Terence Crawford Vs. Shawn Porter fight predictions, undercard, probabilities, expert selections, preview, date

Eight years after Terence Crawford first arrived on the national scene, the dynamic boxer / puncher has become a three-division champion and has been stable in the pound pound rankings.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that anyone can say for sure how great the 34-year-old Crawford (37-0, 28 KOs) really is. This weekend, at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, all of that will change.

With boxing politics forever frustrating, Crawford has spent most of his career eating with secondary and longtime opponents. But with WBO twice naming two-time champion Shawn Porter (31-3-1, 17 KOs) as his mandatory opponent, the two fighters against the net and the promotion portion will face off on Saturday. This outlook is expected to spark.

At 34, Porter can claim to be the most active and ambitious member of a star-filled welterweight at the same time that Crawford has slowly gained weight. The two-division champion shared the ring with Devon Alexander, Paulie Malignaggi, Kell Brook, Adrien Broner, Keith Thurman, Andre Berto, Danny Garcia, Yordenis Ugas and Errol Spence Jr. during the 147-pound race with the most fights. they come against the main versions of these fighters.

Although Porter has not won all the big challenges he has taken on, he has been competitive and exciting each time. What’s more, his style has evolved along the way.

Originally a bruised fighter, he entered like a defender on a line where the chase is exploding from the field, Porter has added finesse and quick footwork to his game while improving his pure boxing ability.

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Finally, Crawford looks at an opponent who is able to get the best out of him from the ring and his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, seems to be just as excited as the critics.

“I respect everything Shawn does. Shawn is athletic, he can box, he can hit, he can move in the ring, he can cut corners and take angles. I’m not going to sit here and tell him I won’t say anything. He doesn’t respect anything,” he said. Crawford. “I’ll say I do a lot better than Shawn. I’ll show him on Saturday.

“Once we signed that contract, the switch was already flipped and I can’t wait to go out on Saturday to show off my talent and look good. Until then, I’m quiet right now, playing Call of Duty. Room only all day. Stay all day. I’m isolated in the room. ”

Porter, who grew up in suburban Ohio, has crossed paths with Crawford since his amateur days and has spent years pushing for a fight between the two on the backstage, even though Crawford is said to have been the founder of the Al Haymon Premier Boxing Champions. deliberately freezing.

From Porter’s point of view, Crawford has already established himself as a member of the future Hall of Fame and would like to establish his status with one of his victories.

“I’m sure I’m on the edge of the Hall of Fame,” Porter said. “And with that, this fight isn’t for me to win or go home, win or anything. My life, right now, depends on winning this fight and winning Terence Crawford. He’s a major fighter and all he gets. With the ring, he dominates.

“Being the guy I can’t dominate and the one who hits him and ends the exchanges, all he needs to win is Terence, I’ve got it.”

Although he suffered a blow when he won against Egidijus Kavaliauskas in 2019, Crawford has barely touched between 140 and 147 kilos. Yuriorkis would have to go back to the 2014 win against Gambos to see a fight that Crawford was forced to make key adjustments to change the momentum, to absorb his penalty.

The good news for fans is that Crawford has no intention of trying to box Porter from the outside and hopes to be strong in the face of pressure from Porter’s trademarks.

“Unlike other fighters [Porter] fight, I’m different, ”Crawford said.“ The more I push, the more I push. The more I come, the more I will come. Everyone always says, ‘Why would you throw a fire when you can only put it out with fire?’ That’s because I love it, that’s what I love. You hit me hard, I’ll hit you even harder. I wonder who can last. ‘

Crawford’s future free agent status doesn’t make him sure he’ll get the super-fight against Spence that fans have longed for. In his top fight in the Top Rank deal, Crawford has been silent lately about his future as Bob Arum Hall of Fame promoters.

The focus, understandably, has been here and now. And Porter hopes to push Crawford in the same way he hasn’t gotten another opponent.

“No one else who has been in the ring with him knows me as well as I do,” Porter said. “No one knows how it works mentally. That’s what I know [Saturday] it’s a day for the world of boxing. It will be a wonderful evening.

“It’s infectious. The best opponent will get the best of Terence Crawford and the best of Terence will get the best of Shawn Porter.”

The bottom card is filled with a pair of medium-weight matches and a light competition to open the festivities. Most notable is that Janibek may be Alimkhanuly’s middleweight showcase when he plays against Hassan N’Dam. The 28-year-old from Kazakhstan is 10-0 perfect as a professional so far and has shown real finishing ability at the end with four consecutive goals in August 2019. N’Dam, the former 160-pound champion, has lost three of his last four and stopped in two defeats.

Also, another middleweight competition gets a co-feature slot when Esquiva Falcao takes on Patrice Volny. Falcao, a 31-year-old Brazilian, went 28-0 in his name with 20 knockouts. The Olympic silver medalist is looking to extend his current stoppage time streak against Volny, who is also undefeated 16-0 on his resume with 10 knockouts.

Below is the rest of the PPV portion of the card along with a detailed announcement of the main event.

Fighting card, odds

Odds via Caesars Sportsbook

• Terence Crawford (c) -700 vs. Shawn Porter +500, WBO weight welterweight championship
• Esquiva Falcao -650 vs. Patrice Volny +475, middleweight
• Janibek Alimkhanuly -2500 vs. Hassan N’Dam +1200, medium weight
• Raymond Muratalla -2200 vs Steven Ortiz +1100, arina

Forecast

Let’s not bury the ledge here: this is a perfect example of the tremendous theater and high-speed chess between elite stars.

What Spence lost in 2019 as a result of an exciting split decision by Spence was somewhat lost after Spence admitted that he had completely abandoned his game plan to fight Porter. The reason was because Porter clearly took it and was convinced that he could walk on it and stop it with ease.

Crawford probably won’t be ready to adapt as easily as Porter. However, according to the comments above, he will stand by him and negotiate if Porter can constantly force him to step inside.

It is there that he decides whether the effectiveness of Porter’s helter-skelter style can win this fight, or simply as a way to consolidate the undefeated champion’s resume that sells his name to Crawford.

Porter is at his best when he combines the aggressiveness shown at the beginning of his career and then the added footwork and estate. But it’s the most effective style against elite fighters with slower foot speeds, which is why it was so effective in 2018 that Danny Garcia won the title.

Crawford is too fast for Porter to overcome with movement alone and will have to use the perfect mix of his two styles to continue to guess Crawford. The problem with this, however, is that he is even more versatile than Crawford Porter and is able to change attitudes, where he can perfectly neutralize Porter’s best plans.

Porter’s chances of getting down the scoring cards in the second half of the fight and in need of a complete blitz remain high. Luckily for fans, the results should have been pure excitement as Porter has broken down like an attack-level track train that hasn’t fully shown itself since Berto dismantled it in 2017.

Porter will get Crawford to face the toughest challenge he still has to face. But successfully playing a bull against a matador like Crawford is too big a hill to climb Porter’s ambitions.

Stopping Crawford late for Porter, hitting him with something he doesn’t see, is beyond doubt. In any case, this will have to live up to all his high expectations, especially since Porter Crawford is one of the only fighters who is skilled and brave enough to prove how great he really is.

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