Comments Thread For: Crawford Explains Why It Doesn't Need To Be Disrespectful, Personal To Sell Fights, PPVs

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Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr. have disagreed about the strength of their resumes and playfully promised to "fry fish" and "smoke a Bud" while promoting their welterweight championship showdown July 29 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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[GBP4LIFE]

All his fights flop..

makes him an expert on what doesn’t work lol..

this fight won’t do big numbers either

[Bronx2245]

I hope Crawford is right, but history shows us differently! Just look at Rolly Romero! Would he even be a thing without running his mouth? He has zero skills, but if he fights Ryan Garcia, watch those numbers and compare them to 2 of the best to ever have laced up a pair of gloves!

[SplitSecond]

All his fights flop..

makes him an expert on what doesn’t work lol..

this fight won’t do big numbers either

Showtime doesn’t get much views for boxing. If this was a co-promotion with ESPn it probably would’ve hit 1mil. As it stands, ~500k is the best they can do here, I’d guess.

[Teetotaler69]

I remember like 2 months back in nsb a couple of dumb fvkcs were saying it's the promoters job to promote the fight and not the fighters. This is absolute proof a fighter needs to themselves and hype up their fights.

[tomhawq]

No disrespect, but boxing is not what it used to years ago. It's not what you do or don't do to promote it. People simply have so many things happening in their lives brought about by the advanced in technology. I hardly find anyone not looking at his/her phone every five minutes. Lots of things are easily accessible. I used to write letters and send them by snail mail before I married my wife. Now you only have to text and it will be received in an instant.

Point is there's just too many distractions that people can't focus on one thing. Boxing has become even more niche. In the place where I work nobody talks about boxing. Not a single person. They talk about the national sport, if at all. They talk soccer, hockey, etc. Like who won last night or the other day.

So you can talk trash all you want and it will make little difference.

[ELPacman]

I wish boxing was successful with guys like Crawford/Spence, but unfortunately, that is not how it works. People who are paying want to see crazy drama leading up to the fight. They want a story they can attach to as to why they should tune in. Sometimes that goes beyond someone is going to make history or collect some belts. They want to perhaps see an a$$hole get his **** kicked in finally.

I without a doubt believe that Mayweather's greatest accomplishment was creating a villain that everyone loved to hate and this created better sales than he should of gotten normally. Granted he also had great dance partners who had great draws typically in their own respective fights. Though with the viliain aspect, it made it easier for folks to tune in hoping to see the mouth get shut. The problem with that, or at least what I see in Mayweather's life, is he's forever the villain now. He's become the character he created and he's always mad. People always hating on him and probably deep down, he wishes he could of been one of the loved boxers of the past who didn't talk much crap and got the people's respect. Granted their style of fighting did all the talking.

I follow a super popular arm wrestler named Devon Larratt. He makes the buildup to all the matches super exciting because he's like the only one that talks crap to his opponents. Yet after the match is over, he completes shuts it off and he's back to his respectful self. While he does have his group of haters, there are more that love him than hate on him. They enjoy his antics before a match because they know, it is simply to sell a fight. He goes in deep with the trash talk, but as soon as it's over, he shows all respect and being humble. Even when he takes an "L".

Crazy side rant I realized I just went on, but end of the day, a villain/personality sells way more than two honest dudes who can fight like no other.

[BennyBlanco]

Showtime doesn’t get much views for boxing. If this was a co-promotion with ESPn it probably would’ve hit 1mil. As it stands, ~500k is the best they can do here, I’d guess.

LOL. Showtime just did 1.2 million PPV buys for Tank vs. Ryan, the biggest number of PPV buys since Canelo Golovkin II.

When was the last time ESPN did a boxing PPV that hit a million buys? Oh yeah, that would NEVER.

[BennyBlanco]

No disrespect, but boxing is not what it used to years ago. It's not what you do or don't do to promote it. People simply have so many things happening in their lives brought about by the advanced in technology. I hardly find anyone not looking at his/her phone every five minutes. Lots of things are easily accessible. I used to write letters and send them by snail mail before I married my wife. Now you only have to text and it will be received in an instant.

Point is there's just too many distractions that people can't focus on one thing. Boxing has become even more niche. In the place where I work nobody talks about boxing. Not a single person. They talk about the national sport, if at all. They talk soccer, hockey, etc. Like who won last night or the other day.

So you can talk trash all you want and it will make little difference.

So because the people around you don't talk about boxing, then boxing is irrelevant? Erroneous conclusion. That says more about the environment you're in than it does about the sport. Because if you worked somewhere else - like on construction sites, or food service - I guarantee WAAAYYY more people would be talking about boxing than hockey.

People make this mistake all the time. Just because your circle doesn't talk about something doesn't mean no one else does.

I doubt any of the people around you are talking about the music artist Peso Pluma. Yet he is one of the most-streamed artists in the world - both in the US and worldwide - on Spotify. Don't make this mistake of assuming everyone is like you and your peers.

[Hustle]

I hope Crawford is right, but history shows us differently! Just look at Rolly Romero! Would he even be a thing without running his mouth? He has zero skills, but if he fights Ryan Garcia, watch those numbers and compare them to 2 of the best to ever have laced up a pair of gloves!

350k ppv will be Ryan vs Romero ppv number