Terence Crawford reacted to Shakur Stevenson coming to his defense, saying that “every top fighter” rates Bud as #1, but the writers view him at #2 pound-for-pound. Instead of Crawford being modest, he said, “They hated all the greats.”
Lack Of Elite Wins
Crawford is not a great fighter because he’s not beaten any of the elite at 154, 147, 140, or 135. There are fighters at 154 to 168 that Bud could fight to achieve the #1 spot, but he’s not going to fight them because the end result would be negative.
NOT every top fighter rates Crawford at #1 or #2 pound-for-pound because his resume is too thin to be placed in the top two spots in the rankings. To be the #1 pound-for-pound, Crawford would need a deeper resume with high-level wins than the ones he has.
Path To #1
Bakhram Murtazaliev
Janibek Alimkhanuly
David Benavidez
David Morrell
Osleys Iglesias
Diego Pacheco
If Crawford could beat those guys, no one would argue that he doesn’t deserve #1 pound-for-pound. But he’s not fought any of those guys, and he doesn’t intend to. So, Crawford should be nowhere near the #1 spot in the pound-for-pound ratings or #2. Given his weak resume, he should be down below around 10 to 15.
They hated on all the greats. Nothing new under the sun. https://t.co/TUVCpoGaXv
— Terence Crawford (@terencecrawford) December 19, 2024
The only notable win Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) has on his 16-year resume is a washed-up, car crash, ring rusty-sion of Errol Spence. The former unified welterweight champion Spence was coming off a 14-month layoff, had lost 50 lbs in training camp and hadn’t looked good since his car crash four years earlier.
Other than that win against an inactive, depleted shell Errol, there’s no one, and he was nothing like he once was after crashing his Ferrari in a high-speed accident on October 10, 2019. The Ferrari was a pile of junk from their car crash
Quality Of Opposition
– Errol Spence: Post car crash
– Shawn Porter: End of career
– Israil Madrimov: Razor close
– Kell Brook: Washed up
– Amir Khan: Same as above
– Ricky Burns: Late in his career
– Yuriorkis Gamboa: Two divisions above his weight class
– Jose Benavidez Jr: Post-gunshot wound
