Dan Rafael: Crawford unhappy with the $, will not fight Postol

[Dean_Razorback]

what do you expect? they are being over paid to fight bum after bum

[deathofaclown]

Fighters are getting paid way too well, way too early, and expect to be paid even more when they have to fight a pulse.

Crawford made 1.21 million fighting Lundy. Of course he's gonna want a lot more to fight the best in his division. We need to know what the exact number is.

This is right.

And say what you want about the likes of Manny, Floyd, Cotto etc. They all beat good fighters on the way up before they were demanding big money.

This era is ridiculous. They want the big paydays without proving they deserve it but you can't really blame them when they're getting $1m for beating up factory workers. I certainly wouldn't go to another job where the work is 5x more difficult, for the same money.

Fighters now don't have the hunger to be the best and beat the best because they're already making good money being journeyman. In the past, the desire to be the best and proving it was synonymous with big paydays, it went hand in hand, as it should be.

[The Problem Child]

Sees guy his own size, even though he is a coward C level bum = NO FIGHT lol

Crawford is nothing but a midget cherry picking fraud.

[bopbopbbe]

If true Crawford can go **** himself. He's blatantly ducking Postol of all people, no way i can support this dude after this. Ducking Kovalev is one thing but POSTOL???

[NaijaD]

Crawford is letting down the guys that said he wouldn't follow the haymon path when it came to making this fight.

I never got the feeling he wanted this fight to be honest. Doesn't mean I don't think he can win, it's a 50/50 fight and it would be his stiffest career challenge... Now is a bad time to grow feathers or dollar bill signs for eyes.

[bigdunny1]

Haymon has killed this sport. He's the guy largely responsible for inflating these purses for his boxers to fight bums. Myself and others have said for years just how detrimental this would be for making better matchups in future, but the bumsniffs wouldn't listen and instead praised him for delivering overpriced mismatches. Other promoters like Arum have followed suit just to try and keep up and now it's come back to bite him on the arse.

This^^^^^^
Haymon inflated the entire market. So that creates a dangerous domino effect other promoters have to overpay for mismatches as well and those fighters see the purses Haymon is giving out for mismatches and now when it's time to make a real 50/50 fight it's virtually impossible because their demands are unrealistic. You can't pay a fighter 1mil to fight a bum and then think he will be ok with 1.5mil to fight a dangerous fight he might lose. Now instead they want 2mil or 3mil for that fight. These fights that are not really mega fights and will not generate enough money for anyone to turn a profit. This overpaying fighters crap can't sustain itself and will cripple the sport.

[Hype job]

Quack quack.................

[bballchump11]

Damn no wonder Arum is suing Haymon because of his monopoly. Top Rank will lose all of their fighters.

[TOBYLEE1]

Is he saying that he rather fight people that he has a high percentage of beating than fighting an actual threat?

This is where boxing is going. These guys fighting all these meaningless fights for a bunch of money but the minute that a competitive fight arises all these nonsense excuses arise.

[eco1]

for that amount of money i would fight everyone in all weights in one night