Comments Thread For: WBC Head Disagrees With IBF Decision To Strip Title From Terence Crawford: 'As a Fan I'm Sick'

[Robi13]

Well said, bro. Some folks have seemingly lost their thinking faculty. Crawford doesn't show any interest or whatsoever to face Boots. I am a fan of both fighters because of their skills but I am totally against the trend of champions avoiding real challenge. Boots is the biggest challenge for Crawford at 147 and he knows it. How can you call yourself the champion but refuse to fight someone you know can dethrone you?

It’s just that simple.

[Bronx2245]

If Bud tells dude that he's depressed homeboy will let him keep the belt for years tho is the thing. I'd rather guys who aren't fighting mando's be stripped than you hold up a division for yrs. I'm a fan of keeping it moving.

He's bragging about creating the "Franchise" Champion, which was straight garbage! He should ask Benavidez and Adames how happy they are, waiting on Canelo and Charlo!

[champion4ever]

There are too many double standards. The IBF allowed Spence to duck Jaron "Boots" Ennis; His mandatory challenger since 2021 without stripping him.

However, when Crawford becomes the newly crowned champion at 147; Now they want to strip him. It's all corruption. Obviously, Bud didn't have the backing of the IBF as Errol Spence had because if he did they wouldn't have stripped him so quickly.

[champion4ever]

I don’t hate bud you dumbass, I hate the politics as far as not giving a fighter in boots position a chance because he is too “high risk low reward”. Dumbass

In one sense; You do make a valid point. Bud did say and it's on record that he was never fighting Jaron "Boots" Ennis. So what was the IBF supposed to do in that situation?

If he was never fighting Ennis then he had no choice in relinquishing the title but here is the tricky part; Errol Spence, Jr was never going to fight Jaron "Boots" Ennis either.

The winner of the Crawford/Spence rematch was never going to fight him anyway. So again I asked what was the IBF supposed to do?

[Tozo]

This is the worst move by any boxing organization ever made. It took away Buds ability to defend and Boot's ability to earn .....

[Tonyu]

The WBC used to be the most Prestigious belt undefor this k*ob this has become a joke. I'm glad the IBF have taken a stand. These so called boxing fans defending Crawford is what's wrong with boxing today, I've been following boxing since the 70s and these so called fans are a joke, you can see by the comments on here. Crawford has blatantly said he won't fight Ennis his mandatory so good strip him and move on Crawford. These rematches should be scrapped by these corrupt promoters and no world title should be sanctioned if this is in their contract. Every title fight has rematch clauses which is a joke. The IBF needs to strip the Fury v Ussyk winner if they rematch as consistency must be exercised.

[Robi13]

In one sense; You do make a valid point. Bud did say and it's on record that he was never fighting Jaron "Boots" Ennis. So what was the IBF supposed to do in that situation?

If he was never fighting Ennis then he had no choice in relinquishing the title but here is the tricky part; Errol Spence, Jr was never going to fight Jaron "Boots" Ennis either.

The winner of the Crawford/Spence rematch was never going to fight him anyway. So again I asked what was the IBF supposed to do?

The ibf did what they were supposed to do, team Crawford like you mentioned has stated their intentions of not fighting boots… not only that, they don’t even have intentions to even think about intending to think about fighting boots. So the ibf said cool, you’re not the champ anymore, give it to the next one up… if bud don’t like it, boots already told them… come get your belt back

[MulaKO]

So fighters like 'boots' and the fans alike should have to wait for a pointless money rematch to which we are not even sure when or what weight , Suliaman is no fan of our sport !

February at 147
Why pointless ?
This is boxing where anything can happen
Maybe Spence rehydrates to cruiserweight
According to half the people here , what Haney did was totally reasonable

[Combat Talk Radio]

There are too many double standards. The IBF allowed Spence to duck Jaron "Boots" Ennis; His mandatory challenger since 2021 without stripping him.

However, when Crawford becomes the newly crowned champion at 147; Now they want to strip him. It's all corruption. Obviously, Bud didn't have the backing of the IBF as Errol Spence had because if he did they wouldn't have stripped him so quickly.

Spence defended against Danny (WBC mando) in 2020, scheduled a fight with Manny (WBA for unification) in 2021, then unified with Ugas (WBA) in 2022.

Unifications almost always trump mandatories. But when you're already unified (Crawford) they expect you to at least WANT to defend.

Crawford openly said he's not fighting the mando.

Spence never said he's not fighting mandos, he said "strap season, I wanna unify first" which is what he was doing.

If Crawford wanted to unify first, that's exactly why he should have fought Boots while waiting on Spence, because IBF doesn't care about rematch clauses. They want your signature on that contract, or they're taking the belt.

[Smash]

whats he bringing up that franchise crap again for, where are the wbc franchise champs gone to & does it even exist anymore, i thought it was scrapped on the sly