Comments Thread For: Arum: Pacquiao Wants Purse for Crawford to be Worth the Risk

[future hendrixx]

manny is a certified OG so I'll never accuse him of ducking. but if arum made manny an offer based on PPV expectations no wonder pacquiao refused. that offer was probably trash because this fight will flop big time on PPV. sadly for crawford he's not yet a household name. his PPV with postol was a failure. to top it off hes a black american, that fanbase is more into NFL and NBA. basically he has no fans. if he was from PR, Mexico or the UK he would be huge already.

crawford should go after Indongo next. become the only undisputed champ in boxing. make history. pacquiao at this point can do whatever he wants. he has enough stripes. hes an OG.

[GhostofDempsey]

Interesting. You ask: How are you going to give Floyd credit for beating Cotto when he was twice removed from beatings he took from both Margo and Pac?

Yet you say Barrera was an A list win for Pac even though he had been beaten so badly by Jones twice that he retired and came back.

You post: How are you going to credit Floyd with beating Marquez when he had to come up two weight classes to fight him...clearly not at his best[.

Yet Morales, a win you call A list, was coming down back down in weight (a weight he was struggling to make) after getting destroyed by raheem.

You credit Manny for beating Tim but fail to point out that Tim blatantly ducked Floyd, saying he "wasn't going to chase a Floyd fight". (I think Manny won all 3 fights clearly)

You apply a special filter to Floyd's opposition but don't use that filter when judging Manny's opposition.

You are rewriting history. Floyd completely dismissed Bradley so he wouldn't have to fight him. Bradley stated facts, he's not chasing Floyd when he knows he can't get the fight. No one, and I mean no one, has ever ducked Mayweather.

Not sure what you're talking about, Morales was a superfeather for all of his fights with Pac, there was one fight he moved down 5 pounds, hardly draining himself.

Barrera was still prime, his first loss to Jones was a DQ after he was headbutted and his corner entered the ring. He was never thrashed or hurt by Jones. If anything, it was Jones who was never the same after those Barrera fights, his career took a nose dive right after their fights.

MAB had just stopped Kelly prior to the Pac fight, he was on a hot wining streak over Morales, Hamed, Kelly, and after the Pac loss he went on to beat Ayala, Morales and Juarez back to back.

[Drew Bundini Br]

Both PAC and ARUM are PETRIFIED scared of a CRAWFORD night! ***ETABOUTIT!!!

[kushking]

You are rewriting history. Floyd completely dismissed Bradley so he wouldn't have to fight him. Bradley stated facts, he's not chasing Floyd when he knows he can't get the fight. No one, and I mean no one, has ever ducked Mayweather.

Not sure what you're talking about, Morales was a superfeather for all of his fights with Pac, there was one fight he moved down 5 pounds, hardly draining himself.

Barrera was still prime, his first loss to Jones was a DQ after he was headbutted and his corner entered the ring. He was never thrashed or hurt by Jones. If anything, it was Jones who was never the same after those Barrera fights, his career took a nose dive right after their fights.

MAB had just stopped Kelly prior to the Pac fight, he was on a hot wining streak over Morales, Hamed, Kelly, and after the Pac loss he went on to beat Ayala, Morales and Juarez back to back.

True dat

[Teetotaler]

Lol@ the demographic clowning manny for wanting big money for a big risk but give froid a pass for wanting mcgregor

[Drew Bundini Br]

It will be a cold day inhale b4 we see PAC fight CRAWFORD!

1. PAC can't drain him like he did OSCAR DE LA HATER

2. He can't CATCHWEIGHT him as bad as MARGA CHEATER

3. He's not as old as JMM

4. He didn't get beat with rocks in gloves the way COTTO did b4 he fought PAC.

PAC has no way of weakening and handicapping CRAWFORD so don't look for this fight!!

[The Big Dunn]

You are rewriting history. Floyd completely dismissed Bradley so he wouldn't have to fight him. Bradley stated facts, he's not chasing Floyd when he knows he can't get the fight. No one, and I mean no one, has ever ducked Mayweather.

Not sure what you're talking about, Morales was a superfeather for all of his fights with Pac, there was one fight he moved down 5 pounds, hardly draining himself.

Barrera was still prime, his first loss to Jones was a DQ after he was headbutted and his corner entered the ring. He was never thrashed or hurt by Jones. If anything, it was Jones who was never the same after those Barrera fights, his career took a nose dive right after their fights.

MAB had just stopped Kelly prior to the Pac fight, he was on a hot wining streak over Morales, Hamed, Kelly, and after the Pac loss he went on to beat Ayala, Morales and Juarez back to back.

Bradley was a free agent and signed with TR when he said this. So what you posted is a complete lie.

Of course they did. It's all documented. Bradley, Mosley, Manny, etc etc.. If Floyd doesn't fight someone you call it a duck. When they choose not to fight Floyd, you justify it (or in the case of Bradley, Mosley and Manny) outright lie about what happened.

Ah, the part where you pretend not to know. He went up and got dominated by Raheem and came back down and then lost to Manny just as I said. Of course you leave that part out because, as I posted, you use a special filter only with Floyd.

Never claimed he wasn't on a hot streak, only that he came out of retirement after 2 beatings from Jones ( remember the first one where his cornerman came in after the KD so it would be a DQ instead of a KO) and that you omitted that with your special filter.

Can't make you tell the truth so I will just point out where you lie and omit things.

[OgTripleOg]

Fk you Bob!! Pay the man what he's worth!!!

[Xi_]

Top rank fighters have ducked floyd for years.....bradley signed with top rank cause he knew floyd would've schooled him. Manny waited until floyd got old....floyd also had to punk Manny in front of his wife and national tv in order for manny to finally find his balls to fight floyd. This whole "manny will fight anyone" is a joke. He has never beat a prime A level fighter.

[GhostofDempsey]

Of course they did. It's alld ocumented. Bradley, Mosley, Manny, etc etc.. If Floyd doesn't fight someone you call it a duck. When they choose not to fight Floyd, you justify it (or in the case of Bradley, Mosley and Manny) outright lie about what happened.

Ah, the part where you pretend not to know. He went up and got dominated by Raheem and came back down and then lost to Manny just as I said. Of course you leave that part out because, as I posted, you use a special filter only with Floyd.

Never claimed he wasn't on a hot streak, only that he came out of retirement after 2 beatings from Jones ( remember the first one where his cornerman came in after the KD so it would be a DQ instead of a KO) and that you omitted that with your special filter.

Can't make you tell the truth so I will just point out where you lie and omit things.

Again, rewriting history. It was Floyd who ducked prime Manny and Mosley. He also ducked Stevie Johnston, Casamayor, Freitas, Williams, Margarito, prime Cotto, Bradley, Martinez, GGG, and a rematch with Oscar. Why would anyone duck Floyd? He's not known as a KO artist and there would have been money to be made. Floyd doesn't end fighter's careers.

It makes sense that he waited Manny out until he slowed down and lost a step (even his father feared for Floyd's safety), same as he did with Cotto, Mosley, and Judah. Zab was coming off a loss to Baldomir, how did he get that fight? Maidana beat a guy who was 13-3-1 right before he beat Broner, how does he get two fights with Floyd? Meanwhile, Floyd is ducking opponents by picking apart their resume? That's the excuse he used to dodge Mosley and Pac, yet didn't have a problem fighting Baldomir with 9 losses, or Ortiz, Guerrero and Berto who all beat one another to get their shot at Floyd. LOL.

You're trying to say that MAB's corner deliberately entered the ring to avoid a KO loss on his record? That's insane. MAB was head-butted and cut, simple as that.