Comments Thread For: Spence-Crawford Unviable Because of 'Economics,' Crawford Not PPV Star, Says PBC Spokesperson

[sege64]

Translation: "You wanna fight our carefully managed, over hyped top dog, then you ain't getting paid ****. And screw the fans and sport of boxing too."

Look at how they both dealt with Porter. Spence wouldn't last the distance against Crawford.

[SplitSecond]

All the PBC **** like Bronx have for years been tellibg people Al Hymen will magically pull out the money required for fights. Arum coyldnt pay for Garcia, Thurman or Pacquiao but Hymen had the hook up. Didnt they lose money in every Fury vs Wilder fight(I think they made some in one fight)? What's the problem here? Seems like excuses. If Porter-Crawford can happen so can Spence-Crawford. And Crawford's star is rising since he's fighting some known guys now.

[tokon]

I was afraid Spence was going to 154 after ugas and not fight Crawford. This all but confirms it. Unless this is some new marketing ploy to downplay the fight then surprise us. Lol no.

If Crawford signs with pbc and haymon doesn’t make the Spence fight then he will have hurt his business and the sport and will deserve criticism.

Doesn't sound like PBC really want No Pay Cut Crawford though, does it?

[OnePunch]

No this doesn’t confirm Spence doesn’t want the fight because Crawford hasn’t signed with pbc yet.

It could very well be Pbc negotiating through the media to lower Crawford’s singing demands. Let’s not force everything into a pre conceived narrative.

what If Crawford doesn’t sign, would that indicate to you he doesn’t want the fight?

So you fully support the idea of a promoter forcing an independent fighter into a promotional contract just to make a fight?

Or is it just because Haymon is the one doing it that makes it ok?

[ShoulderRoll]

Crawford is suiting Arum for breach of contract, not delivering, acting in bad faith, and deliberate sabotaging Crawford/Porter PPV numbers.
Unfortunately Bob is a smart and ruthless businessman that has all the angles covered.


For the record................Spence never wanted to fight Crawford for any price but don't take my word for it, look it up, Errol's long list of changing excuses are easy to find. And that's not an opinion it's been recorded over years in multiple interviews .

If Crawford would accept a 60-40 split the fight could get made.

To date he has never been willing to accept it, though.

[OnePunch]

If Crawford would accept a 60-40 split the fight could get made.

To date he has never been willing to accept it, though.

for something to be accepted or rejected, it first must be offered.

PBC has never reached out to Top Rank or Crawford to submit an offer

[Oldskoolg]

I know it was sarcasm but I also was able to see the flawed point that sarcasm of that type is aiming to make. The point is basically that racism doesn’t even really exist. And when someone mentions it that they’re “playing the race card”. But Bob Arum’s big mouth and what has come out of it might have already proven otherwise in this instance. Actually talking bad about his own fighter to the media shows some kind of bias. Racial or otherwise. He’s never done it before and his comments have been used by others in the boxing business to detract from Crawford’s business leverage in the sport. What you say might be true though because when Crawford gets in front of a judge he is more than likely to face more racial bias. All other ethnicities of Americans want to pretend that racism is non existent and that the history of this country is of really being the home of the brave and the land of the free. So they hate it when black people mention the obvious about how prevalent anti-black racism is in this society.

What this man here said.

[gabossboy]

These are excuses. 50/50 and call it a day. Neither one is a PPV star or anywhere close. Promoted right, they should to be able to hit around 1 million PPV Buys.

[HandsofIron]

Who wrote this garbage? Boxingscene covering for the Part-time B C now or what? Spence is not a PPV star either. Both parties have to stop acting like a couple of diva, puzzys and make the damn fight!

[Heru]

I have never seen a free agent top 3 P4P be shunned like this from all of the top promoters. It almost seems like collusion with Hearn and PBC echoing each other.

Hearn bent over backwards to overpay for the likes of Mikey Garcia, Maurice Hooker, Demetrius Andrade, etc. He’s perfect for PBC and the Welterweight stable they’ve built.

For them to publicly acknowledge this, Crawford and his team must be terrible to deal with and have unreasonable demands (which is probably why they are suing Arum with one of the flimsiest cases I have ever seen). He needs to bet on himself, secure a percentage, market his name, and stop asking for guarantees.