Quote Originally Posted by palmerq View Post
Love crawford, he's just evil... He certainly underestimated this fellow though like everyone else :S, fought stupid and made him look good,seemed to try too hard to splat the guy without placing the foundations, he'll have trouble if he tries that v the top big guys, I think he'll be smarter v the other Guys though.. Defo got hit far more than he should but lucky for crawford he can put himself up a gear.


I have to go back to this. Crawford does have a mean, evil streak in him that comes out whenever he feels embarrassed by the other guy. Whether Kava was underrated or not (and it seems like he was), the boxing world fully expected total domination by Bud from start to finish. When that wasn't happening, and Bud was getting tagged, he probably said WTF is this..... and put himself into that other gear you mentioned, @palmerq .

He went righty and I thought he was even more lethal as a righty than in his natural, southpaw stance. Many fighters toy with the opposite stance during fights. But Crawford does righty better than many would expect. Once he went into "seek and destroy" mode, Kava had little chance. Had he not tagged Crawford so much and so effectively early on, Bud may have been content with outboxing him throughout the 12 rounds. So in retrospect I'm glad Kava pissed him off.