By Tom Donelson (BWAA) Member Boxing Writers of America
Terrance Crawford has been one of the best pound-for-pound fighters having been first a lightweight champion before cleaning out the junior welterweights 다운로드. He faced Errol Spence Jr. for Spence’s WBA, WBC, and IBF titles along with his own WBO title. Spence, Jr. had been a welterweight titlist since he defeated Kell Brook in 2017 for his IBF title.
Spence, Jr 버뮤다 신드롬. is a slick boxer who can change sides seamlessly, has a powerful jab, and could sting the body with powerful shots. He had been a welterweight for his entire career as Crawford moved up to the welterweight. Crawford was one of those fighters who combines both power and boxing style, but I viewed this fight as a close one before the opening bell rang. I was wrong 다운로드.
Crawford often takes the early part of a fight to figure out his opponent and ends up giving away early rounds on the scorecard; but he comes back in the second half of the fight. In the opening four rounds, Spence averaged nineteen punches landed and thirty-five thrown compared to Crawford landing only seven punches and throwing fifteen. Spence has been a consistent puncher and he averaged nineteen punches landed per round throughout the bout; but Crawford increased both his input and accuracy as he doubled both his punches landed and thrown over the final four rounds 다운로드. This trend would indicate that it would be a close fight with Spence most likely to win the early rounds.
According to CompuBox, both Spence and Crawford are among the top ten when it comes to landing combination punches and their data were similar coming into this fight 다운로드.
The first round was a feeling out round as Spence threw forty-seven punches while only landing five, and Crawford landed only two punches; but then Crawford usually starts out slowly. While I gave Spence the first round, it had more to do with him throwing a ton of punches, but he was ineffectual. This would be the last round he would win as Crawford turned this fight into a virtuoso performance.
In the second round, Crawford nailed Spence with a straight left that put Spence on his seat. Spence got up quickly, but this was the first time Spence hit the canvas and it gave Crawford a 10-8 score. The third round was close as Crawford landed fourteen punches to Spence’s seventeen, but Crawford was the more accurate puncher as he connected on those fourteen punches while throwing only thirty-seven whereas Spence needed sixty-two punches to land seventeen. Crawford had the more effective defense and Spence was having trouble landing those big shots.
In the fourth round, a straight left backed up Spence and hurt him while a hook busted up Spence’s nose. In the fifth round, Crawford landed upper cuts and hooks as he dominated the round. Spence looked spent but he showed his guts by fighting on. Crawford continued to land punches at will and in the seventh round, Crawford sent Spence down twice in the last minute of the round with lefts.
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