Comments Thread For: Crawford A Heavy Favorite Versus Avanesyan, Big Underdog Against Top Rank's ESPN Show

[crimsonfalcon07]

I'm honestly most interested in some of the Top Rank undercard fights, and no extra money vs money is pretty straightforward. I would have watched the Crawford fight at half the price and on Friday night though, although I don't fault him for taking the guaranteed money.

[factsarenice]

I won't be tuning into Crawford's fight this weekend. Hopefully, it will be a lesson learned.

Try giving the fans what they want for a change, Bud!

We all know Keith Thurman demanded 10 million guaranteed and no top 5 WW at the PBC fights without a guarantee... YET....the PBC offered Crawford NO guarantee and Crawford still took it.

Can't spin that, those are just facts.

[Tag, You're Hit]

I'm supporting the Crawford PPV. Based on what he actually said, he did everything he could to make the Spence fight. I don't listen to the narrative, I listen to what the actual sources say and make up my own mind.

My assessment is that the current powers that be in boxing didn't want to make an undisputed Spence - Crawford fight, and now they're trying to hamper the BLK Prime event with multiple events on the same day.

I'm gonna get it, too, because it's only $40 and I'm a fan of Crawford. I'll record the ESPN card, too, but I'd rather watch Bud fight basically anybody vs Teofimo fight Sandor Martin in a snooze-fest. Plus, I'm looking forwarding to listening to Paulie call a fight again. I'm still irritated at Showtime for letting him go. Abner Mares is okay, but Paulie is a great color commentator.

Last thoughts on the Crawford-Spence fight not getting made yet: I think PBC is hurting for $. Why else would there only be basically two cards on the upcoming schedule: Tank vs Hector Garcia (and we know Tank is a good PPV draw, though I don't buy his fights) and Mell vs. Tszyu, which was just announced? I think that's why Haymon didn't want to give any guarantees and whatnot, kept pushing the fight date back, etc.

[Sheikh]

I don't mind paying for pay-per-view if it's a good fight. In this case it is a mismatch. However the pay-per-view is $40 which is not an insane amount. I'm still up on the fence.

[QballLobo]

Anyone that pays for this trash is a straight up sucker.

[Sheikh]

I'm gonna get it, too, because it's only $40 and I'm a fan of Crawford. I'll record the ESPN card, too, but I'd rather watch Bud fight basically anybody vs Teofimo fight Sandor Martin in a snooze-fest. Plus, I'm looking forwarding to listening to Paulie call a fight again. I'm still irritated at Showtime for letting him go. Abner Mares is okay, but Paulie is a great color commentator.

Last thoughts on the Crawford-Spence fight not getting made yet: I think PBC is hurting for $. Why else would there only be basically two cards on the upcoming schedule: Tank vs Hector Garcia (and we know Tank is a good PPV draw, though I don't buy his fights) and Mell vs. Tszyu, which was just announced? I think that's why Haymon didn't want to give any guarantees and whatnot, kept pushing the fight date back, etc.

I agree with you their probably hurting for money. That is why they could not make a guarantee. In addition I think boxing is just cutting off its own leg when they put on multiple fights on the same date. Now fans have to choose one or the other. For a very niche sport which is shrinking this is only going to hurt more.

[Roj]

More concern trolling about non-PBC fighters from Idec, who a year ago was declaring Ryan Garcia should take whatever PBC/Showtime was offering for a Tank fight because he hadn’t done any PPV fights like Tank had - even though Tank’s PPV numbers really haven’t been that great. Crawford knows exactly what he’s doing with this card - there’s no reason to move off a date just because Teo Lopez, who doesn’t even own a belt, is on ESPN. If Spence wants to keep ducking Crawford and allow Al Haymon to do all of his thinking for him, fine: Crawford can easily fight Vergil Ortiz next for huge money.

[Curtis2]

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You don’t say!! Of course Bud is the favorite UNLESS of course he gets the balls to face Spence.

After we saw what Spence did with lil lightweight Mikey Garcia, how would any WW have balls to step in with Spence?

[paulf]

If Crawford beats Avanesyan, Spences defeats Thurman and, for argument's sake, Haymon is willing to work with Crawford again, even after Crawford secretly secured the Avanesyan fight while they were negotiating, the buy rate from Saturday night could cost Crawford in those talks. Crawford might not care based on his huge guarantee for a marginal risk versus Avanesyan.

Idec is on the money here - if Crawford's PPV bombs (which it will), he's going to have to accept LESS in the next round of negotiations than what he was offered in the first time around. Does anyone think he's going to do that?

Of course he isn't. He isn't fighting Spence next. Fight's not happening.

[LAchargers373]

BLK Prime take over dud vs broner for #1 p4p bozo in the sport