Comments Thread For: Crawford Focused on Move To 147 - Wants Keith Thurman Fight

[juandabomb]

Crawford firing the first shot..we all know Keith is recovering from surgery and still have a mandatory vs Porter so hopefully by the end of next year...wishful thinkin

[Boxfan83]

Given styles make fights, I think Keith would be hardest for Crawford, Spence not so much.

[FrankieClutch]

I really hope Uncle Bob doesn't get in the way of big fights at 147 for Crawford.

That being said, I wouldn't mind a Bud-Jessie Vargas fight for his first fight at 147

[filup79]

Crawford ain't fighting no Thurman and for that matter any top PBC WW. Arum isn't going to let the top PBC WWs dictate anything to him and they for sure ain't going to give Arum options. How many PBC guys did Bradley, Vargas or Pac fight? I doubt all of a sudden Arum is going to make those fights. Arum and ESPN won't have the budget for it and would want to make it a PPV. Where as if PBC was in charge they could put the fight on regular HBO or CBS.

[IBOX4LIFE]

You can't be serious.........TBC put every welterweight and welterweight champion on notice right after he unified. He clearly stated he was moving up and ANYBODY can get it. He was asked about a Spence matchup well before he unified and he said he has no problem fighting Spence, but he wants to get the most he can get and that means Thurman because he has two of the belts. I don't understand how people are complaining because this is daring to be great and this is how champions compete. Successful or not, I will support Bud because he is showing the qualities of a true champion.

[filup79]

Bud's options at WW are Horn, Ponomarev, old Manny, Alvarado or some low tier WW from another small promotion.

[Dean_Razorback]

anything resulting from the matching of crawford-thurman-spence would be awesome, but knowing arum he won't put his fighter vs anyone more than decent from another stable.

[IBOX4LIFE]

Do you understand how long 5-10 fights at welterweight would take?? Why would a supreme talent like TBC fight lesser opposition period. The man knows and understands his talents and skill sets and he knows he is one of the best fighters on the planet. Boxing is not a game, you don't 'play' it. Time is of the essence, especially when you're extremely skilled and you always strike while the iron is hot.

[daggum]

Do you understand how long 5-10 fights at welterweight would take?? Why would a supreme talent like TBC fight lesser opposition period. The man knows and understands his talents and skill sets and he knows he is one of the best fighters on the planet. Boxing is not a game, you don't 'play' it. Time is of the essence, especially when you're extremely skilled and you always strike while the iron is hot.

same reason floyd did cherry picking sharmba, zab, baldobum, etc...that easy money!!! not saying crawford is going to do that sicne he seems to have more confidence in himself but its a damn good reason

[_original_]

Yeah right, you're fighting Alvarado, Horn, and Jesse Vargas for the next two years.