Who's the biggest threat to Crawford?

Crawford is damn good and would be a complete handful for anyone but, he is highly aggressive, has his most significant victories over smaller fighters, and had a lot of trouble with someone a little bigger in Dulorme. Yeah the fight ended in a KO but he did lose the majority of the early rounds and he did not do that on purpose. Crawford was actually left with only one option in setting Dulorme up for a KO, I had seen him try everything else in that fight to no avail. He is very fortunate and good to have got that to work out for him but he did get taken to plan "E" (emergency) a place you never want to be at.

 

Well, the really good ones do just that, they adjust when something is not working. He wasn't being schooled by any means against Dulorme. Saying his best wins against smaller opposition. What did you expect, he was in that weight class. Cmon man.

 

He did adjust, again and again, and found out he was not going to outbox Dulorme. He was made to go to a fighters last resort of scoring a KO. Good on him for recognizing and deciding he needed to do that early which helped in catching Dulorme off guard but that is not typically what is meant when people say "adjust"

 

Then what do you call adjusting?

 

Adjusting is doing what is needed to outbox your opponent. Planning singularly for a KO is a last resort thing. What made it look really good is that Crawford recognized he needed to do that early, and did, but it was still a last resort tactic.

 

Nevermind, sorry gotta put you in the catergory of Melo. Adjustments are not made just to outbox your opponent. It is the subtle changes made by a fighter to effect the outcome of a fight. Whether that be by points or knockout. If you notice you're opponent is slow in bringing his jab back and you see an opening to counter over that, you are doing that in an effort to win the fight. Not outbox, but to win, whether that change leads to a reversal and you end up outboxing or a punch that ends that fighters night. It is called an adjustment. Today's lesson for you there bro... :good

 

And by the way 2 of the 3 judges had Crawford up by the 6th round

 

Of the fighters on the list the height and reach advantages of Barthelemy, Postol and Benavidez may prove to be somewhat problematic for Terence.

 

lol, but your anger doesn't say you feel like your right at all. We saw Crawford attempt to win the boxing match time and again and could not, so he had to go to last resort of attempting to get a KO, we never call that an adjustment, that's a last resort when all other attempts have been made. You are putting a broad base definition of adjustment and not a boxing one. Of course that is technically an adjustment but when we already have a more specific term for what he did then we apply that label, it was a last resort decision to load up on a couple of shots and try to get the KO. Had he done that very same thing in the eleventh after being well down on the cards you would see it for what it is.

 

Yeah Dulorme was headed for a robbery, not surprising for Crawford's hype.

 

No anger. Just realizing you're not quite there yet. YOU may not call that an adjustment. But it is... Just trust me on that one.

 

He took a while to time him and then started hitting him at will. You know this if you actually watched it. If Dulorme had an iron chin he would have lost the last 7 rounds or the ref would have stepped in. Quite why you ignore the fact that Crawford DID find him in your predictions about the later rounds, I don't know.

 

Crawford hasn't beaten anybody ranked in the Ring top 10.

 

I'd like to see him fight Postol next. That would be a good test that I'd be confident he'd win.

 

Ricky Burns, Ray Beltran and Thomas Dulorme were all Ring top 10 when he faced them. And Yuriorkis Gamboa would have been had it not been for the year layoff. Dierry Jean was rated in the top 10 Jr Welters at the end of 2013. So that's 5 fighter that were at the time or recently in the Ring Top 10, a little different than the 0 that you said.