By Keith Idec

Viktor Postol’s most obvious advantage over Terence Crawford is his height.

The unbeaten WBC super lightweight champion stands 5-feet-11, making him three full inches taller than Crawford. Ukraine’s Postol (28-0, 12 KOs) also owns a 3½-inch reach advantage over the 5-8 Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs), which could help him establish his consistently effective jab during their 12-round, 140-pound title unification fight Saturday night in Las Vegas.

The ever-confident Crawford still doesn’t view Postol’s height as an obstacle he can’t overcome in their HBO Pay-Per-View main event at MGM Grand Garden Arena (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT; $59.99 in HD; $54.95 in SD).

“I’ve done fought taller opponents in my career,” Crawford said during a recent conference call. “This is not the first tall opponent that I’ve ever fought. So it’s not gonna be something new to me. It’s not gonna be nothing that I’ve never seen before. So I’m not concerned about his height or his jab or anything, because I done seen it before.”

The last two opponents Crawford defeated, Hank Lundy and Dierry Jean, both are shorter than the Omaha, Nebraska, native. But the former WBO lightweight champion has beaten four opponents in his past nine fights who stood taller than him.

That group includes 5-11 Breidis Prescott, 5-9½ Alejandro Sanabria, 5-10 Ricky Burns and 5-10 Thomas Dulorme. Two other Crawford foes during that stretch – 5-8 Ray Beltran and 5-8½ Andrey Klimov – were the same height or close to the same height as him.

Yuriorkis Gamboa, who’s 5-5½, was the shortest of those nine opponents.

Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.