Comments Thread For: Crawford Explains That He Became Smarter About Business, Says it Created Issues With Top Rank

[lizard_man]

Crawford is getting carried away with himself for beating up on a clearly physically affected Spence: the only fighter who looked as worn out and washed as Spence did before the opening bell was Povetkin when they dragged him off his COVID bed for the Dillian Whyte rematch.

Also, before he fought Spence, what fight did Crawford have that was so big that he “took a $5 million guarantee but left $30 million on the table”? The Porter fight? Jeff Horn? Amir Khan?

Please.

Crawford is just talking right now to hear himself talk.

The best thing that could happen is for Spence to turn down the immediate rematch, Canelo to whip Charlo in such decisive fashion that there’s no appetite for a Charlo-Crawford fight and for Showtime to put pressure on Crawford to take a fight with Boots because it’s the most lucrative, realistic option for him.

And then for Boots to beat Crawford and put an end to all of this tireless gloating.

Rofl hahA

Damn bro, how much did you bet on that Spencer guy?

[LAchargers373]

Let’s be honest, Crawford boxing career has been a bad investment for his promoters, if not how you explain the poor ppv numbers against Spence,, so he will never be at Canelo’s level or Maywheater, there’s levels in boxing for a reason

700k ppv is poor?

[Silence]

And Tyson Fury doesn’t fight at all and retires every other month. White boy Mexican just tried to go up in weight and got his ass whooped all around the ring too. White boy old man lies about money he couldn’t possibly have lost and white boy comment board warrior takes it and runs with it. Typical.

Canelo is much greater p4p great than Crawbum.
Fury kills Crawbum in a fight.
Arum can break his potato head with his walking stick.
And I can kill your racist a$$ you moron.

[Bronx2245]

Glad to see Bud has seen the light...FINALLY!!! He should've started asking questions when Mikey and Manny "Crossed The Street!" The light shoulf have definitely came on, when Arum PUBLICLY admitted that the killed the Pacquiao fight with him! That would have been a career-changing fight for Crawford!

Shakur! Shu-Shu! Take notes! GET UP OUTTA THERE!!!

[GIT]

When Top Rank took a chance on Crawford 12 years ago, he was virtually unknown. But the Top Rank brain trust saw enough potential in Crawford to invest significant capital and media assets to build him into an attraction. Millions of dollars and man hours were devoted to building Crawford into a star; but Crawford barely cooperated outside the ring — a more dim personality would be difficult to find. It’s truly rich of Crawford to accuse Top Rank of taking advantage of him, and it’s even more preposterous to attack Arum personally. This isn’t a case of Crawford suddenly “getting smarter about business;” it’s much more akin to Crawford biting the hand that discovered, fed, and promoted him. For Arum and Top Rank, losing Crawford won’t cause the loss of a minute’s sleep.

[tomhawq]

Crawford is looking like an ingrate talking about TR that way. Arum made a huge investment on him thinking Bob would recoup his loses eventually. He never did. Arum essentially became an inveterate gambler on him. A gambler loses, then spends more with the hope of recouping loses and winning some more. The damage gets bigger and bigger.

Crawford was probably the first fighter who got paid $1.x million per fight fighting a long line of cab drivers. Guys like Thurman, in comparison, and others made their first $1 mil when they stepped up. The Khan fight was meant to be a huge fight. It was a disaster.

[bullydean]

Wait…Is this a real comment or a parody?

He is. The skill and resume speaks for itself. Who else is?

[bullydean]

No, he's not.

Eh he is. For the past decade he's been the best. The next one will be determined in a couple years with Inoue looking like the obvious choice.

[messi807]

He is. The skill and resume speaks for itself. Who else is?

Lost to Floyd Wide
Got A Gift Against Lara
Got A Gift Against Trout
Got A Gift Against Golovkin Twice
Lost to Bivol Wide

Popped Dirty.

Made More Concessions Than Any Active Boxer.

Put On The Most Catchweight Fights Out Of Any Fighter In History Of The Sport.

Best win of his career? Caleb Plant I’d say. But continues to avoid the fighter that walked through Plant, David Benavidez.

Fighter of this era? Yeah you’re smoking some good stuff.

[messi807]

He has said on numerous occasions when asked that he just has a rematch clause with Spence. And that he doesn’t know if he will continue to work with Haymon after the deal is done. Thats not being aligned with Al Haymon and PBC. At least not yet. Maybe he will because they’re aren’t a lot of other choices out there for him. And at this point if he does end up “aligning” himself with PBC and Haymon it most likely will be until the end of his career. But that’s not saying a lot. It’s not an issue. I just happen to have a natural opposition to hegemony’s. And with the years of delay, excuses and media smear campaigns that have been associated with this fight simply because Crawford WAS NOT aligned with Al Haymon and PBC I don’t want to hear anything about PBC taking any credit for anything about Terence “Other side of the street” Crawford; especially not from a website that participated in the smear campaign like boxingscene.com did. FOH!

Well it seems there’s a continuous pattern of Arum’s fighters leaving and joining Al Haymon. My guess is Shakur Stevenson is up next.