The People's Pound For Pound

[skanksta]

None at all - HOF, P4P for 10 years or more, magnificent career, but NOW.... ?
He's nowhere near the best 10 fighters in the world.

I would still give him Top 10 in the world for the time being. He wasn't just embarrassed by Terence Crawford. It was a close, competitive fight.

He's never truly been embarrassed in the ring. He's lost sure, everyone loses if you fight enough, but he's never been humiliated in there.

Yeah but it's kinda embarrassing to lose to a guy from (at least) 2 weight divs below no ?

[gilgamesh]

None at all - HOF, P4P for 10 years or more, magnificent career, but NOW.... ?
He's nowhere near the best 10 fighters in the world.

I would still give him Top 10 in the world for the time being. He wasn't just embarrassed by Terence Crawford. It was a close, competitive fight.

He's never truly been embarrassed in the ring. He's lost sure, everyone loses if you fight enough, but he's never been humiliated in there.

Yeah but it's kinda embarrassing to lose to a guy from (at least) 2 weight divs below no ?

It is, but Exceptional fighters can do Exceptional things. I think we can safely say Terence Crawford isn't just any fighter that was 2 divisions smaller, he was a great fighter, and a great fighter is almost always gonna be a tough night. Big, Medium or Small.

[Eolaithe]

Yeah but it's kinda embarrassing to lose to a guy from (at least) 2 weight divs below no ?

The Crawford-Canelo bout was definitely not a “David versus Goliath” type of fight. Terence has been “walking around” weighing more than 180lbs since 2017 (and maybe even earlier).

Terence Crawford was unusually large at 135 lbs, reportedly rehydrating to 152 lbs against Yuriorkis Gamboa and 153 lbs for the Ray Beltrán fight.

For context, Crawford’s 153 lb fight-night weight as a lightweight exceeded the rehydration weights recorded by welterweights such as Timothy Bradley, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Robert Guerrero.

At 140 lbs, he weighed 157 lbs on fight night against Viktor Postol — precisely the same as Marvin Hagler’s fight-day weights for his middleweight title defences against Durán and Hamsho.

In December 2017, before moving up to welterweight, Crawford also posted an Instagram photo showing himself at 177 lbs.

During the build-ups to the Kell Brook and Errol Spence Jr. fights, he repeatedly said he was a big guy who walked around above 180 lbs.

During the build-up to the Canelo Álvarez bout at 168 lbs, Crawford proved he weighed 187 lbs — heavier than the Mexican’s 185 lbs rehydrated ring-weight for his light heavyweight fight against Sergey Kovalev.

And speaking of the Russian ‘Krusher’, Crawford's proven 187lbs weight for the Canelo bout is heavier than Kovalev’s rehydrated ring-weights for his light heavyweight bouts against the likes of Alvarez, Yarde, Ward, Mohammedi, Caparello, Agnew, Sillakh etc.

Crawford is also taller than Canelo and (based on the proverbial eyeball test) he looked as big as the Mexican during their ceremonial weigh-in. Even his trainer, Brian “Bomac” McIntyre, told The Ring: “He ain’t the bigger guy. He ain’t.”