Crawford doesn't think Pacquiao was legit

I always loved how Arum blamed Crawford for not being a household name even though Arum was LITERALLY the PROMOTER. His job was to PROMOTE yet all of his marquee fighters did much better for themselves AFTER they left Arum...DLH, Floyd, Bud. Whats that tell you about Arum and his "promotions?"

 

Top Rank can build you up as a prospect but once you hit main stage it s up to you to become a star.

 

Pacquaio's one of the modern GOATs from the lower weights. Crawford is being salty on this one. He should have been fighting at super featherweight or lightweight at the max during the end of his career but he went up to 147 daring to be great.

 

Crawford should have been this vocal before he retired. He might have wound up in some decent fights off the back of it. I like Crawford but he’s really banking on the canelo fight to legitimise his own legacy. I think that win will age badly a few years down the line once a new group of boxing fans are eyeing over his resume without the bias that Crawford benefits from today from his own fans.

 

Nah. GBP made Canelo a STAR. PBC made Wilder and Spence and Thurman a STAR. Tom Loeffler (promoter) made GGG a STAR. Eddie Hearn (promoter) made AJ a STAR. Eddie Hearn made Katie Taylor a STAR.

Promoters absolutely CAN make STARS. How TR **** the bed with Crawford and Loma and needed a generational talent in Mannny to succeed in "promoting."

 

You got a point on those examples.
There are ex for TR aswell.Oscar springs to mind.

 

Arum builds fighters, they just box and run in their last fights promoted under him or. See Shakur Stevensen and Bud Crawford’s last fights promoted under the TR banner.

 

“I know some people who met him.” Yeah right.

 

The point is Arum couldve sold those fighters better. See Floyd and Bud and DLH. They all became wayyyyy bigger after leaving Bop

 

Nah, they went to different promotions that didn’t want to work with each other..

Pacquiao doesn’t care either way. He personally didn’t avoid Crawford.

it’s just Crawford chasing cash cow #2

 

He was in my home suburb of Kogarah and attended gyms and restaurants in the area so not that far fetched lad.

 

Why wpuld he lie? I've heard the same thing from a guy in america who gets Crawford to sign things for him a d he said the same thing. This was 6.5 years ago. Crawford a moody ****.

 

Crawford has always been resentful that old Pacquiao didn't fight him and he couldn't feast on his corpse for name recognition. Plus, there's another pattern here that is hard to ignore concerning how some fighters tend to view their asian contemporaries.

 

Pacquaio was finished 14 years ago. Marquez did the boxing world a favour.