Usyk calls Crawford the best fighter in the world

Usyk is obviously extremely humble and he's never gonna say he's the best just like I'm never gonna say I'm the best poster on this site

But we can just look at this objectively

Usyk has forged a career fighting in his opponent's backyards and on the road on a deck heavily stacked against him or stacked against him winning and unifying all his belts in his opponent's backyards or on the road

Terry has fought outside of his homeland a whopping x 1 in 41 fights on a deck heavily stacked or stacked in his favour with all bar one of the foreign world champions he's fought coming to his backyard or country on a deck heavily stacked against them and the ones who were reigning champs at the time bringing their world titles to him even when he was the challenger

Postol, Indongo, Horn, Madrimov reigning champs

Gamboa, Betran, Brook, Khan the other foreign ones

When Usyk moved up in weight he was facing opponents way bigger than him

When Terry did he was facing guys he was much bigger than, bigger than or roughly the same size as and he even weighed slightly more for his debut in his 4th weight class at 154 than his career opponent at that weight did and he's often had a huge/big reach advantage or a reach advantage and has never been at a reach disadvantage in any of his fights

As with Usyk forging a career fighting in his opponent's backyards or on the road, it's very very different what Terry's been doing

Usyk has fought a murderer's row of savage punchers and legit bangers many times not only his size but many way bigger than him

Terry has barely fought any his size, let alone ones way bigger and one of the extremely rare times he did face a legit banger his size he got dropped by Mean Machine. Now imagine he'd fought like 9 or 10 Madrimovs and Mean Machines but better or much better versions of Mean Machine, many of them being way bigger and heavier than him, in their backyards or on the road. You do the math

Again, as with Usyk and all the savage punchers and legit bangers he's fought, it's like a complete inversion of what Terry's been doing. Terry has fought a ton of featherfists and fighters with average power and he's often been the much or bigger man

Usyk has literally fought a whole bunch of the hardest punchers in the sport in AJ, Dubois, Gassiev, Briedis, and obviously Chisora hits really hard too and he weighed 40lbs more than Usyk. Belly can punch too when he wants and Bellew, Glowacki, Huck, and Hunter are all either KO artists or legit bangers.

Usyk is crossing a minefield everytime he steps foot in a ring and it's astonishing he hasn't been KO'd already or even dropped, Terry has generally been crossing one with toy mines in. If Terry had fought many of the hardest punchers in the sport, many way bigger and heavier than him, he would've been knocked out long ago IMO and that's not a knock on him because that happens to damn near everyone when they tread that path

Now don't get me wrong, he's a fantastic fighter, top 3 P4P, with superb skills but what he and Usyk have been doing is very different and one is way more difficult, way more risky, and way more impressive than the other.

The Terry has been more dominant argument is really dumb because obviously it's way easier to be dominant when you're doing what he's done vs what Usyk has done.