how little he accomplished.

2019 - Dragged up Mikey Garcia 2 divisions and couldn't knock him out.
2019 - Went life and death against Porter.
2020 - Won a close, but clear decision against Danny Garcia, who was 3-2 going into the fight against Spence.
2021 - Had a big accident that probably damaged him physically and mentally.
2022 - Stopped Ugas, whose biggest accomplishment was barely winning a decision against a very old Pacquiao.

That's it. 4 fights in the last 5 years before Crawford. His best win was a razor thin decision against Porter, next to surviving a car crash.

And somehow, people were ranking him in the top 5 P4P.

 

Gary Antonio Russell, Wau'shee Warren, and Casimero also declined to fight him in December 2021.

 

Spences p4p was always inflated. Everyone was putting him on their lists after he beat Brook who was just knocked out and coming down in weight. I called it out when it was happening, and people called me dumb. What other fighter gets put on the p4p top 10 after winning their first title?

 

Well this was a huge eye opening post that made me feel like a complete moron for being on the Spence train for a few years. I was picking Crawford by ko based on styles, but my analysis wasn’t anywhere near as deep as this. I’ve always thought you had one of the best boxing brains on this forum when you don’t get heated in the moment.

 

Well said.

It's a two horse race and there were plenty of experts giving Spence the edge going in.

Even though Crawford has been in close to 20 world title fights, he never showed that he had that capability to do that to another undefeated dominant P4P fighter, that was some performance.

From a logical perspective, fans should have had reservations on Crawford going into this (if they didn't they were going on hope alone), after the fight though, logically, no more reservations as he's proved all doubters wrong.