Bob Arum: Major Announcement for Terence Crawford PPV to be Revealed This Week

Easter stopping any announcements? :D

No point getting our hopes up. not expecting much out of the next opponent.

That's probably the plan. Act like they were getting a big fight for Crawford but it fell through and then another bum fight lined up and signed in no time. The dumbass Crawford fangimps will parrot dey be duckin and still not catch on that Crawford only fights b class or lower trinket holders, faded former champs and bums. Taking out the part about Crawford's diehard fans, I hate to agree with this but this seems like the case 100%. No announcement made last week as promised so it seems very likely the big name will "fall through" and the fight will be one fans don't really care about.. I really hope this isn't the case and I am wrong. FTR, earlier in this thread I opined the word BIG meant Castano at 154for the WBO belt. When I saw the news about Manny or Porter I was excited. I let myself forget about the ole TR bait and switch routine. Stupid on my part.

Where is the big announcement? I said it before, Arum does this a lot. He likes to promote his fighters name dropping and doing crap like this. He will hype that a matchup is coming to do a switch-a-roo at the last minute and trying to sell it like a great fight. When the opponents are to fighting his fighters he says they are crap, when is his fighter it is the most dangerous fight to date.

Welp, Josesito Lopez anyone?

What will all you haters say next, you'll still complain that his resume is garbage. We know what time it is. Yeah it’s time for Crawford to fight an top prime welterweight.

So, Terence “TBE” Crawford isn’t fighting a past prime Pacquiao after all?

So who do we seriously think it will be? I'm leaning towards Porter.

You can be sure it's not with Spence.

So what was the announcement?

At this point I don't trust any boxing promoter when they say they have something special to announce in the following week because they usually don't. Bob has pulled this trick as well as Oscar, Cotto, and others.

Cool, an announcement that there's going to be an announcement. Prepare to standby.

Porter has covid currently, I don't think it's him unless they're giving him ample time to recover (he doesn't have major symptoms I believe). It's either Pacquiao, Thurman, or an underwhelming fight. Crawford-Thurman is fine by me too. I’m desperate to see Crawford fight the top tier guys at 147.

If it’s Pac, he deserves so much f***ing credit for taking this fight at 42 years old. Maybe it’s Porter? Porter has covid currently, I don't think it's him unless they're giving him ample time to recover (he doesn't have major symptoms I believe). It's either Pacquiao, Thurman, or an underwhelming fight.

https://twitter.com/MichaelBensonn/status/1376532453477785612?s=20 Since Bob is using the word BIG and said just not any old fight, dare I say he is alluding to a Pacquiao showdown? That would be HUGE for Crawford and I would love to see that fight. All we heard at first was that Pacquiao was going to fight Mikey Garcia and that may still be the case, but talks seem to have quieted down a bit on that front. If not Pacquiao, one would think likely Porter, right? Not sure how his recent positive Covid test impacts things, but looks like Bud will get either of those two next. What do you guys think? If it’s Pac, he deserves so much f***ing credit for taking this fight at 42 years old. Maybe it’s Porter?

Cool, an announcement that there's going to be an announcement.

What happened with the announcement? They will say that they were going to be a major fight, say that negotiations fell apart but the fight against Josesito Lopez is just as good.

KTFOKing that was almost 2 years ago. This fight Pacquiao will show his age, he’s been too inactive He doesn't need to take the fight, no one is putting a gun to his head. I, for one am excited to see it. Bud gets the big fight he was looking for and Pacquiao gets a top WW before calling it a career. Can't wait!

Pacquiao just beat Thurman in his last fight. Not like he is coming off a loss or terrible performance. Nothing wrong at all for Crawford to get that fight, if possible. KTFOKing that was almost 2 years ago. This fight Pacquiao will show his age, he’s been too inactive

You seem angry that people didn’t care about the Yilidrim fight because it was such a garbage fight. You know Spence/ugas and Crawford/ manny are both fights fans will tune in to see. Doesn’t mean they’re bigger draws than canelo or anywhere near him in terms of drawing ability because they arent. but they both do have fan bases that enjoy watching them fight and both can draw casual fans when they fight quality opponents. these are good fights. Don’t worry the winner of Spence / Crawford is gonna give canelo the business anyway. of course canelo will get a 114-114 card no matter what. I wasn’t angry at all about that fight. Big difference. Canelo just fought in December and will fight again in May, Sept, and wants another December fight. That’s 5 fights in 12 months while working towards unifying a division. Canelo’s last fight was just a bonus. If Spence or Crawford are fighting more than once or twice a year then I’ll forgive a soft touch in there. But that’s not what we’re getting. These guys aren’t up and comers. Their in their 30’s and taking showcase fights and actively working against the one fight we want to see. Can’t respect that. All talk without daring to be great.