Crawford’s “Henry Armstrong” Nonsense: Fans Roast His Canelo Fantasy And Paper-Thin Resume

Terence Crawford claims he’ll be “doing some Henry Armstrong stuff” by moving up two divisions to defeat Canelo Alvarez at 168 for his titles in September.

“Henry Armstrong?”

Crawford, comparing himself to the great former three-division world champion Henry Armstrong (149-21-10, 99 KOs), comes across as delusional and 100% ignorant about the type of fighter that talent was. The more Bud talks, the more I realize he doesn’t know anything about the history of the sport.

If Crawford had the kind of drive to excel that Armstrong had in his 14-year career from 1931 to 1945, perhaps he would be great. I doubt it. Crawford would have lost too many fighters if he’d been as busy as Armstrong and fought the killers in the weight classes he’s fought at. Armstrong strived to fight the best and stayed busy with his career. He wasn’t taking a year off after each win the way Crawford does.

The Omaha, Nebraska native has always taken the easy road, especially for his two undisputed championship wins. He didn’t fight all the champions. He gathered his belts by fighting champs that already had the titles collected.

The aging once-a-year fighter Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) adds that a victory over Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) places him #3 pound-for-pound for all time.

Ego Trip?

“I think Canelo is up there with the all time greats, too, and I already look at myself as an all time great,” said Crawford to Manouk Akopyan, arguing that he would deserve to be in the top #3 pound-for-pound of all all time. “To move up essentially three weight classes to defeat a soon-to-be undisputed at 168 without stepping foot in that weight class, it’s like some Henry Armstrong stuff.”

Crawford’s resume is too paper-thin for him to be seen as an all-time great pound-for-pound. When you’re only notable win is a null & void Errol Spence, that tells you’re not worthy of being on any kind of all-time pound-for-pound list. Crawford isn’t in the top 100 on one of those lists.

Beating Canelo wouldn’t put Crawford at the same level as Henry Armstrong and definitely NOT top 3 pound-for-pound all time. People saw that Alvarez could be beaten by skilled fighters with his losses to Dmitry Bivol and Floyd Mayweather Jr.

You can add Gennadiy Golovkin and Erislandy Lara to the list of fighters who defeated Canelo as well because those guys were arguably robbed when they fought the Mexican star. In GGG’s case, he clearly beat Canelo in their first fight and fought well enough to deserve a draw in their second clash in 2018.

Canelo is just another example of a fighter that has Cherry-picked his way through his career and should have a whole bunch more losses on his resume if you take out the controversial decisions.

Bud Crawford would be better off keeping his yap shut and hoping it doesn’t go too badly against Canelo for his golden parachute retirement fight.