Don't Panic! Al's master plan is to make Pacquiao vs. Spence first before Crawford.

[GhostofDempsey]

He was gonna fight Crawford for 20 million why wouldn't he fight Spence for the same?

With two or three fights left and one of them being a lucrative Floyd rematch for $100M, I doubt he is going to take fights he doesn’t need. I can see him fighting Mikey or even Thurman for the super WBA belt, but I don’t see Spence in his future.

[Jsmooth9876]

With two or three fights left and one of them being a lucrative Floyd rematch for $100M, I doubt he is going to take fights he doesn’t need. I can see him fighting Mikey or even Thurman for the super WBA belt, but I don’t see Spence in his future.

Well yeah that's the great unknown, was he guaranteed a floyd rematch after this Broner fight.

If not, I think he may take broner, then maybe Thurman for the WBA and if somehow he's still standing then Spence if the price is right. All a dream most likely

[RomanReigns]

It's a passing of the torch.

[pasawayako]

sorry but I'm confident that pac will do the same to spence what he did to dela hoya and margarito.

[Boksfan]

Wasn't he fighting Broner?

[spenz]

What if pac comes into the ring and shows his age and gets Stopped by AB....AB vs any of the other WW champs will make $$$

Possible but sure is unexpected. AB is seen as an appetizer for the bigger things to come for Manny as a PBC fighter. The culmination of things is when Spence get in there with Manny. Floyd cleverly knows this and Spence will be his final shield before Manny get to him, and certainly time is not on Manny's favor whether he rushed to the matter or not. Floyd surely promised Manny a fight but only if he can finish eight labors of Hercules at his age.

[spenz]

Won’t happen. You must think PAC is ******. He didn’t sign with Haymon to be a gatekeeper.

Not out of the question. But superstars and former superstars rarely think of themselves as a gatekeeper ever. It's only several years after when they realized after watching themselves on a video how slow they've become, how dulled their reflex have become and their reactions to punches is entirely different on what they felt on that moment. Delusions are not rare on these ATGs, they always believed they can turn back time just one more time.

[Johnny2x2x]

Sometimes you burn a fighter to make more money with your other fighters. Manny will make PBC some cash first, but he’ll get fed to the next big thing when it’s time and then he’ll be a gatekeeper.

[Mr.365]

Al Haymon is a genius, he will do something like Pac-May 2 after the AB PPV then get Pacman a winable fight like Kell Brook, Swift Garcia, Shawn Porter to pad up his record / bring back his confidence or always injured Thurman then finally retire him vs a real killer aka the next star in boxing Errol Spence

[KTFOKING]

How much money would Haymon have to pay Pacquiao to take this fight? It makes all sense in the world for him to feed him to Spence soon to build his star. This is how boxing works when passing the torch.

Either way, after Garcia, Spence needs to fight either Pacquiao or Porter in the summer. Then go after Crawford or Thurman end of the year. 2019 has to be the year he makes a real leap into stardom.