By Stevie Ocallaghan: After a comprehensive victory last weekend in stopping big punching Mexican Alejandro Sanabria, Terrence Crawford has firmly put his name at the higher end of the WBO rankings, but how good is he?
I haven’t seen or heard a great deal of Crawford 21-0 16kos but his win over Sanabria was of a good standard but looking through his fight history, it’s not one at this stage in my opinion that merits a world title. He has really only beaten one named fighter in Breidis Prescott and he made his name in a first round KO victory over Amir Khan.
Prescott himself came back over to British shores and twice was sent packing after a bad loss to Kevin Mitchell the a slightly controversial defeat against Paul McCloskey.
Some writers from the US always like to drag WBO champ Ricky Burns name up and after Crawford’s victory at the weekend it’s the same old story. Crawford, however good he is hasn’t earned the right to a title fight and the win over Sanabria , himself has really only one name on his record in Rocky Juarez doesn’t put him in the frame just yet.
One of the best things about BN24 is that it lets everybody interact with each other, whether you agree or disagree with whichever author it may be, but a lot of the criticism aimed at Ricky Burns is a little bit unfair. Burns did struggle heavily in his last fight against arguably the biggest puncher in the division. Jose A Gonzalez is a fighter who I think after the way he was dominating in the fight will become an avoided fighter and once he learns to pace himself better will become an even more fearsome proposition. Although Gonzalez is 30 years old he has only been fighting for five years.
A fight between Gonzalez and Crawford would be a great match-up as both are gifted boxers and the stats are almost exactly the same. If Crawford came through a fight like that then he would be ready.
The Nebraska native is still a young fighter who himself has only been boxing for five years so he has plenty of time on his side and under the correct trainer he will go on and have a great. career
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