Terence Crawford technical flaws

Honestly.... your assessment is exactly why I laugh when people favor him over Floyd, Cotto, Manny, Duran, Benitez, and Tszyu. He isn't the most defensive fighter, he tends to leave his head up in the air when exchanging, and he doesn't really like pressure. A sharp-counter puncher and elite pressure fighter would be a nightmare for him.

 

Fights once a year at best.

 

Crawford is effectivly retired with 0 notable wins take that technical flaw into his pipe and smoke it.

 

He would beat the **** out of Cotto and Tszyu IMO.

 

Nothing he has done confirms that for me

 

He becomes stationary and just abandons defense when analyzing opponents.

 

Yup not much head & body movement but uses his feet for defence, will tend to ring circle for defense but rarely gets put in that situation.

his biggest flaw is his trash resume as people have already noted

 

Ya both Tszyus. Father and son

 

Pulls straight back too much
Not great at chasing a guy and cutting off the ring

Small stuff

 

Can’t name too many top fighters if any today with resumes that holes can’t be poked through.

 

Crawford isn't a defense first fighter. He's going to get hit once in a while. It comes with the territory of being a brawler. His active gameplan in most of the fights is to punch with his opponent. It's part of what makes him exciting.

 

Exactly, his timing and punching inside his opponents punches is elite. He is still rarely caught clean. Compare that to someone like Boots who just gets caught flush for no reason when he isn't punching. Crawford's defence isn't the best ever but it is still very good considering his style.