Comments Thread For: Porter: Best Must Fight Best When We Come Back To Contend With NFL, NBA

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LOL, why did he say “we will even throw Terrance Crawford’s name in there.” Did anyone else catch that? Huh? WTF? He said it almost like Crawford is an afterthought and not a top P4P fighter in the world. But we can give Porter a pass, he may have just been thinking and mentioning most of the fighters Haymon controls or manages.

This the same CLOWN - dude legit looks like a clown lmfao - that said:

I can't fight Spence bc I'm not ranked in IBF

Shut your mouth clown

[Combat Talk Radio]

LOL, why did he say “we will even throw Terrance Crawford’s name in there.” Did anyone else catch that? Huh? WTF? He said it almost like Crawford is an afterthought

Because Crawford has chosen to be an afterthought with who he's chosen to fight.

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And hell will freeze over. Not happening.

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Did you hear that, Crawford? Shawn Porter is throwing your name out there.

The best must fight the best. You better not come up with some lame Kell Brook bullsh¡t fight when boxing returns.

[Afi23]

"I’ll go ahead and say this – myself and Terence Crawford were gonna have a conversation just before this hit. And I don’t know how this conversation was gonna go, but you do wanna see Terence Crawford and Shawn Porter"

Shawn, with plenty of down time, I think now is the time to resume this conversation with Bud. Bud, don't forget to pick up the phone though!

Only in the boxing game, I swear...

[Buggy bear]

Excellent, fighters will be forced to fight the best the way things used to be . It's the only way the fans can be persuaded to part with their limited hard earned funds . And please get rid of the endless worthless titles and the fighters with padded out records to step up or get out the sport .

[Dasmius Shinobi]

Shawn Porter is hungry and he is determine

My mind said :This is all good, If the best fight the best, knowing this is all we want as boxing fans. My heart said: Not all fighters are going to be prepare vs other good fighters. As a human being, those fighters who can fight the best vs the best is a welcome to me, but If boxers decide to fight one tune up, they have all their right. Not all boxers are going to be prepare physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually ready.

[landotter]

Everyone on this boxing forum knows about everything you stated and much more, especially that Porter and Crawford fight on a different network. I pay for DAZN & ESPN, and have every Cable TV Channel. And I’ve been watching boxing for a little over 30 years. I met Al Haymon recently when he came to Philadelphia during the Williams title fight where he was stopped. I was in the front row when he came up to say hello to me and others sitting beside me.

My point was not anything you mentioned. I know all of that already. I was just making light of how Porter mentioned all the other top welterweights first in his comments to fight each other when everything is restored, without mentioning Crawford at the top of the list, regardless of affiliation, because Crawford is one of the best welterweights period.

And if Arum and Haymon came together for Wilder (voted top PBC fighter in 2019) & Fury (ESPN-Top Rank, one of their top fighters), then we will get Crawford vs Spence or Crawford vs any of the top welterweights. The only reason people should have doubt now for that fight or any top welterweights to fight from Arum’s & Haymon’s stable in 2020 or 2021, is if Arum vs Haymon couldn’t work together to put together Wilder vs Fury. I believe they established a working relationship that benefits both of them, other promotors, and their fighters financially. I don’t see any problems with them making fights right now, regardless of the network, if both benefit.

Gawd, I wish you were the mediator for these things. Bravo

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why did crawford resign with top rank

never could figure that out if he really wanted to fight the best who new who had the best fighters bob Aurm is always talking **** about Haymon not wanting make fights with him he did the same thing with manny it his Hay day just matching him against Top rank fighters thats the same thing haymon is doing... they don't really need crawford its some good fighters over there.

[markther]

Because Crawford has chosen to be an afterthought with who he's chosen to fight.

I don’t believe Crawford has that much power. Top Rank announced on September 5th, 2018, that Crawford opted to renew and sign a multi year contract with Arum who had recently partnered with ESPN on a 7 year deal around the time of that announcement. Crawford claimed then that he was ready, willing, and able to fight all the top welterweights. So I believe Crawford and his team thought negotiating the fights with Arum as his promoter and PBC and Haymon would be easy. Three months prior, he had just beaten Jeff Horn. But since the Horn fight and after he resigned with Top Rank, Crawford has fought Benavidez, Khan, & Kavaliauskas. Both Crawford and Arum made assumptions early on that Haymon would pit his top welterweights in his stable against Crawford. I think Haymon will start making those fights now because he and Arum were successful putting together Fury/Wilder. I don’t think it’s Crawfords fault why Crawford vs Porter or Crawford vs Danny Garcia or Crawford vs Thurman, or Crawford vs Spence hasn’t been made yet. I think its shared blame with Arum & Haymon.