Timing is everything. Especially in boxing. It dictates not just when, but how much power you have when you do the work of throwing punches and how much power you can take away from your opponent by leaving him no time or space to work in. Crawford dictated last night's fight with the kind of timing that makes very, very good fighters like Spence look ordinary.
I have to admit, I was a little bit sceptical of just how good Terence Crawford was, but last night's contest erased those doubts. Of course, it would be foolish to judge a fighter on one fight, but when you make a fellow P4P fighter look like a novice for long periods in a contest with this much at stake, it is hard to deny the quality of Crawford.

Spence can still have some great contests but you have to admit that even if he triggers the rematch clause there is very little he can do to disrupt the timing of a man who established such a hurtful and efficient metronome in not only beating Spence to the punch, but setting him up with combinations and traps that left Spence no time to adjust his own tempo or the angle of his own feints and punches.