Comments Thread For: Crawford: Frustrating Not To Face PBC Fighters, Nothing I Can Do

[giant_king]

Promoters will do anything to avoid putting there cash cow up against the real deal.but like the saying goes what goes around comes back around.Bud will get his due someday

[DaNeutral.]

When his contract is up he should sign with the PBC. It's so plain and simple that even a fool can comprehend it. It's a known fact that Al Haymon holds all the cards at the welterweight division.

Yes maybe he needs to consider a switch. But he really shouldn't need to be. Haymon hiding his welters from Crawford really isn't doing his fighters or the sport any favours. Only thing benefitting is his business needs.

It should be sport over business not the other way around.

[Wolf man 2222]

Crawford vs who?

Crawford will fall into obscurity fighting in the semi pro league of top rank boxing. Crawford is good but top rank has him up against nobody interesting. They did this to Pac-Man his last couple of years at top rank. Crawford, get out. Haymon isn’t hurting you, arum is though.

[The Big Dunn]

Yes maybe he needs to consider a switch. But he really shouldn't need to be. Haymon hiding his welters from Crawford really isn't doing his fighters or the sport any favours. Only thing benefitting is his business needs.

It should be sport over business not the other way around.

Crawford resigned with Arum and took the money knowing what that would mean in this climate. He bears some fault in his predicament.

You blame charlo for not going with DAZN when the subject is his lack of opposition. You don’t blame DAZN for hiding their mw’s.

Same should apply with Crawford.

[champion4ever]

Yes maybe he needs to consider a switch. But he really shouldn't need to be. Haymon hiding his welters from Crawford really isn't doing his fighters or the sport any favours. Only thing benefitting is his business needs.

It should be sport over business not the other way around.

I take it that you don't like the solidarity among bruvvas. It must really frighten you or something?

It was the same way with Don King back in the day when he ruled all of boxing; Especially the Heavyweight division. Every black fighter knew they had to sign with Don King in order to get title shots and to fight the best fighters available.

For example, fighters like Bernard Hopkins and even Evander Holyfield understood this. I know that it's a rotten game but it's the only one in town.

When you know that one man holds all the hens in the chicken coup then that doesn't leave you with many options or much of a choice now does it other than to sign with the man holding all of the cards or risk becoming a forgotten man?

[DaNeutral.]

Crawford resigned with Arum and took the money knowing what that would mean in this climate. He bears some fault in his predicament.

You blame charlo for not going with DAZN when the subject is his lack of opposition. You don’t blame DAZN for hiding their mw’s.

Same should apply with Crawford.

I dont blame Charlo for anything. Same rules apply. If all the best Middles are with DAZN Charlo should be free to resign with Haymon and still expect to take on those DAZN fighters if he wishes to fight them.

Charlo is free to take on any DAZN fighters on DAZN should he wish to, If he wants to face those DAZN fighters on FOX or Showtime then that is just fine by everybody. But Fox or Showtime and the PBC should be ready to stump up more money than DAZN are willing to spend on the same fights. Thats how its always worked. Go to the money.

And thats the problem at the PBC at the minute. It appears DAZN and ESPN through Top Rank seem to be ready to put more money forward for these fights than the PBC is and rather than release their fighters to fight on other networks for the chance to make more money and win belts the PBC are just holding their fighters back.

Thats where the real problem is. If the PBC, Fox, Showtime outbid their competitors then there wouldnt be a problem. But they dont even attempt to all they do is block any chance of the fights happening, pretend these none PBC fighters and their belts dont even exist and go back to making inhouse fights.

[DaNeutral.]

I take it that you don't like the solidarity among bruvvas. It must really frighten you or something?

It was the same way with Don King back in the day when he ruled all of boxing; Especially the Heavyweight division. Every black fighter knew they had to sign with Don King in order to get title shots and to fight the best fighters available.

For example, fighters like Bernard Hopkins and even Evander Holyfield understood this. I know that it's a rotten game but it's the only one in town.

When you know that one man holds all the hens in the chicken coup then that doesn't leave you with many options or much of a choice now does it other than to sign with the man holding all of the cards or risk becoming a forgotten man?

I dont know what you mean in that top line that i highlighted. Please could you tell me what you mean by that? And i hope you are not taking that down a racial route. Im sick of yank racists, im not pro black, pro white or pro anything other than Boxing when i type on this forum.

[KillaMane26]

Might as well fight Kell Brook. You have no other options.

What i been saying for the longest! I heard he wants a min. 4 million but He called Crawford out and he is rotting over on Top Rank Island.

I will never understand why any welterweights would sign exclusively to Top Rank... U mite as well start taking club fights

[megas30]

I feel like he's being sidelined by Top Rank. After the golden era, Arum's focus has been on foreign fighters. Bud made a bad move resigning with Top Rank.

[Nightfall]

Yes there is something that you can do. Go tell Arum to STFU with his on purpose fight killer rants. Haymon has always been open as long as his fighters are paid fair market value🥊