>>32292399>dropped the boxing themePic related.
>counterparts or a split evolutionBut that would completely abandon the idea of Crabrawler wanting to climb a mountain to get stronger, which makes sense because coconut crabs like to climb things (it's why Crabrawler hangs out in piles of berries underneath trees, because it was presumably climbing them).
Crabominable with all its white hair represents an aged Crabrawler who's made it to the top, and the whole punching mitt thing shows a coach/boxer relationship, so for them to be counterparts instead of a straight up progression, or for there to be a split evolution just to placate the people who wanted a generic super rad epic cool boxer, would throw out all of that meaning.