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So many overly confused people here. Derrick James is spot on with fire.
Hot FYRE. Nothing but truth.
But his fans are like "he ripped off his promoter, more power to him " - great, let him keep doing that. That's his priority, NOT being the best. And he's still making a fraction of what Floyd was pulling against guys like Berto.
“If you see in his uneducated perspective of what he thought boxing is, he got the fight but he was the only winner, not the promoter.”
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“At the same time, I think that if he were to go into negotiations now with those numbers, you have no leg to stand on … ‘Yesterday’s fight is not today’s fight,’ James said. “Yesterday was an assumption, today is a fact. You can’t come up in my face talking this or that, that’s what you’re doing. I think it was something unnecessary for him.
“You can go through life thinking you are something in particular, and that’s cool, because you believe it’s who you are for yourself, right? But when someone tells you, no, your [pay-per-view buys], whatever the number was, I don’t really know what they were … that’s who you are now. So you can’t talk about —no, no. I’mma reference who you are. You can’t hide behind the machine of ESPN and Bob Arum … He’s by himself and now he’s totally something different.”
When asked to gauge his optimism on the possibility of seeing Spence and Crawford fight in 2023, James offered a tepid response, while pointing the finger at Crawford.
“I don’t know,” James said. “It may not happen. I think that it may not happen because, remember, his perspective of who he is [different] than what the numbers say and those things are not going to add up. He shouldn’t think any less of himself. But in reality you have to understand what the market says, and the market says no."
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“At the same time, I think that if he were to go into negotiations now with those numbers, you have no leg to stand on … ‘Yesterday’s fight is not today’s fight,’ James said. “Yesterday was an assumption, today is a fact. You can’t come up in my face talking this or that, that’s what you’re doing. I think it was something unnecessary for him.
“You can go through life thinking you are something in particular, and that’s cool, because you believe it’s who you are for yourself, right? But when someone tells you, no, your [pay-per-view buys], whatever the number was, I don’t really know what they were … that’s who you are now. So you can’t talk about —no, no. I’mma reference who you are. You can’t hide behind the machine of ESPN and Bob Arum … He’s by himself and now he’s totally something different.”
When asked to gauge his optimism on the possibility of seeing Spence and Crawford fight in 2023, James offered a tepid response, while pointing the finger at Crawford.
“I don’t know,” James said. “It may not happen. I think that it may not happen because, remember, his perspective of who he is [different] than what the numbers say and those things are not going to add up. He shouldn’t think any less of himself. But in reality you have to understand what the market says, and the market says no."
But his fans are like "he ripped off his promoter, more power to him " - great, let him keep doing that. That's his priority, NOT being the best. And he's still making a fraction of what Floyd was pulling against guys like Berto.
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