What's The Holdup On T-Bud Crawford's Next Fight

[saopaulo]

crawford is a clown never fought anyone his entire waste of a career. dont see how he is ranked # 1 for beating a damaged goods spence. when guys like this retire boxing will be better

[KillaMane26]

Bud is basking in the Spence glory like he beat SRR.

Lol this is a actually true lol

[JakeTheBoxer]

Bud is basking in the Spence glory like he beat SRR.

I can`t blame him. On the paper, it was 50-50 fight. I actually expected Spence to win. Now everybody here plays smart like they all expected Crawford to win, but that was not the case.

[Atypicalbrit]

There is no hold up. PBC and Amazon just released their first card yesterday. There should be some announcements next week or shortly after.

He's fought ONCE per year for the last 4 years and we are now 6 months after his previous fight with nothing announced, so soon it will be ONCE per year for the last FIVE YEARS.

Its not good enough at all and the reason I can't take him seriously as P4P #1 and a supposed ATG

The real ATG's, the ones of old would have had 20 fights in the time Terence has 4.

[_Rexy_]

Pretty sure he's had to wait on the Spence decision.

[_Rexy_]

He's fought ONCE per year for the last 4 years and we are now 6 months after his previous fight with nothing announced, so soon it will be ONCE per year for the last FIVE YEARS.

Its not good enough at all and the reason I can't take him seriously as P4P #1 and a supposed ATG

The real ATG's, the ones of old would have had 20 fights in the time Terence has 4.

Covid ****ed with a few guys careers, unfortunately. Beterbiev just beat Gvozdyk a few months before lockdowns. Usyk had just moved up to HW, It sucks how guys who were in their early to mid 30's just lost 2 years of their careers. Inoue just won the WBSS tournament and then Covid hit, but luckily he was in his mid 20's. Older guys just lost their ****ing primes. Especially guys who were in other countries with worse lockdowns.

[Dr. Z]

T-Bud had the best win of 2023 and did it EASILY

now no word on who's next

Likely some over rated guy by the media people in boxing. If he really wants a fight, he moves up in weight.

[Eff Pandas]

I can`t blame him. On the paper, it was 50-50 fight. I actually expected Spence to win. Now everybody here plays smart like they all expected Crawford to win, but that was not the case.

True. I was on Errol to win myself & a much bigger fan of Errol, but you gotta show the guy who won respect. Now Errol wasn't sh^t to some ppl tho.

Revisionist history in boxing is batsh^t crazy to me lmfao.

[Combat Talk Radio]

I can`t blame him. On the paper, it was 50-50 fight. I actually expected Spence to win. Now everybody here plays smart like they all expected Crawford to win, but that was not the case.

No, the problem is, fans expected Spence to show up EVEN IF he got ultimately outboxed.

Because with Spence it was always about durability and eating punches from guys like Danny Swift and Porter and just coming forward. Yet regular jabs from Crawford are rocking the boat like wha-huh? A guy who couldn't shatter a damaged Amir Khan's chin and couldn't stop Ricky Burns is now treating Errol Spence like a crash test dummy. It made no sense. Which is proof Spence wasn't 100% there physically, for whyever that was.

Spence now says it was his eyes. And he brought receipts. He was wearing glasses all the way up until the day of the fight, which he hadn't done before.

If it was his eyes - and I'm not sure I believe that - it means a rematch at 147 would help answer that question. But we still don't have a confirmation. Meanwhile, Crawford COULD have answered "come get yo belt back" if only to stay busy, because Crawford himself said Boots would be easy work; it sells itself. Okay, then treat it like a stay-busy, make some money...because he'd be the A-Side, he can ask for whatever payday he wants. It's up to the network to deliver either way. That fight could have been on the PBC PPV, frankly.

That's what he did when he agreed to fight Avanesyan. Why was that okay to move forward but not Boots?

Because Boots is a threat to retiring undefeated. It's the only logical answer. And I don't blame Crawford for that decision - I just want NSB to stop being hypocrites about it, because this is exactly the same situation with Canelo/Golovkin where for years NSB called Canelo a ducker for not fighting Golovkin.

[hugh grant]

On paper Bud v Spence was supposed to be closer than it was because Spence was either no1 or no2 welterweight. But Spence still isnt a pfp fighter thats the main issue. Like its supposed to be some amazing win as Bud won easier than expected? Inoue beat Fulton easier than people expected but Inoue didnt take 5 years to do it.
So Buds win over Spence isnt better than Inoues win over Fulton and Tapales, not at all.