Terence Crawford would starch anyone at 135 not named merab, who would beat his face in.

[Deceasedxo]

No one who hasn't trained grappling is touching the upper tier of the lighter weights.

 

[RockyLockridge]

martinez has leg kick tkos

 

[Goodfella86]

How does he beat Pedro Munhoz?

 

[Hymen Crusher]

While that may be true crawford is a good wrestler but until someone is mashing you in the floor and elbowing you its hard to know how good you are. I don't know if he would give up especially after making 50 mil I doubt he is getting out of a good mount

 

[PrideNverDies]

Ya I think Terence starches everyone at 135 in the ufc not named merab. No one throws leg kicks well at 135. He's too good

Aldo and Johnathan Martinez have great leg kicks at 135. You must not follow the sport

 

[joy2day]

Everyone acts like Crawford would just walk in as is, which is hilarious. It isn't like he couldn't train to defend TDs, kicks, elbows, etc. He would be far different by the time he had a few years of training.

 

[Streeter]

With 4oz gloves Crawford starches alot of heavy weights

 

[Harlekin]

Aldo and Johnathan Martinez have great leg kicks at 135. You must not follow the sport

Aldo retired months ago.

Martinez has crazy good kicks and damn is he fast.

 

[Khaosan]

Feed him to DWCS.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

I knew this was coming lol

 

[ricc505]

Too many noobs weren’t around for Toney vs Couture. Every year, more fans come who didn’t see that and it shows.

Toney came saw and cashed his check. Toney who couldn't bother training, timer who couldn't bother watching his weight. Every single MMA fighter would trade places with any to tier boxer.

they are in different sports so stop trying to compare

 

[mkess101]

Everyone acts like Crawford would just walk in as is, which is hilarious. It isn't like he couldn't train to defend TDs, kicks, elbows, etc. He would be far different by the time he had a few years of training.

He's 38. You're gonna have him train anti-grappling "a few years" and start taking MMA fights in his 40's?

 

[joy2day]

He's 38. You're gonna have him train anti-grappling "a few years" and start taking MMA fights in his 40's?

I was obviously making a hypothetical. There is zero chance he would ever do it given he has already stated that in interviews.

 

[mkess101]

I was obviously making a hypothetical. There is zero chance he would ever do it given he has already stated that in interviews.

Gotcha. So yeah an athlete like him putting in the time (when he was younger) to really become an MMA fighter would be lethal. And no doubt he'd never do it, given he's made a zillion times the $ doing something he's already great at.

 

[CC27]

Bud was fighting at 147 and moved to 168. If there was any sort of crossover kind of thing it would be 155 to 160 most likely. You'd be looking at UFC LW like Topuria.

In mma he gets smoked, in boxing obviously he'd clown anyone. This shit is so played out and stupid its crazy we are still talking about it in 2025.

 

[fjodor]

Crawford gets starched in a Muay Thai fight by a random Thai dude. In MMA he gets strangled by any top 20 UFC BW. In the lighter weight classes it will be even harder for a boxer to win in MMA.

 

[markantony20]

He's too good a wrestler.

I don’t get where this comes from.

He wasn’t a D-1 all American he was a good high school wrestler.

People act like he was Gable Stevenson who decided to take up boxing.

 

[jpenwell14]

Bunch of obfuscating straw man arguments. Not worth my time.

Terence Crawford is the first top boxer ever to be good enough wrestling to actually be at the top of the heap in mma also. It’s not rocket science. Here we are watching topuria starch people left and right so what are we even talking about?

And no there’s just no comparison between anyone else and merab, and therefore there’s just no world where Terence beats merab. It’s that simple.

 

[Prazeres]

If anything Merab is maybe the one fighter in the top 10 at 135 he has a better chance at beating since he can be sloppy on the feet and let himself open (talking about a 1% he gets an early ko) but even then, he showed in the first O'Malley fight that he can keep his range and spam kicks if he needs to

 

[jpenwell14]

If anything Merab is maybe the one fighter in the top 10 at 135 he has a better chance at beating since he can be sloppy on the feet and let himself open (talking about a 1% he gets an early ko) but even then, he showed in the first O'Malley fight that he can keep his range and spam kicks if he needs to

I swear it’s like no one in here watched GSP fight