Terence Crawford v Israil Madrimov

[Denilson3.0]

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.

[TIC]

And Crawford is facing an unbeaten Kazakh power puncher

i think you are overrating israil's power

[Denilson3.0]

And Crawford is facing an unbeaten Kazakh power puncher

i think you are overrating israil's power

The man is from the same part of the world as Triple G.

Hombre, even looks like him



Some incestuous sh*t going on over there I reckon, but that's for another time. Madrimov has three hundred amateur fights, he's not some novice, you either beat him or he beats you down. If bud shows any signs of being 36 he's going to get knocked down and if he can't get Madrimov's respect he gets knocked out, simple as that.

Madrimov trains with Bivol, iron sharpens iron - Kimosabbe

[TIC]

And Crawford is facing an unbeaten Kazakh power puncher

i think you are overrating israil's power

The man is from the same part of the world as Triple G.

Hombre, even looks like him

Some incestuous sh*t going on over there I reckon, but that's for another time. Madrimov has three hundred amateur fights, he's not some novice, you either beat him or he beats you down. If bud shows any signs of being 36 he's going to get knocked down and if he can't get Madrimov's respect he gets knocked out, simple as that.

Madrimov trains with Bivol, iron sharpens iron - Kimosabbe

where do you get the impression that israil is a power puncher? i'll admit he's a decent puncher but not some one punch knockout artist

what about being from the same part of the world & looking like ggg show's israil as a power puncher?

what about his amateur fights show israil as a power puncher?

israil may be unbeaten but he hasn't knocked out all his opponents

if bud gets old over night wouldn't that be more because bud got old than israil's power punching?

did raphael igbokwe, emmany kalombo & eric walker get israil's respect? is that why he didn't stop them? did michel soro not get his respect so the ref let the fight go after the bell?

israil might train with dmitry & i'm sure he'll be well prepared. he looks in tremedous shape already. i also think this will be a difficult fight for terence but i'm asking you what gives you the impression that israil is such a power puncher?

[Big J]

I'm looking forward to this card & especially this fight
Madrimov is tricky
His movement & angles will be a difficult puzzle for Crawford to solve
Madrimov could be the best 154 in the world
I'm interested to see how Crawford goes about this matchup

[Spicoli]

interesting look. Really like when they look into the bigger picture of a fighter. Random thought I keep asking myself though...is this "all-time great" anointment talk well carried away? Does averaging 1 fight a year over the last 5 really stamp that status. Something up for hindsight talk, just hope for a highly competitive main event.

[ykdadamaja]

They are trying to build Madrimov up as if he is the second coming of GGG or something. Bud may end up stopping this guy before 7...