True or False: Floyd never defeated fighters as great as Crawford, Stevenson, Davis, Ennis, orSpence

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  1. BoxingIQ

    BoxingIQ Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Prime for prime would you say the fighters listed above are better than the version of fighters Floyd fought: Manny, Judah, Madianna, Cotto, Oscar, Mosley, Castillo, Canelo, and Corrales. A friend made this claim so I wanted to get your guys's perspective.
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  2. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Crawford has been rated No.1 and No.2 P4P by the ring magazine, none of the fighters Floyd beat were rated as high as that when he beat them.
     
  3. Austinboxing

    Austinboxing British Boxing fan Full Member

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    False by 100%. Canelo, Hatton, De la Hoya, Pacquiao are all arguably better than the guys you just mentioned.
     
  4. pincai

    pincai The Indonesian Thin Man Full Member

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    The answer to the question might be true.. although I don’t know where you’re going with this?
    Can you give me a few fighters that do?
     
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  5. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Hatton would have been destroyed by Crawford and none of these fighters were rated as high as Crawford is P4P when Floyd beat them.
     
  6. BoxingIQ

    BoxingIQ Well-Known Member Full Member

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    What exactly?
     
  7. BoxingIQ

    BoxingIQ Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Manny? Oscar? Or does that have more to do with bia because there's no way Crawford deserves to be above Usyk, Canelo, Loma, and Spence based on resume plus skill.
     
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  8. Austinboxing

    Austinboxing British Boxing fan Full Member

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    Bro you have not watched Hatton if you think Crawford destroys him. I’ve been a huge Hatton fan for a long time and if he went up against Crawford it would be extremely close and Hatton could easily win.
     
  9. BoxingIQ

    BoxingIQ Well-Known Member Full Member

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    It shows that this era of fighters are much better than Floyds. So, if you place the fighters listed above in Floyd's era, they would have had similar if not more success.
     
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  10. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Crawford has a better reach and more power, his switch hitting is something Hatton never came up against.
     
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  11. uranage

    uranage Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Prime for Prime, Crawford gets beat by De La Hoya, Cotto, Pacquiao, Marquez, Mosley & Alvarez.
     
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  12. Robney

    Robney ᴻᴼ ᴸᴼᴻᴳᴲᴿ ᴲ۷ᴵᴸ Full Member

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    Where's the poll?
    The obvious answer is false.
    Don’t like Floydweather at all, and think he picked his way trough his later career, but this is bull.
     
  13. pincai

    pincai The Indonesian Thin Man Full Member

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    This era of fighters are better than Floyd or better than floyd’s era?
     
  14. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Crawford is more skilled than Spence and is rated highder P4P than DLH or Manny were when Floyd beat them.
    The Ring magazine in the April 2007 issue.
    Pound For Pound
    1. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
    2. Manny Pacquiao
    3. Ronald (Winky) Wright
    4. Jermain Taylor
    5. Bernard Hopkins
    6. Marco Antonio Barrera
    7. Rafael Marquez
    8. Ricky Hatton
    9. Jose Luis Castillo
    10. Joe Calzaghe
     
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  15. zulander

    zulander Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Crawford passes the eye test but his record of wins is really awful for a supposed ATG, A lot of his wins have questions marks over. Khan and Brook both shot to bits. Indongo was he ever really that good? Horn famous for getting for scraping past an aging Pac on his own turf. Porter excellent win no complaints there but he need Spence.

    As for Hatton V Crawford. Hatton was awful against lefties struggled against everyone he faced. Bud would beat him and probably stop him at 147.

    Crawford is an excellent fighter but still has questions to answer on how "great" he is.

    ODH
    Cotto
    Pac
    Zab

    Are at least on a par and mostly better than anyone Crawford has ever beaten.