Comments Thread For: Arum: Spence a Terrific Prospect, Not Earned a Pacquiao Fight Yet

[Nomadic]

everyone is saying this about spence.......garcia, porter, thurman.

the problem is if EVERYONE in the the welterweight division is saying this. how can u be a prospect when you're number one for brooks belt? how can u be a prospect when u destroyed algeri? how can u be a prospect when you're rated in the top 10 of your division?


everyone is making excuses for not wanting to fight spence.

I agree, how can we usher in the new generation if the out going is using this lame excuse for dodging them.

[ironlungs]

I think pac vs spence is a good fight however i think spence is probably 3 4 fight away from that fight. Spence looks like the next star he can build his own legacy wiping out ww division and either wait for crawford to move up or chase canelo up.

[Sledgeweather17]

chris algieri fought and beat ruslan doe! besides algieri, spence fought a bunch of cab drivers LOL.

Do you realise how dumb this statement is? I swear if there was a dbz scouter to measure idiocy levels my scouter would explode and destroy my eye if I was measuring you.

You say Chris earned pac by beating Ruslan? But Spence hasn't earned pac by beating the guy who earned pac by beating Ruslan, basically, beating the guy who beat Ruslan in 5 rounds? Where is the sense in your words?

Spence beat bums apart from Algieru? Who did Algieri beat apart from Ruslan when he 'earned' Pac? Yeah, bums!

SMH!

[Sledgeweather17]

the guy that ran for dear life who wouldnt come out his cage but fought spence toe to toe. dont act like algieri was coming at manny like how he did against khan and spence.

Algieri did try to run for his life before he got KTFO. The difference was that Spence knows how to cut of the ring properly and Pac doesn't.

Watch the sequence before the KO again. Algieri gets hurt and gets on his bicycle, but he can't run away coz Spence quickly catches up with him and closes all escape routes.

Algieri realises there's no where and no way to run and tries to fight Spence off, then gets KO'd.

Watch that round again, you'll see for yourself. Algieri didn't choose to trade, he was forced to, after failing to escape on his bicycle.

[Sledgeweather17]

I'd like to see Spence against Porter, maybe Broner

Those are actually very good stay busy fights for Spence as he awaits Brook's recovery. If he outboxes and KO's broner and goes to war with Porter and KO's him as well, then his rep, popularity, and fame will be sky high by the time he fights for the IBF. He might even be the A-side, and no one will have any excuse to duck him anymore without basically admitting that they are scared as fuuck.

Porter would take the fight of course, because it is a high profile fight and if he wins he becomes Brook's mandatory and gets the rematch with Brook.

Broner aint a coward, he's actually brave for fighting Porter and Maidana. But I don't think he wants another huge power punching guy who can brawl as fuuck!

[b00g13man]

Can't blame him from keeping Manny away. Too much risk for scant reward.

[Liondw]

Arum just protecting Manny. I'd be surprised if Pacquaio lasted the distance against Spence. This version of Pacquaio can't beat Spence now.

[Kigali]

I think pac vs spence is a good fight however i think spence is probably 3 4 fight away from that fight. Spence looks like the next star he can build his own legacy wiping out ww division and either wait for crawford to move up or chase canelo up.

Spence is more than ready....more ready than Jesse Vargas.

[Combat Talk Radio]

I recall Foreman knocking out Joe Frazier and Ken Norton in only two rounds each after they defeated Ali (and later gave him two close rematches), yet we all saw what Ali did to Foreman when they fought. Chain logic doesn't (always) work in sports, be it boxing or otherwise.

The flaw in that logic is, I'm not telling you that Spence would beat Pacquiao simply because he destroyed Algieri where Pacquiao failed.

I'm saying that Spence still has the killer instinct that Pacquiao has lacked for nearly a decade. As we have learned with guys like Tarver, Leonard and Michael Spinks, the guy who is hungriest is going to come out on top.

The current "safety first" Pacquiao is now a point fighter. Which means he wouldn't last long in there against a guy who's going for knockouts - with the possible exception of Crawford, who I think would make mistakes en route to a split decision loss.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Honestly, why would anyone really want to see Pac fight one of these hungry young lions. It's just a matter of time before someone does to Pac what Pac did to Oscar and other times in history where a legend gets massacred at the end of their career against some guy that probably prime for prime, wouldn't even be able to touch

I hate those sacrificial lamb type of fights.

But...but that's what people want to see. Some guy going out on his sword. Defo don't do it like TBE, going out undefeated!

I mean most of the people here would actually want to see Pacquiao/Golovkin just for the hell of it.