Comments Thread For: Bob Arum: I Would Love To Make Crawford-Spence Fight Next

[drablj]

can you give a single example of Haymon letting one of his A-list fighters go fight a voluntary fight on a rival network? Just one?


cant put it all on Bob. EVERY promoter wants to control the promotion.

i mentioned arum because this article is about his words. i don't argue what promoter and platform is better. i don't really care about them. i want to see good matchups and exciting fights. my previous post is my idea of how this all could work. but it's their money and they can do whatever they want with it.
peace

[dalvecc]

Anyone else notice that Crawford is far too timid with his punches & looks far from an elite at welter? I HONESTLY think Spence will ko him,& even though I want that fight the most atm,I would be more than happy if he fights ANy of the ww champs; in fact I think Crawford vs Danny would be a 50/50 fight & vs Porter hed be at a disadvantage because he is too timid with his punch selection.

I totally agree with you. Before last night I favored Bud to beat Porter but now I slightly favor Porter

[kej718]

Who else is there for Crawford to fight on the Top Rank side?
They just lost Manny.

Look at the WBO rankings
1. Custio Calyton
2. Egidijus Kavaliauskas
3. Jessie Vargas
4. Adrien Broner
5. Giovanni Santillan
6. Luis Alberto Veron
7. Roberto Arriaza
8. Mikka Shonena
9. Kerman Lejarraga
10. Jeff Horn
11. Kudratillo Abdukakhorov
12. Rashidi Ellis
13. Karen Chukhadzhyan
14. Jose Benavidez
15. Keita Obara

[Raggamuffin]

Spence will not fight Bud. Spence's resume is trash. He will ask for Porter and Thurman and fight a ****en bum. Just look at his resume.

[TheCell8]

I think Bob realizes that this is the best time to fight Spence. He's still developing into a fighter and hasn't had many big fights. Whereas Crawford is in his prime and looks fantastic.

Crawford is 3 years older as well. So they need to look to make that fight right now.

[Bardamu]

Spence will not fight Bud. Spence's resume is trash. He will ask for Porter and Thurman and fight a ****en bum. Just look at his resume.

That's true. The #2 welterweight in England. Freaking bum, went after the second best! Then Peterson? WTF?!? That bum's not even in the top 5! He was only a two division champ. Freaking trash fight.


TC only fights the best of the best. Look, he just ko'd a professional boxer's brother. This ATG Bud disposed of in 12, was coming off wins against the 448th and 343rd ranked welterweights. I wanna see Spence fight a top prospect's crippled brother! But no, he's too busy avoiding everyone. He even fought in freaking England, just so people wouldn't notice he was fighting another tomato can.

I'm right with ya, brother. Spence has 24 pro fights. And he has yet to face one junior high gym teacher. Why is Haymon moving him along so slowly? Is Spence ever going to step up the competition and fight an Indongo? What about a cripple? How about Lundy?

I mean, Canelo has six brothers, all of them pro boxers. And Spence hasn't fought one of them? Why not? Spence is terrified, it is obvious. Don't pay any attention to these haters, keep doing your thing, Sweet Cheeks

[factsarenice]

You hear me now – I’m ready to make that fight next. I’m ready to make it on very fair terms, where no fighter or no network has an advantage, to do that fight. We’re prepared to sit down and get that fight done. But I can’t force the other people into doing it. You understand?”

Bud wants it, Arum wants it.

[factsarenice]

Loma should of been DQ'd!

LOL MULTIPLE times you heard someone and EVEN the commentary say He's FKN HOLDING AGAIN!!!!

Actually, Lomachenko didn't fight, he was in the audience and the person he was holding was Elena his wife.

[factsarenice]

They're trying to make a fight with Spence. Why do you want him to fight anyone else? Kind of silly...no?

Who else is there for Crawford to fight on the Top Rank side?
They just lost Manny.

Look at the WBO rankings
1. Custio Calyton
2. Egidijus Kavaliauskas
3. Jessie Vargas
4. Adrien Broner
5. Giovanni Santillan
6. Luis Alberto Veron
7. Roberto Arriaza
8. Mikka Shonena
9. Kerman Lejarraga
10. Jeff Horn
11. Kudratillo Abdukakhorov
12. Rashidi Ellis
13. Karen Chukhadzhyan
14. Jose Benavidez
15. Keita Obara

[Blond Beast]

You hear me now – I’m ready to make that fight next. I’m ready to make it on very fair terms, where no fighter or no network has an advantage, to do that fight. We’re prepared to sit down and get that fight done. But I can’t force the other people into doing it. You understand?”

Bud wants it, Arum wants it.

I agree. Arum in his twilight has more willingness to find terms to make the fights. Bud might be his last great fighter. The time is now if he wants to see if Bud can become the Man.