Comments Thread For: Dibella Says Arum Won't Put Crawford in With Mikey Garcia

[j.razor]

the only guys at 147 who could challenge crawford are bradley khan and pacquiao, but bradley retired, khan doesnt fight, and pacquiaos skills may have finally eroded enough that hes low risk.

Khan? Pacquiao? They are done....if you didn't get the memo.

[OmarRueben]

SSSOOOOOO, WHO is a big draw that Bud has faced? Bud could beat Mikey but it would be his biggest draw for sure. I think you should leave Errol out of this since bob wont dare put any of his fighters against him. How can you call Mikey boring? Who is exciting to you klitschko?

Crawford is being positioned to be a big star in boxing and will be carefully matched up. Mikey Garcia after sitting out close to 3 years has management issues and just isn't that attractive to the fan base.

[rickJen]

Riight. Blame Arum when it comes to Crawford.
Blame Loma, GGG, Pacquaio, not Arum or Loeffler when it comes to such fighters.
Got nothing against Crawford, but let's not have double bs
and have one standard for all, and that is blame fighters, period.

[Sheldon312]

Crawford is not going to be the same fighter when you move him up in weight. He clearly doesn't have speed and power to move up divisions. He can dominate if he stays at 140. Because Arum is an avarice, greedy ***, and doesn't have many options - he's definitely going to move him up to 147 this way he can expand the opponent selection to two divisions.

Crawford needs to get away from Arum ASAP!

True. In order to go up and dominate higher weight classes, you have to either have great defense, power, and speed. Crawford gets hit too much and I don't believe he will be able to deal with the physicality of Porter, Spence, Thurman, and brook(if they fought at a catch weight) Now, if this was prime Pernell, Wilfred, or Floyd, I would give them the benefit of the doubt.

[filup79]

DiBella said Arum wouldn't dare let Crawford fight Diaz. We saw what happened there..

Only way that fight happened is because Diaz had to agree to give Arum options on future fights. Mikey isn't Diaz, Mikey has Showtime backing him and he will never sign the same contract that Diaz had to sign to fight Crawford. Arum will never allow Crawford to make more money fighting on Showtime,CBS or Fox and him not being the lead promoter.

[Sheldon312]

Crawford won't be fighting Mikey at 140 and he won't be fighting any of the top 147 fighters like Spence, Thurman, Porter, Garcia and so on under Arum. Arum is gonna keep matching him with Top Rank fighters or fighters from small promotional companies. He isn't going to let Crawford or Loma for that matter make more money by fighting on Showtime and Top Rank not being the lead promoter. Crawford will be fighting some soft touch next followed by Jeff Horn.

If that happens, neither him or Loma can be considered greats. Boxing is about your resume not just "skills" This is why I have a hard time ranking Floyd over, Leonard, Hearns, Hagler, Hopkins, Roy, and Toney.

[Sheldon312]

the only guys at 147 who could challenge crawford are bradley khan and pacquiao, but bradley retired, khan doesnt fight, and pacquiaos skills may have finally eroded enough that hes low risk.

Now you are being silly. Thurman, Spence, Porter, would be tough fights for Crawford because these guys are coming to outwork and overwhelm you. Who has Crawford fought that makes you think that Bradley, Khan, and Pac, will be the toughest fights for him. Porter, Spence, and Thurman destroy Bradley, Khan, and Pac. And it wouldn't be competitive either.

[filup79]

If that happens, neither him or Loma can be considered greats. Boxing is about your resume not just "skills" This is why I have a hard time ranking Floyd over, Leonard, Hearns, Hagler, Hopkins, Roy, and Toney.

Hopkins? Floyd's resume is way better than Hopkins.

[kdd]

Ur crazy if u think Thurman can beat Crawford. He does t have the skills to beat Crawford.. Mickey Garcia can definitely challenge crawford

[kdd]

Spence will beat anyone at 147..including Floyd. too much hunger, skills, size and power