Spence Garcia did 360,000 buys

I disagree, and I dont see much basis for it to be honest.

You say you think Spence is being built up (in the way you are referring to, relative to his peers, hes simply not) when hes not better than the rest of his peers (he is better than everyone except for maaaaybe Crawford, maybe. Saying hes not better than the rest of his division is an odd claim when theres only one guy that really can challenge him at the moment) and you think hes being forced upon the people (hes not) because hes a 'safe' personality.

When we take a closer look at those claims...

I fail to see exactly how Spence is being treated any different to how Thurman was treated? Or how Danny was treated? Or how Porter was treated?

Hes not.

The idea that hes being manufactured, any more than any other prominent talent these days, seems to me to be a pretty bizarre view on his career. Him, Thurman, Porter, and Garcia are all under the same banner... and are fights hes been dying to get, and yet he is STILL waiting on Haymon to feed him one of them. He would be twice the name he is today if they would have fed Danny and Porter to him instead of making Danny vs Porter (which they could have made afterwards anyways). If he was truly being built up in a ridiculous manner, they would have fed Porter and Danny to him by now.

So I view that as being entirely baseless. Hes being treated the same way every major fighter and fighter considered the 'real deal' is treated by their promoters and managers.

Secondly. You seem to view him being 'selected' as due to his personality, or lack thereof.

In a day and age where guys like McGreggor, Mayweather and Broner make a name for themselves by being loud and brash, where gimmicks and controversy sells and many fighters are trying to copy that formula, Spence is fairly wooden, and because of that hes being selected by the establishment, because of it?

To me this seems like a position where no matter what he did, you could say the same thing. He often refuses to 'play the game' (he canceles many media obligations due to not wanting to play that game and wanting his privacy before a fight, instead of hamming it up to be the face of boxing) and refuses to add gimicks or act out for the cameras, so you think hes being force fed to us because of it. Yet if he were to pull a Broner or a Wilder, where they act a fool and add WWE style gimmicks to their personas (Broner being a fool, making headlines, hair brush gimmick) (wilder having the bomb squad yell gimmick, general wwe persona during press conferences, ect) you would simply say hes being groomed because hes playing the establishments game.



All in all I just dont see a real case to be made that Spence is being force fed to the public, or that hes being treated differently than his peers have in recent years.

Hes rising to prominence now because
a) Hes that good
b) His peers and former peers (Thurman, Porter, Danny, Brook) have all lost significant momentum on their own... which leaves him as one of the 'last men standing' in terms of stock and 'perceived level' by the public.



Anyways, thats just my view on it.