Comments Thread For: Amir Khan Unsure if Crawford Will Carry Up His Power To 147

[Zaroku]

that's why he is p4p. he doesnt need power to win fights. he wins in multiple ways.

floyd, ward, hopkins, just showed you for the last decade that you dont need power to win fights. the smartest fighter will win 9 times out of 10

Mind over......

[bluebeam]

Crawford is going to be fine at 147 because he's going to fight weak opposition - and it's not his fault entirely, but he knows with Arum - there will be no fights with Spence or Thurman.

Horn clearly lost to an older-faded Pacquiao and was almost stopped. Beating Horn is a solid win, but still doesn't make me believe Crawford is elite - he has the potential. I think Crawford has to leave Arum and sign with Haymon if he wants be considered an elite boxer. His resume is mediocre and he's benefited from being much bigger than the guys at 135 and fighting in a super weak division at 140. Go look at Arum's stable of fighters at 147... I see Horn, Pacquiao... nobody else. I see Crawford beating Horn and then just fighting WBO mandies for years and years.

its not going down like that. crawford is actually calling for haymon guys. unlike pacquiao and bradley.

crawford will fight arum stable guys this year. horn and pacquiao and once Spence vs thurman happens. arum will let bud fight the winner for undisputed next year.

arum won't let bud fight the whole pbc roster, but arum will let him fight the top pbc fighter. 1 fight for all the belts

[Bronx2245]

Terence Crawford's savior may be Stephen Espinoza of Showtime:

Lance Pugmire
December 19, 2017:

After the strongest boxing year of the decade, the sport could use another such year to emerge from the nagging "boxing-is-dead" cries that arise whenever the action disappoints or slows.

One possible path to ensuring that is "trading," a proposal spawned by veteran promoter Bob Arum and embraced by Showtime executive vice president Stephen Espinoza.

For instance, while it appears 2018 will include a Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin rematch on HBO and unbeaten heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder inch closer to a showdown, one of the best fights that could be made would be a welterweight bout between former 140-pound division champion Terence Crawford and either of the two unbeaten 147-pound champions, Keith Thurman or Errol Spence Jr.


Another appetizing match at 135 pounds would be unbeaten three-division champion Mikey Garcia and super-featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko.

The obstacles to those latter bouts are the television networks and the promoters linked to them. Crawford and Lomachenko fight for Arum on ESPN and Garcia, Thurman and Spence are connected to Showtime and powerful manager Al Haymon.

Trading could be the start of the solution that builds a bridge to those fights ultimately happening.

While not yet mapped out in a meeting, the premise of trading is something like this: Arum allows his World Boxing Organization featherweight champion Oscar Valdez to fight the winner of the spring's Leo Santa Cruz-Abner Mares winner on Showtime.

In return, Showtime/Haymon would air its coming Adonis Stevenson-Badou Jack light-heavyweight-title winner against Arum/ESPN's top contender, Oleksandr Gvozdyk.

"We have no problem doing that," Arum told The Times after Espinoza suggested the idea had merit at a Los Angeles news conference for Mikey Garcia's Feb. 10 junior-welterweight title shot on Showtime at champion Sergey Lipinets in San Antonio.

"It wouldn't be fair to use all his fighters on ESPN and not give him something back."

Espinoza expressed disappointment that the Dec. 9 Top Rank/ESPN card, capped by Lomachenko's dominant stoppage of former fellow two-time Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux, was packed with one-sided outcomes while drawing the second-largest cable audience of the year.

"The bigger the audience, the more I hope for a successful, entertaining card," Espinoza said. "ESPN is putting a lot of assets and putting their cards in great position as far as lead-in [like the Dec. 9 Heisman Trophy presentation], but if you get the audience there … and then it's a mismatch … that's a missed opportunity to turn them into boxing fans."

By granting fighters some inter-network travel, logic says better fights will emerge.

"There is a way for peaceful coexistence," Espinoza said, pointing to Haymon permitting Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to fight Alvarez and middleweight Daniel Jacobs to fight Golovkin on HBO earlier this year. "I thought maybe we'd get some consideration back [from HBO]. It didn't work out that way."

Jacobs ultimately departed for HBO and HBO has sought, through a closer relationship with Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn, to swipe the unbeaten heavyweight from Showtime once his contract expires after one more fight, probably a late-March/April unification date against Joseph Parker.

But Arum, with ESPN, is promising to make such fighter movement more viable, a concept Espinoza said is worth pursuing while noting, "The problem is bridging from what's said in the media and what is said behind closed doors.

"Bob has mentioned … the trade … sure, as long as it's fair. It's possible, but if we're going to let superstars go over there [on ESPN] and get trash in return, it's not going to work out. It's got to be a two-way street."

http://beta.latimes.com/sports/la-sp...219-story.html

C'mon Bob! C'mon Espinoza! This could be HUGE!!! Make it happen...PLEASE???

[Drew Bundini Br]

Amazing how this guy KHAN keeps getting articles.

[RL_GMA]

Im pretty confident Khan would get KTFO by Crawford.

That being said, I think Crawford's power will move up fine.

[thack]

Lol......Con certainly carried his chin up it is as bad as it was at lightweight & light welterweight.

[Thraxox]

Crawford technique makes the difference. He is no powerpuncher, but his technique makes his punches much sharper especially on vulnerable area's like the chest and liver area.

[Bronx2245]

that's why he is p4p. he doesnt need power to win fights. he wins in multiple ways.

floyd, ward, hopkins, just showed you for the last decade that you dont need power to win fights. the smartest fighter will win 9 times out of 10

Spot on! Floyd's only KO @ 147 is Ricky Hatton! I don't count Ortiz because Ortiz quit, looking for a DQ from the ref! The Hatton KO wasn't from power, but from perfect timing, i.e. Marquez's decapitation of Pacquiao! The question is Bud's chin @ 147. TC has been rocked by smaller guys, so let's see what happens if he's hit by Porter, Spence Jr., or Thurman.

[bryguy442]

Why does Khan keep getting quoted ??? Why does his opinion even matter?? Seriously, who gives a **** what that loser thinks ? Who the **** is Khan? All he is known for is losing !! Go away already!!!

[Andre_parker1]

we'll have to wait and see about that..time will reveal