Ehhh...Ortiz didn’t want to fight AJ on short notice especially when his payday with wilder for the 2nd fight was gonna be marginally better and he would be fully prepared..can’t really fault him on that...also Mikey garcia has been on record saying that haymon didn’t want him to take the Spence fight but Mikey insisted so haymon obliged...with Leo there’s not arguments he was an intelligent matchmaking ploy by mayweather/haymon, he got paid handsomely for it and honestly I left that fight more impressed with Leo than tank
Shawn probably got more than 1 million to fight formella lol...if Shawn activates arum will let it go to purse bid, and anyone who follow boxing knows that top rank rarely wins purse bid...bud will prefer to keep the split 75 percent bc he’s a clown lol and porter obviously would prefer to negotiate bc he genuinely wants the fight but at 25 percent that’s pretty ridiculous...so the fans get screwed outta fight bc bud wants 50/50 purse splits fights with Errol and pac and doesn’t think guys like porter is worth his time...BUT AMIR KHAN AND JOSE 1 LEG BENAVIDEZ IS COOL
Errol Spence is a real dude, but he really made a name for himself based on the falsehood..not enough fans use common sense when it comes to matchmaking...it was clear back in 2015 that Spence and Thurman was likely their super fight..Thurman from 2015-2017 was fighting the likes of porter and danny garcia..big money fights compared to Errol at the time that was growing as a contender..it’s like asking Errol as a unified champ now to fight jaron ennis...showtime started really building towards Spence vs Thurman after Spence got brooks belt in the summer, but injuries then hit Keith hard..showtime even had a joint press conference btwn the two talking about their future fight...Thurman never ducked Spence but I think bc Thurman was so honest about how talented he thought Spence was, fans took that for a sign of weakness but really to me it showed that he felt the Spence would be a defining fight for his careered
Hearn wasn’t trying to make that fight at the moment and as the A side they imo have that type of leverage anyways...AJ himself would’ve done it he’s a fighter, I don’t doubt that, but Hearn wanted AJ to become a more known fighter in the US before fighting wilder and that makes sense...AJ was getting huge checks without that WBC belt, it’s just that the Ruiz slip up ****ed all that up...had dazn not been an option and AJ stayed on showtime domestically in the US I think things would have been easier...fury then say matchroom marinating and jumped at the opportunity to fight wilder and here we are today...had wilder beat fury he would be getting 50/50 with AJ...matchroom wasn’t gonna put AJ in with dangerous opps like fury and wilder until they themselves became ppv attractions...Crawford doesn’t have the same options wilder and fury had in each other to build up his stardom for the Spence/AJ fights...obv Spence isn’t AJ but it’s all relative
Crawford trainer is on record asking for 50/50 for not only Spence but pacman...bud’s team is operating on a level of delusion that is pretty hilarious...Spence approach has been pretty consistent but bud doesn’t make much sense
Idk, Spence fought on a matchroom card for his first title fight...Mikey garcia been a showtime/fox fighter after getting out of top rank and got the Jessie Vargas fight after a loss on DAZN...danny Jacobs left pbc for HBO/matchroom with no issue, Andy Ruiz signed to PBC and got the Joshua fight on DAZN...so they allow their guys to play ball...Sergiy dev is a pbc guy and got the GGG fight
It’s why you don’t preemptively match the best guys in the division before the top 5 is cleared out...regis should’ve smoked Ramirez before fighting Taylor bc people now try and push that Ramirez is no 2...regis and Taylor were equally skilled I had that fight a draw, but regis had only beaten one noteworthy guy before that fight, while Taylor already had Ivan and postol on resume...regis and Taylor are much better than Ramirez imo and hooker is a B level fighter that’s trying to pushed as some huge win for Ramirez since it was a unification
Would be surprised if hooker took this fight at this point, since he was acting funny style with Regis...thought he would be focused on building towards getting a belt at 147
These journalist keep putting GGG vs Canelo in our face lol...Canelo wins and it’ll be more moaning about GGG age...charlo would probably be the best combination of big money and competitiveness for Canelo ..Spence would do the best money but as good as Spence is, he’s too light in the ass...plant and David are fun and I hope he does with plant since BJS will just try and stink the place out
Spence is better than weight drained cotto or 147 tim Bradley so he’d give a competitive fight to manny in his prime...if manny ain’t gonna fight Spence he should drop that belt so whoever can pick it and 147 can get closer to undisputed
Yea breadman has great insights expect when it comes to “ducking”.you would think him being in the business he would realize a lot of the ducking fans online cry about is not the case..takes following boxing only a little bit to understand that
Lmao I know right..I wish he was actually really good because he’s so hate able already he would become a superstar so quick...a key recipe to success in boxing
If Spence was fighting the level of competition bud is he’d be KO’ ing those guys too...algeri and Peterson were B level welterweights...people would **** on Spence for fighting washed khan, benavidez types
Going for a third belt is a problem now? He said this to Crawford face I’m going to clean up the belts on his side and then get the WBO last, and he’s done that so far...what’s the problem, it’s his career
brook fought 3 tuneups over 3 years at a higher weight and almost lost one of those tuneups...then moves down to a weight that he previously told the boxing world was too hard to make and that was the reason he lost against spence...dude doesn't even use his trainer, gets a guy off IG that he said looked good on the pads...his whole mission was to make the weight...the first punch that lands flush, the same guy who went toe to toe GGG, sends the dude across the ring...dude punch resistance has been gone for awhile watch the zerefa fight..kell brook win meant nothing for someone as good as bud
i don't think errol looks at the crawford fight as a cash out fight...if thurman gets a win, spence vs thurman does similar numbers to spence vs bud...spence has manny/canelo/guys at 154...one fight won't make or break his career earnings...if bud goes to PBC next year his options will increase as well...i don't think spence vs crawford will ever be big enough for top rank and pbc to get together and think they'll do some massive numbers, only way that really could happen is if one of the guys get manny first
"Especially a black athlete" WTF imagine for a second if a white guy said this about another white fighter how much he would get trashed and somehow it's okay if a black guy says it. The hypocrisy that Americans live in is astonishing.
It’s about the context of America. And people who like to act like they don’t understand that or truly don’t understand are a big issue in America..Google why the civil war happened, the war on drugs or the GI bill. Read a book
Spence is trying to clean out the division this is his 4th top 10 welterweight he’s fighting...had Thurman injuries not taking a toll he’s probably fighting Thurman for that WBA belt right now...then he’ll gon deal with arum if he beats ugas...why would you deal with arum and espn if you don’t have to and still make big money fights...he said I’m going to clean up my side of the street and make out fight for undisputed, bud has had to do nothing but crush cans and watch Spence make their fight bigger if anything I’m more frustrated with Crawford’s complacency