Mikey Tapology Boxing Corner!

I don't want to kybosh it, but honestly that fight has the potential to be really, really ****. Counter-puncher southpaw vs pressure southpaw. Both of them trying to set up topside shots with ranged body attacks. They're incredibly similar fighters who ramp up as the rounds get deeper. There could be a whole lot of 'controller disconnected' moments especially through the first 6.

I'm pretty confident Crawford wins a clear dec TBH. Spence actually isn't as technical as Crawford and doesn't have his footwork. He's always really square in his attacks, and throws singles and doubles with his dominant hand off the break/when countering. Bud is better in that capacity, he throws counters in combination ambidextrously, and with better distance management--in fact hes far better with his right generally. Keeps his range better. Spence is often too deep in the pocket and is there to be hit in the exchanges. He's also pretty vulnerable to the body on the back foot, Garcia caught him a few times with some really bad body shots. If that had been crawford he might have got Indongo'd. The Porter fights between both of them are the only fights you need to watch to get a good read, really. He struggled with Porter and got hit far worse in that fight than Bud did.

Spence does hit harder and I don't care what anybody thinks about that, he just does. But I'm 70% confident he gets finessed pretty handily by Crawford.

* Edited at 09.01.2022, 10:14 PM ET *

@Mikey, sorry, corrected. UDec U ****.

* Edited at 09.01.2022, 8:35 PM ET *

@Mikey I'll concede that my grammar, syntax and punctuation on Tapology is fairly abysmal. I will also freely admit that yes, I am in fact ********. I suppose there's ostensibly very little difference between us at all really, with a few notable and probably minor exceptions. For example, when I'm typing out my daily pishposts, I'm doing it in the privacy of my home--not on a compaq Pentium 4 circa 2004 that is the colour of a white mudflap on a ten-year-old Lorry. I am not laying on the steps of a public library by a brown paper bag containing three empty bottles of rubbing alcohol, all of which have been imbibed. I am not wearing a rhinestone trackie richly decorated in McDonald's condiment stains. A cluster of barnacles has not sprouted from the largest toes on both my left and right feet, and a sign fashioned out of the back side of a carton of Carlsberg that simply reads: Feed? Is not fastened to my chest with scavenged chewing gum.

I will not be passed by a man in blackout sunglasses, raking the pavement with a ball-ended stick, and he will not pause to dourly sniff the air, and thoughtfully inquire of his handler: 'Did a low-flying tip-gull just swoop overhead carrying a rock crab that died of sunstroke on a pier two days ago'? And I will not, for the second time this week, be unceremoniously hosed (to a chorus of applause by nearby commuters) like the dung of a mounted policeman's pony, into the gutter, with a high-pressure gurney wielded by heavily tattooed and bearded council worker wearing high visibility overalls. And she will not be my maw.

* Edited at 09.01.2022, 10:59 PM ET *

Genuinely saddened about the passing of the one and only acorn. One of my favourite characters in boxing. Really good dude. He had a good innings for a big feller I suppose, especially being a pro Boxer who fought the greatest HW's of all time, and will always be mentioned among them. He will go down as one of if not the hardest punchers in history. 78 ain't bad.

I own a glove he signed. I will never sell it.

* Edited at 09.02.2022, 2:09 AM ET *