Comments Thread For: Thurman Says Crawford Didn't Beat 'Real Champion' In Spence, Claims He Would Have Wiped Errol Too

[peplz]

Rival promoters do work together when it makes sense. When you have one guy thinking he should be paid handsomely for what he accomplished against unknown fighters in another division that makes negotiations a tad bit more difficult don't you think? Nah I doubt it.

What facts am i ignoring? You are ignoring the facts and this is old. The false narrative is that Crawford was left out to dry and everyone avoided him. The truth is he made poor career decisions and thought too highly of himself without having the backing. And he had an opportunity to leave Top Rank years ago, who he eventually sued . He decided to stay and collect nice paydays but fight average comp.

Now he's being a hypocrite and not giving Boots a shot because he hasn't fought anyone. Which was true about him at 147 til he fought Porter and Spence although they were not in their primes. And him claiming he would never fight Garcia and Thurman because he is the top dog and they're washed exposes the reality that if he was in their position as Top 147 lb fighters he would not have given them a shot then either.

**** is easy if you remove emotional bias and think logically.

It makes sense for rival promoters to put together fights involving Tyson Fury and Jeff Horn who are both foreign fighters who American audiences don’t even know but it doesn’t make sense to put together one of the most talked about fights in the sport? And what do you or anyone who isn’t privy to the behind the scenes facts know about what goes on in negotiations? Terence Crawford and Errol Spence never even started negotiating until last year. Errol Spence getting on Twiiter and talking to the media about money splits and making excuses about being on the other side of the street is not negotiations. All he was really saying is that he had no interest in fighting Terence Crawford. And splitting hairs about what was accomplished in a “DIFFERENT DIVISION” by a multi division champion has never been a thing. This is just another excuse that was invented by PBC and Errol Spence fans to justify all of the other excuses that Errol Spence made. Y’all are creating whole new standards that had never been spoken of in the sport before. And if you can even fix your face to say something like “he thought too highly of himself” you’re obviously just a hater. You get offended when people “think too highly of themselves”? That sounds more like your issue than his.
And you’re obviously ignoring the fact that PBC has not only made fights with Top Rank fighters but they intentionally placed Jeff Horn’s name and face up on the big screen during one of their shows as a current recognized welterweight champion when Spence was pursuing a fight with him and then conveniently omitted Terence Crawford’s name and face the next time they had a show and displayed the current list of welterweight champions after Crawford had defeated Horn and taken his belt. Jeff Horn and Spence never even got to the point of negotiating. So I don’t see how you can assume that he would be any easier to negotiate a fight with than Crawford who they had not ever attempted to negotiate a fight with either at the time. Everything that actually happened in reality goes against your false narrative. And I’m sure being proven wrong over and over again gets old really fast. Loll!
Neither you or anyone else on these forums know anything about Crawford’s opportunities or his business. You’re just making s h i t up that fits your narrative. And this s h i t is even easier when you don’t ignore the cold hard facts.

[leebatt]

Thurman still exists?

[SUBZER0ED]

Keith "Once Upon A Time" Thurman, You've been away too long for anyone to even care about you vs anyone. Now, you're hoping to talk your way into a big retirement check fight. Fuhgeddaboudit!

[SteveM]

lol Thurman has been trying to talk his way into a huge fight for years, he is like a politician that's watching the opposition for any open windows to jump in, he sees the controversy around Spence and he is using it to bait Crawford, this is real life and Thurman is playing his cards as they fall, he has always been articulate and uses that to his advantage, Thurman just playing the game.

one thing being articulate and playing the game, another being disrespectful (to Spence) and sounding entitled and deluded. I don't much care for what Fury spouts but at least he is on top of the mountain (or sharing it) ,,,, Thurman lost to a faded Pac and hasn't been anywhere near the top of the mountain since Spence arrived on the scene and avoided Spence when he was on the way up.

[PunchyPotorff]

Thermos it seems has an even more outta control ego explosion going on in his head.
He should've learned his lesson when Pac humbled him... but some never learn.

[TheWinners]

It makes sense for rival promoters to put together fights involving Tyson Fury and Jeff Horn who are both foreign fighters who American audiences don’t even know but it doesn’t make sense to put together one of the most talked about fights in the sport? And what do you or anyone who isn’t privy to the behind the scenes facts know about what goes on in negotiations? Terence Crawford and Errol Spence never even started negotiating until last year. Errol Spence getting on Twiiter and talking to the media about money splits and making excuses about being on the other side of the street is not negotiations. All he was really saying is that he had no interest in fighting Terence Crawford. And splitting hairs about what was accomplished in a “DIFFERENT DIVISION” by a multi division champion has never been a thing. This is just another excuse that was invented by PBC and Errol Spence fans to justify all of the other excuses that Errol Spence made. Y’all are creating whole new standards that had never been spoken of in the sport before. And if you can even fix your face to say something like “he thought too highly of himself” you’re obviously just a hater. You get offended when people “think too highly of themselves”? That sounds more like your issue than his.
And you’re obviously ignoring the fact that PBC has not only made fights with Top Rank fighters but they intentionally placed Jeff Horn’s name and face up on the big screen during one of their shows as a current recognized welterweight champion when Spence was pursuing a fight with him and then conveniently omitted Terence Crawford’s name and face the next time they had a show and displayed the current list of welterweight champions after Crawford had defeated Horn and taken his belt. Jeff Horn and Spence never even got to the point of negotiating. So I don’t see how you can assume that he would be any easier to negotiate a fight with than Crawford who they had not ever attempted to negotiate a fight with either at the time. Everything that actually happened in reality goes against your false narrative. And I’m sure being proven wrong over and over again gets old really fast. Loll!
Neither you or anyone else on these forums know anything about Crawford’s opportunities or his business. You’re just making s h i t up that fits your narrative. And this s h i t is even easier when you don’t ignore the cold hard facts.

Let it go. Bottom line is Crawford knowingly stayed with Top Rank for almost all his career. It's his own mismanagement of his career that's the reason he didn't have any meaningful fights til almost 36. Typing long essays won't change that.

Had he became a free agent when he had the chance and the whole boxing world expected him to, he could've fought who he wanted to without any promoter interference. Then again he couldn't blame his promoters for why a fight didn't happen now could he?

[Doubledagger]

No one at 147 would have beat Crawford that night, Spence could've been Juiced to the grills still wouldn't have been enough.

Skills pay the bills and Crawford has all the skills

I'm sure it takes a great amount of skill to rabbit punch and elbow the **** out of your opponent to get the victory.

[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

I used to like Thurman , before he lost his freaking mind. Mentally, he is still back in the days when he had a boxing career. The last few years he's basically been retired. He fought Barrios and has been doing nothing since. He might as well be retired , but he talks like he's still in the mix. Get some smelling salts and wake him up , it's been more than a minute since you were " One Time" Keith.

[peplz]

Let it go. Bottom line is Crawford knowingly stayed with Top Rank for almost all his career. It's his own mismanagement of his career that's the reason he didn't have any meaningful fights til almost 36. Typing long essays won't change that.

Had he became a free agent when he had the chance and the whole boxing world expected him to, he could've fought who he wanted to without any promoter interference. Then again he couldn't blame his promoters for why a fight didn't happen now could he?

You’ve typed like six fictional tabloid articles. How in the world are YOU talking about anybody typing essays? And repeating the same lie over and over again about him not having any meaningful fights will not make it magically become true. You’re whole point is premised on a straight up lie. Making up s h i t, making biased assumptions and jumping to false self serving conclusions exposes y’all’s pathological need to try to save face after being proven wrong. You’re just some kind of PBC comment board activist that’s hoping to affect people’s perceptions by pushing false narratives. Y’all tried to do this for the last five years before the fight happened and it didn’t work. I don’t know how you think its going to work now after the fight has happened and Spence took the beating that he took. Talking about what goes on behind closed doors and promoters and free agents and business management and a bunch of nonsense that no boxing fan actually cares about is just a desperate attempt at trying to save face for the fact that Terence Crawford proved all of y’all wrong and exposed “the other side of the street” in the process.

[eco1]

100% shoulda coulda woulda… I love it! Keep squirming.

Dude, it is an opinion, not a fact.
Don't be so childish.