Comments Thread For: Spence: Crawford Fight Biggest In Last 20 Years, Mayweather-Pacquiao Were Old, We're In Our Prime

[shenmue]

I was looking forward more to floyd vs maidana, thurman vs garcia, thurman vs porter, spence vs brook, maidana vs broner and probably some more.

[ruedboy]

The hype was luke warm? It was the highest selling fight of all time man lol the hype for that fight was insane. The whole world watched it.

True and, bad for boxing fans, it ushered in the Mayweather "Let It Marinate" technique.
Often imitated but never duplicated.

[djtmal]

True and, bad for boxing fans, it ushered in the Mayweather "Let It Marinate" technique.
Often imitated but never duplicated.

Lol...........

[juanpablo]

It's crazy to think Oscar was 35 when he fought pac and Oscar was consider washed up.. but Crawford is 35 right now and is consider in his prime

Big misconception that age always equates to being prime or not. Wilfred Benitez was way past his prime by age 25 and he's a HOF

[takenotes]

Like the Pac/Floyd fight, this should have been made 3-4 years ago.

[Lefty0616]

The hype was luke warm? It was the highest selling fight of all time man lol the hype for that fight was insane. The whole world watched it.

Yes, a record number of folks viewed the fight, and it killed at the gate......this was a pop culture event

From the standpoint of true boxing fans: while we were curious to see who would win, this fight was way late. You can't say this about Spence VS Crawford. They are still fighting at a right aligned time.

[Liondw]

It's a big matchup no doubt, but I think it's an exaggeration to call it the biggest of the last twenty years.

That is, if you look closely who they really beat, not taking anything away from their talent.

[champion4ever]

This fight could have happened years ago but Crawford traded both his passion for the game, legacy and glory for money. Which was why he kept signing with Top Rank after he knew there was no competition over there at welterweight.

His quickest route to an Errol Spence fight would have been to sign up with the PBC who held all the cards at 147 but Terence doesn't like fighting top opposition.

[Bad_Guy]

Spence's team working hard with the spin for this fight after obviously trying to age out Crawford. If Crawford can still show his best, Spence is truly in for an ass whooping.

[Roadblock]

Neither of you are in your prime.

Yes they are, prime is not all about youth, its the maturity of a skillset with the body operating at 100%, prime is a rise of these things, then a plateau, and then a drop-off, both these guys are still on that prime plateau, and because of the scope of this fight both will train like demons, its a great fight.