To be honest, is Crawford any good?

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He's nowhere near 180, I mean anymore than Hatton or Duran were 200. Fat don't count if you don't take it with you into the fight.

I don't know where they get 180 from as skinny as Crawford is.

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I don't know where they get 180 from as skinny as Crawford is.

That would mean he cuts 26 pounds for junior middleweight . Charlo doesn't even cut that much

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TBRB rankings used; "world titlist" means top champion of the Ring/WBA/WBC/IBF/WBO; no interim, regular, IBO, diamond, gold nonsense

Terence Crawford:
W vs #3 Ricky Burns UD 12 (fmr. WBO 130; reigning WBO 135; future WBA 140)
W vs #7 Yuriorkis Gamboa TKO 9 (fmr. WBA/IBF 126)
W vs #2 Raymundo Beltran UD 12 (future WBO 135)
W vs #9 Thomas Dulorme TKO 6
W vs #1 Viktor Postol UD 12 (reigning WBC 140)
W vs #3 John Molina TKO 8
W vs #9 Felix Diaz RTD 10 (Diaz ranked at 147, fight at 140)
W vs #1 Julius Indongo KO 3 (reigning WBA/IBF 140)
W vs #4 Jeff Horn TKO 9 (reigning WBO 147)
W vs Amir Khan TKO 6 (fmr. WBA/IBF 140)
W vs #10 Egidijus Kavaliauskas TKO 9
W vs Kell Brook TKO 4 (fmr. IBF 147)
W vs #4 Shawn Porter TKO 10 (fmr. IBF 147; WBC 147)
W vs #9 David Avanesyan KO 6
W vs #1 Errol Spence Jr. TKO 9 (reigning WBA/WBC/IBF 147)

Other notable victories: Breidis Prescott, Andrey Klimov, Dierry Jean, Hank Lundy, Jose Benavidez Jr

13-0 vs top 10
8-0 vs top 5
4-0 vs #1 (or #2 if Crawford was #1)
10-0 vs fighters that won a legitimate world title
5-0 vs reigning world titlists
3-0 in unification fights
18-0 in world title fights
6-0 in lineal world championship fights
40-0-0-0 overall record, 31 KOs

135: Lineal/TBRB, Ring, WBO
140: Lineal/TBRB, Ring, WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO undisputed
147: Lineal/TBRB, Ring, WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO undisputed

3 division lineal world champion
2 division undisputed world champion
3 division world titlist

One of only 9 men to be a lineal champion in 3 weight classes (Bob Fitzsimmons, Henry Armstrong, Barney Ross, Tony Canzoneri, Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao, Terence Crawford)

One of only 4 men in the 3 or 4 belt eras to be undisputed in 2 weight classes (Evander Holyfield [3 belt], Terence Crawford [4 belt], Naoya Inoue [4 belt], Oleksandr Usyk [4 belt])

Next fight:
vs #3 Israil Madrimov (reigning WBA 154; vacant WBO 154, WBC mandatory status at stake)

bold, only legit fights.

madrimov is random generated boxer number 7. irrelevant.

Crawford-Ennis would've been a bigger fight.

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bold, only legit fights.

madrimov is random generated boxer number 7. irrelevant.

Crawford-Ennis would've been a bigger fight.

Crawford-Ennis would've been for a belt Crawford already won and vacated in a division he already completely unified.

Madrimov-Crawford is for the WBA 154 belt, the WBO 154 belt, and mandatory status to challenge for the WBC 154 belt.

If Ennis wants a Crawford fight, it's very simple. He should move to 154 and fight IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev. If Boots wins a belt Crawford hasn't already won, he'll come knocking eventually.

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Crawford-Ennis would've been for a belt Crawford already won and vacated in a division he already completely unified.

Madrimov-Crawford is for the WBA 154 belt, the WBO 154 belt, and mandatory status to challenge for the WBC 154 belt.

If Ennis wants a Crawford fight, it's very simple. He should move to 154 and fight IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev. If Boots wins a belt Crawford hasn't already won, he'll come knocking eventually.

10-0 record

It's irrelevant honestly.

it's Crawford's recipe though. Tried and true.

Snap up the easiest of the belts. Let the division unify. Fight once for all the marbles.

Fighting Ennis would give Crawford a lot more respect no doubt about it. He'd still be p4p 1 with that fight.

It would be like Naoya fighting that Australian guy even though he could easily say F the division and move up to continue his story.

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10-0 record

It's irrelevant honestly.

it's Crawford's recipe though. Tried and true.

Snap up the easiest of the belts. Let the division unify. Fight once for all the marbles.

Fighting Ennis would give Crawford a lot more respect no doubt about it. He'd still be p4p 1 with that fight.

It would be like Naoya fighting that Australian guy even though he could easily say F the division and move up to continue his story.

Madrimov is more tested at the top level than Ennis. The Kurbanov win is better than anything Ennis has done in his career. Fighting Crowley next is a great step up for Ennis but these are the kinds of fights he should've had several of by now. To date his best win is a very shopworn Sergey Lipinets.