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Speaker 1: This is our life, this is our passion.

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Speaker 2: That's the spirit we bring to this show. I'm Luke Thomas.

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Speaker 3: I'm Brian Campbell.

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Speaker 2: This is Morning Combat.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's the biggest fight in boxing and nearly a decade

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Speaker 4: and one of the most historically significant pay per view

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Speaker 4: main events in the great history of boxing's welterweight division.

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Speaker 4: Welcome on into the Morning Combat takeover here on the

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Speaker 4: CBS Sports Network and your ultimate preview for Saturday's four

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Speaker 4: belt Undisputed Welterweight Summit, when unbeaten champions Terence Crawford, Errol

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Speaker 4: Spence Junior meet and Timo Breina in Las Vegas only

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Speaker 4: on Showtime pay per View.

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Speaker 3: My name is Brian Campbell, Luke Thomas, my co.

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Speaker 4: Host of the award winning CBS Sports in Showtime Digital

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Speaker 4: combat sports series Morning Combat every Monday, Wednesday and Friday

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Speaker 4: on the Morning Combat YouTube channel. But Luke, we are

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Speaker 4: here for huge reasons and it all goes down Saturday,

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Speaker 4: presented of course by Premiere Boxing Champions, a fight five

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Speaker 4: years in the making.

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Speaker 3: When I say Spence Crawford.

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Speaker 2: You say, I say yay. I don't really know what

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Speaker 2: to say. I mean, listen, two goals with today's broadcast

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Speaker 2: number one, We're gonna get you ready with every possible

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Speaker 2: detail around Spence Crawford. Two. Just don't get the apollo

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Speaker 2: avoid all of that. But if I could be serious, PC,

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Speaker 2: when you tell me about Spence Crawford, you know this

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Speaker 2: the time. Of all of the fights in all of

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Speaker 2: combat's sports that could possibly be made this year, I

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Speaker 2: declared this to you already. You know this to be true.

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Speaker 2: This was the one I was looking forward to the most.

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Speaker 2: Whether it's MMA, whether it's boxing, you name it. I

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Speaker 2: important fights in boxing. It's one of the best fights

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Speaker 2: in It's one of the most longly anticipated fights in boxing.

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Speaker 2: It's for stakes, it's for intrigue, it's for fun, it's

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Speaker 2: for everything. Boxing fights, at least on paper. We'll see

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Speaker 4: They just don't come much better than this, They really don't.

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Speaker 3: This is a royal event in a royal sport.

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Speaker 4: When you're talking about unbeaten champion versus unbeaten champion, the

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Speaker 3: Eryl Spence has three of them.

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Speaker 4: It's never easy in boxing, but it's here and it

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Speaker 4: two hours breaking down this fight in painstaking detail. But

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Speaker 4: Luke Thomas, something is in the air this calendar year.

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Speaker 4: As you take a look at this four main pay

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Speaker 4: There's just magic in the water. There's something going on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we first of all, glad you know the star

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Speaker 2: But what's what's in the air, What's in the water?

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Speaker 2: Dudes want the smoke? I don't know how else to

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Speaker 4: We're gonna find out well twenty twenty three. You mentioned

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Speaker 4: Both fit in perfectly in this great welterweight lineage in history.

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Speaker 2: Hard to take anything away from from Noia in a way.

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Speaker 2: this terminator, wrecking machine doing everything he could. I think

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Speaker 4: You know the segments that make us all our money,

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Speaker 4: Thirty three year old unified welterweight champion Eryl Spence Junior,

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Speaker 4: the great resume of Erol Spence stands out to you

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Speaker 2: A bunch you could pick for a bunch of different reasons.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would also just add, Listen, we

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Speaker 2: But on top of that, the scientific side of it,

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Speaker 4: Well, Spence calls himself what man down strap sis in

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Speaker 2: Yesterday, get your Cajun spicy spices ready, there you go.

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Speaker 4: He broke the eye socket of Kilbrook back in twenty

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Speaker 3: Ugas filled in and scored an upset win.

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Speaker 4: He also survived that crash from twenty nineteen in which

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Speaker 3: Yet none of this has slown Spence down.

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Speaker 4: He went into the trenches against Ugas exclusively Luke, and

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Speaker 2: That was not necessarily Spence's best showing. But if you

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Speaker 2: Following the dominant Ugust victory, which by the way, should

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it went down as a late stoppage. When Ugas's

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Speaker 4: This fight was exclusively power shots, Spence using the jab

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Speaker 3: But Spence wouldn't be at.

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Speaker 4: This was the first pay per view main event in

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Speaker 4: This was Errol Spence, the ruthless, cutthroat competitor, proving a point.

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Speaker 3: You think this guy can outbox me? What did Spence

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Speaker 4: Worked from distance and outclassed Mikey Garcia, who was never

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Speaker 2: Twelve Let's be honest about this, Mikey Garcia is a

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Speaker 3: Look at those percentages, unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: It looked like they were two different skill levels. Now,

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Speaker 4: You could have easily out of the fourth fight, that

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Speaker 2: Let me say that's actually one of my least favorite

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Speaker 3: Well, what do you want to take from it?

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Speaker 4: great resume of Aerol Spence Junior. But when we return

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Speaker 4: Bud Crawford, the three division champion from Omaha, Nebraska.

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Speaker 3: Takeover, Luke.

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Speaker 4: When you look at the tremendous, well rounded ability of

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Speaker 2: Sean Porter looked frustrated. Sean Porter looked out. I don't

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Speaker 4: The reason why this Bud Crawford win is so important

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Speaker 3: And even though this goes down as the.

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Speaker 3: But he pushed Crawford in the first half of this fight.

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Speaker 3: Here's the keys to this matchup.

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Speaker 2: The punching power carried in. Again, He's not like the

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Speaker 2: biggest puncher you've ever seen, but it certainly carried He

435
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Speaker 2: was giving Jeff Horn problems in every capacity. Again, another

436
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Speaker 2: master of position here, and you can see physically how

437
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Speaker 2: big Horn is. Yes he was. There was a big

438
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Speaker 2: skills gap we saw in the end, but he's a

439
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Speaker 2: big guy for this weight class and he just could

440
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Speaker 2: not stand up to the accuracy of Bud's boxing. Look

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Speaker 2: at the shots man, there's no wasted movement, no over

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Speaker 2: commitment on where he needs to be and obviously landing

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Speaker 2: on all the right spots continuously. He gave Horn problems

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Speaker 2: beginning to end in this contest. And to your point, BC,

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Speaker 2: what would he look like at this weight class? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Great is the answer.

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Speaker 3: I mean looks.

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Speaker 4: We know how slick Crawford can be. But just like

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Speaker 4: we mentioned when we moved to the south paw position,

450
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Speaker 4: as he did in the second half of this fight

451
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Speaker 4: against Horn, he's nastyer, he's more dynamic, nearly fifty percent

452
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Speaker 4: of his power shots and the final fight of the

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Speaker 4: Big Three. Let's go back to twenty seventeen Lincoln, Nebraska

454
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Speaker 4: at the home state for Bud Crawford, but this was

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Speaker 4: for undisputed glory, welcoming two belt champion Julius Indongo and

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Speaker 4: Luke even though in Dongo doesn't carry over throughout his

457
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Speaker 4: career to maybe look back on this as one of

458
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Speaker 4: the toughest opponents. The stage was as bright as you

459
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Speaker 4: can get, four belts on the line, but did not

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Speaker 4: make this a fight whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: No, this was this is one way traffic. Look at

462
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Speaker 2: the rib roasters you see him hitting him in with

463
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Speaker 2: But the point I want to make here is when

464
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Speaker 2: he unified the titles. On this night, I'll be in

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Speaker 2: a different weight class than the one we're in here

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Speaker 2: for Spence versus Crawford. No one had done that in

467
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Speaker 2: boxing in eleven years. You can see him celebrating with

468
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Speaker 2: a massive achievement. And listen, he was just infinitely better

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Speaker 2: than in Dongolong. What I love again. You see so

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Speaker 2: many guys. We'll talk about this later. They have, you know,

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Speaker 2: a couple of weapons. They really go back to, so

472
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Speaker 2: many weapons or Bud Crawford from either stance, he can

473
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Speaker 2: go to the body, he can go to the head.

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Speaker 2: He can do it all. And this fight you had

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Speaker 2: in Dongo Reaching, reaching, reaching, and Bud Crawford said you reach,

476
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna teach, and it was it was master student

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 4: So who has got the better resume, Erol Spence Junior

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Speaker 4: or Terrence Crawford. We're gonna find that answer out when

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Speaker 4: we return. We're gonna debate resumes as your Morning Combat

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Speaker 4: Takeover continues on CBS Sports.

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Speaker 3: Spence Versus Crawford will be right.

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Speaker 4: Back, your ultimate preview for all things Aerol Spence Versus

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Speaker 4: Bud Crawford continues ahead of Saturday's four belt unification in

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Speaker 4: the welterweight division on show Time pay per View.

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Speaker 3: BCLT and the MK takeover resume.

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Speaker 4: We did a little bit of review on the biggest

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Speaker 4: wins in the careers of these two unbeaten champions entering Saturday.

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Speaker 3: But we're critics.

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Speaker 4: There's got to be something that separates them. Who has

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Speaker 4: the better resume. That's what we want to get into.

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Speaker 4: But before we get into it, Luke, you and I

493
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Speaker 4: had a chance to sit down with both fighters in

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Speaker 4: June for a bi coastal two day press store Los

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Speaker 4: Angeles and Times Square in New York City, where we

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Speaker 4: asked Terrence Bud Crawford himself, what's the best win on

497
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Speaker 4: the respective resumes between the two of you. This may

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Speaker 4: help us further continue this debate. Let's hear from Bud Crawford.

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Speaker 2: What's his best win?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think his best win is the same as myself.

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Speaker 5: I think both are best wins is Sean Porter because

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Speaker 5: I feel as Seanporter was the most accomplished fighter.

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Speaker 2: That we both fought.

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Speaker 5: Given the names that Seanporter been in the ring with,

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Speaker 5: I believe that Sean Porter was the best win of

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Speaker 5: both our career.

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Speaker 4: You heard right there from the unbeaten WVO champion Terrence Crawford.

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Speaker 4: Luke Thomas, would you echo that opinion that possibly Sean

509
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Speaker 4: Porter was the best opponent that they both faced.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, could you tell who the athletes

511
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Speaker 2: were on that day? Yes, I mean, geez putting us

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Speaker 2: next to spenc and Crawford. But okay, in all seriousness,

513
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Speaker 2: Porter is the best opponent. Okay, there is a strong

514
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Speaker 2: argument that Porter is the best opponent that both guys faced.

515
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Speaker 2: But again, I just don't think that's necessarily Errol Spence's

516
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 2: best win, if that makes sense, because of the way

517
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Speaker 2: in which both guys were fighting, in the way in

518
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Speaker 2: which that went. So I sort of agree with Crawford,

519
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Speaker 2: like you look at it, who's the most high quality guy?

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Speaker 2: Porter has a claim to that, but the Knights that

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Speaker 2: they fought, the way in which they fought, I think

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Speaker 2: there is some debate about that. It's not I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you this, it's not my favorite win for Spence at all. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's look back at the career runs of these

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Speaker 3: two and compare.

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Speaker 4: For Errol Spence Junior, he did come up empty in

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Speaker 4: his chase for a medal at the twenty twelve London

528
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Speaker 4: Olympics representing the US after a long and decorated amateur career.

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Speaker 4: In fact, he got further up the amateur ranks than

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Speaker 4: Terrence Crawford. But the difference between these two is that

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Speaker 4: Errol Spence, as big of a welterweight as you can

532
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Speaker 4: fit into a one hundred and forty seven pound body,

533
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Speaker 4: has spent his entire career in this weight division, won

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Speaker 4: that first world title as we talked about in twenty

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Speaker 4: seventeen against kel Brook, has defended a portion of the

536
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Speaker 4: welterweight title six times, has names on his resume at

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Speaker 4: one forty seven that include Ugas Mikey and Danny Garcia,

538
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Speaker 4: Sean Porter, kel Brook, so many more.

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Speaker 3: Look Thomas.

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Speaker 4: The rise and run of Terrence Crawford has been a

541
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Speaker 4: little bit different. Didn't turn pro with the same level

542
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Speaker 4: of fanfare, and turn pro at much smaller weightclass.

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Speaker 3: Crawford a three.

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Speaker 4: Division champion, winning belts at one thirty five, junior welterweight

545
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Speaker 4: at one forty, becoming the undisputed champion, and now picking

546
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Speaker 4: up the WBO strap in two twenty eighteen in his

547
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 4: welterweight debut. Let's start here on just comparing the welterweight resumes.

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Speaker 4: I have Spence slightly ahead by one spot in my

549
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 4: pofer pound rankings, ahead of Crawford, largely because he does

550
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 4: have a deeper resume in this division. But we're not

551
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Speaker 4: saying that's Terrence pud Crawford's fall. There is a divide

552
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 4: in boxing when it comes to the idea of networks

553
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 4: and promoters having exclusive deals. It was hard for Terrence

554
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 4: Crawford to get in their prime welterweight opponents. That's why

555
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Speaker 4: that Sean Porter fight was so important in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: But I don't think we're causing any controversy right here.

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Speaker 4: If you're just comparing the welter rate resumes, I don't

558
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Speaker 4: think anybody in this era compares with Spence.

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Speaker 2: I think that's right. Listen, He's got the three belts

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Speaker 2: and obviously you know Bud has the one. Again, that's

561
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Speaker 2: also related to potential promoter considerations. I think if you

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Speaker 2: just look at the last stretch, I mean, even you

563
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 2: can discount the Evenesian fight, but the stretch before that,

564
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Speaker 2: when he was fighting the emir cons of the world

565
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Speaker 2: and things like that, where you know he did fight Kelbrook,

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Speaker 2: as well. I think it's a very different Killbrook that

567
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Speaker 2: he fought. I don't think that stretch was nearly as

568
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Speaker 2: strong as during that same time what Spence was doing.

569
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Speaker 2: But to your point, b see, we talk about pound

570
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Speaker 2: for pound, Bud Crawford is the definition of pound for pound.

571
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 2: A guy who wins titles moves up, wins titles moves up,

572
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 2: so they're very different. One guy has made this his

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Speaker 2: home this whole time and had some of the benefit

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Speaker 2: of having many of his contemporaries and peers in positions

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Speaker 2: where he could fight them more easily. But Bud Crawford's

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00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 2: overall resume it is I think that's the difference. So

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00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 2: for me, I'm with you. The welterweight resume of Aerol

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00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 2: Spence is better. The overall resume I think leans in

579
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 2: favor to Bud Craft.

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Speaker 3: They have both thought every type of style possible.

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Speaker 4: And let's not forget for Bud Crawford the big breakthrough

582
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 4: lightweight win in twenty fourteen over your Ericiscambola, who was undefeated,

583
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Speaker 4: where he showed character, and the unification win over Victor

584
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 4: post style two years later. But when we return, we

585
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Speaker 4: go inside the numbers for a statistical look at all

586
00:27:53,760 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 4: things Spence versus Crawford. Oh yeah, does it get any

587
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 4: bigger than big time boxing in Las Vegas and the

588
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Speaker 4: four belt welterweight Undisputed Summit Saturday Night Spence versus Crawford.

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Speaker 4: As the Morning Combat Takeover continues here on CBS Sports Network,

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Speaker 4: We're going to go inside the numbers to break down

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Speaker 4: this matchup a little bit deeper. But Luke on the surface,

592
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 4: Spence versus Crawford is the ultimate style matchup.

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00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 3: Both can win any style, but Spence the southpaw.

594
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 4: More of the bruising brawler on the inside, but doing

595
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 4: it in a very educated way. Crawford more of the freestyle,

596
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 4: abstract painter who can switch stances. Can't wait to see

597
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Speaker 4: what it looks like when they touch gloves against each other.

598
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 4: But when you want to see where they rank among

599
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Speaker 4: their contemporaries, let's go to.

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Speaker 3: The folks at Kompia Box.

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Speaker 4: You're looking right now at a top ten of fewest

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Speaker 4: opponent punches landed per round, and look at where Terrence

603
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 4: Crawford fits in in that top ten seven point six

604
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 4: opponent punches landed per round. That not only speaks to

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00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 4: the defense of Crawford. But the elusiveness, the speed, that

606
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 4: hair trigger reaction that he can do, switching stances, coming

607
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 4: back over the top with big counter shots.

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Speaker 3: First and foremost, Luke, he's just hard to hit. Well.

609
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 2: What folks don't understand is when you look at fight statistics,

610
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 2: one of the most important things to remember is good

611
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 2: champions actually depress their opponent's offensive numbers. So if you

612
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 2: have an opponent right who has like an offensive baseline

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Speaker 2: about what they land and what they don't, whenever they

614
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 2: fight someone like a Crawford, that number will automatically lower

615
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 2: because one they'll be getting hit more, Yes, but the

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Speaker 2: bigger issue is they become so confused, they become so

617
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 2: wrapped up in the moment or just overwhelmed by what

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Speaker 2: they're up against. They don't throw as much, they're not

619
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Speaker 2: as accurate, they're off balance. Again, watch how many times

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Speaker 2: a guy like Crawford makes an opponent miss. That's what

621
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Speaker 2: we're talking about here, all right. Also, BC, let's get

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Speaker 2: to this one, get to the graphic. Let's look at

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Speaker 2: the top ten in opponent power percentages landed here of course,

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Speaker 2: lowest opponent power punch connect percentages brought to you by

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Speaker 2: compu box and you can see here again Terrence Crawford

626
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Speaker 2: sitting at twenty six zero point two percent, tied for

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Speaker 2: the top eight or so or top ten outs of

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Speaker 2: just ten names. But you get the idea. Tobce now

629
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Speaker 2: obviously Shaker Stevenson, who is a marvel himself, sitting at

630
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Speaker 2: the top of that list. Demetrious Andre has you know,

631
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Speaker 2: I think a lower output in general through his fights,

632
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Speaker 2: but these other names are pretty incredible. Here's the thing, though,

633
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Speaker 2: I'll say this, Terrence Crawford sitting at this spot is

634
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Speaker 2: to me actually pretty interesting because I feel like, for

635
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Speaker 2: a guy who is as cerebral as he is, and

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Speaker 2: how much he can depress his opponent's ability to land

637
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 2: or hurt him, dude, he'll mix it up. He'll actually

638
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 2: court risk in very very dangerous positions. And so to

639
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 2: be that high when you have that style really.

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Speaker 4: Remarkable, unbelievable how quickly Crawford can turn defense into offense.

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Speaker 3: And even more important we.

642
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Speaker 4: Talk about it, very few fighters in this day and

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Speaker 4: age can switch stances on the li and be as

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Speaker 4: good on both sides, not only as Crawford very good

645
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Speaker 4: on both sides, but when he goes southpaw, he gets nasty,

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Speaker 4: he might even be better, and the finish seems to

647
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 4: come pretty quick. Those are more of the defensive numbers.

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Speaker 4: Let's get into the offense and look at the top

649
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Speaker 4: ten power punches landed percentage and the entire sport of boxing.

650
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Speaker 4: Dravante tank Davis hard to beat him, landing nearly fifty.

651
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Speaker 3: Percent of his total overall power punches.

652
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Speaker 4: But as you can see both Crawford there at number

653
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Speaker 4: six Spence at number ten. We saw the full screen

654
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Speaker 4: panel looking at the stats after each of their biggest victories.

655
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 4: The old boxing adages, if you'll land at least forty

656
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Speaker 4: percent of your power shots in a fight, you've probably

657
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 4: won that fight. You see how often it happens with

658
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 4: these two both pointing upwards toward that fifty percent mark. Luke,

659
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 4: That just shows that when they have figured you out,

660
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 4: they do away with the pleasantries and the jabs and

661
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 4: the early feel out boxing. They get down to business,

662
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 4: They get inside. They both can land sneaky combinations, They

663
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Speaker 4: can overpower you.

664
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Speaker 3: They can hit and not get hit.

665
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Speaker 4: Magicians out there, but not just crafty guys finishers.

666
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well how about this too, Like Dravonte is obviously

667
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 2: gonna be number one, and that's not in any way surprising.

668
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 2: But Jervonte for as much of a power puncher as

669
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Speaker 2: he is, and he might be one of the most

670
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Speaker 2: dynamic ones in all of boxing, Aerol Spence's volume is

671
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 2: significantly higher. Right, So we're talking about a different kind

672
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 2: of denominator here and a different kind of numerator here

673
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Speaker 2: on how we make these equations. So I'm trying to

674
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Speaker 2: point out for a guy like Erol Spence to be

675
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Speaker 2: in the top ten given how much volume he has,

676
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Speaker 2: that is what tells you it's really remarkable what does

677
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: not stop and fights. Whereas Tank BC, you know he's

678
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 2: very judicious with his punching. He doesn't throw all the time.

679
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, Spence just starts coming downhill on you, unleashing that assault.

680
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 3: It's the physicality, it's the accuracy.

681
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 4: He's constantly moving his feet and looking at the angles

682
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 4: and luke our final full screen.

683
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Speaker 2: Let's look look at the top ten here in jabs

684
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Speaker 2: thrown per round. If we can for one, mister Errol

685
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 2: Spence out of De Soto, Texas, and you could see

686
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Speaker 2: here again the numbers courtesy of CompuBox. Aerol Spence sitting

687
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 2: in the top ten. Look at that thirty four point

688
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 2: nine BC. The JAB is absolutely critical to understanding everything

689
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 2: about Erol Spence. Of course he has much more in

690
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 2: the tool kit, in the old Batman belt, whatever metaphor

691
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 2: we want to use, but everything starts there in BC.

692
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,959
Speaker 2: It's not just a rangefinder or a blinder or remover.

693
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: It can be a power jab all the time as well.

694
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 4: Look, Terrence Crawford from either stance has a great job

695
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 4: as well, although he didn't make the top ten here

696
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 4: and statistically, but the difference is what Spence can do.

697
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Speaker 4: I compare it to almost Gnatti Glovekin, the Great Triple

698
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 4: g using the jab as a weapon, not a range finder,

699
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 4: not necessarily to push you into position, but to hurt you,

700
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Speaker 4: to back you up and when you can connect at

701
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 4: that percentage, that's why we're talking about two special Future

702
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 4: Hall of Famer All Time Greats meeting on Saturday. Those

703
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 4: are the numbers on the inside, But when we return,

704
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 4: we're gonna look at the corners the coaches of spenc

705
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 4: and Crawford as your Morning Combat take Over on CBS

706
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 4: Sports Network rolls on.

707
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 3: The crown jewel of.

708
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 4: An already loaded twenty twenty three boxing calendar Spence versus

709
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 4: Crawford on Saturday, and your MK Takeover continues BCNLT. But

710
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 4: we're gonna look at not just the skills that make

711
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 4: up these great welterweight champions, the coaching in the corner,

712
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 4: the direction, and for Errol Spence Junior out of DeSoto, Texas,

713
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 4: he trains in Dallas at the World Class Boxing Gym.

714
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 4: He might have the best trainer in the world in

715
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 4: his corner, reigning and defending twenty twenty two Trainer of

716
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,240
Speaker 4: the Year Derrick James.

717
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 3: And Luke Thomas.

718
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 4: The fifty one year old James was a pro super

719
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 4: middleweight himself, fighting to a twenty one and seven record,

720
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 4: but in the last let's say, extended eighteen months, he's

721
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 4: become the trainer to go to the sexy higher in

722
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Speaker 4: the sport. Why do you believe that's true.

723
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Speaker 2: It's weird though, because MMA and boxing have very different

724
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 2: economic models, and we're used to seeing like super teams,

725
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 2: all these stars get together in MMA, and you don't

726
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 2: really see it in boxing except with Derek James. Derek

727
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: James is proven, is really the answer. Derek James is proven.

728
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 2: Now both guys in terms of Bo Mack and Bud

729
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 2: Crawford and then Derek James and Errol Spence. The commonality

730
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 2: is that, of course it's a strong relationship between the

731
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 2: two partners in both cases, but in Derek James and

732
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 2: recruiting or at least you know Ryan Garcia seeking out

733
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 2: his services and Anthony Joshua seeking out his services BC.

734
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what stands out to me. It's the

735
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 2: game planning by Derek James. He has a great ability

736
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: to dissect and understand what his guy is up against,

737
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 2: what his guy is good at, and then put the

738
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 2: x's and o's to get there to get him across

739
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 2: the finish line. I really feel like he's a very,

740
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 2: very very clever strategist in the boxing game, and obviously

741
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 2: he can get the best out of his guys as

742
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 2: well in both training and the fights.

743
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 4: Well, he's a calming influence in the corner, almost comparative

744
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 4: to Virgil Hunter, the former great trainer of Andre Ward

745
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 4: in that respect. But I think the dual legacy of

746
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 4: the reputation of Derek James coached fighters is on one hand,

747
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 4: you do have that defense responsibility and fundamentals are always

748
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 4: going to be.

749
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 3: Key but he also has dogs.

750
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 4: Right, the X ray came back and we found out

751
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 4: what these guys are made of. This is the stable

752
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 4: of champions currently that Derek James coaches. It's Aero Spence

753
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 4: Junior who's seeking undisputed status at one forty seven.

754
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 3: It's your undisputed one hundred and fifty four.

755
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 4: Pound champion, Jerremel, Charlow, rising, unbeaten lightweight Frank Martin Ghosts,

756
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 4: and now you add former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and

757
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 4: breakout lightweight sensation Ryan Garcia. Maybe it's not too different

758
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 4: from where Freddie Roach was Manny Pacio's great Hall of

759
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 4: Fame trainer a few years back, where like a moth

760
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 4: right in front of a light, the fighters are seeking

761
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:37,959
Speaker 4: him out.

762
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 2: But we did speak to him about that though, and

763
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 2: he was like, I don't think I can really take

764
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 2: on many more. This is his strategic and like personal limits,

765
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 2: which I think is wise. Right. He's got a bunch

766
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 2: of guys in different weight classes too. For the most

767
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 2: part of me, I guess we'll see what happens as

768
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 2: time goes on. So he really apportions his time, he

769
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 2: understands his guys, and again strategy x's and o's skills

770
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 2: win fights. He gets his guys skilled and leveled up

771
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 2: and then gives them the right blueprint to follow well.

772
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 4: The fifty one year old James has been with Errol

773
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 4: Spence ever since Spence came out of the Olympics in

774
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 4: twenty twelve and turn pro later that.

775
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 3: Year, and then the build up though to this great fight.

776
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 4: Of course, Showtime They're all access pre fight documentary series.

777
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 4: The two part series that you can find right now

778
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 4: in the Showtime Sports YouTube channel takes us behind the

779
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 4: scenes and we had almost a little skirmish ahead of

780
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 4: the New York City press conference when Bud Crawford and

781
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 4: Spence's trainer Dereck James crossed. Pass. Let's take a little

782
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 4: bit of an eagle eye look in on what happened?

783
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 3: Yet?

784
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 4: Come on, I gotta go to the year.

785
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 2: Don't know what is right there?

786
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 4: I got on his way, chap, I got on his champ.

787
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 2: Tell you, god, dare, what's up going up?

788
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 4: I said, what was going on?

789
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 2: Stupid? You stupid? What?

790
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 4: What?

791
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: What? What's the answer with me?

792
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 4: I say, what's up?

793
00:37:59,440 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 2: What's that?

794
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 3: I say, what's going on?

795
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 4: What's up?

796
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 3: I said, what's up?

797
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 2: All right.

798
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,479
Speaker 6: Man is to get choked out of something. Well really,

799
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 6: it was like his boy on the outside was talking.

800
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 6: I think they think I'm a book.

801
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 4: Well, we were there, Luke Thomas in New York City

802
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 4: that day. Luckily no one got choked out. But the

803
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 4: reason why I love that clip is this Spencer versus

804
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 4: Crawford fight is so sort of royal, regal and historic

805
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 4: that it sells itself the abilities of both fighters, the accomplishments.

806
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 3: Of the stakes.

807
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 4: We haven't needed trash talk like we have in other

808
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 4: matchups to get people hooked, but they are so competitive

809
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 4: that it felt like it's spilt over a little bit.

810
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 2: Ye, folks don't know this. This is actually how Brian

811
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 2: greets me when I see him. He goes, are you stupid?

812
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 2: And the answer is usually yes.

813
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 4: It's usually yes, And I'll threaten to get that choke

814
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 4: it just to say.

815
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 2: Listen from behind. No one knows when it's gonna come.

816
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 2: He's like a ninja. But the one to be seriously

817
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 2: here is that they didn't in the end go to anywhere.

818
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 2: It didn't didn't lead to anything. And you're right, this

819
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 2: fight doesn't really need the trash talk. But dudes are chippy.

820
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 2: The closer fights get, you're gonna get interactions like that.

821
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 4: And on the Crawford side, of course, Brian Bowmack MacIntyre

822
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 4: fifty three years old out of the B and B

823
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 4: Sports Academy and me and Omaha, Nebraska, the hometown of

824
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 4: Terence Crawford, and look very quickly b mac former heavyweight

825
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 4: by the way seven and fourteen record wants lost to

826
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Speaker 4: Eric butter bean Esh. But he's a character, but he's

827
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 4: also one of the smartest in the game today.

828
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has a great relationship with Bud Crawford. They

829
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 2: have a dynamic sort of duo there and he's pretty incredible.

830
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 4: Those are the coaches. But when we return, we want.

831
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 3: To hear from you, the fans. Dms from Donks come

832
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 3: in your way on the MK Takeover.

833
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 4: Your Morning Combat Takeover on CBSSN continues. I don't know

834
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 4: who led us into this studio, but we're happy to

835
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 4: be here. But what we do every Monday on Morning

836
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,280
Speaker 4: Combat eleven am Eastern on the Morning Combat YouTube channel

837
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 4: is solicit questions from you, the viewers. We like to

838
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 4: call dms from the Diggity Donk. That's right, Thomas, Let's

839
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 4: hear from our first Donk, we brought a disclaimer out

840
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Speaker 4: there on Twitter.

841
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 3: Had you send you your questions? Cole Brown eight five

842
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 3: eight answered and.

843
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 4: He says, simply as a fan here, when was the

844
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 4: last time either of you guys were this excited for

845
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 4: a boxing match?

846
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 3: Look, Thomas, what do you say?

847
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 2: That's a great question. I am going to say, Well,

848
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 2: I was really excited for Mayweather Pacia, and I know

849
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 2: in the end it didn't necessarily live up to some

850
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 2: of the hype, but that was huge. You and I

851
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 2: were there for that. When we were there for Mayweather Canelo,

852
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 2: that was another really fun fight week. Also, Lucas Matizi

853
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 2: had a fun fight on that card. Danny Garcia r

854
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 2: I was a great one as well, and Angel Garcia

855
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 2: was Angel Garcia that fight week, So there was a

856
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 2: lot going on. I'll say, so, I'll say one of

857
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 2: those two probably, Yeah.

858
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 3: I'll say certainly.

859
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 4: There's been massive flags in on the top of the

860
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 4: mountain that you just had to get to. I mean,

861
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 4: even Mayweather McGregor was the perfect sort of little more

862
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 4: that was a little bit more crazy. But when you're

863
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 4: talking about critical respect between two fighters and steaks, I

864
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 4: kind of go back to a sneaky one and the

865
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,280
Speaker 4: pomp upon rankings. Back in twenty thirteen when No Nito Donaire,

866
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 4: who will be fighting for a world title at age

867
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 4: forty on Saturday's pay per view undercard, already by the way,

868
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 4: stamped his Hall of fame resume when he took on

869
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 4: Geirmo Riggindow in that one hundred and twenty two pound

870
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 4: unification that had me going from a critical sense.

871
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 3: Spence Crawford no different.

872
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 4: But we roll on. Here's from four to twenty history bird.

873
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 4: He wants to know where will the winner of Saturday

874
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 4: Nights fight rank among the all time greatest welterweights, Luke Thomas,

875
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 4: When we put our historic hats on, we certainly can

876
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:36,720
Speaker 4: compare this fight favorably to the great welterweight fights in history.

877
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 3: But I mentioned something ahead of this.

878
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 4: Spence versus Crawford are two all time greats meeting at

879
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 4: the peak of their powers. Win or lose, both are

880
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,919
Speaker 4: going on to sort of welterweight immortality. But how would

881
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 4: I think the best way to answer this question? You

882
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 4: gotta play mythical matchmaking. How would Spence and Crawford compete

883
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 4: against the Ray Leonards, The Tommy Hearns, the great welterweights

884
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 4: that have come through here in history, Parnell, Whitaker, Us

885
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 4: de la Hoya, Tito Trinidad.

886
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 2: I say favorably, favorably, but comparing across eras is so difficult.

887
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 2: I mean, what Hackler have like fifty plus fights, you know,

888
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 2: for example, we're not just It's just a different way

889
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 2: in which guys competed. There's different rules and expectations and

890
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 2: norms in boxing at that time. By the way, a

891
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 2: person with this kind of screen name has definitely shoplifted

892
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 2: at seven to eleven. I just wanted to put that

893
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 2: out there. But neither here nor they are getting to

894
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 2: the point of the question. The winner here, particularly if

895
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 2: it is dominant, would put them would you say, top

896
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 2: three among all time walterweights something like.

897
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 3: Here's what's interesting.

898
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 4: We call this fight an old school fight because of

899
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 4: the mentality between the two, because they're so competitive. They're

900
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 4: pretty much promising that this will be a Fight of

901
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 4: the Year contender, but also a showcase of skills. But

902
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 4: they have both accomplished so much, particularly Spence within this division,

903
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 4: that if he cleans out, the division becomes the unbeaten

904
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 4: four belt champion and beats another all time great to

905
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 4: close it here in Crawford before moving up to one

906
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 4: fifty four. I think you'd have to put him in there.

907
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 4: Could you put him above sugar Ey Leonard? That'd be

908
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,879
Speaker 4: hard to. Can you put him above Mayweather and Pakia

909
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 4: that would be hard to. But we're talking about top

910
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 4: five welter weights at all of all time, Spence might

911
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 4: compare favorably. Let's go to Hawaii's own telvind Key POPA

912
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 4: excuse me, We'll pass on down to E. D.

913
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 3: Bar RARDINAZ sounds like an Eagles fandom.

914
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 2: I also can't read that.

915
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 4: Do you think Spence's new mouthpiece will have any impact

916
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 4: on the fight? On All Access, he discussed how it

917
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 4: has fallen out, Yes, a couple of times.

918
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Obviously, listen, if you

919
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 2: spit the mouthpiece constantly, the referee will disqualify you or

920
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: take a point or whatever because you're interfering with the

921
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 2: flow of the fight. And you go and you watch

922
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 2: that fight against Hugas. It wasn't BC just that his

923
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 2: mouthpiece kept falling out. Remember there was one time he

924
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 2: went to go retrieve it. The referee didn't know what

925
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 2: he was doing, and Ugas got a hard free shot

926
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 2: that nearly knocked him down. So yes, it sounds like nothing,

927
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 2: but your safety equipment needs to work as intended during

928
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 2: the middle of a fist fight. Absolutely so him getting that.

929
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 2: By the way, it wasn't just the Yugos fight. He said,

930
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,399
Speaker 2: it had been happening for several fights prior to that one.

931
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. It's not gonna make a win or

932
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 2: lose scenario. But you just don't want. Dude, you're fighting

933
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 2: Bud Crawford. Do you want mouthpiece problems when you're fighting

934
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 2: a guy where the margin of error is that little. No,

935
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 2: you do not.

936
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 4: We roll on on the dms from Donks are underscore striker.

937
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 4: Let's check that guy search history, he says. If Bud loses,

938
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 4: won't people say he's old, he's thirty five. If Spence wins,

939
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 4: won't they say the car crash took it out of him.

940
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 3: What's to be gained here?

941
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 4: This is this is probably somebody from boxing Twitter, which

942
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 4: can get very cynical. But look, we're not a very

943
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 4: happy We're not gonna be trying to diminish If Spence

944
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 4: wins and say Buds all there, No, because on the

945
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 4: flip side, Spence already proven that he can recover from

946
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 4: the car crash from the retina surgery and not look

947
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 4: any different.

948
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I have a feeling either you're

949
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 2: gonna get a closely contested fight where guys both you know,

950
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 2: have turns looking dominant and looking a little bit under

951
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 2: the thumb, or maybe one guy comes out and blitzes

952
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 2: the other one and you get a rematch in the process.

953
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 2: But I don't have a feeling that's some guy. I

954
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,479
Speaker 2: don't feel like we're gonna get a fight where where

955
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 2: we look at the winner or the loser and we're like, well,

956
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 2: that just was a what it could have been? Just

957
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,720
Speaker 2: I understand the concerns and the echoes of Mayweather Pachio

958
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 2: not necessarily satisfying some of the common audiences that aren't

959
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 2: accustomed to watching boxing as often. I get that, I understand,

960
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 2: but I just feel like, sure, could this fight have

961
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 2: happened earlier? Yes, Bud Crawford looks to be in tremendous shape.

962
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 2: Erol Spence looks to be in tremendous shape. Erol Spence

963
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 2: has been off for a while, which could be ring Russ,

964
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 2: but I don't think it's gonna lead to him getting

965
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: demolished early necessarily. I expect a tough, sturdy fight between

966
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 2: both guys. I just don't feel like this will be

967
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 2: a relevant question when the fight is open.

968
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 4: And I expect a second fight. By the way, we'll

969
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 4: get to that rematch clause a little bit later. But

970
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 4: how about this loaded question to close on DM from

971
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 4: DONC from ecambooy ten. Is this one of the most

972
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 4: important boxing fights in history? That might be too loaded

973
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,919
Speaker 4: to answer? Why don't we address this when we come back?

974
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 4: Where does Spence Crawford fit in in history of the

975
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 4: super fights? MK on CBSSN continues.

976
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: Revelated dogs, look at us now, tip to tip. This

977
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 1: is our life, this is our passion.

978
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 4: That's the spirit we bring to this show.

979
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,280
Speaker 3: I'm Luke Thomas, I'm Brian Campbell.

980
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: This this morning Combat.

981
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 7: It's time for one of the most anticipated fights of

982
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 7: this decade, a super fun This.

983
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 2: Era is the Terrence Cropper era.

984
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 8: And everybody get bro We're gonna break him, man, We're

985
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 8: gonna break him like a horse.

986
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 2: Give me a triple hook.

987
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 4: Rock.

988
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 5: You call itself the Big Fish, right for what you

989
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 5: do when the fish get took out the water right

990
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 5: hook suffocated.

991
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 8: Hey, listen, listen, you ain't finding nobody. Man, you haven't

992
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 8: beat anybody.

993
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 6: You've been licking our chops from day one.

994
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 9: Them guys are just getting us more prepared.

995
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 2: Step in the ring.

996
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 9: July twenty nine, because this is the fight that we

997
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 9: always wanted.

998
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 2: What's next to? Everybody know who?

999
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 5: I won't make I already don't know how long.

1000
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 9: It doesn't matter what took so long.

1001
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 2: All that matters is.

1002
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: To here now.

1003
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 8: Definitely. You know, a long road to get to this point.

1004
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 8: Stuff takes time.

1005
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 5: This is one of them fights that would be talked

1006
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 5: about forever.

1007
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 8: I spect him and have nothing much destruction on his mind,

1008
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:26,959
Speaker 8: and that's the same thing for me. I have nothing

1009
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 8: much destruction on my mind and bases you go out

1010
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:30,800
Speaker 8: seeking destroy.

1011
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: Twenty nine.

1012
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 8: Yeah, we gonna see I got him.

1013
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna feed him.

1014
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 5: So everybody that eat fishing here, call yourself the big fish.

1015
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 2: We don't have enough food for everybody.

1016
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 8: We finally got a future on this speed. The champion

1017
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:50,879
Speaker 8: of the World July twenty ninth.

1018
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 9: Myself, You gonna see a new undisputed what's away Champion

1019
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 9: of the world and he's want to be from Omaha, Nebraska.

1020
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 7: Champion versus champion, both unbeaten, both in their primes. Spence

1021
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 7: versus Crawford.

1022
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 4: Our number two beginns of the Morning Combat takeover here

1023
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 4: on CBS Sports Network to reset Luke Thomas Brian Campbell,

1024
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 4: your co host of the award winning digital combat sports

1025
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 4: series Morning Combat every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, eleven am

1026
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,400
Speaker 4: Eastern on YouTube. Luke Thomas, we closed out on DMS

1027
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 4: from Donks. Last time, ecambooley ten said, is Spence Crawford

1028
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 4: one of the most important boxing fights in the history

1029
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 4: of the sport? I say yes. Let's talk about some

1030
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,240
Speaker 4: of those historical implications. This is just the thirteenth time

1031
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 4: that welterweight champions have faced off, and if a unification fight,

1032
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 4: It's obviously the first time in this four belt era,

1033
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 4: which began in nineteen eighty eight, that all four recognized

1034
00:48:58,200 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 4: titles are at stake and we're going to crown it

1035
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 4: undisputed champion.

1036
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 3: It's also the fourth.

1037
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 4: Time in welterweight history that unbeaten champion versus unbeaten champion

1038
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 4: have squared off. Let's take a look at that recent

1039
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,919
Speaker 4: history in the four belt era since nineteen eighty eight

1040
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 4: in men's boxing, at who has captured undisputed status? We

1041
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 4: mentioned off the top that Terrence Crawford is one of them.

1042
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 4: Back at one hundred and forty pounds, he became the

1043
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 4: undisputed champion by knocking out Julius Indango in twenty seventeen.

1044
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 4: But Luke, it's become more of a trend, thankfully, in

1045
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,720
Speaker 4: the sport over the last three years, if you're focus

1046
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 4: on those dates, promoters, sanctioning bodies really seeming to go

1047
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 4: out of their way to try to align these super

1048
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 4: fights that the sport demands and needs so much. Look,

1049
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 4: we want one face, one name, in every division, one champion.

1050
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 4: We don't want it to be spread out across the sport.

1051
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 4: Look at the company. Saturday's winner will find themselves in

1052
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 4: just recent history, the Monster a New Way, Devin Hainey, Jurmel, Charlow,

1053
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 4: Canelo Alvarez.

1054
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,399
Speaker 3: It does not get any better than that.

1055
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 4: Luke Thomas simply put this mixes in and fits in

1056
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 4: quite well when we're talking about super fights or the

1057
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 4: biggest fights in Walter White history.

1058
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 2: I mean, you know that this fight and the winner

1059
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 2: would belong Terrence Crawford's already on the list for crying

1060
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 2: out loud. You already see his name there also September

1061
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 2: thirtieth on show Time pay per view. To other guys

1062
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 2: whose names are on the list, Canelo and Charlow. Pretty

1063
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,319
Speaker 2: remarkable that they're going to face off again, different fight,

1064
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 2: different circumstances. But BC, Yeah, there's just this is I mean,

1065
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 2: there's a lot of ways to dice this and sort

1066
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 2: of examine it and from there glean its relevancy and

1067
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 2: its importance. This is on the list for these unifications.

1068
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:41,280
Speaker 2: And again, a fight that is going to do good numbers,

1069
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 2: a fight that's going to have a big pay per

1070
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 2: view return, a big gate, a fight that boxing needs,

1071
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 2: the structure of boxing that it has to work over

1072
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 2: time to maintain its relevancy. Fans can trust it. And

1073
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of issues and a lot

1074
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 2: of different directions in the sport of boxing. Forts his

1075
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:56,839
Speaker 2: organization and.

1076
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 3: It's politricks, Polo Trex call it.

1077
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 2: But but when guy meet like this under these circumstances, undefeated,

1078
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 2: Crawford's already on the list that we just took a

1079
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 2: look at. Spence wants to add his name to it.

1080
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 2: You just have to realize it can. I don't know,

1081
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 2: save the sport of boxing is a little bit much.

1082
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 2: That's not what I'm saying it really, but it can

1083
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 2: certainly restore faith, It can certainly be important, it can

1084
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 2: be fun, and it can be relevant. It is what

1085
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:23,359
Speaker 2: makes the architecture work, at least on knights like those.

1086
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 4: And now that list did not show the women's boxing side,

1087
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 4: which has had its own run of undisputed champions. Crawford

1088
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 4: can join Cloressa Shields as the only boxers in history

1089
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 4: to be undisputed in two weight divisions. But I mentioned

1090
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 4: off the top Showtime Sports history in the Hall of Famer,

1091
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 4: Steve Farhood did the research. There has been twelve welterweight

1092
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 4: title unification bouts in the history of the sport. So

1093
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 4: what are the rankings and where does Spence Crawford potentially

1094
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 4: fit in that top ten? Your boy BC right here,

1095
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 4: Brian Campbell ranked the ten greatest welterweight unification fights of

1096
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 4: all time. First, let's just look at the history. First

1097
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 4: welterweight title unification goes back to nineteen twenty nine. But

1098
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 4: you see that modern history and when we're talking about

1099
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 4: my top ten right there, the big upset for Ricardo

1100
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 4: Myorgo in two thousand and three against potfer pound King

1101
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 4: Vernon Forest. How about their nineteen eighty five at number

1102
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,399
Speaker 4: nine Luke, the first time unbeaten welterweight champions met when

1103
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 4: Curry scored a third round knockout of McCrory. By the way,

1104
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 4: both were twenty four and twenty three years old. You

1105
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 4: see Spence's most recent destruction of champion Hugas. Two unbeaten

1106
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 4: champions met on CBS in twenty seventeen, number five million

1107
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:29,760
Speaker 4: viewers watched Keith Thurman edge Danny Garcia by split decision,

1108
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 4: and the first Mayweather my Donna clash in twenty fourteen.

1109
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 3: But how about the top five?

1110
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 4: This is where old boxing heads are certainly gonna see

1111
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 4: names that they know. I think Spence Crawford has a

1112
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 4: chance to fit in quite favorably, maybe even number three

1113
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 4: now Spence versus Porter, Great Action fight Number four though

1114
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,720
Speaker 4: Luke was a big one, unbeaten Felix Trinidad unbeaten Oscar

1115
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 4: de la Joya, and even though the decision in the

1116
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 4: end was heavily disputed and even controversial, that was the

1117
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 4: first non heavyweight super fight truly the pay per view

1118
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 4: era of boxing. Can Spence Crawford ended up being bigger

1119
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 4: and a better fight, Sure it has that chance.

1120
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 2: Bill Howie took the rest of that fight off, so

1121
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:08,439
Speaker 2: there's a good chance.

1122
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely hard to be bigger Luke than Mayweather Pakia,

1123
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 4: which set the reigning and defending record for pay per

1124
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 4: view buys in North America there at over four point

1125
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 4: six million. But when we're trying to compare to where

1126
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 4: Spencer Crawford fits in, it does fit in with Trinidad

1127
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 4: de la Joya, it does fit in with Maywe of Pacquia.

1128
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 4: But nineteen eighty one Sugar Ray Leonard versus Tommy the

1129
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 4: Hitman Hearns fight was one of the most awaited, hyped up,

1130
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 4: incredible fights in boxing history, and Luke that night in

1131
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 4: Las Vegas it delivered, with Sugar Ray Leonard rallying in

1132
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 4: the fourteenth round down on the scorecards to stop Tommy Hearns.

1133
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 4: You may remember his great trainer, Angelo Dundee in the

1134
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 4: corner saying you're blowing it, Son, You're blowing it. Those

1135
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 4: were the old school fights that made us fans, and

1136
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 4: I did get a chance to talk to Errol Spence

1137
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 4: this week and Luke, he said, I grew up maybe

1138
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,479
Speaker 4: a little bit younger than you. But in that same

1139
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 4: era of super fights, Errol Spence says he watched Chavez

1140
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 4: versus Whitaker, He watched a lot of these great fights

1141
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 4: de la Joya Trinidad and wanted to do that, wanted

1142
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 4: to be old school like that. When people say Crawford

1143
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 4: versus Spence has the potential to be old school, do

1144
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 4: you buy into that name one hundred percent?

1145
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 2: And in fact, both guys, in particular Errol Spence has

1146
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 2: kind of marketed it explicitly as a throwback fight. Boxing's

1147
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 2: reputation is always a little bit more romantic than it

1148
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 2: should be, right. Everyone kind of overstates some of the

1149
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 2: good parts about previous eras and undersells some of the

1150
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 2: bad ones. But nevertheless, there is a feeling that the

1151
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 2: nineteen eighties was about a clash of icons all the

1152
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 2: time in multiple divisions. Obviously Mike Tyson and heavyweight for

1153
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 2: Sugar Ray Leonard, and there were many other stars during

1154
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 2: that time. The eighties kinds of gets associated with that.

1155
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 2: Not the perfect era, but four Kings, the four Kings,

1156
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:52,279
Speaker 2: the whole nine yards. We can go on and on.

1157
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 2: When they are marketing this fight, they're telling you, oh yeah,

1158
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 2: it's gonna remind you of that, and with good reason.

1159
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 4: I would argue, and I think the old sc element

1160
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 4: is the fact that both fighters have said time and

1161
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 4: again we are willing to go through each other to

1162
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:08,359
Speaker 4: make history happen. You see the historical comparisons. But when

1163
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 4: we return, let's look a little bit deeper on the

1164
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 4: resumes common opponents between Spence Crawford and what we learn

1165
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:16,280
Speaker 4: from those fights.

1166
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 3: When MK on CBS Sports Network.

1167
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 4: Rolls on, O haha, the duel and the desert is

1168
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 4: almost here Saturday in Las Vegas, Spence versus Crawford, and

1169
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 4: your MK ultimate preview of the fight continues. Look, Thomas,

1170
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,879
Speaker 4: let's talk common opponents right now. There's been two of them,

1171
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 4: great former champions in Kelbrook and Sean Porter. Let's focus

1172
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 4: first on Brook. This is where the biggest difference in

1173
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,720
Speaker 4: terms of the performances of both in my opinion, lie

1174
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 4: Errol Spence fought Kellbrook in his first title fight in

1175
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 4: twenty seventeen. When Terrence Crawford finally got around to facing

1176
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 4: kel three years later, it simply was a different Killbrook.

1177
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 4: Let's be honest, yes, and.

1178
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 2: This is not in any way Bud's fault. No one

1179
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,359
Speaker 2: is suggesting it, or no one's suggesting that the win

1180
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 2: means nothing either, But it would just be disingenuous to

1181
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,319
Speaker 2: say it was the same guy. He left the piece

1182
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 2: of himself through the TRIPLEG fight and then this one,

1183
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 2: by the way, both very brutal affairs in the end,

1184
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 2: and of course then the other three years expired to me.

1185
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 2: As I said before, Errol Spence really looking dynamic, forcing

1186
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 2: his way to the inside, making it a brutal affair

1187
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 2: and stopping him again. A bit of a difference with

1188
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 2: Bud Crawford playing a little bit more of that outside game,

1189
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,879
Speaker 2: sharpshooter game, and that was the right approach. Again, here's

1190
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,760
Speaker 2: the difference we see. Bud Crawford did what he should

1191
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 2: have done. Errol Spence, I think outperformed expectations, share a

1192
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 2: little bit of a difference. There.

1193
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 4: There you see the statistical comparison brought to you by

1194
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 4: compy Box of how each fighter fared against kel Brook.

1195
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 4: I think the ultimate difference though, was the punch resistance

1196
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 4: of the great English champion. Kel Brook was just changed

1197
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 4: three years later a reminder Brooke broke his face against

1198
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,720
Speaker 4: Donatti Glofkinn at middleweight the fight before Spence.

1199
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 3: He healed and recovered, he broke his orbital bone.

1200
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 4: Again on the other side from Spence, arguably never the same.

1201
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 4: Bud had problems getting big name welter waite who were

1202
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 4: in their prime until the next common opponent happened. And

1203
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,919
Speaker 4: that's what we talked about earlier. Sean Porter, the two

1204
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 4: time welterweight champion, fought Errol Spence Junior to an exciting

1205
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 4: split decision loss in twenty nineteen, but two fights later,

1206
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 4: in the last fighters of his career, and I say

1207
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 4: this again, maybe the best performance, yes, even in defeat

1208
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 4: of Porter's career, when he pushed Terrence Crawford got stopped late.

1209
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 4: There's the statistical comparison between them of how both Spence

1210
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 4: and Crawford fared. But Luke, they were very different fights.

1211
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 4: Yet that's still facing a world class, elite foe in

1212
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 4: what showtime Sean Porter brings to the tam right.

1213
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 2: So we were saying before and the Brook fight, that wasn't

1214
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 2: the same Brook. I gotta tell you you know, it

1215
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 2: was it the same Porter. Okay, maybe there's always gonna

1216
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 2: be slight differences, but I thought he showed up in

1217
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 2: both of those contests. So for me, buds Win is very,

1218
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 2: very I mean, they're both impressive wins, but buzz Win

1219
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 2: was particularly impressive to me in this regard. I give

1220
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 2: him a bit of an edge in terms of who

1221
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 2: performed better against who when it mattered. But as a magician,

1222
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how else to say it.

1223
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 2: The guy is going to create openings that even world

1224
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 2: class fighters don't even know are there, and he's going

1225
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 2: to make you pay, always in the right position. You

1226
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 2: can see here again that swivel jab coming over the top.

1227
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 2: He's just dynamic, and he really again starting slow his

1228
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 2: problem solving skills. Here's the interesting part about this fight

1229
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 2: when they meet eventually Spence and Crawford. Spence is gonna

1230
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 2: start early, but Crawford's adjustment share are always so good.

1231
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 2: I'm dying to see what happens there.

1232
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 4: And you're seeing footage of the twenty nineteen pay per

1233
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 4: view classic between Porter and Spence, a Fight of the

1234
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 4: Year contender, and just a reminder, Spence did fight very

1235
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 4: undisciplined off of the game plan of his trainer, Derrick James.

1236
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 4: It made for a more exciting fight, but it might

1237
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 4: make it difficult on exactly comparing apples to apples of

1238
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 4: the same type of style or game plan that Crawford

1239
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 4: fought in Porter He's talked a lot ahead of this fight,

1240
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 4: being one of the two common opponents.

1241
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 3: Here's one thing Porter did say. He said he was

1242
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 3: able to.

1243
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 4: Make constant adjustments against Spence to give them different looks

1244
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 4: and make it interesting. He said, though against Crawford he

1245
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 4: was unable to make those same adjustments because.

1246
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 3: Crawford is so quick, so on top of you.

1247
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 4: That doesn't necessarily mean, though, that Porter's picking Crawford, he said,

1248
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 4: too close to call. I feel like we've both been

1249
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:19,439
Speaker 4: in that body. True fifty to fifty fight.

1250
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:22,959
Speaker 2: Crawford fought smarter and that paid off for him. Spence didn't.

1251
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 2: But again, who had the better win of the two?

1252
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 4: Bud, All right, time to go to the classroom. Yes,

1253
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 4: I'm telling you he's coming. This man right here, Professor

1254
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 4: Salt and Pepper, we are gonna dissect.

1255
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 3: It's dissected. Time on Spence and Crawford. Up first, Bud, and.

1256
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 4: Welcome back in the big fight just days away, Spence

1257
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 4: versus Crawford and your Morning Combat Ultimate Preview takeover continues. Hey,

1258
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 4: classes in session, I promised him Professor Salt and Pepper

1259
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:59,400
Speaker 4: gonna bring the dissected treatment to north Omaha's finest.

1260
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 3: Terrence bud Craft. What makes him so dynamic?

1261
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 2: Everything? He can do everything, There's nothing he's bad at.

1262
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 2: We could be here all Dave. We really wanted to

1263
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 2: get into all the nuts and bolts, but for today's purposes,

1264
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 2: I want you to pay attention to a few things. One,

1265
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 2: he is a dynamic athlete, but doesn't necessarily rely on it.

1266
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 2: He is a master of position. That is very important.

1267
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 2: He is a master of balance. You never see him

1268
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 2: losing his balance when he throws, and he always is

1269
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 2: able to use position not just to put himself in

1270
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 2: the place that he wants, but to make other opponents miss,

1271
01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 2: to set traps. Also, combination punching, shot location, shot selection.

1272
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 2: There are so many fine details to his game. Let's

1273
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 2: get into the first clip. Now. This is Julius and Doongo,

1274
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 2: who had Crawford ahead hunting a little bit. He makes

1275
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 2: a switch, look at Crawford, slightly lean back to draw

1276
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 2: this guy's wide basin off the jab. He misses. There

1277
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 2: but look at this left hand to the body. He

1278
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 2: was going to the head before and this time he

1279
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 2: just gets them with the rib roaster. And now he's

1280
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 2: got squared up hips. So the guy with the bladed stance,

1281
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 2: but he's out of position, so he does that combination

1282
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 2: punching BC right to the body. Look at this boxing.

1283
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 2: Look at that adjustment BC. Just a slight movement. He

1284
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 2: didn't make some huge jump out of the way, just

1285
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 2: a little bit, centered himself around and made in Dongo

1286
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 2: pey unified.

1287
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 4: All the time was hipstin lie talking about the torque

1288
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 4: he was able to bring out to get that.

1289
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 3: How dangerous can you be? Look, Terrence Crawford can already do.

1290
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 4: It all, but when you have that shotgun, you can

1291
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 4: go left hand to the body and you can finish

1292
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 4: the fight in one punch. That just adds a next

1293
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 4: level of danger to what he brings to the table.

1294
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 4: And look at the hardware right here in this fight

1295
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 4: against in Dongo in his hometown of Omaha, Crawford becoming

1296
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 4: the first four belt undisputed junior welterweight champion. Boy does

1297
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 4: he have a chance to double down on those world titles?

1298
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 2: Li said one of the things that actually Errol Spence

1299
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 2: and Bud Crawford have in common in different ways, but

1300
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 2: one of the commonality is the diversity of targets. So

1301
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 2: many guys today they just want to have that one

1302
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 2: hit or quitter, that David Tua power, which is alluring,

1303
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 2: I understand. But Bud Crawford wants all the targets. He

1304
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 2: wants to know all the places that can get him

1305
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 2: to the w Here you see it combination punching, making

1306
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 2: guys miss going to the body. It's obviously going to

1307
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 2: be a lot easier to hit than the head. This

1308
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 2: is what a master craftsman does. By the way, when

1309
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:09,280
Speaker 2: he got these, he was the first guy to do

1310
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 2: this in all of boxing to this point in eleven years.

1311
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 2: If he unifies, of course on Saturday, it'll be the

1312
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 2: next weight class, a second weight class where he'll have

1313
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 2: done that and been the.

1314
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 4: First mailboxer to do it, the second overall, joining Claressa Shields.

1315
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 4: And I'd like to see Bud Crawford on the dance

1316
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 4: floor because I've been going to tear it up at

1317
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,440
Speaker 4: wedding receptions. I think Bud's got that same movement.

1318
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 2: All these boxers, all these fighters they seem to think

1319
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 2: that they can be good dancers. I think there's good

1320
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:34,560
Speaker 2: reason for especially when you got footwork like this guy.

1321
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at the next clip. Now we

1322
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 2: have a similar opponent in Sean Porter, a different kind

1323
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 2: of fighter than the last one. Here, comes to jab.

1324
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 2: He's going to measure and slow him down. He got

1325
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 2: Porter over committing. Watch the trail leg Now he's going

1326
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 2: to take a step up, but Budd is going to

1327
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 2: take another step back. He's got lead outside foot position

1328
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 2: and he's got kind of an inside angle. We had

1329
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 2: Porter going down before this time. Bud knows it and

1330
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 2: greets him there. So it's anticipation, it's position. You're going

1331
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 2: to see it here again with a different combination, more

1332
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 2: combination punching, and of course they'll target locations are everywhere,

1333
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 2: and the punch trajectory BC. He's not necessarily coming from

1334
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 2: the shoulder there, it's coming up from here as a

1335
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:13,919
Speaker 2: guy is moving into it. It's another way to maximize

1336
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 2: your power. That's how you get that rotational power is

1337
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 2: when the punch and the person are moving into the

1338
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 2: same space together. That's a bad dude right there.

1339
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:22,440
Speaker 3: Well, what's the commonality here?

1340
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 4: Of these highlights that we're seeing in most of the

1341
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 4: finishes in Bud Crawford's career. When you're talking about his

1342
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 4: highlight reel, he'll start every fight orthodox and boy is

1343
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 4: he a slickster from that side. Correct me if I'm wrong, though,

1344
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 4: when Bud Crawford goes south, Paul said it before I

1345
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 4: say it again, he's more dangerous, he's more dynamic, he's

1346
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 4: more creative.

1347
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 3: That's what you're seeing.

1348
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,920
Speaker 4: Anything can happen when he's in the flow, as they say.

1349
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 2: And for folks who don't know the story, the only

1350
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 2: reason he can fight in two stances is because his

1351
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 2: hand was broken and it wasn't going to heal for

1352
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 2: a while, so he said, okay, I'll just box in

1353
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 2: a different stance and then got world class at it

1354
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 2: like this is. And you can't find guys like this

1355
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 2: anywhere in the world except I guess in Nebraska. Now,

1356
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 2: before we go to the next one second, I want

1357
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 2: to show you something. This is two cases of him

1358
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 2: being an excellent counterpuncher, and he is that in the

1359
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 2: next one too. But he's also gonna bebc a trap setter.

1360
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 2: He is gonna get Jeff Horn to move into a

1361
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 2: space where then he can land the shot he wants. Again.

1362
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 2: There are fighters who can take advantage of other fighters' mistakes,

1363
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 2: and then there are fighters who can make guys make mistakes.

1364
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 2: Bud Crawford is the latter. Let's look at that clip

1365
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:29,280
Speaker 2: here if we can BC, So, Jeff Horn, you're gonna

1366
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 2: see this. Watch him bring his feet together and then gallup.

1367
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:34,000
Speaker 2: You see his backfoot comes first, so that means he's

1368
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 2: gonna be inter range landing on the front foot, which

1369
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 2: means he's not gonna have balance. Of course, you see

1370
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 2: him bring his feet together again. He is off balance

1371
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 2: as a consequence. As he comes out, Bud Crawford greets

1372
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:46,200
Speaker 2: him with a shot. The guard comes up, his body

1373
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 2: comes over, he doubles up on the right side. Why

1374
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 2: to push Horn to his left for that? BC? This

1375
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 2: is what I'm talking about. He is making him move

1376
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 2: into parts of the ring by doubling up on the hooks,

1377
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 2: getting that position he he wants, resetting as he needs

1378
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 2: to kind of being a matador, basically olaying Jeff Woren

1379
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 2: into that space. And you saw the result. That was

1380
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:10,200
Speaker 2: another awesome win for Bud Craft.

1381
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 3: It's crazy, Bud Crawford.

1382
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 4: That was making his welterweight debut there in twenty eighteen

1383
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 4: against Horn, who's gone on to move up two weight

1384
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:18,320
Speaker 4: classes since that time. You have Bud with that wiry,

1385
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 4: long frame, can just sometimes feel like the bigger fighter

1386
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 4: who was meant for that weight class. It's almost unfair

1387
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 4: when he can mix the speed, the power, all that,

1388
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:29,400
Speaker 4: but with the mind, that's the lethal weapon. When it

1389
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:31,919
Speaker 4: comes to Bud Crawford finishing, you see him crouch down,

1390
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 4: that eyes, that focus, it's picking away at his meat.

1391
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 4: It's almost instinctual to go in there, pick his opponents

1392
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 4: apart and get out of there.

1393
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 2: Also, look how calm he is. Look how calm he

1394
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,040
Speaker 2: is the whole time. If you're calm, if you're centered,

1395
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 2: if you're zend but dialed in, you're going to make

1396
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 2: better decisions as a consequence. And you always see him again,

1397
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 2: not rushing, not reacting, necessarily thinking through problems. He just

1398
01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 2: does it relatively quickly. I want to point out to

1399
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 2: something on the tail of the tape. Here be seen

1400
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 2: that Bud Crawford is the smaller of the two guys.

1401
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 2: We've seen them both on stage, we've seen them face off.

1402
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 2: They're in the same weight class, but I think Errol

1403
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 2: is a little bit bigger. However, look at that reach,

1404
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 2: seventy four inch reach. He's got a two inch reach advantage.

1405
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 2: You saw for Bud Crawford. Space is key. Space is key.

1406
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 2: So I'm really thinking, if you're Erol Spence, you got

1407
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 2: to take that away. But if you're Bud Crawford, man,

1408
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 2: those two inches they're gonna save your life potentially on

1409
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 2: Saturday Night. This is a guy with efficient punching, a

1410
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 2: diversification of targets and also really uses his athleticism and

1411
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 2: his frame really really well maximizes the potential of what

1412
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:32,480
Speaker 2: you can do at thirty five and five eight with

1413
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 2: a seventy four inch reach.

1414
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:36,000
Speaker 4: The report is in on Terrence, Bud Crawford and when

1415
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 4: we return, Salt Pepper's going to be back. A dissected

1416
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 4: breakdown of the unified champion from DeSoto, Texas.

1417
01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:52,840
Speaker 3: Errol Spence Junior. It's time for some truth when we return, and.

1418
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 4: We're back, Welcome back in the morning, Combat Takeover in

1419
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 4: your ultimate preview for Spence versus Crawford on Saturday.

1420
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 3: And Luke Thomas I about the long arm of the Law.

1421
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,880
Speaker 4: From Texas and Errol Spence junior give us a dissected

1422
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 4: on what makes his boxing ability so unique.

1423
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 2: B See, if someone had to ask me what is

1424
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 2: the best way to describe his boxing style, I'm gonna

1425
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,960
Speaker 2: tell you He's a terminator. That's really what he is.

1426
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 2: He just beats his opponents down mercilessly, ruthlessly over time.

1427
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,800
Speaker 2: But there's a science to all of the madness. He,

1428
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 2: like Bud Crawford, a master of position, has a wide

1429
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:33,480
Speaker 2: diversification of targets. We're going to look at all of

1430
01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 2: that with both outside and inside foot position. But BC

1431
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,520
Speaker 2: perhaps one of the most unique things that he does

1432
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:42,840
Speaker 2: in all of boxing is basically inside wrestling. You're gonna

1433
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 2: watch how he manipulates his opponents, either by their posture

1434
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 2: or with head position once again to put guys where

1435
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 2: he wants. What is the commonality one more time between

1436
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:56,040
Speaker 2: Spence and Crawford. Both guys don't wait necessarily on their

1437
01:07:56,040 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 2: opponents to do things. They make their opponents do things.

1438
01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 2: I'm going to show your proof of that. Let's take

1439
01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 2: a look at their common opponent here in Sean Porter

1440
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 2: in many ways, and you're gonna watch this left hand here,

1441
01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:08,240
Speaker 2: he's gonna come around to the side but in many

1442
01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:11,440
Speaker 2: ways BC not one of Erol Spence's best fights. And

1443
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:13,560
Speaker 2: he lands this beautiful left hook, as you can see,

1444
01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 2: and it sends Porter reeling because he's coming up while

1445
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:17,840
Speaker 2: he's getting hit a little bit. But the devil is

1446
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 2: going to be in the details. Watch this right hand.

1447
01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:23,040
Speaker 2: Look at that. He's going to push over and manipulate

1448
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 2: his posture while keeping a blocking mechanism on the eye,

1449
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:30,679
Speaker 2: and so when he pulls it out, the left hand

1450
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 2: comes right behind you. I call him the King of replacements.

1451
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:35,880
Speaker 2: He's got something there. He's going to replace it with

1452
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 2: the punch or perhaps another blocking mechanism. And look at

1453
01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 2: that shot BC. It won him that round, certainly won

1454
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:42,640
Speaker 2: him that fight, and that was a tough one for him,

1455
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 2: but he got it done.

1456
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 4: That's a big swing moment, a big fight, which is

1457
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:49,080
Speaker 4: what great fighters produce. But look that's an undisciplined arrow

1458
01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 4: Spence in a very fun action fight against a difficult

1459
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,240
Speaker 4: Sean Porter. How about rising to the occasion though, when

1460
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 4: it matters most, that focus putting the iron will together

1461
01:08:57,479 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 4: and taking care of it and getting that late knockdown.

1462
01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:01,559
Speaker 4: Without that, we could have seen a draw, We could

1463
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 4: have seen a split decision the other way from.

1464
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 2: It was a close fight. And again this was not

1465
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 2: a characteristic fight necessarily of Errol Spence. He was a

1466
01:09:08,320 --> 01:09:10,559
Speaker 2: bit of a different time in his life. But BC

1467
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 2: he did get the ship heading in the right direction.

1468
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 2: Let's look at now something here that I think is

1469
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 2: going to show you that. Let's pay attention to the here.

1470
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:20,879
Speaker 2: Of course Ugas fight, He's gonna jab the glove, change angles,

1471
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:23,120
Speaker 2: and then change the angle of the jab while going

1472
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:25,920
Speaker 2: to the body, just like that. Now it's an inside fight.

1473
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:28,679
Speaker 2: But what I want you to pay attention is head position.

1474
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:31,200
Speaker 2: As they clinch up, Ugas is going to push into him. Now, look,

1475
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:35,880
Speaker 2: their head is even watch Spence weave it down underneath

1476
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 2: like that to push Ugas over. By the way, he's

1477
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 2: got lead outside foot position, and he's going to push

1478
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 2: Ugas over while he hits them. So BC he puts

1479
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 2: these guys in positions by using every single thing in

1480
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 2: his arsenal. People don't think of the head necessarily as

1481
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 2: an appendage, but it is if you want to use it,

1482
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:55,760
Speaker 2: And in other combat sports you know this. The head

1483
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 2: is very important to both weight balance distribution and the

1484
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,680
Speaker 2: in this case, manipulating your opponent.

1485
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:04,120
Speaker 4: And for all the skills he has, and we've seen

1486
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:07,759
Speaker 4: Spence wind fights just with his boxing alone. This prime

1487
01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 4: evolved version of him. As you mentioned the terminator, it's

1488
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:13,040
Speaker 4: like a tank running downhill. The commitment to the punch

1489
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:16,680
Speaker 4: volume inside the whole time, but always looking for those angles.

1490
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 4: Such a dynamic, finishing offensive weapon is Ero Spence.

1491
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 2: And also just look how physical he is for the

1492
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:25,600
Speaker 2: weight class, right moving these guys around, bullying them. You

1493
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:27,920
Speaker 2: can actually see scenes from the kel Brook fight where

1494
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 2: he just has his hands up and he's just walking

1495
01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:32,080
Speaker 2: the guy down physically. He tries to be the man

1496
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,639
Speaker 2: in there. In that Porter fight, it got him in trouble.

1497
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 2: But of course PC he's not just a brute force,

1498
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 2: although he can be that. He has a scientific fighter

1499
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:42,400
Speaker 2: as well. Let's take a look at one more Ugos clip,

1500
01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:43,920
Speaker 2: and this is what I want to show you. This

1501
01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 2: is the one that really did the damage to Ugas's eye.

1502
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 2: He's gonna jab You're gonna see a bit of a

1503
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:50,639
Speaker 2: crossing guard there from Ugos, But this whole time he's

1504
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:52,879
Speaker 2: going to go to his back foot. He's been investing

1505
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 2: in the body work, so watch Ugas. He's going to

1506
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 2: pinch his elbows together, assuming this is going to come

1507
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 2: to the body, but it doesn't, and it's this inside

1508
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 2: cutting angle on the upper cut hits the eye, breaks

1509
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:10,439
Speaker 2: the eye socket, caused untold damage. And really this is

1510
01:11:10,479 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 2: what sent Ugas reeling afterwards. Look at this guy, look

1511
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:17,519
Speaker 2: at the shape. He's NBC, a physical fighter, a dominant fighter.

1512
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 2: The dog is in him. But BC. Also he doesn't

1513
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:24,080
Speaker 2: just use brute force just to batten down the door. No,

1514
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:27,679
Speaker 2: it's more than that. It's scientific the whole way through.

1515
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 2: So when you combine the science that he has with

1516
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 2: the brute force that he has, he is a force.

1517
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:35,840
Speaker 3: And it's one thing to be what he is.

1518
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:37,800
Speaker 4: Maybe the biggest you could be in this division, the

1519
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:40,320
Speaker 4: most elite welterway with that kind of size, but when

1520
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 4: you can package it with a motor that can go

1521
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 4: twelve rounds and go hard. Look, styles make fights, and

1522
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:48,440
Speaker 4: maybe that's dictated at times the decision making of Aerospence

1523
01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 4: and the style that he brings against Ugas. Though he

1524
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,080
Speaker 4: made that commitment to just keep pushing, he was going

1525
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:56,320
Speaker 4: to break that wall down no matter what. Will be interesting,

1526
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 4: whether that's the new Spence or that's the new Spence

1527
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:03,000
Speaker 4: when it mass when he needs it. Well, Terrence Crawford

1528
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 4: bring that style out of him. We'll have to wait

1529
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 4: until Saturday night.

1530
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 2: We'll see. But here's kind of where I'm at on

1531
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:10,599
Speaker 2: this one. A lot of folks had questions about Spence

1532
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 2: at the Porter fight, but the Ugas won. I pulled

1533
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:14,880
Speaker 2: two clips from that on purpose because that's his last fight. Now,

1534
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 2: that was some time ago, and we were there. We

1535
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 2: couldn't see anything. We had the worst seats on earth,

1536
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 2: but we were actually there. But of course you can

1537
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 2: see from these it's not just the wrestling. It's not just,

1538
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 2: of course, the physicality we talked about. We don't have

1539
01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 2: some of these numbers, but it's really important to understand

1540
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 2: the volume BC. So while he's manipulating these guys, while

1541
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,679
Speaker 2: he's pushing them, while he is constantly on the attack,

1542
01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:39,720
Speaker 2: the amount of shots he's throwing with brutality to the

1543
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 2: body upstairs, pushing guys around, off balancing them. It's this

1544
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,519
Speaker 2: blender he puts these guys in. They can't deal with it.

1545
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:49,760
Speaker 2: They can never get their feet set, they can never

1546
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:51,519
Speaker 2: find him. He's always up the other way, and when

1547
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,880
Speaker 2: he wants to push them around. My God, you just

1548
01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 2: saw what he does and plus one more time. I

1549
01:12:56,360 --> 01:13:01,080
Speaker 2: cannot overstate it. The physicality. People say that Terrence Crawford

1550
01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:02,880
Speaker 2: when they've locked up with him, is stronger than he looks.

1551
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:05,080
Speaker 2: He has a background in wrestling in high school. Folks

1552
01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 2: don't really realize that he's obviously a very gifted athlete.

1553
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:10,080
Speaker 2: But I gotta tell you, my hunch is going to

1554
01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:13,480
Speaker 2: be that the more physical the two, particularly on the inside.

1555
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 2: The truth he also has.

1556
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:18,960
Speaker 4: A background in football Errol Spence Junior getting dissected by

1557
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 4: the professor. But when we return here on your Ultimate

1558
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:26,559
Speaker 4: Spence Crawford Preview and the Morning Combat Takeover, We're gonna

1559
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:30,800
Speaker 4: go category by category, Speed, Power, defense, you name it.

1560
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:34,560
Speaker 4: Who has the advantage? LTBC. We're going to vote and

1561
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:37,679
Speaker 4: tell you right back after this on your Ultimate Spence

1562
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:44,719
Speaker 4: Crawford preview. Oh yeah, MK, back at it, your Ultimate

1563
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 4: Spence Crawford Preview LTNBC. Hey, how about we go category

1564
01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:53,320
Speaker 4: by category to break down who really does have the

1565
01:13:53,479 --> 01:13:56,320
Speaker 4: edge in each important one. We've got eight categories for

1566
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:59,639
Speaker 4: you to roll out here, and Luke Thomas, let's start

1567
01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 4: right off the top. Power.

1568
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 3: Who has the advantage Spence versus Crawford.

1569
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:06,559
Speaker 2: I think both guys have decent power actually for this

1570
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:11,120
Speaker 2: weight class, but I'm gonna say pure power. I'll give

1571
01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:14,040
Speaker 2: it to Spence. I think that Bud might have better accuracy,

1572
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna say pure power Spence.

1573
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 3: Spence is twenty two knockouts and twenty eight wins.

1574
01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 4: Thirty knockouts and thirty nine wins for Crawford, but the

1575
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:24,559
Speaker 4: one punch power goes in the direction of Spence speed.

1576
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:26,800
Speaker 3: On the other hand, that might be a Bud Crawford.

1577
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:27,720
Speaker 2: Edge, right Threk, Yeah, I don't see how you can

1578
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:29,839
Speaker 2: give that one to Spence. He's hardly slow or anything.

1579
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 2: But again, and it's also it's not just speed, it's efficiency,

1580
01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 2: it's positioning, its balance. But I do think the pure

1581
01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:38,160
Speaker 2: speed from the smaller guy, it's gonna go to Bud.

1582
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 3: If you want Bud, you got it certainly quicker.

1583
01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 4: Does that speed, though, equate to category number three footwork advantage?

1584
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 2: I'd be curious to hear what you have to say

1585
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:48,960
Speaker 2: about this. I gotta tell you, I think both guys

1586
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 2: are really really good at it. For me, it is

1587
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,120
Speaker 2: a draw. Now. They have different kinds of footwork, but

1588
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 2: the one thing that unites them is how they change positioning,

1589
01:14:57,960 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 2: how they make guys move, how they move around guys.

1590
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:04,320
Speaker 2: They are both very very very good at it, just

1591
01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:06,519
Speaker 2: different ways of applying it. It's a wash for medium.

1592
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:09,120
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I can't pick a winner in that regard either.

1593
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 4: Both absolute technicians when they need to be plays into

1594
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:16,519
Speaker 4: their athleticism and all of the hours ten thousand hours

1595
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:18,599
Speaker 4: or more put into this. But that does play into

1596
01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 4: category number four technique. We're talking pure boxing ability. It's

1597
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 4: very close, but Bud Crawford can just do more.

1598
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 2: Things he can. I guess in that sense you can

1599
01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:34,080
Speaker 2: say that Bud Crawford probably should win this category. But

1600
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 2: I just want to be clear about something. No one

1601
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 2: should ever be under any illusion that Errol Spence is

1602
01:15:41,960 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 2: anything other than scientific. I just want to make sure

1603
01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:46,720
Speaker 2: that they know that, so I will give the edge

1604
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,440
Speaker 2: to I keep calling him the magician in Bud Crawford,

1605
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 2: but the difference between him and Spence in that regard

1606
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 2: is minimal.

1607
01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 4: It would be wrong to call Spencer's style basic, but

1608
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:57,920
Speaker 4: he does handle the meat and potatoes so well. It's

1609
01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:00,919
Speaker 4: Crawford on the other side, who can freeze the abstract

1610
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:02,800
Speaker 4: painter can color outside the lines.

1611
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:05,320
Speaker 3: But category number five is defense.

1612
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 4: Maybe Spence doesn't get the edge here because he's so

1613
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 4: offensively inclined and always pushing forward. We saw the defensive statistics.

1614
01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:14,879
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give Budd that edge just the same.

1615
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 2: I'll give Bud that edge two. At times Spence can

1616
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 2: be a little bit reckless with his defense. He had

1617
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:20,680
Speaker 2: good defense, by the way in the Brook fight, like

1618
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:22,840
Speaker 2: when he wants to actually he can have it. But

1619
01:16:22,880 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 2: then you see a fight like the Porter fight and

1620
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:26,800
Speaker 2: you're like, dude, what's up with the defense there? He

1621
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 2: had all kinds of problems in that one. So again

1622
01:16:29,240 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 2: it's not like Spence has bad defense, but Crawford is

1623
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:33,280
Speaker 2: a magician.

1624
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 4: Well, a big part of defense A lot of times

1625
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:36,680
Speaker 4: can be focused, and that's something Spence told us in

1626
01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:38,600
Speaker 4: jury at the press conference he needs to work on.

1627
01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:41,680
Speaker 4: He has been rocked dryl Spence by singular punches and

1628
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:43,759
Speaker 4: a lot of times you can tell just maybe missed

1629
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:45,920
Speaker 4: something in that moment, took his eye off the.

1630
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 3: Ball eight a shot. Luckily for him, though, Luke.

1631
01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:53,240
Speaker 4: As we head into category number six, chin durability, punch recuperativeness,

1632
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 4: this is Eryl Spence, not by a wide margin.

1633
01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 3: But by a clear one.

1634
01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 2: I think that's right. Again, we'll talk about the bigger guy.

1635
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 2: He should have a little bit more punch resistance. And also,

1636
01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:04,599
Speaker 2: you know, like who has bitten down on the mat,

1637
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:07,920
Speaker 2: Like who's been in the trenches in this weight class.

1638
01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 2: It's been Errol Spence and again sometimes by his own design,

1639
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 2: never never down as a pro ra never done. And

1640
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 2: also you know, very inadvisably in certain times. But I

1641
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 2: do think the guy who's going to be sturdier Chris

1642
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 2: al Jerry spoke to you about it. We he ducked

1643
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:20,800
Speaker 2: on the record before, so when he punched the guy

1644
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:23,880
Speaker 2: almost hurt his hand. Because of how sturdy he is,

1645
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 2: I'm going to give him the.

1646
01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:26,720
Speaker 4: Edge of Rockford got dropped by mean machine. He was

1647
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 4: hurt against Gamboa, but he rallied back for the victory.

1648
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 4: Number seven is corner. We're talking about the coaching both

1649
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:34,639
Speaker 4: world class. But I don't know how you beat Derek James.

1650
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:36,200
Speaker 4: That edge has to go to Eryl Spence.

1651
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:38,200
Speaker 2: Respect ball mack a lot. I understand he contributes a

1652
01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 2: significant amount. That wouldn't ever say that the relationship that

1653
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:43,000
Speaker 2: he has with but Crawford has been anything other than fruitful.

1654
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 2: It's got to go to Derrick James.

1655
01:17:44,439 --> 01:17:47,040
Speaker 4: Here's the weird one category number eight intangibles. It can

1656
01:17:47,080 --> 01:17:49,760
Speaker 4: mean anything, sort of outside the box. I'm going to

1657
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:51,920
Speaker 4: give this edge to Spence here. I think you can

1658
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:53,559
Speaker 4: flip side it and pick Bud. But the reason why

1659
01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:56,200
Speaker 4: I'm giving it to Spence is the mentality of going

1660
01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:59,599
Speaker 4: through his opponent. Who's more likely to rise to the occasion.

1661
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:02,760
Speaker 4: Nothing against Crawford. He rises regularly, but Spence is so

1662
01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:05,600
Speaker 4: dialed in to go through you and endure whatever he

1663
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:06,120
Speaker 4: has to do.

1664
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:07,599
Speaker 3: That's a superpower in this fight.

1665
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:09,760
Speaker 2: It's a wash for me. You got Bud Crawford. If

1666
01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 2: you want to say the intangibles are creativity, he is

1667
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:14,720
Speaker 2: more creative. On the other hand, we say it, We've

1668
01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 2: been saying it for two hours. That dog in him,

1669
01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:19,080
Speaker 2: it's gotta go to Spence. To me, that's a wash.

1670
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, that dog in him rf RF. Let's look back

1671
01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 4: on our eight categories. You hear you heard which side

1672
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:27,880
Speaker 4: we lean on. Here's a visual representation. This doesn't decide

1673
01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:30,280
Speaker 4: who wins the fight, but you see how we see

1674
01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:31,280
Speaker 4: it across the board.

1675
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:32,479
Speaker 3: A push in.

1676
01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:37,040
Speaker 4: Footwork, but Luke pretty even in the other categories. A

1677
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:40,200
Speaker 4: slight edge on Spence maybe, But here's what's interesting when

1678
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:42,759
Speaker 4: people are talking about this matchup. Spence said it himself.

1679
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:46,160
Speaker 4: Crawford is the more dynamic, skilled fighter. But what's gonna

1680
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 4: happen when the styles clash comes Saturday night in Las Vegas.

1681
01:18:50,360 --> 01:18:53,200
Speaker 4: How about some keys to victory? When we return here

1682
01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:56,920
Speaker 4: on the Ultimate preview, the Morning Combat Takeover. How do

1683
01:18:57,000 --> 01:18:58,920
Speaker 4: these guys do it to get their hand raised?

1684
01:18:58,920 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 3: Come Saturday.

1685
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 4: And we're back at it, the biggest fight in boxing

1686
01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 4: since Mayweather Paciao. It's Spence versus Crawford Saturday. But it's

1687
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:13,760
Speaker 4: time for keys to victory. Luke Thomas, you're mythically in

1688
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 4: the corner of Eryl Spence. What three things should he

1689
01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 4: look for to get his hand raised Saturday?

1690
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:21,800
Speaker 2: Derek James, not me, but okay, if I'm there, here's

1691
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:23,880
Speaker 2: what I'm gonna say. Like and I think we have

1692
01:19:23,880 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 2: a graphic for it. I'd like to show it if

1693
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 2: we can. But this is what I think is most important,

1694
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:30,760
Speaker 2: first of all, more outside than inside fighting. Be see

1695
01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:33,320
Speaker 2: if he's fighting in a way where Bud Crawford has

1696
01:19:33,760 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 2: a room to move, I just don't feel like that's

1697
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:38,760
Speaker 2: gonna favor him. Over the long term, so that's gotta

1698
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:42,759
Speaker 2: be key. Second, Wressell Crawford. Now not literally Wressell Crawford,

1699
01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 2: we don't mean that, but we saw it on Dissected

1700
01:19:45,240 --> 01:19:47,439
Speaker 2: using the tricks that he does, where he is using

1701
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:51,960
Speaker 2: underhooks to pull, changing head position, pushing guys, manipulating their weight.

1702
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:54,679
Speaker 2: He should be the bigger, more physical guy. If you've

1703
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 2: got Bud Crawford reacting to how you're manipulating his balance

1704
01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 2: and his weight and his rhythm, that's going to be

1705
01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 2: good for you if you're Errol Spence. And last, but

1706
01:20:01,920 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 2: not least, BC, this is the part that just can't

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01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:09,479
Speaker 2: be overstated. Volume volume volume. Aerol Spence is best when

1708
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 2: he is a high IQ kind of what would you

1709
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 2: call hi pressure fighter basically, And what makes that work

1710
01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 2: is he absolutely when he's cooking, is raining on these guys.

1711
01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 2: That is what you see from them. They just can't

1712
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:26,360
Speaker 2: find a place to get out of the torrential downpour.

1713
01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 2: If you see low volume, if he's not wrestling, if

1714
01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:31,439
Speaker 2: he's having to fight on the outside, I just don't

1715
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:33,160
Speaker 2: think that bodes well for Aerol Spence. It's got to

1716
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:34,559
Speaker 2: be the opposite. In all three cases.

1717
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:37,280
Speaker 4: Volume is key, because what's the separation in close fights

1718
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:39,760
Speaker 4: high speed chess. When it goes to the judges scorecards,

1719
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 4: sometimes it comes down to one round. So number one

1720
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 4: for Terrence Crawford on my keys to victory, don't give

1721
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 4: away rounds. I know Crawford typically does the Mayweather or

1722
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:50,919
Speaker 4: the Davante, where you take a couple of rounds, download information,

1723
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 4: make the adjustment and finish. The problem is you're fighting Spence,

1724
01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:57,679
Speaker 4: a higher level guy, the adjustments will be constant. Crawford

1725
01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:00,320
Speaker 4: needs to be busy early and make sure he's looking

1726
01:21:00,360 --> 01:21:03,439
Speaker 4: to win seven rounds, not just get the knockout. Number two,

1727
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 4: stay unpredictable. Crawford has more ways to win, more tools

1728
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:09,559
Speaker 4: than the tool bell. It's not just making the one

1729
01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:12,200
Speaker 4: time adjustment to south ball. In my opinion, he's got

1730
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:15,960
Speaker 4: to constantly change up the looks. Because one Spen Spence

1731
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:18,679
Speaker 4: is allowed to put it into drive and come downhill

1732
01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 4: on you.

1733
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 3: Normally the fight is beginning to.

1734
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:23,799
Speaker 4: End and finally Aero Spence one of the biggest body

1735
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 4: punchers in the entire sport. But we know in basketball

1736
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:30,280
Speaker 4: teams that press hate to be pressed. Crawford needs to

1737
01:21:30,479 --> 01:21:33,040
Speaker 4: establish a presence to the body early. It plays into

1738
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:36,680
Speaker 4: the larger conversation of he needs to gain Errol Spence's

1739
01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:39,639
Speaker 4: respect in the first half so that Spence cannot get

1740
01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:43,080
Speaker 4: into that gear. Why not just go downstairs? Those are

1741
01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:46,880
Speaker 4: your keys to victory. And when we return in our

1742
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:50,599
Speaker 4: final segment here on the Morning Combat Takeover Prediction Time

1743
01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 4: our picks from BCNLT Spence Crawford just days.

1744
01:21:54,080 --> 01:21:56,759
Speaker 3: Away, we will be right back.

1745
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:06,960
Speaker 4: Your MK Takeover ends right here on the CBS Sports Network,

1746
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 4: just days out from Spence Crawford with what else picks

1747
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 4: and predictions ahead of this classic. It's been called old school,

1748
01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:17,320
Speaker 4: It's been called the generational fight. It's the first four

1749
01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:22,800
Speaker 4: belt undisputed championship fight in welterweight history. Luke Thomas, Saturday Night,

1750
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 4: Las Vegas, Showtime pay per View, Who wins Spence Crawford

1751
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:27,639
Speaker 4: and why?

1752
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:29,600
Speaker 2: One disclaimer for the audience. BC and I do a

1753
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:31,840
Speaker 2: lot of picks. It should be noted we are decidedly

1754
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:35,439
Speaker 2: awful at it. Okay, But with that little disclaimer out

1755
01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:35,680
Speaker 2: of the.

1756
01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 4: Way, please protect our good name here, our.

1757
01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:40,000
Speaker 2: Good name, I mean, come on, I'm just protecting what

1758
01:22:40,040 --> 01:22:42,840
Speaker 2: we have left. And where's that Apollo hook? In all seriousness,

1759
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 2: it's a tough one, BC, and we know that you

1760
01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 2: could go in a lot of different directions. Everyone says

1761
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:48,519
Speaker 2: it's a fifty to fifty.

1762
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:49,720
Speaker 3: I changed my pick every hour.

1763
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 2: I really do too. Again, I could feel differently come

1764
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 2: five time. As it stands today, Errol Spence Junior is

1765
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:58,840
Speaker 2: my pick. I just feel like in the end, the

1766
01:22:58,880 --> 01:23:01,639
Speaker 2: way in which he gets stronger and stronger, the volume,

1767
01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:03,920
Speaker 2: the physicality. I just don't think Bud has fought a

1768
01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 2: guy like that, and I think in the end it's

1769
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 2: going to matter.

1770
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 3: Well, let's be fair.

1771
01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:10,200
Speaker 4: Terrence Crawford the slight betting favorite, although the picks have

1772
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:13,560
Speaker 4: been split across boxing in terms of experts and commentators,

1773
01:23:13,720 --> 01:23:16,080
Speaker 4: a lot of people leaning in Crawford. But Luke Thomas,

1774
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:19,240
Speaker 4: I have to also echo you. My pick is going

1775
01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:21,240
Speaker 4: to be Erol Spence Junior. I think we go to

1776
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:23,559
Speaker 4: the finish in the scorecards and I think it could

1777
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 4: be one of those decisions where you could make a

1778
01:23:25,880 --> 01:23:28,680
Speaker 4: case for either fighter. But what is ultimately going to

1779
01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:30,720
Speaker 4: separate these two at the end of the day. For me,

1780
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:34,840
Speaker 4: it's the heart, chin and durability of Spence. If he

1781
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:37,760
Speaker 4: can succeed at making this a fire fight in the

1782
01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:40,759
Speaker 4: second half of it, although Crawford ultimately has more ways

1783
01:23:40,760 --> 01:23:43,519
Speaker 4: to win and probably would be more likely if there

1784
01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 4: was an outclassing in this fight because he's maybe more skilled.

1785
01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 4: When Spence bites down on the mouthpiece and goes after

1786
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:51,720
Speaker 4: you in that old school style, We've seen Crawford hurt,

1787
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:55,160
Speaker 4: We've seen him drop before. Maybe this is enough for

1788
01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:57,880
Speaker 4: Erol Spence Junior to get his hand raised. But here's

1789
01:23:57,920 --> 01:24:00,759
Speaker 4: an important key to note entering Saturday. It's a gift

1790
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:03,759
Speaker 4: of boxing fans that this fight finally happened. But Luke Thomas,

1791
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:07,320
Speaker 4: the bilateral rematch clause means either fight or win or

1792
01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 4: lose can kick in a second fight and choose which

1793
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 4: weight class it's in. By the way, a nice little wrinkle.

1794
01:24:13,160 --> 01:24:15,400
Speaker 4: Will we get two? Will we get three fights for

1795
01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:18,960
Speaker 4: Spence Crawford? Boxing fans can only hope, But we've had

1796
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:22,280
Speaker 4: a great time setting the stage for you. Luke Thomas

1797
01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 4: Brian Campbell the co hosts of the award winning Morning

1798
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:28,920
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1799
01:24:28,960 --> 01:24:31,559
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01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:35,599
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1801
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1803
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1804
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 3: Luke Thomas, I want to give you the final word here.

1805
01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:49,000
Speaker 4: Less than a minute ago we said we think Spence Crawford,

1806
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:52,320
Speaker 4: we think action, we think history. You expecting an absolute

1807
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:52,920
Speaker 4: classic here.

1808
01:24:53,040 --> 01:24:55,240
Speaker 2: I'm expecting for Spence to come out of the gate

1809
01:24:55,320 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 2: hot and Bud to come out a little cold, and

1810
01:24:57,600 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 2: then for it all to turn into a big, tumbled,

1811
01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:02,439
Speaker 2: amazing mess from about the mid rounds on.

1812
01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 4: You can purchase this fight on Showtime pay per view

1813
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:07,479
Speaker 4: Saturday night, and when the fight is over, Luke Thomas

1814
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 4: live from t Mobile Arena our Morning Combat instant analysis

1815
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:14,640
Speaker 4: and reaction. We've got a great time here on the

1816
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:17,959
Speaker 4: CBS Sports Network and the Morning Combat takeover.

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01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:19,959
Speaker 3: It's Spence versus Crawford.

1818
01:25:20,280 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 4: History at stake, four belts in the welterweight division, two

1819
01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:25,559
Speaker 4: kings facing off.

1820
01:25:25,880 --> 01:25:27,519
Speaker 3: Who will come out on top.

1821
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:30,240
Speaker 4: You'll have to tune in Saturday night show Time pay

1822
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 4: per view for LT'SBC Morning Combat. We are out of here.

1823
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Speaker 3: Enjoy the fights on Saturday