Why is Bud rated #1 p4p over Inoue?

It's a tie for me. 1A and 1B.

 

Against malnourished B and C listers.

 

Because a lot of people don't rate anyone below welterweight.

 

Inoue's resume is the worst out of anyone in p4p top 10.

 

Murican Exzeptonalism.

 

Better resume with an amazing win a few weeks back against a fellow P4P'er. Not that hard to comprehend

 

Recency bias. Spence is a better win than Fulton, but cumulatively Inoue's résumé is better.

 

One of the worst takes ever on this forum and that says a lot.

What's the source of your hate for the man?

 

Break down Crawford's resume for me.

 

Crawford doesn't exactly have a charismatic personality and his PPV numbers were pretty bad for much of his career, so the "American bias" coping excuse can be thrown out the window. Crawford is rated highly because he gets **** done. There are few undisputed champions within the past 20 years, and even fewer who managed to become undisputed in 2 different weight classes. As far as the eye test goes, his skills are phenomenal. He's a throwback fighter whose got many of the old school skills including counter punching, parrying, etc and he can switch hit. The Spence win is 5x better than the Fulton win, Spence was a p4p fighter, a dominant unified champion, and one of the few boxers on the planet who could've been realistically seen as a 50/50 opponent on paper. Crawford now has an aura of invincibility that Inoue simply doesn't have and a better resume.

 

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On paper, yes, it was a gargantuan fight for 147 supremacy. In reality, as it happened, Bud beat an inactive Spence that was completely dead at the weight. Spence looked like he was about to pass out on the way to the ring. He looked sick. Spence was so bad that shot Khan, shot Brook, and one-legged Benavidez did better than him.

 

Well as I said before when you brought this up, if concrete objective proof Spence was weak and drained then I'll accept it. But that wasn't Crawford's fault and it's objectively a better win on paper than anything Inoue did.

 

The straightforward answer is that Crawford did it against the best opponent either one of them have had, on a much bigger stage, for a much bigger title (THE Welterweight Championship). He also has more Lineal Championships than Inoue, a longer knockout streak, and is arguably more versatile, fighting from both stances well, from all ranges.

 

Made up lists by made up people with microscopic appendages. Who cares.