Terence Crawford Easily Defeats Viktor Postol on a Pay Per Screw – Boxing News

By Dave “Madcap” Mroczek

After all the recent mismatches, excuse making, fight cancellations and postponements, and straight up ducks fight fans finally got a glimpse of what they really want last night: an actual fight between two top fighters of the same weight division. Terence “Bud” Crawford took on Viktor “Iceman” Postol at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Both men were undefeated going into the contest, and both had distinguished themselves as the class of their division. Crawford had shown his quality to the American public by defeating a number of challengers on HBO over the past few years such as Ricky Burns, Yuriorkis Gamboa, and Dierry Jean. What he lacked was a very top level name on is resume to prove his status as a top fighter and pound for pound contender. Crawford has slick skills and some serious power.

Viktor Postol is a skilled and technical fighter who had amassed a decent resume and fully propelled himself onto the top of the light welterweight heap with a huge win over proven commodity Lucas Matthysse. We had a clear number one and number two emerge in this division, and low and behold, the fight actually got made!

In the first few rounds of the contest both men were extremely cautious, out of sheer respect for each other. Postol managed to grab a couple of the early rounds by keeping slightly busier than Crawford. That being said, not much of consequence happened in the early going. Terence Crawford, an orthodox fighter known to switch between orthodox and southpaw stances, fought almost this entire fight southpaw.

Terence Crawford is known, however, as a fighter who takes time to analyze his opponent before adjusting and going after him. Just like the great Floyd Mayweather Jr. he is patient and waits until he can see a chink in his opponent’s armor he can exploit. This fight was no exception.

In the fourth round Terence Crawford had attack on the mind, going right towards Postol. He landed a clubbing shot to the top of the head which knocked Postol off balance and sent one knee to the canvas. While he didn’t appear badly hurt he did appear rattled by the sudden development. Shortly after, Postol got a bit too close and Crawford landed a crippling left to the jaw which sent Postol reeling backwards across the ring and planting a glove on the canvas. With two knockdowns in the books the Crawford domination was on.
Crawford’s style is that of a sharpshooter. He prefers to stay to the outside and move around the ring, occasionally slashing in to land his power punches before retreating to the outside as quick as he came in. Over the remaining rounds he would continue to sharpshoot and out point Postol to the finish. Postol proved unwilling, or at least unable, to cut off the ring and get Crawford trapped. Down the stretch, Postol was completely neutralized by Crawford’s style and speed.

In the end, of course, Crawford coasted to a one sided points victory. Postol was game but was not on Crawford’s level. It is expected now that he has beaten his main rival at 140lbs, Crawford will make his way up to the star studded 147lb division. If that is the case I am looking forward to it. We have in Crawford a fighter who has top level talent, and the will to make the big fights that so many seem unwilling to do once they reach the top levels.

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