Terence Crawford is a superb fighter with great skill. But hes been frozen out and hasnt fought anybody. We know what's going to happen cuz we have all seen it before. As soon as he turns 35 or 36 somebody decent will miraculously grow a pair of balls cuz hes old. Then Crawford will beat him on points, but get robbed on the cards. Then he will get even older and the floodgates open. All of a sudden everybody wants and thinks they can take Bud. And then idiot fans will start saying as soon as he stepped up he was exposed. And then people will say he was never that good. It's all so predictable.
He has the personality of a tin of beans. If he was on free TV then people would watch him but he has no real fan base that are willing to pay PPV money to watch him fight.
I can't think of too many guys that call out Crawford. That would change if he was a huge draw. The man is in that position of very high risk low reward. He needs a signature win to get him over that. Like Hopkins did with Trinidad and Mayweather did with De la Hoya. Pac, in my opinion, is that guy. If the fight happens, he needs to dominate and finish Pac. Beat him up and stop him. Send Manny into retirement. That is a tall order, because Manny is a special fighter in his own right.
Crawford made his bed when he re-upped with Arum. He and Spence should of fought years ago, neither seem to really want to make the fight happen and we will probably see it in like 4 years (in a weird less lucrative replay of how May-Pac came about)
This. Crawford got too comfortable with Arum. Resigning with Arum didn’t make much sense, since Arum’s stable at 147 is very limited, so it isn’t shocking the other named welterweights in other stables like Porter are going to gouge Crawford for their services, since Crawford has pretty much ran out of named fighters Arum could supply him.
Fights like MaPac are like a five star, gourmet meal served cold. You can still get the essence of what the chef was trying to do, but it definitely would have better served up hot.
Arum is happy to throw Crawfish under the bus now that he has skin in the game with Fury He was waiting to throw Pac under the bus against Crawford but Pacquiao was taking too long to age then left him! Now Crawford resides in a cage under Bob's desk all but forgotten.
Eh... It took a looooooooong time before the big name PBC guys decided to fight each other. No guarantee that they wouldn't have ducked Crawford. Besides, the promoters had very little to do with this.
