Comments Thread For: Arum: Terence Crawford vs. Errol Spence is a Big PPV Fight!

[TravisPythagora]

Exactly!!! I doubt that anybody at welterweight would "duck" Crawford who is moving up.
I more so see Arum protecting his cash cow from the monsters at WW who are with PBC.

Arum will throw Crawford's name out there but not making any real negotiations. Just like he had Pac piggy back off of Mayweather for all those years.

fight for roughly $2.5million vs Crawford making the same or Errol Spence fight Lamont Peterson for $3.5million

$2million for Keith Thurman to fight Danny Garcia or $2million to fight Terence 'Bud' Crawford

who's ducking who?

[SweetPbfAli]

Arum is about to drag this out for eternity. Create a website with a countdown clock for Spence to sign the fight etc.

[TravisPythagora]

He did FAR more harm then good.Just look where boxing is today compared to where is was when he got in.Not ALL his fault but him and King deserve most off the blame

The television networks share as much blame putting them all on cable (ESPN), then premium cable (HBO, SHO), and then PPV

[john l]

The television networks share as much blame putting them all on cable (ESPN), then premium cable (HBO, SHO), and then PPV

That was promoters too more then networks.Promoters and alph bit boys have done their very best to wreck this great sport most of us love.

[PapaBricks]

fight for roughly $2.5million vs Crawford making the same or Errol Spence fight Lamont Peterson for $3.5million

$2million for Keith Thurman to fight Danny Garcia or $2million to fight Terence 'Bud' Crawford

who's ducking who?

Huh?! I have no idea what point you were trying to make.
Not trying to be funny. Can you explain just what is your talking about.

[chrisJS]

This is one fight where it's probably worth marinating for a year or so to make sure it's a biggie. Crawford has a great hometown following and his fans travel (he drew well enough in MGM Grand and in MSG), I think he is in a position to become well known outside of Boxing circles now with the backing of ESPN. I'd like to see him expand to more markets in 2018 - LA for certain, possibly Chicago and another Vegas fight. If he can get one of the PBC guys in the ring (Danny Garcia since it would be a good buildup and they fought in the am's) in addition to securing the WBO belt he will be in a good spot. Even beating up on a washed up Pacquaio would raise his profile. He will enter 2019 as no worse than #2 pound for pound.

Spence really needs better promotion. He hasn't fought enough and outside of Brook his competition is average at best. Peterson is a good start and he should fight in Dallas once or twice to get his hometown behind him and become a star there. His biggest fight and exposure was in England because of the local fighter. If he's able to fight three times in 2018, keeping winning by KO and looking good and then get Thurman in early 2019 by late 2019 or early 2020 it could be a very, very big fight that goes beyond Boxing fans.

[BennyBlanco]

What a joke.

Crawford did 47K buys in his first PPV attempt. I don't want to hear him mentioned in the same sentence with PPV ever again.

[BennyBlanco]

Thurman -Spence is bigger? Maybe at the moment but once Crawford settles into 147, spence-Crawford will be much bigger.

Thurman’s days as a champ is numbered.

Casuals have no idea who Crawford is.

I was at Thurman-Garcia at in Brooklyn in March, and I was seated a couple of rows behind Crawford. He was there early and stayed all night and not one person came up and asked for an autograph. Not one.

Even at the one of the biggest boxing events of the year, the vast majority of people didn't even recognize Crawford. He's not a star outside Omaha.