Stir the pot a little, Crawford from the Gamboa fight vs tonights Lomachenko

wish i was a boxer, if they are handing out unified titles without having to test your ability, im in like flynn.

 

Let me put it this another way so you understand more clearly. Imagine if 6'6 Wladimir or Joshua who normally weighs 250lbs, drained themselves down through extreme measures to 155lbs so they could feast on 5'7 - 5'8 welterweights and then dehydrated themselves back up to 250lbs come fight night.

Would you say they were testing themselves? Would you give any credence to their victories? Or would you like any reasonable individual come to the conclusion that they were partaking in circus fights?

 

does every other boxer have the same option to boil down to whatever size they think they can win in, or do you think they limit themselves so the other guy can have a better chance?

 

Let's get it right. What Crawford has been doing is no different to what Conor Mcgregor was doing in the UFC, picking on smaller men who never stood a chance. They lost before the bell sounded.

170lbs 5'10 Conor was knocking the lights out of fighters who were 5'5 and naturally 135lbs. Some weighing even less.

The purists understood Conor needed to prove himself in his own real weight class before the hype was even justified. Even today he is seen as a fraud.

Crawford is no different.

 

if you want to get it right, and not just saying that to deflect, then answer the question. does every other fighter have the exact same option to shed as much weight as they want, in order to compete at whatever weight they can make, or do they not?

 

Of course they have the option, just like they have the option of taking steroids, however some have too much pride and integrity to debase themselves in such a way.

The amount of untold damage they do to their own bodies just to have an advantage is not worth it.

Crawford obviously felt starving his body of essential nutrients until he was more or less flesh and bone to the point where he could barely keep his eyelids open, whilst strapping his body in a cling wrap whilst in saunas and on the treadmill, was worth it so long as his hand's were raised victor at the end of glorified freak shows against hobbits.

This should have been Crawfords ring walk theme for these bouts

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no they do not, what kind of asinine statement is that. you think canelo is sitting out his cinco de mayo because they denied his "option" to take peds? do you even think about what you are typing?

 

I agree with you on height but I do think Crawford has a more general size advantage for sure. I have seen a couple of pics of them next to each other and it was reasonably noticeable, although I can't say for sure if either was even in camp etc

 

crawford doesn't only feast on midgets, postol comes to mind.

 

Crawford and Linares are about the same size.

 

Conor is a natural Lightweight. He's no Welterweight. He was only draining himself to make 145 - even then Poirier, Aldo, Holloway and others at the weight that he faced were doing exactly the same thing. There's a lot of criticism you can throw at McGregor but being a weight bully isn't one of them.

 

That's because Bud is trained at 135. Loma stops the walking corpse at 135.

 

Crawford is drained at 135.

 

Well comparing the option to lose weight to the option to use steroids is kind of the same thing....except one is legal and the other isn't. Even by your incredibly low standards that is ignorant. Haven't seen you bitching about Mikey Garcia bouncing around at 170+ so I am convinced your concern for Crawford's "body" than you do for the fact you just don't like him. Notice you didn't take me up on my challenge but then I didn't figure you would. When Crawford beats Horn you will just move on to how his next opponent will beat him.