Comments Thread For: Crawford Reveals That Spence Rematch Must Happen At 147 Unless Notified In Writing

[Combat Talk Radio]

Real fans aren't interested in pointless rematches. especially ones on ppv. crawford beat spence so badly that he almost ended his career. What would a second win over spence prove? spence's career is finished after crawford slaughters him again. The pbc stable will be decimated. danny garcia is pretty much done keith thurman is retired and not fighting. spence will follow in their footsteps. spence needs to rebuild his career and move on from crawford. Or retire.

Once again, Chris F'n Eubank went in there and did what NSB said he couldn't do after being brutally stopped.

Which gives Spence a chance to do the same especially since Spence went down swinging and STILL wanted to continue, but was clearly not physically all there. He's been on record for years that 147 was difficult for him to make. We don't know what effect that had on him in the fight.

What we DO know, is that Crawford got his eye closed off a jab and dropped all four rounds to the ghost of Kell Brook, two-pieced, wobbled and dropped by Kavaliauskas, Bambi-legged by a drained Gamboa and outlanded by Avanesyan, yet somehow tanked through Errol Spence's punches and put him down off a jab.

You know damn well the Spence you saw wasn't 100%. That's Spence's fault, but he made no excuses. He deserves to run it back and hopefully prove what we saw was him just not showing up. The paying audience was cheated out of a competitive match and not due to skill difference.


A rematch is never "pointless". Warriors that want that smoke should be celebrated and anyone who doesn't support that, is a mark.

Deontay Wilder got more respeck from going down swinging in the third fight (which arguably wasn't necessary, but ended up being one of the most exciting fights of the decade) than he ever has then or since. He got a chance to eliminate the excuses and just got mauled, but managed to basically do enough damage to Fury that Fury is afraid to fight any real fighters anymore. Fury will never be the same again despite winning that.

Real fans support the fight game.

[Mooshashi]

You're right but yknow, contracts are contracts

The contract states the winner of the first fight can decide on what weight the rematch is at. It's smart of Crawdad to force Spence down to 147 again; makes for another
night of easy work. But he's probably assuming Spence turns down this rematch at that weight so that he (Crawford) can take on bigger and more money making
opportunities. Who the hell is going to pay to see Spence-Crawford II besides their families and youtube reporters?

[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

I'm not particularly interested in watching Spence get wrecked again. Crawford has plenty of deserving challengers at 147. Boots and Stannionis have both been waiting patiently.

[Combat Talk Radio]

There is nothing spence can do differently in a second fight at any weight. He is who he is and thats a hell of a fighter.


But Crawford did so many different things in the first fight and hes so dynamic that he'll do the same to him again and itll be totally different from the first fight. If that makes sense

If it will be "totally different" then why are you against it?

What we should have seen, is a durable Errol Spence basically walking through punches even if he got outboxed. We didn't.

What we should have seen is Crawford's eye closing off of Errol's shots like we saw with Kell Brook. We didn't.

What we should have seen is Crawford dropping rounds like he did against a damaged Shawn Porter. We didn't.

We didn't see Errol Spence show up, period. That fight was less about Crawford's skill and more about Errol's clear decline.

What we don't know, is whether that decline was just about weight, or him making too much money, or him being over confident, or him being overtrained, or him being drained, or him having his water F'n spiked, etc etc etc. We don't know what we saw, we know what some of you thought you saw (Which was a skill gap).

There's no logical reason that fresh off of a car wreck, Errol Spence can basically dominate Danny Swift for eight rounds yet can't barely win one against Crawford when even David F'n Avanesyan was having success. Come on man.

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If it will be "totally different" then why are you against it?

What we should have seen, is a durable Errol Spence basically walking through punches even if he got outboxed. We didn't.

What we should have seen is Crawford's eye closing off of Errol's shots like we saw with Kell Brook. We didn't.

What we should have seen is Crawford dropping rounds like he did against a damaged Shawn Porter. We didn't.

We didn't see Errol Spence show up, period. That fight was less about Crawford's skill and more about Errol's clear decline.

What we don't know, is whether that decline was just about weight, or him making too much money, or him being over confident, or him being overtrained, or him being drained, or him having his water F'n spiked, etc etc etc. We don't know what we saw, we know what some of you thought you saw (Which was a skill gap).

There's no logical reason that fresh off of a car wreck, Errol Spence can basically dominate Danny Swift for eight rounds yet can't barely win one against Crawford when even David F'n Avanesyan was having success. Come on man.

Its not gonna happen. It will be totally different because Crawford will do nothing the same. The outcome will be the same though even worse.


But youre cool with that cause its not you getting in the ring

[maguirre]

Once again, Chris F'n Eubank went in there and did what NSB said he couldn't do after being brutally stopped.

Which gives Spence a chance to do the same especially since Spence went down swinging and STILL wanted to continue, but was clearly not physically all there. He's been on record for years that 147 was difficult for him to make. We don't know what effect that had on him in the fight..........

You're too melodramatic. As usual.

It's all up to Spence at the end of the day. Whatever forum posters say here have zero influence on what fights get made. Don't be childish.

What you should be wondering about is what keeps Errol from coming out to make things clear. Does he want it or not? October is just around the corner, the last quarter of the year. He has to decide before the year ends. Otherwise...

[Jab jab boom]

Rematch clauses shouldn’t exist. Nobody cares to see someone who got their ass handed to them run it back. It’s a waste of time for everyone. Just like Haney vs kambosos. Nobody wanted to see that shyt again.

[maguirre]

So there's a deadline wherein Spence has to notify whether it's at 154 or 147. It makes sense. There HAS to be a deadline. This is about making the proper weight within a short period of time. This is no joke.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Its not gonna happen. It will be totally different because Crawford will do nothing the same. The outcome will be the same though even worse.


But youre cool with that cause its not you getting in the ring

If Crawford doesn't nullify the jab, and assuming Spence shows up, it's a way different fight with Crawford getting hurt. He HAS to do the same strategy if he's to have any chance against Errol.

You're acting like Errol is beneath Amir Khan. Which is getting dangerously close to classifying you as a mark.

[vaborikua2014]

Fights where a rematch was warranted: Loma vs Haney, Lara vs Canelo etc.
Crawford beat the hell out of Spence it was not even competitive at all. You guys can come up b with whatever excuses you'd b like but a year before that when he fought Ugas (who rocked him) he still looked like himself. If he wanted the rematch at 154 he should have put it in the contract since then knowing he was gonna move up win or lose. Skillwise he's never been on Crawfords level he was just backing b on his pressure being enough to break Bud which many of us knew it wouldn't be and that he'd get outboxed. There's no triangle theories in boxing like some of you guys on this same thread are trying to make it seem. Just cause fighter a struggled with lesser fighter which fighter b beat easier doesn't mean fighter b beats fighter a easier. Styles makes fight and no matter if it's at 200lbs Bud is and has always been better than Spence.