Comments Thread For: Terence Crawford's Path To Superstardom At 147 Pounds

[Sheldon312]

He beat guys at 135 and 140 don't forget lol.

And that's why he's coming to 147 so that he can show YOU and other doubters why he will dominate at 147 as well.

He will not 'dominate' he will be great but run into a brick wall like most smaller fighters do.

[jjsmyth87]

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Crawford will be gifted the WBO belt, and Arum/Kim/Rafael/Fischer and the rest of the shills will look to still Crawford as the only welterweight worth every mentioning (ignoring the expected dog **** opposition level as "everyone else being afraid to fight Crawford, so we'll pick from those who want to fight" or some other nonsense.

Please dont make excuses for the pbc fighters when they duck Crawford which its almost guaranteed they will. Thurman is supposed to be top dog at 147 and anytimes hes asked about crawford he says he needs to become relevant at 147 and theres a line of people waiting to fight him. Meanwhile he also says the best should fight the best and he has an 0 and isnt afraid to let it go but when it comes to crawford he sounds afraid to me. When crawford beats jeff horn i wonder what his excuse is gonna be. Pbc fighters cant duck him forever because there are plenty of fights that can get him to the top of 147 pretty quick. First jeff horn and then maybe kell brook, amir khan, pacquiao. Then theres guys like ponomorov and mathysse who are a good win away from being top 10 at 147. Crawford has options at top rank so like I said Pbc wont be able to duck him forever

[jjsmyth87]

Crawford will be gifted the WBO belt, and Arum/Kim/Rafael/Fischer and the rest of the shills will look to still Crawford as the only welterweight worth every mentioning (ignoring the expected dog **** opposition level as "everyone else being afraid to fight Crawford, so we'll pick from those who want to fight" or some other nonsense.

And btw how will it be a gift when Crawford beats horn? Jeff Horn beat Pacquaio to get that belt, whether you think it was a gift or not i personally thought Jeff horn beat pacquaio and im a huge pacquiao fan. So when Crawford beats Horn that is a big win thats not a gift at all.

[Scipio2009]

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Please dont make excuses for the pbc fighters when they duck Crawford which its almost guaranteed they will. Thurman is supposed to be top dog at 147 and anytimes hes asked about crawford he says he needs to become relevant at 147 and theres a line of people waiting to fight him. Meanwhile he also says the best should fight the best and he has an 0 and isnt afraid to let it go but when it comes to crawford he sounds afraid to me. When crawford beats jeff horn i wonder what his excuse is gonna be. Pbc fighters cant duck him forever because there are plenty of fights that can get him to the top of 147 pretty quick. First jeff horn and then maybe kell brook, amir khan, pacquiao. Then theres guys like ponomorov and mathysse who are a good win away from being top 10 at 147. Crawford has options at top rank so like I said Pbc wont be able to duck him forever

What are Crawford's options at Top Rank, especially with knowing that Jesse Vargas is no longer with Arum?

[Dle]

Crawford can be a superstar at 147 as long as he stays away from Thurman, Porter, and Spence. They’ll eat his lite azz up

[Raggamuffin]

He will not 'dominate' he will be great but run into a brick wall like most smaller fighters do.

That's why they fight the fights. He came to 147 for a reason. And that's to see how tough that brick wall is.

[Scipio2009]

And btw how will it be a gift when Crawford beats horn? Jeff Horn beat Pacquaio to get that belt, whether you think it was a gift or not i personally thought Jeff horn beat pacquaio and im a huge pacquiao fan. So when Crawford beats Horn that is a big win thats not a gift at all.

Jeff Horn is crude as hell and not very good, tbh. The gifts will come when the WBO magically removes any Haymon-affiliated fighters from it's rankings at 147.

He'll have nothing but nonsense lined up for him, and he'll default to the public story of "having to fight what's available", with folks like you championing the move.

[Boxing Logic]

"And the conversations alone are enough to get excited over."

No. The media need to stop trying to brainwash fans with bull**** lies like these. Fights between prime top fighters are what excite boxing fans. Not conversations. Not fights between a prime fighter and a past prime fighter. Heck, even fights between two past prime fighters are better than fights between one prime, and one past prime, because at least that is fair. But conversations themselves? No, they are what's wrong with boxing. Too much arguing about how fights will play out, not enough fights. Being a boxing fan is 99% speculation, 1% good fights. If it was 50-50, fine, but 99-1 is a joke.

[Sheldon312]

"And the conversations alone are enough to get excited over."

No. The media need to stop trying to brainwash fans with bull**** lies like these. Fights between prime top fighters are what excite boxing fans. Not conversations. Not fights between a prime fighter and a past prime fighter. Heck, even fights between two past prime fighters are better than fights between one prime, and one past prime, because at least that is fair. But conversations themselves? No, they are what's wrong with boxing. Too much arguing about how fights will play out, not enough fights. Being a boxing fan is 99% speculation, 1% good fights. If it was 50-50, fine, but 99-1 is a joke.

Too much politics. If Crawford was smart, he would sign with Haymon. I don't know why these guys sign with Top Rank.

[Kiowhatta]

Boxing has cancer but keeps going into remission IMO. Revival or Renaissance? Hyperbole and verbosity me suspects.
Crawford did what all modern (and older) fans were dying to see: the new unveiling of the modern day 'undisputed champion' - once upon a time, Iron Mike Tyson needed only the WBC, WBA and IBF to be bestowed that greatest of honors, the ultimate scale and greatest height in boxing.
He bagged the WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO, and RING 140-pound titles. AT LAST! a bona fide real champion. But no, because Crawford wasn't bankable enough to sustain ALL the bodies with adequate sanctioning fees, the IBF declared it's belt vacant something like two weeks within Crawford beating Indongo.

So what we have now is even harder than simply capturing all the belts. You need to have the requisite earning power to satiate all the bodies on top of that. For example, an Anthony Joshua would be rolled out the red carpet by all the bodies as undisputed champion because they can milk his marketing power and earning potential. Crawford unfairly had his puzzle broken simply because he didn't, and that sucks ass.

With Al Haymon the Adonis Stevenson of promoters, I see Crawford getting uncomfortable with the lack of suitable offers, while Thurman, Spence, Garcia and co getting all the gravy, and only when they want to fight Crawford will it happen.
I feel for Crawford. He got royally screwed, and won't have much of a better time at 147, except as good material for boxing scribes.