Comments Thread For: The Time Is Now For Bud vs. Boots, It Makes Sense

[4truth]

What's sad about Crawford is the fect that Ennis would be the best fighter who has ever faced when you take in consideration context.

Is this some kind of fantasy based context?

[BustedKnuckles]

Personally, despite the hype he gets from a lot of posters here, I don't care about Boots until he starts fighting regularly vs top-ish fighters.

[OnePunch]

Poor Boots is in a catch 22,first people are calling for him to build his resume with top names, but if the top names want nothing to do with him, what can he do?.The welterweight division is very thin right now with fighters with name recognition.

he could start by telling his pops to quit turning down fights.

Boots was offered the Crawford fight TWICE, and both times his pops said "nah we good"........

[famicommander]

From a "talent" and "eye test" perspective, Ennis is much better than those guys you listed. Vegas odds would favor him against those guys you just named.

Nobody cares, and if Crawford beat Ennis everyone would point out that Ennis has only one solid name on his own resume (a faded Sergey Lipinets).

Madrimov and Murtazaliev have belts that Crawford has never won before in a weight class he hasn't fought in yet.

135: Lineal/TBRB, Ring Magazine, WBO
140: Lineal/TBRB, Ring Magazine, WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO
147: Lineal/TBRB, Ring Magazine, WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO

The Madrimov fight could potentially get him the WBA and WBO 154 belts, the Murtazaliev fight would get him the IBF 154 strap.

The only thing the Ennis fight would get him would be a belt he already vacated. It would be a literal step backwards. If Ennis wanted the Crawford fight he should have been fighting people with established names instead of no-hopers like Villa, Karen, Clayton, or Dulorme. While Boots was fighting those guys there were plenty of former titlists lurking about he could have fought (Algieri, Postol, Guerrero, Ortiz, Berto, Alexander, Khan, Brook, Peterson, Collazo, Garcia, Thurman, Ugas, etc). Or he could have tried to fight some other up and coming contenders (Crowley, Santillan, Cissokho, Barrios, etc). Instead he sat on his hands and demanded unrealistic fights and now he has nothing to offer Crawford.

[DClefthook]

At least 3 of those guys aren't going to get in the ring with him. Some of them may never get in the ring again. Which brings us back to the half estimate.

I'm just merely stating what PBC has to offer and that's just at 154 save for Lara. No one else has anything like that to offer Bud. And I disagree that those guys I mentioned wouldn't jump at the chance to fight Bud. Very good PHEY-DHEY even if they lose. Now I do agree that most of them wouldn't dare jump in the ring with Sir Boots!

[ptek]

I've always been a fan of Bud the fighter ever since the olympics but I can't stand 3B - Bad Biz Bud. 36 years old and he's still playing politics. His only true option is to sign with PBC where his last career fights are from 147-168. If he goes the other route and chases the non PBC fights with the fraky Sheiki guy then it's going to be 2018 all over again when he resigned with Top Rank where he avoided all his natural competition to fight B level Euros for guaranteed wages and in a few years we will hear the Sheik say "I could have bought a house in Beverly Hills with all the money I lost of Crawford"...SMH

You obviously don't realize how much bread this Saudi prince has.

Nobody can keep up finance wise.

You can forget about Uncle Al throwing a spaner in the works or any past repeats your hoping for.

Everyone and anyone who wants a huge paycheck in the boxing game will want that type of pay package 100% hands down.

That B level Euro your talking about is the WBA 154lb champ.

So dont sound to B level to me.

[famicommander]

What's sad about Crawford is the fect that Ennis would be the best fighter who has ever faced when you take in consideration context.

Errol Spence was the top rated opponent possible at 147 when he beat him and an undefeated, reigning, three belt unified world titlist.
Julius Indongo was the top rated opponent possible at 140 when he beat him and an undefeated, reigning, unified world titlist.
Viktor Postol was the top rated opponent possible at 140 when he beat him and an undefeated, reigning world titlist.
Raymundo Beltran was the top rated opponent possible at 135 when he beat him and a future world titlist.
Ricky Burns was a reigning 135 titlist, a future 140 titlist, and a former 130 tilist when Crawford beat him in his own first ever title fight.

Ennis would not be a top 5 win for Crawford.

[ptek]

The boxing pundit's say that this fight won't ever happen, and BlueBloodSports dropped a video yesterday.
He was stating that Crawford is in talks to fight Israil Madrimov for 2 of the 4 belts at 154, and that's a great fight.
Madrimov only has 11 professional fight's, but he's already a belt holder at 154, and he had over 400 amateur fight's.

Yer, now that's s big fight there.

Crawford's got his hands full here.

He's goner need to bring his power up with him
to 154lb to keep this guy off and make this guy respect his power.

[ptek]

It's so funny that dudes like blueblood tried his best to help Bud avoid the PBC WWs but now him and other folks jumped right on some unknown fighter's jock strap and saying Madrimov is a beast and is the new 3G. Gthfoh mane!

Madrimov is a way heavier challenge than Boots hands down, all day every day.

Madrimov actually won his tittle in the ring, unlike Jaron Boots Ennis the email chump.

And Madrimov has the balls to actually accepted the fight, unlike your boy Boots.

Boots ain't even calling for that fight, his lame ass fake ass weak soft like ice cream fan girls are. Lol

Nobody can hear Boot's, can you ???. Lol

Quite as a church mouse. Lol

[brettWall]

Fundora is likely to vacate the WBO title to duck Crawford; his manager has already said that they're looking at Spence or the Tszyu rematch next. Rumor is that the Saudis are backing Crawford to challenge Madrimov for his WBA belt and possibly the vacant WBO belt. And that's a way better fight than Ennis.

Fact that you bring up Fundora, who won't be available for several months, suggests to me that you're okay with these boxers waiting around for long periods of time. BTW, Fundora is no walk in the park for any 147-154 guy. It's delusional to think so. Crawford is better off staying away from Sebastian. One foot height advantage is no laughing matter. And the towering inferno is not just some fighter without skills.

What Crawford and Ennis need is a fight now, not six months from now or some fight that may never happen.