Comments Thread For: Crawford Targets Pacquiao: It Should Have Happened, I Want it Next

[Oregonian]

Khan did better than Brook. Well done Crawford. Ppl doubted said Brook is bigger has fought with champs

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Because he lasted longer? That’s a measurement of success?
Brook was up in the scorecards until he got clipped. It happens in boxing.
Was Khan ever ahead or putting up a good fight?

[Oregonian]

not surprising.. Britishers getting the azz kicked in US

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Lacy, a great American hype got destroyed in the UK.
Porter got his ass kicked in the UK too.
History is not without a sense of irony

[Bronx2245]

... Pacquiao should fight Porter next (or any other Haymon fighter)...
... by no means whatsoever Pacquiao should fight Bud...
... that's the right thing to do...

Mikey Garcia, Vergil Ortiz Jr., or Conor McGregor! Those would be my suggestions!

[Mickey Pearson]

Bud ducking Pac for years

[RuleOfTheSpear]

Let's make boxing great again by recreating Hearns vs Duran!!!!!

[Jab jab boom]

I think he will end like GGG once he steps up and faces top opposition.

He reminds me on GGG once. GGG hardcore fans also claimed GGG was one of the best middleweights ever.

Crawford likely loses a decision to Spence.

if by reminding you of ggg you mean avoided by the divisions best, then yes, that’s exactly what’s happening. In the case of ggg, while he didn’t look dominant after the step up in comp, the willingness to face him didn’t happen until he hit 35 which is when most boxers start to slow down. Even so, he still beat Jacobs, definitely deserved the win vs a 28 yr old canelo in the first fight and probably should’ve gotten the decision vs a 29 yr old canelo too. Regardless of who you thought won, none of these middleweights in their prime have been able to convincingly get a win vs an old ggg. As far as Crawford, there’s a reason why pbc is unwilling to make those fights. He’s too much of a risk so they’d prefer to keep it in house.

[rrayvez]

Pac is 42. Why is the supposed PFP #1 calling out a 42 year old fighter?

who knows, probably recognized that espns # 2 pound for pound guy built up his career by primarily facing guys between the ages of 35 and 42. It’d be nice to see either guy actually face a top fighter in their prime.

[Armchairhero]

He is not the best fighter. I don`t even think he is the best welterweight.

Yeh, it’s a toss up between him and Errol. Just because Bud is a smooth operator doesn’t mean he can beat him. These two should have fought 2 or 3 times already, they are miles ahead of everyone else at the weight. Any other fight is utterly pointless...

[Ry92]

Omm bud is copping out taking easiest fights. Pac got 2 fights left we know they gonna be biggest money fights lowest risk mayweather playbook. Pacquiao earned the right to do such now in career. We know pacquiao 2 fights gonna be vs mcgegor and either mikey garcia in tx or vegas with a huge possibility of amir khan in saudi uae. For they paid dude 8m to fight a nobody no name journeymam indian so u know paq would command 40-50m its tax free low risk m pacquiao aint getting that type $ unless its mcgregor anywhere in world. Crawford should build hype up fight porter garcia ugas or thurman next then crawfordm pbc would sign off for that they got none lose no belt but all gain n if they lose its builds hype up for spence vs crawford to finally do 500k above ppv sales to justify 20m each for spence crawford

[Ry92]

if by reminding you of ggg you mean avoided by the divisions best, then yes, that’s exactly what’s happening. In the case of ggg, while he didn’t look dominant after the step up in comp, the willingness to face him didn’t happen until he hit 35 which is when most boxers start to slow down. Even so, he still beat Jacobs, definitely deserved the win vs a 28 yr old canelo in the first fight and probably should’ve gotten the decision vs a 29 yr old canelo too. Regardless of who you thought won, none of these middleweights in their prime have been able to convincingly get a win vs an old ggg. As far as Crawford, there’s a reason why pbc is unwilling to make those fights. He’s too much of a risk so they’d prefer to keep it in house.

preach the truthness on ggg it took an old 37 yr old ggg to finally lose his first real fight verse sergey. So ggg legit i agree 100% but crawford i dont agree on for i feel pbc would sign off on a porter ugas thurman and garcia no belts on line its all win pbc for i think 2 of those fighter high chance beating crawford. But if they lose it adds hype of for spence crawford giving it the 500k or more buys to justify a 20m purse for each. We know the fight aint getting made til 2022 earliest anyways bud would be 36 probably starting to slow which aint good for a slow starter thats based off athletism. Giving spence more of edge making haymon more comfortable to sign off on fight with rematch clause cause rematch bud would be 37