Terence Crawford v Israil Madrimov

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Kazakhs are the new Cubans

In the Olympics next week, if anyone is drawn against a Kazakh ? GOOD LUCK

And Crawford is facing an unbeaten Kazakh power puncher who's in the prime of his life, a title holder whose just come off a career best destructive performance and Crawford is moving up in weight. GOOD LUCK

I imagine it will be his toughest opponent.

Maybe Crawford and his team are underestimating him or don't know much about him, or possibly they have sparred before or something. Strange they are so quick to take the risk.

Crawford has somehow managed to have 40 fights whilst barely having fought any legit punchers, especially ones his size, let alone legit KO artists. I'm not saying he's been ducking punchers as such but rather he's just been extremely fortunate in the regard that the minefields he's had to traverse spanning three weight divisions have been full of of non life-threatening mines.

He's fought a ton of absolute feather-fists and average punchers (Brook, Khan, Porter, Spence, Avanesyan, Horn) at best and on one of the only occasions he fought a legit banger his size in Egidijus "Mean Machine" Kavaliauskas he got dropped and Madrimov is levels above Kavaliauskas and for the first time Crawford is facing a LIGHTS OUT puncher.

If Madrimov is able to land his bombs with any consistency and get past Crawford's much longer reach and stiff-arming I'll be surprised if he doesn't hurt him badly, drop him.

Much respect to crawford for taking this fight.

Prediction ?

Well, stylistically if you could throw Mike Tyson and Prince Naz in a pot and mix them up, the result would be Madrimov.



And I think he takes this, he'll enter the fight as an outsider, but he actually has everything he needs to overcome Crawford, Madrimov by TKO.