nobody thought spence was completely shot before they fought. only when crawford dismantled him did this bullshit narrative start popping up about errol being completely done.
crawford is much more comparable to a floyd or lara than he is to golovkin, and both of those guys gave canelo plenty of trouble. the key difference is that bud can actually crack. he doesn't have the heavy hands of someone like gennady, but he has those explosive, precise shots that buckle people because they don't see them coming. i don't expect canelo to get battered, but crawford can land on him and drop him through an accumulation of shots, rather than one big thudding punch.
madrimov jerked around the ring all night with bud. canelo was never very mobile, and is less so now with age. he makes his money getting into people's faces and then forcing them into exchanges that he wins, because he's a great counter puncher. the fight will look nothing like bud vs madrimov.
my prediction is that bud makes canelo look very old, and a whole lot of people will be coming out and saying that crawford beat a completely shot alvarez.
I thought he looked somewhat shot even before Crawford yes. It's why I changed my pick to Crawford, whereas in years prior I thought Spence would be a bit too big and young and aggressive.
Sometimes it takes a certain fight for someone to look shot. He didn't just look out of his depth or outskilled, he looked completely done - slow, sloppy, with no punch resistance. It's going to be no surprise at all if he never fights again, and if he does, he'll no doubt look done.
And no, Crawford is nothing like Floyd, he's no closer to Floyd than he is to Golovkin. Floyd is slippery and unpredictable, has a great jab, and excellent movement. Floyd also has very good, underrated infighting and of course the main thing, extremely hard to hit clean.
Crawford is a classic sharpshooter. Good boxer, very skilled, but stylewise nothing like Floyd. And yeah, he's clearly more of a puncher. Post 135 that's what's surprised me the most about Crawford, he's far more powerful than I expected.
168 is a different story though, especially against someone like Canelo with a head like an anvil, who took flush shots from Golovkin and barely flinched.
I expect Crawford to be slower at 168, gunshy against someone as powerful as Canelo, with ultimately Canelo winning a close decision.
Also about Madrimov, so what if he jerked around the ring all night? He did the same thing with Ortiz, and despite a slow start, Ortiz beat the absolute shit out of him, landed almost twice as many shots as Crawford did. And ultimately looked like more of a force at 154.
It's quite telling against the biggest guy he fought, Crawford suddenly looked a lot more human and beatable.