Terence Crawford’s defensive skills

Sorry, not buying that. After all, as we all know, no one who ever let's someone punch them in the face, and do it because they want to show off how good their chin is. It's because they're an average boxer with poor defense. That's the ESB rule of thumb.

 

Yeah, Bud does have a little GGG in him, I'll give you that, but that wasn't the case early, Egis only brought the dog out in him after he dropped Bud. Until then EK's style was giving him issues.

 

Yes he wanted to get hit just like he did when he fought that peg-leg cripple a couple of fights ago. I can't remember the guy's name now but it's the guy who got shot in the leg, has a massive nasty scar on it, suffers excruciating pain in it all the time, was told he'd never box again and who clearly has problems moving in and out of range.

It's boxing and **** happens. Like I said yesterday, whilst Egis was at a 3'' reach disadvantage, he can punch and he probably would've weighed about the same as Crawford on the night or almost as much as him if not.

Crawford's used to fighting C level featherfists and average punchers he has a significant weight, reach or often times both advantage over, and even though he's still dining exclusively down at the C level Cafe (whilst expecting to get the credit for dining down at the Elite Eatery), on this rare occasion he ordered or rather the WBO ordered a banger for him with his meal and he subsequently ended up getting lit up, hurt and dropped.

Loma, who is a genuine defensive whizz and still manages to be so despite having T-Rex arms and fighting with a very aggressive style where he has to spend a lot of time in the danger zone to land his own punches, gets crucified for getting hit occasionally by actual long reigning world champions with blazing fast hands (like top 5 fastest in the game) and beautiful offensive skills who have 3.5'' of reach on him and at least 7-8lbs of weight.

And highly skilled two-weight world champions who were former World Amateur silver medalists (''but Egis is a 2 x Olympian'' lol) with 5'' reach advantages and 8-9lbs in weight on him and whilst he (Loma) was fighting 90% of the fight with a very serious shoulder injury or just seven months after having shoulder surgery when he was only 60% or 70% and had devised a game plan with his surgeon before the fight which revolved around not throwing his right hook or uppercut or only doing so sparingly.

And against a highly skilled Olympic gold, World Amateur silver medalist and European gold medalist (''but Egis is a 2 x Olympian'' lol) who had 5.5'' in reach on him, at least 8 or 9lbs and plenty of height too.

But oddly enough he gets labelled with the ''but he gets hit'' label and Terry doesn't and when the later gets lit up by cripples and C levellers who he still has his obligatory reach advantage over and are at worst the same size as him it's only because he wants to get lit up lol

I wonder how much more success Egis and Benavidez would've had lighting Crawford up if they had 3.5-5.5'' in reach on him and how much more damaging their punches would've been had they had between 7-9lbs in weight on him? I suspect an awful lot more.

 

Excellent, dare I say majestic post.