Comments Thread For: Arum: Pacquiao Shouldn't Take Fight With Spence; Can Get Hurt

[Slowhand]

So, a top ww shouldn´t fight another top ww because he might get punched in the face?

[tdubb]

Only on a message board can Keith Thurman be considered a cherry pick.

[spenz]

By now if you're familiar with Bob Arum, you are also familiar with his double-speak.

What Bob is telling you is that, Manny should not fight Spence before Crawford because he is afraid of the possibility that the one and only superfight for Crawford might get derailed by Pacquiao.

Similar reason why he doesn't want Crawford fighting Pacquiao, it's not about Manny's health, but the possibility of Crawford losing and blowing away his 20-30m investment without successfully passing the torch. Bob Arum has always said that he is not a gambler--it's not in his DNA; and the unpredictability of Manny's ring potential, even at his age, make it so that ******** against him is extremely perilous.

This is why Crawford should leave Bob Arum as soon as he legally can, --Arum did not trust him enough to invest on him on Pacquiao and he may have lost that chance forever because there's a big possibility that Manny would just settle-down in PBC until his retirement because after all, Uncle Al is paying him so well and is treated with respect.

[Roadblock]

Only on a message board can Keith Thurman be considered a cherry pick.

What do you call a high profile fighter that had 2 yrs out because of major surgery with one fight back and looking real bad ?

Do you really think Manny takes it if Thurman blew through lopez.

Wake up and smell the real world.

[ptek]

What do you call a high profile fighter that had 2 yrs out because of major surgery with one fight back and looking real bad ?

Do you really think Manny takes it if Thurman blew through lopez.

Wake up and smell the real world.

Yer, that's what I think to.
Pacman and his team cherry picked Thurman based on his 2yr lay off & on how bad Thurman looked in his last outing against Lopez.
If Thurman was the same fighter that got rid of Porter & Danny Garcia no way Manny and his team would take that fight.
And saying all that Thurman and his team should have realised that the Manny fight was to soon for there man Thurman to be triumphant in but for the greed of the cash no dought ? & Legacy he lost this 0.

[YoungManRumble]

As if that curmudgeon old *** actually cares about someones health or anything other than money.

[Truth Serum]

Manny has called Spence out, says how he will beat him then wants nothing to do with him, even left him of his public poll on who should he fight next, wtf is that straight after you call him out.

Manny WILL NOT fight Spence bet your life on it,,,,,,,unless Spence looks like dogsht against Porter, if Spence stops Porter Manny will not go near him engrave that in stone.

Anybody that knows boxing knows Spence will destroy Manny nobody wants to see Manny get ship wrecked.

Is this assessment based off of the Mikey fight or the Kell Brook fight?... For all we know Thurman whoops Spence!

[Roadblock]

Is this assessment based off of the Mikey fight or the Kell Brook fight?... For all we know Thurman whoops Spence!

Are you blind Spence will maul Thurman.

The Brook fight being in the UK and Errol not being at his tip top best showed just how physically tough he is in the trenches , the Garcia fight showed how good of a technical boxer he is , he is a big straight punching south paw , my friend you better learn how to read form Errol will stop Porter and only TC because of his speed-timing and accuracy has a chance to beat Errol right now, Manny and Thurman are both soundly beaten by both Errol and Crawford.

[Mindgames]

Just make the fight. There wasnt all this "getting hurt" talk when 50 year old Bhop fought Kovalev. Pacs better than Thurman still, so whats the problem?

[Mindgames]

Are you blind Spence will maul Thurman.

The Brook fight being in the UK and Errol not being at his tip top best showed just how physically tough he is in the trenches , the Garcia fight showed how good of a technical boxer he is , he is a big straight punching south paw , my friend you better learn how to read form Errol will stop Porter and only TC because of his speed-timing and accuracy has a chance to beat Errol right now, Manny and Thurman are both soundly beaten by both Errol and Crawford.

Theres nothing to suggest Spence is this monster that Pac dare not face. I dont know where you get Spence not being at hes best when he fought Brook. Brook wasnt at hes best, hed just had hes face smashed in a stoppage loss. But anyway, Spence didnt stop much smaller Garcia, didnt walk through Brook to easily. Hes good but i cant see why he's now some George Foreman type figure.If he doesn't stop Porter, and i think he doesn't, can we stop exaggerating all this danger?