Comments Thread For: Roach on Pacquiao: We Don't Want a Fight a Guy Like Crawford

[GhostofDempsey]

Who does want to fight Crawford? Mayweather certainly wouldn't. He wouldn't fight Thurman, Garcia, Brook, or Porter before he "retired" either. He closed the show against Berto the human punching bag. Now he's fighting an MMA guy with no boxing experience whatsoever. Not Spence, not Thurman, not Manny, or Crawford...McGregor. Freddie is right, if they pulled out of that fight due to he injury it would never have been postponed to a later date. Floyd would have cancelled and then accused Manny of ducking.

Meanwhile, Pac needs to decide where he goes from here and why he wants to continue fighting. If you are fighting for money then line yourself up with Khan in U.K. or Middle East, or come down to 140 for winner of Broner/Garcia. Have a full and dedicated training camp, rid yourself of distractions. Duran went through the same thing when everyone thought he was done. He lost consecutive fights to Benitez and a no-hoper named Laing, then he got serious and came back for consecutive wins over Cuevas and Moore. Went 15 rounds with Hagler and fighting with only one arm after the 15th round.

Pac can still be competitive with the top fighters out there, but he has too many distractions, a lot of wear and tear, and he just isn't as hungry as he once was. His religious values have also taken some of his killer instinct out of him. Time to either hang up the gloves or get serious. Boxing is a not a sport where you can half-ass it and expect to stay on top.

[SplitSecond]

He says "we" like it's not just him, like pacquiao cares. Anyway, that ship has sailed.

[FrankieClutch]

Well no kidding. Crawford would've mopped the floor against the version of Manny we saw against Horn.

[MrRolltide91]

He just lost to a school teacher, definitely don't put him in the ring with a lion.

A young hungry lion

[redmoney]

I disagree. Crawford still would've beat Pacquiao back in his Prime. Pac still was that fighter to lunge constantly throughout the fight it would be a matter of time Crawford figures it out and start timing him. It definitely would've been more competitive and name me a fighter Crawford avoided so far. I feel you talking crazy Manny still would lose to TC in his prime. PERIOD

[p4ptbe]

very close don't know the exact score on that one??? Crawford beat mikey pretty bad but both times with danny could of went either way. He even said danny was a very tough opponent. That's why i would love to see that fight. This time no headgear, 12 rounds. Honestly i like the matchup a lot!!! 50/50 or 55/45 crawford. Crawford won't be able to ko danny. I would bet $$$$ on the over.

i always notice when mikey talks about crawford he seems a bit uncomfortable! He knows he would get whooped even worse in in the pros! Thats why he never mentions him unless fighthype or elie ask him! Danny vs crawford or danny vs broner or crawford vs broner or danny! I would like to see all 3 fights

[Nomadic]

A young hungry lion

Yeah, I forgot that part.

[Hmabshir]

I disagree. Crawford still would've beat Pacquiao back in his Prime. Pac still was that fighter to lunge constantly throughout the fight it would be a matter of time Crawford figures it out and start timing him. It definitely would've been more competitive and name me a fighter Crawford avoided so far. I feel you talking crazy Manny still would lose to TC in his prime. PERIOD

No lol, The Pac-man that fought Erik Morales, Barerra, Hatton, De la Hoya would have broken Crawford easily. Manny from 08-10 would have ****ing slept Crawford. If a fighter named Gamboa moves up from featherweight to 140 and still gave him all sorts of problems. If Gamboa and Crawford were the same size, it would be a much different story. How could he beat Manny? Forgot Manny, Crawford is a good fighter but he is terribly overrated.

De la Hoya at 140 smokes Crawford
Mosley at 140 smokes him, Mosley at 135 would end his career (Mosley one of the greatest lightweights in history)
Julio Caesar Chavez smokes him at 140
Aaron Pryor smokes him at 140.

Crawford is a good fighter and the best at 140, but please don't act like he would stack up historically with the old Manny or any other great fighter

[Shadoww702]

i always notice when mikey talks about crawford he seems a bit uncomfortable! He knows he would get whooped even worse in in the pros! Thats why he never mentions him unless fighthype or elie ask him! Danny vs crawford or danny vs broner or crawford vs broner or danny! I would like to see all 3 fights

Danny vs. Crawford is the one I want to see. Like I said in the amatuers they were evenly matched. Time to settle the score. Plus they dont really like each other and were just recently having a twitter war of words.

[p4ptbe]

danny vs. Crawford is the one i want to see. Like i said in the amatuers they were evenly matched. Time to settle the score. Plus they dont really like each other and were just recently having a twitter war of words.

crawford needs danny more than danny needs him! Crawford needs some big names asap! But i would rather watch spence vs danny if i had the choice!