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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4718224, member: 289"] I have believed that Terrence Crawford was the best fighter in the world since Floyd Mayweather Jr. retired and it was certainly confirmed tonight. I'm also a big fan of Erroll Spence Jr., (as I was a big fan of both Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler back in 1987) and I was hoping he would make a better battle of it than this but he was no match at all for Bud Crawford. Spence was supposed to be the bigger, stronger man and the harder hitter but looking at them at the weigh in and in the pictures used to advertise this and he didn't look smaller or less powerful. Spence was supposed to possess the better jab but Crawford's jab dominated the fight, jolting Spence every time he threw it, including the first knockdown. A big key was whether Spence could pin Crawford against the ropes but Bud controlled the distance between the fighters and found angels of attack Spence wasn't ready for and kept the fight in the middle of the ring - until Spence started retreating to the ropes. I kept waiting for Spence to hit a big shot as Crawford became more and more confident to get back in the fight but whenever he landed a good shot Crawford landed a better one, including the second knockdown. Spence tried going to Crawford's body and Crawford started going to Spence's body. Spence went down three times but was on his feet, with a beet-red face, when the ref stopped it in the 9th. I gave Spence the first round, reluctantly because he did force Crawford into the ropes at one point but even in that round, Crawford was already establishing his jab even then. Bud won all the other rounds, one 10-8 and another 10-7. Spence has a rematch clause in the contract for the fight and said he intends to use it to get a rematch before the end of the year. "We gotta do this again." That's a very bad idea. I had envisioned this as the great trilogy of this generation. It's hard to see that now. [/QUOTE]

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