Comments Thread For: Crawford: Pacquiao is NO Champion, Thurman is WBA Champ

[Adamsc151]

Fair play to Bud, just saying what the vast majority of fans think; the WBA regular is not truly a world title. It has it's place, but is of no bigger consequence than the other secondry an tertiary belts out there on offer. Silver, International, Intercontinental, etc they're all just stepping stone titles for prospects to gain a ranking.

[R.KHLMS4LIFE]

Bradley was a clear loss so was horn I won't much a boxing fan during the Bradley fight but from a non boxing perspective to now having a decent amount of boxing knowledge he won against Bradley and horn now Mayweather was a clear. alot of matches if left up to judges is what I deem a robbery somebody getting paid off or some look at that judge that scores lopsided rounds for canelo Vs Lara which should've been a Lara win or at min draw or that judge that scored for canelo against Mayweather or the judge that won't watching GGG vs canelo first fight and had that horrible scorecard for canelo Canelo lost the first GGG fight and won the 2nd 1 if not should've been a draw at max

[R.KHLMS4LIFE]

Bud should just fight the top 3 of his weight class and 140 less looking for a nice check triple times what he's getting don't fight Khan Pacquiao or broner. Pacquiao a maybe. Bud should only focus on Spence Garcia lomachanco( can't spell) Thurman and possible Pacquiao for a check I'd say maybe amir Khan or Brook winner in England for a nice check of more than 2m

[chrisJS]

Top 50 is harsh dang bro at least top 15 easily. I was really just throwing a shot at a *******. Who are your top 5?

I'd say nowhere near the top 15 in all honesty. My top 5-6 in no order would be Robinson, Greb, Armstrong, Langford, Pep, Charles.

Pacquaio is great there's no doubt about it in my mind but I think anywhere from 30-50 area is a fair ranking. He's probably too low outside that or too high above it IMO.

[Jsmooth9876]

Didn't pac say he'd fight Crawford but he wanted his 20 million to do so?
Can't be worth that for Arum to make that fight. Even beating Pac now doesn't do what it would have 2 or 3 years ago for Crawford but it's still a great name on his resume.

Make it happen Arum

[SAINTSTEVE]

Crawford needs to put all these guys on blast. His time is now.

[JLC]

what you say is true, however I cant recall a time ever, where a boxer refused to accept a title because it wasnt the superior version of said title. Even though its only the paper version of a title its still a title and guys can still use it as leverage and call themselves a champ.

Mayweather has refused legit world titles because he felt they weren’t legit.

Matthysse refused the IBF vs Peterson.

Although off the top of my head I can’t think of a scenario a world title has been refused for this specific reason, people choose not to fight for them all the time. Pac was fighter of the decade. He has no reason to waste his time or money on secondary titles. That is beneath him.

[Bronx23]

Mayweather has refused legit world titles because he felt they weren’t legit.

Matthysse refused the IBF vs Peterson.

Although off the top of my head I can’t think of a scenario a world title has been refused for this specific reason, people choose not to fight for them all the time. Pac was fighter of the decade. He has no reason to waste his time or money on secondary titles. That is beneath him.

Again I agree with you. I can't even say with confidence that Pac was actually even chasing this title. Matthysse was just the right opponent who happened to have that trinket as an added bonus. Had matthysse not had that belt I think he and Pac still would have fought it was pretty much a fight just for the sake of fighting.

[_original_]

Lmao really? He sure does talk like one. Is he ranked by any of the organizations?

Nope, I haven't seen any credible place have him in the top 10. Probably not even a top 15 Welterweight honestly.

[HanzGruber]

Glad someone said it. Time to stop recognizing the regular wba belt