Comments Thread For: Arum on Pacquiao's Options: Crawford, Garcia, Thurman, Loma

[Caught Square]

One more fight with Bob and then he might become a free agent to give a better chance of the Floyd rematch in late 2017.

[EL_GRINGO]

He could have a lot less angles and still use angles 10 times more than any other fighter. He busts guys faces up. But Lom would be a point scoring pest against him.

Yeah Loma's why too skilled and fast for him now at this age,Prime Pac would be a different story,need to see more of Loma against top competition to make a bold claim like that

[O.K.! 2.0]

I think Manny/Crawford is the best fight to be made at 147. Garcia needs to show he a can beat 2 or 3 top guys at 147. The winner of Thurman/Garcia needs to face Brook. I think Bradley/Porter would be a great fight. Fans keep bringing up Spence but its clear no one is going to fight Spence anytime soon. Manny looked decent last night but its clear the power is not there. If Manny is going for Crawford, he needs to fight Crawford before he becomes a full 147lb problem. My top 5 at 147lb (Brook, Manny, Thurman, Bradley, Porter) #5 is a tie between Garcia & Spence. Spence has not faced any top guys yet! Garcia refuse to face any top guys at 147! If Garcia beats Thurman then he definitely moves up but I don't believe he will fight Thurman at all! I just can't get those words spoken by his father, "Why fight the top guys when you can fight the Salkas of the world". I believe Crawford will take over once he makes the full move to 147!

[O.K.! 2.0]

One more fight with Bob and then he might become a free agent to give a better chance of the Floyd rematch in late 2017.

WTF does that have to do with anything? I guess Arum is the reason Canelo/GGG is not happening! Maybe Arum is the reason Haymon top fighters refuse to fight each other! Give the man his credit! This year he gave us the two best fighters at 140! Coming soon is Lomo/Walters who are the best two in there division! What other promoter is doing that? He might give us Manny/Crawford next. No one gives a **** about Manny/Floyd again! The first fight was the worst biggest fight in boxing history. Move on!

[Caught Square]

WTF does that have to do with anything? I guess Arum is the reason Canelo/GGG is not happening! Maybe Arum is the reason Haymon top fighters refuse to fight each other! Give the man his credit! This year he gave us the two best fighters at 140! Coming soon is Lomo/Walters who are the best two in there division! What other promoter is doing that? He might give us Manny/Crawford next. No one gives a **** about Manny/Floyd again! The first fight was the worst biggest fight in boxing history. Move on!

Chill out i weren't having in dig at Arum in this post, just making the point that he only has one fight left with him. say what you like about a rematch but there's no doubt it's something Pacquiao really wants and being a free agent would make it more likely.

[spenz]

Ain't no way crawford vs pacquiao not going to happen. Crawford is top rank guy and he will get the fight. So to those anticipating it, hold on tight it's gonna happen 101%.

[HandsofIron]

I think Manny/Crawford is the best fight to be made at 147. Garcia needs to show he a can beat 2 or 3 top guys at 147. The winner of Thurman/Garcia needs to face Brook. I think Bradley/Porter would be a great fight. Fans keep bringing up Spence but its clear no one is going to fight Spence anytime soon. Manny looked decent last night but its clear the power is not there. If Manny is going for Crawford, he needs to fight Crawford before he becomes a full 147lb problem. My top 5 at 147lb (Brook, Manny, Thurman, Bradley, Porter) #5 is a tie between Garcia & Spence. Spence has not faced any top guys yet! Garcia refuse to face any top guys at 147! If Garcia beats Thurman then he definitely moves up but I don't believe he will fight Thurman at all! I just can't get those words spoken by his father, "Why fight the top guys when you can fight the Salkas of the world". I believe Crawford will take over once he makes the full move to 147!

Except Crawford fights at 140 (never fought at 147) and says that he won't go up for Manny, that it has to be at 140 only. Brook should fight Khan if he's going back to 147.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Well we know it will be an inhouse top rank fight,, so forget about it being thurman or garcia..

Crawford or lomachenko will get the fight.. Just depends on what happens in their upcoming fights. If both win, I expect lomachenko to get the fight as it will raise loma's profile and it won't ruin him if he loses to manny up in weight..

[spenz]

Agreed. Arum is contemplating between whether it should be crawford or lomachenko, he figured lomachenko is the lesser risk for his company because really its a win-win situation for loma, even if he lose, people would just say he's too small, but if he wins, it's a grand celebration and top rank will get another money guy in his stable to replace manny. Crawford on the other hand, should he lose on his best weight, it has a potential of a total plummet of popularity for crawford and arum will be having a very hard time building him up again. So arum will really try and persuade manny to fight lomachenko for his next fight.