Comments Thread For: Spence: I'm Not Worried About Crawford; I Don't Know What He Was Doing Here

[factsarenice]

PBC is scared to put those belts on the line. If boxing was a fair play sport,it wouldn't be a big deal for a promotional outfit to lose control of the belts. It would be a round robin and the best fighters would work their way into mandatory status and get a shot at any belt irregardless of promotional affiliation. Instead you get these freeze outs and it is ruining the sport.

The Spence Garcia fight had no pizazz whatsoever. It was a foregone conclusion who the winner would be. Garcia had NO chance from the beginning and anyone who follows boxing closely knew that. Why Garcia is considered an elite welterweight is beyond me. He lost to Porter,who also falls far below elite status. They are both good fighters with lots of heart. But they are not elite level boxers.

PBC is saving Spence for a mega fight against Canelo.
That way the belts aren't on the line if he loses. Spence is a good fighter. But he will never be considered great without fighting Crawford. The way they keep ducking him is pathetic and there is no excuse for it. Crawford should be able to sign with whoever he wants and still get a chance at the belts Spence holds and vice versa. Peace.

Spence was guaranteed 1.5 million and Danny 1 with both expected to make 500 thousand on the PPV back end. Spence vs Crawford is the ONLY payday at 147.

[factsarenice]

Spence Jr made $1.5 million guaranteed purse and if the pay-per-view sales stay strong he will make $2 million from the fight.

Now comes the fun part - negotiations.

Due to his inability to draw, in no way does Bud deserve a 50-50 split. Crawford's own promoter would tell you so.

[kej718]

PBC will not make a fight that will benefit Top Rank after they sued him and called Haymon a cancer to the sport. You people are delusional (They will wait it out and sign Crawford if he becomes a free agent).

You got to call it the same both ways. Top Rank has most of the belts at 140, you think they would put their champ in their against a PBC guy who isn't much of a draw and has a good chance of winning?

Why not Naoya Inoue vs (John Riel Casimero vs Guillermo Rigondeaux winner), or Luis Nery
Crawford vs Porter

[rrayvez]

Yeah? Well whatever, I don’t care about Crawford his style is boring and I’ll be watching Spence till his career ends and matter fact I hope he never gives Crawford the time of FDT

crawford is boring? The guy won his last 8 fights in a row by ko/tko. Your dislike for Crawford is obviously related to your affection for Canelo since many believe him to be better than Canelo p4p. Out of curiosity, how many Canelo fights have you found truly exciting over the past 5 years?

[CmdrSoCal]

Spence can barely beat second rate PBC fighters of course he will continue to duck Crawford. Spence may be the next Adonis Stevenson.

[Gunitsmith]

Spence was guaranteed 1.5 million and Danny 1 with both expected to make 500 thousand on the PPV back end. Spence vs Crawford is the ONLY payday at 147.

amen. We know Spence Crawford is the second biggest fight in boxing be behind Fury Joshua. The should each make between 7-10 mil to fight each other. Why Spence isn't clamoring for it makes no sense. And anyone who thinks all Crawford has to do to fight Spence is sign with PBC has another thing coming. Spence will STILL freeze him out and fight lower level competition. It's like
they have some sort of brotherhood over there and don't want to hurt each other at the higher echelons. That is not what makes for compelling boxing matches.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Maybe he was there because he's a boxing fan?

No, he was there to get exposed to a crowd, since his fight didn't.

But I wish NSB would LISTEN to what Spence said here:


“I mean, he gotta live up to his words,” Spence said. “If he say he’s not worried about me, then I don’t know what he was doing here. I probably wouldn’t go to none of his fights, so I’m not worried about Terence Crawford. "

[kej718]

Spence was guaranteed 1.5 million and Danny 1 with both expected to make 500 thousand on the PPV back end. Spence vs Crawford is the ONLY payday at 147.

only 500K?

If it sells 200k x $75 = $15,000,000

Both Spence and Garcia have their own promotional companies so they get more there too, plus there is the gate (16,000 in attendance if I'm not mistaken)

Spence got 60% of the PPV share in his previous fights.

https://www.sportekz.com/boxing/errol-spence-jr-net-worth/

So if it does at least 200K that's 9 Mil? Am I missing something?

[Bigchip]

If the “other side of the street” video siding tell you, then his response here should.

The Crawford fight won’t happen and I think we know who is to blame.

This dude is a hypocrite and a jerk.

[kej718]

amen. We know Spence Crawford is the second biggest fight in boxing be behind Fury Joshua. The should each make between 7-10 mil to fight each other. Why Spence isn't clamoring for it makes no sense. And anyone who thinks all Crawford has to do to fight Spence is sign with PBC has another thing coming. Spence will STILL freeze him out and fight lower level competition. It's like
they have some sort of brotherhood over there and don't want to hurt each other at the higher echelons. That is not what makes for compelling boxing matches.

Crawford is demanding at least a 50/50 split. Spence has been getting 60% of the PPV for his previous fights. They you have to split the revenue between 2 networks. Crawford to the PBC would at least raise his profile even if they don't fight right away. The fight would have to do at least 500K for it to be worth it for both sides.