Why Crawford will never be #1: The fighters he’s avoiding

Terence Crawford reacted when Shakur Stevenson came to his defense, saying that “all the top fighters” rate Bud as No. 1, but the writers see him as No. 2 pound-for-pound. Instead of being modest, Crawford said, “They hated all the big guys.”

Lack of elite wins

Crawford is not a great fighter because he hasn’t beaten any of the elite at 154, 147, 140 or 135. There are fighters from 154 to 168 that Bud could fight for the #1 spot, but he won’t fight them because the result end would be negative.

NOT all of the top fighters rate Crawford at #1 or #2 pound for pound because his resume is too thin to place in the top two spots in the rankings. To be #1 pound-for-pound, Crawford would need a deeper resume with high-level wins than he has.

Way 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 the #1 pound for pound. But he hasn’t fought any of those guys, and he doesn’t intend to. So Crawford shouldn’t be anywhere near the No. 1 spot in the pound-for-pound rankings or No. 2. Given his weak resume, he should be around 10-15 below.

They hated all the elders. Nothing new under the sun. https://t.co/TUVCpoGaXv

— Terence Crawford (@terencecrawford) December 19, 2024

The only notable wins Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) has on his 16-year resume are a car crash, a car crash and a rusty ring from Errol Spence. Former unified welterweight champion Spence was coming off a 14-month layoff, had lost 50 pounds in training camp and hadn’t looked well since his car accident four years earlier.

Apart from this win against an inactive and exhausted Errol, there is no one, and he looked nothing like he was after he crashed his Ferrari in a high-speed accident on October 10, 2019. The Ferrari it was a pile of junk from his car. shock

Quality of the opposition

– Errol Spence: Post car accident
– Shawn Porter: End of career
– Israil Madrimov: Closed razor
– Kell Brook: Washed
– Amir Khan: Same as above
– Ricky Burns: At the end of his career
– Yuriorkis Gamboa: Two divisions above his weight class
– Jose Benavidez Jr: Post gunshot wound