Terence Crawford vs Terry Norris at 154

Even if they are I don't want to hear it from them. If you boil down to a division to beat up on fighters you're way bigger than your size was a massive advantage and you can't use it as an excuse when things don't go your way. Try fighting opponents your own size instead of weight bullying much smaller ones

He might well bring his power up to 154 but until I see him do something of note at that weight I'm not picking him to beat a great at that weight, especially given how few punchers he's fought and even more so ones his size

Super Boots would be a real good start but he's going to duck him

No of course I don't expect him to beat MWs and above

No problem. I'm willing to revise my opinion if and when he proves himself at 154

 

He might well go onto prove that but he's going to have to beat way better fighters than Postol, Porter, Gamboa and the overrated Spence for him to be ranked on McCallum's level who he would stands zero chance of beating

 

You can apply the same context to Crawford and his best wins

Just for starters

Crawford is a natural 147 pounder who spent most of his career beating up on 135 and 140 pounders

His best win Spence forged an entire career off cleaning out 147 of its career 140 pounders and blown up 135 Mikey and only ever fought two career 147 pounder champs in his entire career both of whom he struggled badly against

Gamboa was a natural 126/130 pounder who had no right being up at 135, let alone against a much heavier and longer gigantic 135 pounder, and whose form is trash at that weight

Crawford weighed a whole weight class more than Postol


How dare you disrespect SRL like that. Shame on you Dynamicpuncher. Shame on you.

It's not like he was only coming wins over Roberto ''Hands of Stone'' Duran, Marvellous Marvin Hagler, and a draw against Thomas ''The Hitman'' Hearns in 3 of his last 4 fights or anything or had won the WBC SMW and LHW titles simultaneously against Donald ''Golden Boy'' Lalonde in the other one

You're not only disrespecting the great SRL you're also disrespecting those other legends of the sport he fought Duran, Hagler and Hearns

I should ban you on the spot for that and I would if I didn't like you

 

His best win in 41 fights is Spence, arguably a compromised version. Spence was ranked #4 or #5 P4P at the time, has been ranked in the P4P top 10 ever since beating Brook, and he has finally only just been kicked out of it the other day. The only thing in that last sentence which isn't ridiculous was the last part. You want to hear something even more ridiculous? So many had Spence ranked P4P#1 or #2

Gamboa, as said, was a 130 pounder at best and had no right being up at 135. In his only fight at that weight prior to facing Crawford he laboured to a tough UD against a fighter featherfist Anthony Crolla KO'd a couple of years later

Postol was dropped x 2 and on the verge of being stopped by a 13 fight novice in his next fight after losing to Crawford. He was wobbling all over the ring like a newborn giraffe after hauling himself up off the canvas

And did lose his next fight after that one, to a green 12-0 Josh Taylor who'd never been past 9 rounds before or fought a prime world class opponent

The Crawford fans will try and have you believe Crawford ruined Postol by spending the entire duration of the fight stinking out the joint inflicting minimal damage on him apart from a brace of flash KDs one of which a rabbit punch which predictably his home ref counted. Pretty sure I saw Crawford get dropped by Mean Machine but the home ref predictably choose not to count that one

But Postol's claim to fame is beating Lucas on a freak eye injury who wasn't in anyway diminished by the three brutal wars he'd been in three of his four previous fights against Garcia, Molina, and Ruslan

Burns would've been 0-2 in his previous 2 if not for corruption and extremely good fortune. A robbery win over Beltran (who Crawford later went on to beat albeit whilst weighing a whole division more than him) and Burns was losing on all three of the judge's cards (84-87 x 3) in his own backyard in his fight prior to that one when his opponent Jose A Gonzales on his way to victory suffered a freak arm or wrist injury and had to pull out after 9 rounds

I could keep going on but you get the picture. Excellent fighter, one of the very best of his generation, but his fanboys and the media try to browbeat us into submission by acting like it's an indisputable fact he's P4P#1 and pretending like he has a great resume when it's poor or mid for a P4P top 5 star and 41 fight vet


For sure. He should've called it a day after drawing with Hearns. It was a gift draw too