ESPN 10/13 Terence Crawford vs Jose Benavidez (WBO Welterweight Championship)

[mr. smoke weed]

It's the story of a DCAF.

DCAF: "Well, fighter A won the first four rounds. He exposed fighter B."
Boxing Nerd: "What happened in the fifth?"
DCAF: "Well, fighter A got knocked clean the fukk out. But, it don't matter. He still exposed fighter B."

Hardly. Being a boxing fan comes with skepticism and constantly critiquing fighters. Mikey shoulda KOed Easter, Beast should’ve never got dropped by Callum Johnson, Loma shouldn’t have been KD by Linares etc etc. Buds best weight will be 140. Unless they match him carefully against dudes who can’t punch. If he fights the elite competition at welterweight he’s gonna have trouble with his chin.

 

[Achille]

Good ass fight for Crawford, I was telling my lady during the fight if Crawford lands a uppercut he will make Jose Jr look like a Pez dispenser.

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

Hardly. Being a boxing fan comes with skepticism and constantly critiquing fighters. Hagler shoulda KOed Duran, Roy should’ve never got dropped by Lou Del Valle, Whitaker shouldn’t have been KD by R. Mayweather etc etc. Floyd's* best weight will be 140. Unless they match him carefully against dudes who can’t punch. If he fights the elite competition at welterweight he’s gonna have trouble with his chin.

I heard this same shyt a decade and a half ago.

* = post Chop-Chop fight

 

[RisAri0]

Crawford is one of those fighters where it all depends how good his opponent is for him to show how good he is in there himself, like there are levels to his adjustments. Pacquiao, D. Garcia, Porter, Thurman, Spence, all those high level guys would bring out his best tools I believe.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

I heard this same shyt a decade and a half ago.

* = post Chop-Chop fight

Honestly, do you see the same skill set in all those fighters? Pure honesty

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

He'd have gotten knocked out quicker being more aggressive.

He's good but he wasn't beating Crawford.

Dont put words in my mouth. I never said he'd beat crawford.
I was rooting for crawford but he got hit with alot of counters and looked too sloppy at times

 

[prince_peoples]

I believe he would as well. He is just as good a boxer, makes just as good adjustments, has more power and is naturally bigger.

He is not as good of a boxer, Crawford is the better boxer, the better fighter imo

Thurman only advantage in the fight is his size.

 

[reservoirdogs]

It's the same folks who had Maidana beating Floyd in the first fight even though Floyd won 9-3 or 10-2. Him being competitive scewed their judgment on the fight unfolding.

Some dudes can be washed competitively but still make the fight fun to watch.

Cotto fought well vs. Floyd but got washed by Nelo....who washed (and always would) wash Nelo.

Triangle theory fans are delusional

Personally I think Maidana did better than 9-3

Floyd won though

 

[Flawdaboi]

Surely it’s not

ok.....LOL

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

Honestly, do you see the same skill set in all those fighters? Pure honesty

Yes.

History repeats itself. I'm in my mid 40s. People from my father's and grandfather's generation were talking shyt about those guys back then the way my generation talks about these guys today. This shyt happens every 15 to 20 years like clockwork and is as old as modern boxing itself.

Elite fighters shine against other elite fighters. There are more fights that I can count where a journeyman or sub-par fighter gives an elite fighter the toughest fight of his entire career and all he can handle while that same elite fighter outclasses or demolishes other elite fighters. If you hang around boxing gyms in the Philly and the DMV areas, you'll hear the term "duck fighter".

Brother Naazim can explain it better than me talking about Andre Ward.



A few months later, Ward stops Dawson. I won a G from the outcome of that fight from some dummies.

 

[David_TheMan]

He is not as good of a boxer, Crawford is the better boxer, the better fighter imo

Thurman only advantage in the fight is his size.

Disagree completely he is just as good as a boxer if he wasn't he wouldn't have easily neutralized Garcia and Porter the way he did.
Crawford is a beautiful switch hitting boxer, but Thurman is just as good albeit without the switching ability.
thurman can get down and bang and is stronger than Crawford and bigger so to claim Crawford is better makes no sense to me.

They are very closely skilled but Crawford is smaller. Advantage Keith "One Time" thurman

 

[R=G]

 

[patscorpio]

Crawford-Benavidez Does Big Ratings For ESPN

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Last night’s Top Rank on ESPN (10:25 p.m. ET to 12:36 a.m. ET) scored three major victories. The overall event delivered a 1.6 metered market rating according to Nielsen, making it the highest-rated boxing telecast in 2018 across all broadcast and cable networks. The main event, featuring Terence Crawford (34-0, 25 KOs) vs. Jose Benavidez, Jr. (27-1, 18 KOs), averaged a 1.8 metered market, making it making it the year’s highest-rated Top Rank bout and main event on ESPN. It was an electric, full house at the CHI Health Center in Omaha, as hometown favorite Terence “Bud” Crawford, defeated Benavidez Jr. by 12th-round TKO to defend his WBO welterweight world title.

The featured co-main event, a battle between Shakur Stevenson (9-0, 5 KOs) vs Viorel Simion (21-3,9 KOs), also delivered big for ESPN, scoring a 1.3 metered market rating, making it the year’s second highest-rated Top Rank on ESPN event. Stevenson, a 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, knocked Simion down three times en route to a first-round TKO in the scheduled 10-round co-feature.

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Last night’s entire Top Rank on ESPN telecast averaged a 1.6 metered market rating, making it the highest-rated boxing telecast in 2018 across all broadcast and cable networks and the highest-rated Top Rank on ESPN telecast, behind Pacquiao vs Horn in July 2017

The Crawford vs Benavidez, Jr. main event averaged a 1.8 metered market rating, making it the highest-rated Top Rank bout and main event in 2018. The fight averaged 80% higher rating than the Crawford-Indongo fight in August 2017 (1.0 metered market rating)

Stevenson vs Simion co-main averaged a 1.3 metered market rating, making it the second highest-rated Top Rank fight in 2018, besting Lomachenko vs Linares (1.0 metered market rating, May 2018) which was this year’s highest-rated Top Rank fight until last night

Last night’s event is ESPN’s second highest-rated Top Rank telecast since ESPN acquired the rights in 2017.

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[Yuzo]

He'd have gotten knocked out quicker being more aggressive.

He's good but he wasn't beating Crawford.

thats why he did so well. crawford had to fight a way he doesnt fight, leaping in throwing combinations like he's pacquiao, cause all benavidez would do is stare at him. he did not even try to win.

 

[R=G]

At first I thought Jose was trying to tone in when he would dash in with measure jabs but mid rounds..come on..it became obvious he just couldn't keep up.