Comments Thread For: Crawford "Excited" About Facing "Big Threat" Indongo on ESPN

[Fabes88]

I'm excited for this fight. If Crawford wins this he should fight the Garcia vs broner winner or move up

[Dark night 24]

Crawford is a special talent looking foward to this fight.

[wrecksracer]

manny has done his best to duck that fight for years! Asking for unrealistic purse that he knows are not possible! Crawford is not a big draw in vegas or calli and get manny a $10 million payday like horn did! Now arum will do the rematch with horn make double the money as planned! Manny the dirty politician is the master at ducking and then hiding behind uncle bobby arum.... Dirty poltician never take responsibility for their actions! Manny displays that true dirty politician nature after every loss he takes! Mannys the dirty politicians list of excuses keeps getting longer! Maybe one of these days he will take a loss without making excuses! Crawford will put manny to sleep so there wont be too many excuses hopefully

If it don't make money, it don't makes sense....isn't that what Floyd said? How can you criticize Pac for not fighting Crawford in a low money, low interest fight? Especially after Crawford stunk the joint out in his only PPV. If you want to blame anybody, blame Crawford. He damaged his own brand.

[Cinci Champ]

Yep, that was a cherry pick gone wrong by Pac and Arum. When I heard Arum/Pac picked Horn, I said that it was a not good and a risk simply because Pac could get cut or lose a controversial decision and bigger fights go right out the window and some guy named NYC9487 or however the username is spelled argued with me for days that there was no risk - and then Pac got cut and lost a decision. Now the Crawford fight and other top fights lack luster because of the ****** decision Arum and Pac made to fight an unknown. They may make a lot in the Horn rematch but they are stuck in a cesspool with a fighter that was unknown and now have to correct things.

gone wrong is debatable now both arum and pac will make more in this fight then whatever fight they would had next had pac won

[The Big Dunn]

gone wrong is debatable now both arum and pac will make more in this fight then whatever fight they would had next had pac won

Exactly. Same as with Tim. This is a staged loss to make a non ppv sellable fight more sellable.

It will be interesting if the rematch is on espn or ppv. If it's on ppv then you can fairly argue bob, WBO, Vada ( no testing) and Manny were all in on it.

[Fabes88]

If it don't make money, it don't makes sense....isn't that what Floyd said? How can you criticize Pac for not fighting Crawford in a low money, low interest fight? Especially after Crawford stunk the joint out in his only PPV. If you want to blame anybody, blame Crawford. He damaged his own brand.

He wasn't worried about how many ppvs Vargas and Algeri sold why is it all of a sudden a massive point of concern when it's time to fight Crawford?

[Sledgeweather17]

If it don't make money, it don't makes sense....isn't that what Floyd said? How can you criticize Pac for not fighting Crawford in a low money, low interest fight? Especially after Crawford stunk the joint out in his only PPV. If you want to blame anybody, blame Crawford. He damaged his own brand.

Hard as it is to accept but there is some truth to this. Guys like Crawford need to get that mandatory spot in order to get guys like Manny in the ring.

It's the same for guys like Andrade and the Charlos. Only way they get guys like GGG and Canelo in the ring with em is to become their mandatory challengers.

Of course Canelo has no problem throwing belts into the bin so there's still that obstacle too.

[richardt]

Exactly. Same as with Tim. This is a staged loss to make a non ppv sellable fight more sellable.

It will be interesting if the rematch is on espn or ppv. If it's on ppv then you can fairly argue bob, WBO, Vada ( no testing) and Manny were all in on it.

I would not be surprised if this was the case. It is too eerily similar to the Bradley situation. That, or it plays into the utter incompetence of Judges in both cases.

[wrecksracer]

He wasn't worried about how many ppvs Vargas and Algeri sold why is it all of a sudden a massive point of concern when it's time to fight Crawford?

Because he is the biggest risk, and also damaged his own brand by stinking the joint out on his only PPV. Honestly, Crawford could beat Pac the same way he beat Postol....but who would want to watch it? If anybody ruined the chances of making that fight, it was Crawford. Good luck to him. I hope his fight on ESPN shows that he wants the big fights, instead of a guy content to pot shotting his way to a wide decision.

[Boxfan83]

I dont think Crawford will get his due if he KO's or schools Indongo. Indongos a long and rangy fighter and would give hell to any top10 Jr.WW not named Crawford. I actually expect Crawford to lose a few rds in this 1 but again I dont think he will get his due, he will just be labeled as being exposed for losing a couple rds.

As for Crawford vs. Pacquiao, it seems like a certain fanbase cares more about making this fight more than Crawford does himself. If old Jeff Horny beat Pac, we all know what Crawford would do so whats the point? Lets just hope Manny retires and maybe early next year we get Crawford vs Horny, Jeff so Crawford can get that WBO and put his name in the mix with Spencer and 1x a year Thurman.