Comments Thread For: Crawford Laments Lost Opportunity After Horn Upsets Pacquiao

[Blender]

Pac is going to spend the next year and a half in a trilogy with Jeff freaking Horn. Unreal man. So many wasted opportunities. Definitely feel sorry for Crawford and Mikey

The sad part is Pac didn't even want to fight Horn and now has to rematch him. It's just pathetic.

Arum arranged to have the scores in Horns favor too. Pacquiao was talking about leaving and fighting non TR opponents.

TBH, I don't wanna see a rematch. Jeff Horn, lmao. Arum really doesn't care about Pacquiaos legacy at all.

[Nightfall]

Crawford vs Horn

[Zaryu]

Seems like Crawford was licking his chops at the opportunity of a well done Manny Pacquiao

[HarvardBlue]

I don't think Pacquiao wanted to fight Crawford. In fact, I think he was solely responsible for choosing Horn. That's the only way I can see him losing a decision to Horn. I can't imagine Arum would put him in the position where he would lose the way he did.

[j0zef]

Said this last year. TC should have taken Pac fight and not b1tch about 140.

[p4ptbe]

Werent crawford and his dumbass coach saying they dont need manny just a few months ago? Lmfao

[pugil1st]

The worst part is Bud now having to fight on ESPN. Don't get me wrong, I love free fights but Bud is better than ESPN. I think we all saw that the other night. They really need to tighten up their production value. That might start with getting rid of the 3 Ts (Tessitore, Teddy and Timmy). They all suck! You hear Tim talking about "the Japans" and saying "where in Argentina"?

[Boxing Logic]

It's his fault. The cowardly divas like Ward and Floyd have set an awful example for the next generation of American boxers, making them think they deserve to have every single advantage otherwise they should decline the fight. This dude weighs 160 pounds in the ring, more than Pacquiao, and he's in his prime while Pacquiao is old, and yet he had the nerve to say he would only fight Pacquiao at 140 LOL. Which is ****** anyway because he is way bigger than Pacquiao, and Pacquiao would probably benefit from fighting at 140 instead of 147 anyway.

But these pampered American "stars" expect to get every single advantage, and everything their way, to the point where they just make dumb demands without even thinking. A real champion would have said "I want Pacquiao next, and I will knock him out at any weight he wants, anywhere he wants, any time he wants, because he's old and I'm bigger than him anyway." Instead Crawford made the ridiculous 140 demand and now he lost the biggest shortcut to stardom he would have ever had in his career.

Which also proves how spoiled these top American "stars" are that his plan all along seemed to be to cherry pick and wait until Pacquiao got old and then fight Pacquiao to take a shortcut to stardom, rather than fighting prime top fighters who are actually his size at 147 and earning his own stardom the way Pacquiao did when he fought Morales three times and Marquez twice (and Barrera) before ever getting a shot at a faded big name like Oscar.

Crawford wanted to skip straight to the faded big name to leech the star power away, without ever earning his own first. Except no wait he didn't even seem to want to do that, he seemed to want to wait until the faded big name faded even more, because if an undersized lightweight, slightly faded Gamboa can sweep the first four rounds against you and almost knock you out, then a faded Pacquiao at 140 or 147 is still a big problem for you. He was scared of that same style he apparently has trouble with that Gamboa had, just the much better more powerful version in Pacquiao, so fighting 37 year old Pacquiao wasn't good enough, he wanted to wait until the dude was 40 or some ****.

At least, that's what it looks like. Fans from the outside may never know what went down. But the 140 demand just seems extremely cowardly and unlike a real champion when you consider that Crawford weighs 160 in the ring and is much bigger than Pacquiao fighting at 140 than Pacquiao is fighting at 147!

[Mister Wolf]

Said this last year. TC should have taken Pac fight and not b1tch about 140.

Pac wanted a 20 million guarantee to fight Crawford twice what he made for this Horn fight. He wanted no parts of fighting Crawford so Bob got him outta there.

[paulf]

uhh what was all that "Terence Crawford doesn't need Manny Pacquiao" talk from a few years ago?

Ya snooze, ya loose.