Comments Thread For: Thurman To Arum: Stop Talking Sh-t! Not My Fault You Can't Afford Fight For Crawford

[Bob]

Ah bless Keef screaming from the back of the bus.

[Afi23]

Obviously Keith is entitled to his opinion and Crawford has made some questionable decisions with his career, that being said, Keith, do you want the fight or not? If so, come to the negotiable table in good faith and try to make a fight happen. And Bob, please stop trashing any PBC 147lbs not named Errol Spence, that would help.

Whatever Keith's number is (or any other top PBC 147lbs), if TR/ESPN truly can't afford an approximately 8-10 million (combined purses) fight between Bud vs Keith, Danny or Shawn, we have a problem here!

Ever since it has been reported that Crawford's deal might be up next October, every PBC fighter wants to play manager/adviser to Bud. Unless, they seriously want the fight in the upcoming months, they need to shut up and wait until October and see where the chips fall regarding Bud and TR (and the pandemic). I believe only Shawn really wants the fight at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I'd love for Bud to fight all these guys.

[SplitSecond]

Wilder fought Fury twice! GGG fought Danny Jacobs and Dervy! Lomachenko fought GRJ! Spence fought Brook! LSC fought Frampton twice! Arum is highly questionable, and has been! Don't you remember Manny was "scared of needles?" Don't you remember the "fake contracts?" Go see what Mikey was saying! Mikey was taking $100-150K shorts on the regular! Bob tried to destroy Rigo's career, and now he's trying to do the same to Crawford! I think he's a real petty man!

Nice names I guess. Cherrypicks (Fury, Frampton) and hitmen (Derev, Spence). Don’t fall so easily for the halfway decent matchup because Haymon needs to take a little risk every blue moon so people stay duped. None of these PBC guy’s were established fighter’s taking risks, where’s Haymon’s risk here? I’m talking 50-50, two top fighter’s, unifications. Jacobs and Gary Russell are the outlier’s, the outsider’s in the inside. Jacobs is advised by Haymon but also signed with Hearn, while Gary has made public his opinion that Haymon is protecting fighters from him. The point anyway, is that It is obviously not easy to get fights done with PBC fighters, for anyone, nvm Arum. Not unless you are going in expected to lose.

[Sctrojan]

How much is Thurman worth?

Not as much as he thinks he is. Outside of casual boxing fans nobody really knows who tf he is,they just remember him as the guy Pac beat. Let's see if PBC is willing to pay him what he thinks hes worth which I highly doubt. Seems to me this rant was more about him begging for a payday than anything....I'd say $2mil at most for what he currently brings to the table.

[SplitSecond]

PBC has made attempts to make these kind of fights but other promoters will block it unless it benefits them.

Jermell Charlo for example he should have faced the WBO champ to unify all the belts, but that is a Golden Boy fighter. (His mandatory is another PBC fighter, so what is taking so long?)

Jermall Charlo has been trying to face GGG, Canelo, Munguia (has been rank #1 by the WBC for a while now)

They made Wilder vs Fury twice (got delayed the 2nd time after he signed with Top Rank)

We could have had Wilder vs Whyte if they put Joshua on the contract too years ago.

You could go back to Stevenson vs Kovalev when they asked to push up the pursed bid to make the fight happen and were guaranteed a 50/50 split for both sides (those articles were posted and written on this site).

They made Loma vs Gary Russell with no problem.

Joshua fought Andy Ruiz (Joshua won his first title against PBC fighter)


John Riel Casimero has been calling out Inoue for a long time, why not make that fight in the future?

If the money is not there for both sides then the fight will not happen. Lets stop acting like it is one promoter or organization that is doing it.

This is why guys like Gary Russell and Haney can't get fights.

Why is everyone blocking Al Haymon/PBC but will unify together?

[SplitSecond]

Obviously Keith is entitled to his opinion and Crawford has made some questionable decisions with his career, that being said, Keith, do you want the fight or not? If so, come to the negotiable table in good faith and try to make a fight happen. And Bob, please stop trashing any PBC 147lbs not named Errol Spence, that would help.

Whatever Keith's number is (or any other top PBC 147lbs), if TR/ESPN truly can't afford an approximately 8-10 million (combined purses) fight between Bud vs Keith, Danny or Shawn, we have a problem here!

Ever since it has been reported that Crawford's deal might be up next October, every PBC fighter wants to play manager/adviser to Bud. Unless, they seriously want the fight in the upcoming months, they need to shut up and wait until October and see where the chips fall regarding Bud and TR (and the pandemic). I believe only Shawn really wants the fight at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I'd love for Bud to fight all these guys.

I’m fairly confident Crawford fights some PBC guy next (covid etc, they need the money) and then Spence in the end of the year at 34 years of age. Maybe that’ll be enough to convince Haymon Spence will win. The plan is a 2 fight deal and pushing back the Spence fight allows covid restrictions to hopefully ease up a little more.

[Afi23]

I’m fairly confident Crawford fights some PBC guy next (covid etc, they need the money) and then Spence in the end of the year at 34 years of age. Maybe that’ll be enough to convince Haymon Spence will win. The plan is a 2 fight deal and pushing back the Spence fight allows covid restrictions to hopefully ease up a little more.

I hope you are right because as a boxing fan, I can't have a 33 years old Bud sitting until October because the competition is waiting for his contract to expire.

[Curtis2]

Terence Duckford is a idiot

Haymon understands very well, Thurman, Danny & Porter don't even qualify as competitive sparring work for T Crawford!

[-Kev-]

Terence Duckford is a idiot

An idiot who’s telling the truth and has fought better opponents than Crawford has.

[Nightfall]

Arum trying to make it like everybody else is the issue. his fighter is the one that has a dry resume at 147.