Comments Thread For: Crawford-Porter: PBC, Top Rank Don't Expect To Reach Deal, WBO Purse Bid To Be Called

[F l i c k e r]

If Porter did that he should get all kinds of heat from boxing fans and never hear the end of it.

Same with Crawford if he drops the title.

The bold:

That's what I am expecting Crawford to do. I will honestly not be surprised if Crawford vacates.

[ramplamp]

We all know this isn't going to happen. Dumbest sport in the world

[BoxingIsGreat]

Al Haymon going to do everything possible to avoid Porter from the worst beat down/TKO of his life and exposing the weakness of PBC's WW boys club.... TRUTH!

Crawford is in a different league to Porter.

[NachoMan]

All I know is, I specifically said last year this was going to purse bid and numerous people said it wouldn't.

Meanwhile, Arum back in July:



The 40% applied to the purse bid. So Arum knew what he was doing. He doesn't want to pay for Crawford, he wants Triller to step up and bid on it like Teo did so that Top Rank gets a percentage without doing any work.

Well, that's possible, but does Triller really want anything more to do with real boxing? Even if they do, are they willing to vastly overbid to win what is nothing more than a boxing insider's fight? Neither Crawford nor Porter come close to transcending their sport, so bidding big on this fight would probably be very dumb.

[BoxingIsGreat]

Ever since Tank has been taking easy fights you have been crapping all over good matchups that involve the best fighting the best.

You want everyone to take the path of least resistance like Gervonta does?

Promoters don't send fights they want to make to purse bids. I can do without Porter's headbutts and wrestling.

[Curtis2]

Why would that be a good thing? Porter has wanted Crawford for over a year now, why would he go and fight Thurman in a rematch when he can fight Crawford for a title? And if he wins? Then he is in line to get the Spence rematch. Thurman hasn't fought over 2 years and by November it will be damn near 2.5 years. He's coming off a loss on top of that. So yeah, if Porter takes that fight instead of Crawford...................

Al Haymon going to do everything possible to avoid Porter from the worst beat down/TKO of his life and exposing the weakness of PBC's WW boys club.... TRUTH!

[ShoulderRoll]

Why would that be a good thing? Porter has wanted Crawford for over a year now, why would he go and fight Thurman in a rematch when he can fight Crawford for a title? And if he wins? Then he is in line to get the Spence rematch. Thurman hasn't fought over 2 years and by November it will be damn near 2.5 years. He's coming off a loss on top of that. So yeah, if Porter takes that fight instead of Crawford...................

If Porter did that he should get all kinds of heat from boxing fans and never hear the end of it.

Same with Crawford if he drops the title.

[Elvelozpotosino]

I can't wait to go to purse bid. Then peter will have an injury or for any reason pull out the fight. He talks to much and i don't think he wants that Crawford fight

[NachoMan]

Let the fight go to the highest bidder, that's fine by me.

All that matters is that the fight gets made. And neither guy should even think about pulling out.

IDK, I will be shocked if this fight comes off. This is a solid matchup, yet nobody, not the fighters, the promoters nor the networks seem very excited about this fight. I'm pretty sure we see Thurman v Porter instead. Hope this opens up lanes for a Crawford v Ortiz Jr. fight. IMO, outside of settling the HW business between Fury, AJ and Wilder, there isn't a more interesting fight than Crawford v Ortiz Jr.

[KTFOKING]

Hopefully.

Or maybe haymon offers porter more $$$ for Thurman and just leaves Crawford to rot at TR?!

Why would that be a good thing? Porter has wanted Crawford for over a year now, why would he go and fight Thurman in a rematch when he can fight Crawford for a title? And if he wins? Then he is in line to get the Spence rematch. Thurman hasn't fought over 2 years and by November it will be damn near 2.5 years. He's coming off a loss on top of that. So yeah, if Porter takes that fight instead of Crawford...................