Comments Thread For: DiBella Doubts Arum Wants to Put Crawford in With Spence Now

[ceylon mooney]

right now bud takes spence. 2 years from now different story.

[Pennsauken1]

Shut up b-itch and go back to sucking Al haymons ****, you *******!

IDIOT!!!!!!! You know where to find me

[JJRod]

I have a feeling this will another one of those great matchup that the politics of boxing will keep us from ever seeing.

[mathed]

Make it happen. People need to see a master technician like Crawford methodically breakdown a strong, talented boxer like Spence to fully understand these levels in boxing. On paper, it looks even, on the eye test it looks even, but I'm telling you now, Bud will size the green Spence up and proceed to pick him off until the kid is ready to fold up from the frustration.

[mathed]

If a promoter won't put his guy in with the best, because he doesn't want to pay out money only to see his guy lose, then the business model of boxing is beyond ****ed up.

Not that we didn't know that already.

But this is one of the core issues with boxing that is bringing it down overall as a sport.

[Butch.McRae]

Make it happen. People need to see a master technician like Crawford methodically breakdown a strong, talented boxer like Spence to fully understand these levels in boxing. On paper, it looks even, on the eye test it looks even, but I'm telling you now, Bud will size the green Spence up and proceed to pick him off until the kid is ready to fold up from the frustration.

Very reputable pundits feel differently about that match up...https://twitter.com/leewylieboxing/s...0%7Ctwterm%5E2

[BigStomps]

IDIOT!!!!!!! You know where to find me

I don't know where Al Haymon lives.
So IDK where to find you *******!

[Scipio2009]

Crawford wanted Thurman or Garcia. I doubt Haymon would want to put Thurman or Garcia in with Crawford now.

I don't really understand these silly comments about Arum as if Haymon is any different.

Why not? Thurman has a path laid out in front of him (tuneups, Porter/Spence, and whomever he doesn't pick for the second fight), but Danny Garcia is marketable, is a top-5 welterweight, and wants good fights that make sense.

If Terence Crawford wants to come over to fight Danny Garcia, and Danny Garcia wants the fight, why wouldn't it happen?

The hang up, though, is that Bob Arum isn't going to let Crawford go and fight under anyone else's banner and Arum isn't going to put up the money required to get Danny Garcia fair compensation to fight on ESPN (with both Garcia and Crawford commanding $1.5m+, any ESPN card that Arum could even put together would likely run $5m-$6m to put on, leaving not all that much for Arum).

[Scipio2009]

I've seen a few people post about "ESPN PPV". I don't think I've ever seen ESPN do a PPV. Am I going crazy? Lol

ESPN has never put on a PPV, but there looks to be a clear limit to what ESPN can pay out on a fight, and I'd feel pretty confident pegging that number at maybe $2m per broadcast.

All the really big meaningful fights require significantly more than that, and that's where Arum hits his dilemma.

Arum will likely try to talk ESPN into something, but I figure that they laugh in his face and put the onus on Arum to cover the event (It'll likely be presented as 'Top Rank Boxing on ESPN', but, in practice, it'll be a Top Rank PPV, with Arum fronting the broadcast costs for the ESPN talent).

[jonnyc420]

Cuz Spence beat Lamont Peterson?? Lamont loses all his big fights. Spence is damn good but so is Crawford that fight could possibly go either way. I hope it happens in the next 2 years.