Comments Thread For: Spence: A Fight With Terence Crawford Will Probably Happen

[ironmt]

This is the fight to be made, two dangerous fighters in their prime squaring off in what should be a very entertaining bout. If this can't be done by end of 2017 or first half of 2018, I'd settle for Crawford vs. winner of Garcia/Broner. Hopefully Spence gets a good fight before the year is up.

I agree, this Is the next big fight. Can't wait for this one.

[filup79]

Excuse me, how many fights did he had at 147?

How many fights did Canelo have at MW when they wanted him to fight GGG? How many fights has Mikey Garcia had at 140 but is fighting Broner at that weight? Crawford shrinks down to fight smaller fighters just like many others.

[Mike_R]

Spence has got to be a bigger guy, right? I'm trying to wrap my head around what the size differential here is.

Both guys are extraordinary, 2 of the absolute best out right now. I'm just wondering if Crawford is big enough to make it, but I'm sure they are closer than I realize.

Crawford just strikes me as a much smaller fighter. I think of Spence as a pretty big guy for 147, I expect he'll end up at 154 in another couple of years.

[GhostofDempsey]

How many fights did Canelo have at MW when they wanted him to fight GGG? How many fights has Mikey Garcia had at 140 but is fighting Broner at that weight? Crawford shrinks down to fight smaller fighters just like many others.

Good points. I like how certain fans find that it's ok to feed up a broken down, smaller Pac to him but suddenly Spence is too big. Crawford walks into the ring at around 155 for some fights, and can easily fight at 147. He only wants 147 for certain fighters though. Kellerman asked him what he thought about a potential fight with Spence and he stuttered and stumbled around the question.

[JakeTheBoxer]

He is still 1 division smaller than Spence. And with Arum. Stop dreaming, they will probably never fight.

[sicko]

Crawford is a LEAN 140, will be interesting to see how he bulks up for 147 but this fight is very possible I think both are willing but Crawford will likely take a few fights at 147 first or he could go right after Jeff Horn if Pacquiao retires

[JakeTheBoxer]

Spence will likely fight Haymon guys like Collazo, Matthysse, Berto, he will have to take some mandatory fights also, Thurman fight is the goal, than he will move up to 154.

[Fabes88]

this fight does Ward Kovalev numbers at best on PPV. Two great figthers but unfortunately neither has that "it" factor.

all that aside i hope they do fight sooner than later.

At this point yeah but give it a while I think this fight could be the next big thing. Let spence take care of Thurman and Crawford beat horn and then the fight is for all of the marbles. Both Crawford and spence would've had a lot of exposure on "free" tv by that point so I think it could do pretty good numbers.

The reason Ward doesn't have the "it" factor is because his style doesnt really appeal to a casual fight fan. The same can't be said for spence and only manny fans say Crawford is boring as a way to justify their guy ducking him like the plague.

[Fabes88]

How many fights did Canelo have at MW when they wanted him to fight GGG? How many fights has Mikey Garcia had at 140 but is fighting Broner at that weight? Crawford shrinks down to fight smaller fighters just like many others.

Canelo had 1, for the lineal championship. Once you're the champ it's only right people want you to fight the best in the division. How many fights did canelo have at middleweight before he actually fought ggg is the question you should be asking

Mikey Garcia has had 1 fight at 140 also.

[batista84]

This would be a great fight. Personally I rank them as both, the best 140 of the world and the best 147 of the world not named Floyd Mayweather.

I'm very high on the two, while I do think that Crawford is more skilled but Spence is a monster.