By Allan Fox: Teddy Atlas believes Terence Crawford will dominate the present fighters at 154 as he’s executed at 147, together with Jermell Charlo. If Jermell doesn’t return to 154, Crawford’s choices for essential fights are restricted.
Atlas thinks Crawford can win for some time, however he’ll get previous quickly, and when that occurs, his time will probably be executed.
To maximise the time he’s bought left, Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) might want to put himself vulnerable to getting knocked out at 168 as a result of he’s not going to get the fights he desires at 154.
With Jermell gone and simply Errol Spence & Tim Tszyu to battle, Crawford will return to preventing the nameless scrubs he’d been going through throughout his 15-year profession. Furthermore, with Terence preventing every year, he’ll be gone in two or three fights.
If Crawford chooses to check himself by transferring up in weight, Atlas feels he’ll ultimately attain his ceiling, reaching a restrict the place he can’t beat the highest competitors, simply as we’ve seen with Vasily Lomachenko at light-weight.
Staying at 154 will extend Crawford’s profession as a result of there aren’t any threats to beat him in that weight class. Crawford could be the monarch of that weight class, however what would he rule?
Nobody beats Crawford at 154
“If he strikes up, do you suppose he can beat the 154-lb [Jermell Charlo?” said Ken Rideout to Atlas’s Youtube channel.
“There does come a ceiling of how far you can move up. He’s moved up three weight classes already; how many more can he move up” said Teddy Atlas.
“Lomachenko moved up three, but then he got to his limit. You can see that he can’t go past lightweight.
“He’s different. Crawford’s got a different body. He’s got a different skeleton. You can put some more mass on him because of how wirey and tall he is and how long his arms are.”
The limited options for Crawford at 154 are these fighters:
Errol Spence
Brian Mendoza
Tim Tszyu
Sebastian Fundora
Erickson Lubin
It’s unknown whether Spence will move to 154 or follow Floyd Mayweather Jr’s advice to go to 160 or 168. It’s likely that Spence go in the direction of the guaranteed payday against Crawford at 154, then retire after he loses. He would end his career on a whimper.
“So he has a different structure where you can add to it, but it does get to a limit. Obviously, it depends on who the fighter is in the next weight class. I’ll put it this way.
“I don’t see any fighter. Okay, I’ll remove the weight for two seconds. I don’t see any fighter in that next weight class, and you mentioned [Jermell] Charlo as a chance, is pretty much as good as him, near being pretty much as good as him or able to beating him, and I don’t know that weight will change that. That’s my reply,” stated Atlas.
Father time catching as much as Crawford
“We’re not speaking about going to heavyweight, however one other step. Who’s there? He’s so good. It takes the challenges in his thoughts to carry out stuff that we had by no means seen from him earlier than. I knew it was there. I felt it was there,” stated Atlas.
“We’ve seen glimpses of it, components of it, little doubt, however by no means all of it and her the scary half. I don’t know if we’ve seen all of it but, and in his thoughts, he’s most likely saying, ‘You’ haven’t seen all of it but. Give yet another problem and let me open one other door in my room,’ as a result of that’s what the good ones suppose.”
Atlas feels like he’s below the impression that Jermell Charlo will return to the 154-lb division to battle Crawford, however many individuals don’t suppose he’ll. If Jermell beats the light, washed Canelo Alvarez twice in 168, there’s no means he’ll drain again all the way down to 154 to battle Crawford.
“The one factor that rings a little bit bit to me whenever you ask that query. There’s one different factor, and that man is undefeated. Even Crawford might need hassle with him, and that’s father time the place that does play in in some unspecified time in the future.
“He’s 35, 36-years-old and that does play in in some unspecified time in the future, however I all the time say in boxing, you don’t choose a man’s age chronologically a lot by the quantity of punishment they’ve taken of their profession. What number of punches have they been hit? How worn are they?
“Crawford has lots of thread on the tires. He don’t have many miles on the odometer whenever you have a look at it that means. He’s recent. I want he was ten years youthful as a result of he’s that particular. I’d wish to see what different continents he might conquer on the market.
“What different lands might he go and put his flag into that land and say, ‘Okay, that is my land now.’ You don’t get an opportunity to see that too usually.”
Atlas is brief on examples of fighters that Crawford can face to “put his flag into that land.” If it’s simply beating Tszyu, so what? That man by no means beat anybody related.
The one means Crawford can actually plant a flag is by preventing these fighters:
David Benavidez
Dmitry Bivol
Artur Beterbiev
David Morrell Jr
Jermell Charlo – at 168
Canelo Alvarez
Caleb Plant
Diego Pacheco
