Crawford v Avanesyan - 120,000 buys

They salty about King Wilder's 75,000 PPV buys. No mention of that ever...or his padded resume.

 

If Spence wants to duck Crawford.....then ok, it's a weak puss move, but ok whatever

But he can't also duck Jaron Ennis and Vergil Ortiz

Keith Thurman?? Who's fought twice in the last 3.5yrs ?

 

So every fight throughout the history of boxing was 50/50 before Floyd? This BS narrative that Floyd ruined boxing is stupid. He put on some of the most watched events in the history of boxing. Casuals were brought into the sport. Wanting more for being the guy actually doing the real work is the right thing. Promoters getting millions to do what a secretary gets paid minimum wage to do is what's ridiculous?

 

Typical Floyd fan talking ****. Floyd took cherry picking to a new level. There were always mismatches and cherry pickers in pro boxing and always will be. Some guys just do it better than others. Modern boxing is tainted with the stench Floyd left with his A side bullshite and young fighters afraid to take risks in order to preserve the 0. Guys like Tank Davis who is treated like a prospect even though he’s approaching 30. Guys like Crawford and Spence who have avoided each other for years and don’t appear to ever want to fight each other.

My comment was more about the A side bull****. It pisses me off becaise im a boxing fan and want to see the top guys fight eachotjer in the ring. Not in the sporting news or on Twitter. Too many guys like to pretend they are scumbag promoters and play the A Side crap game. I have zero respect for fighters who do it and even less for fans.

 

I never understood the whole "Mayweather ruined boxing" thing. All I know is that, when Floyd was fighting, boxing was much more prominent in the mainstream here in the USA, and he was the focal point of it. Whether we watched to see Floyd win or lose, the thing was that we watched. Loads of us.

I also never understood why people say he was boring. I mean, I understand that Floyd didn't have the most exciting style ever, at least in terms of toe-to-toe wars and super-aggressive ring demeanor. For me, just to watch that amazing skillset in action was an awesome sight to behold, and I've never been bored watching him, mostly. He was mesmerizing.

Of course, he had boring stretches through some fights, but it happens, most of the ATG have had their share of flat performances.

 

Not really. De La Hoya was none for this before Mayweather. That's were Mayweather learned it from.

 

It's so hard to know what boxing fans will and won't buy. They keep trotting out Tank vs no-hopers for the super regularweight untitle on PPV, so it must be profitable?

But then Arum says that he can't make money on Crawford, who is better than Tank, fighting arguably live-er guys (at least they're bigger and have more of a puncher's chance), for one of the better titles in the sport. Too many mouths to feed at ESPN?

 

Sasto! You safe in the Woo, my man?!

 

The recipe is simple.

The main event has to be bomb. The co-main also has to be bomb. Then everything after can suck.

Danny Garcia-Lucas Matthysse on the Mayweather-Canelo undercard was one of the rare times they did it RIGHT.

 

Crawfords a dud

 

I'd say realistically, it probably did around 30K.

I was one of the suckers who paid to see Bud KO a can w/ loaded gloves.

 

Yeah, I made the mistake of leaving the state and ended up with a very bad case of influenza. The medicine they gave me for it has made me sicker still, but it's improving now.

 

You're right about the A side BS. I'll give you that much.

 

In fairness he wasn’t the first or last to do it. I’m just a fan of boxing and I want to see the best fights. There are too many guys who exit the sport broke and battered. The corrupt alphabet soup Boxing commissions should do more to ensure the top fighters fight each other.