Arum admits he lost a ton of money on Crawford-Khan so he's desperate for Spence-Bud

[BamaSlamma]

Crawford basically brings nothing to the promotion...the guy is a bore.

[Scipio2009]

Why wasn't Crawford at the Top Rank upfront having his fight announced when all the other Top Rank fights were announced a couple of weeks ago?

Because ESPN didn't want their big story to be "OMG, our best p4p fighter and the only welterweight that should matter, is fighting a guy whose name that they have so much trouble even trying to say that he's been reduced to Mean Machine!!¡!"

Arum knows he's ****ed here, so he and ESPN are hiding the ball for as long as they can

[Mazukan]

I agree with those who say Crawford is a bore. I’m a big fan of his but all the draws in boxing promote themselves well to a certain extent.
Even Lomo and Triple G who speak broken English have more charisma than Crawford.

He needs to shake things up. Maybe start talking some serious ****, either directly to Spence or to any takers. He actually has accolades he can lean on but he just chooses to seemingly not worry about it.

[Scipio2009]

I put some blame on Crawford. Hes a very good boxer but lacks in personality. His interviews are boring. Very soft spoken dude. Even his nickname "Bud" is a non starter. He needs to revamp his whole persona.

His personality is fine; you simply work with what he's got.

I watch a lot of football; college and the NFL. This past Saturday was Ohio State vs Nebraska, in Nebraska. And the game was featured on ESPN College Gameday.

ESPN had Gabrielle Union on (with Wade) to talk with the crew; born in Omaha, lifelong fan, but did leave Nebraska for California before she was 10.

Terence Crawford could've been in that same spot, talked up his support for Nebraska football, ESPN could cross-leverage their assets, and you'd still have Corso and Herbstreit to deliver the exciting stuff like usual.

Expose and push the talent, maybe the money doesn't come back quickly, but if the talent is what you think it is, the money will come back and then some.


Errol Spence Jr isn't the biggest personality, but Haymon got with him after the Olympics, pushed him hard, put the money and opportunities behind him, and after 5 years of work, took the big shot against Kell Brook, before starting this star phase of the push, and the money's starting to really come back now.

[Bmore18]

His personality is fine; you simply work with what he's got.

I watch a lot of football; college and the NFL. This past Saturday was Ohio State vs Nebraska, in Nebraska. And the game was featured on ESPN College Gameday.

ESPN had Gabrielle Union on (with Wade) to talk with the crew; born in Omaha, lifelong fan, but did leave Nebraska for California before she was 10.

Terence Crawford could've been in that same spot, talked up his support for Nebraska football, ESPN could cross-leverage their assets, and you'd still have Corso and Herbstreit to deliver the exciting stuff like usual.

Expose and push the talent, maybe the money doesn't come back quickly, but if the talent is what you think it is, the money will come back and then some.


Errol Spence Jr isn't the biggest personality, but Haymon got with him after the Olympics, pushed him hard, put the money and opportunities behind him, and after 5 years of work, took the big shot against Kell Brook, before starting this star phase of the push, and the money's starting to really come back now.

Damn I didnt think of that. Good call. Missed opportunity. Another example how ESPN is not putting their full weight behind Bud like they are with Fury and to an extent Loma

[eco1]

I think Arum has too much money to be desperate. lol.

[killakali]

Why wasn't Crawford at the Top Rank upfront getting his fight announced when they were announcing the other fights? Including the undercard of his supposed Dec 14th date.

Top rank didn’t have the undercard fights announced at the fury fight. Only the October and November fights. And not even all of the November fights.

Nice try though. I watched the stream and Teofimo or Commey weren’t there.

[killakali]

Arum don't even want to pay Crawford for his next fight against Mean Machine. He should send Crawford over to FOX and let them foot the bill like he did for Ramirez at DAZN & Lomachenko with Matchroom against Campbell.

Bob Arum appeals to Al Haymon for Spence-Crawford ASAP @woodsy1069 @trboxing @errolspenceJr @terencecrawford @premierboxing https://t.co/3SBwlZ2tLr

— Bible of Boxing (@ringmagazine) September 30, 2019

Haymon should send Charlo over to DAZN ASAP and get that boy a big fight. Not Dennis Hogan 🤣

[MDPopescu]

"If Spence and Crawford fight the press conference would be great, we could watch each fighter get sleepier and sleepier until one of them falls asleep. Good thing they don't fight the way they talk.

(comment the The Ring article)...

[Pigeons]

Of course they did. They paid $10.5M in purses to Crawford and Khan alone. The most generous projection I've seen is 175K which would give them about $13M in PPV revenue before the cable and satellite industry takes half.


The better question is how much are they losing on this Fury deal. Unless ESPN is footing the bill for Fury while Crawford-Khan came out of Top Rank's pockets.