Part of me feels like they’re in negotiations for that next contract and he’s asking for more control on what fights he’ll approve. I’ll say for the last 5-6 months in interviews he’s been kind of alluding to that and that’s why a lot of good fighters are in the shelf. I believe he’s finished with the Lara vs Cornflake type of fights on regular showtime while putting Lara vs Hurd type of fights on PPV. Like of all the JMWs under the PBC banner (Harrison, Hurd, Rosario, Costano, J Rock) there’s no way Fondura should be fighting Ocampo. He lacks a backbone but he could be feeling pressure from the people he answer to and is probably at the point HBO got to with Al Haymon’s business antics.
That's more wishful thinking rather as he truly has always been a lackey & nothing more under the strong thumb of the trio of Haymon, Leotard,Mayweather, Do you recall Haymon trying to banish Espinoza after he was done using him when he was offered that lubricative deal with FOX & further offering him occasional low interest level fights for the SHOWTIME shows when he had a throwaway in a way sustaining his relationship incase he indeed needed to retreat in the future, Since that time now with the PBC's deal souring with FOX Al has resorted being back with Espinoza due to having no other livable option, quiet ironic how these two keep having to end up being run up together due to circumstances out of their own hands as we know Haymon didn't really want or expect to have to run back to SHOWTIME again as his plan has always been to springboard to a higher sealing & not have to end back to where he started, Before Espinoza showed up SHOWTIME was run allot better, only since his emergence as the CEO has it become what you currently see as a standing groupie affair, i still remember when that bottom feeder Espinoza was at ringside in the old HBO fight's being a hater & looking lost with his unibrow, guess with money he finally believes he belongs now & isn't just that lame kid in the corner.
Hilarious part is, this isn't really that big of a fight. It's a HBO WCB fight a couple decades ago. Spence was such a breath of fresh air up until he won the IBF title, too. How many of Haymon's blue-chip guys go overseas to take on a strong, skilled, hard-hitting, seasoned titlist in his back yard, let alone demand the assignment as their first real step into world class?
Now Spence is straight up halitosis and Crawford walks around with swamp ass. A two-pronged olfactory assault on the boxing world.