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Crawford is now fighting a past it Porter who spends more time podcasting than training?!

Crawford has ruined the prime years of his career where he should be making massive paydays and cementing his history.

Like Fury, scared to loose and wasting his talent.

Hope Josh Taylor can make it happen at 147 and expose some of these clowns!
Porter past it or not, the dude has never been caught haggling or cherry picking. Just like Crawford, Spence- all 3 only fought once in 2020. Not sure who Sebastian Formella is, but Porter getting credited for landing 300+ seems like he is still in shape.
I agree. I think Porter could have mellowed a but i've never seen him sandbag. Its unfortunate for all of the training methods I've seen him experiment with, a lot of it doesn't translate to the ring and it becomes the same Bulldozer approach. A shame he doesn't use more head movement or have more pop to his punches. He's got the bulk and the work ethic and good stamina to fight the way he does and make it to the end of a fight. He's also a fight not many want because hes too much work for not enough reward unless he's holding a strap.
I can't fault Crawford. I mean his own promoter said he can't sell fights, I was like wow, isnt that the promoter's job? And just as with Floyd, Manny given the chance.... walked away from Arum!!! Yippy!!

But in the process he ended up taking Crawford's fight away -so Bud got sidelined to see Arum's Pac choose Spence...only for Spence to pull out and we got Ugas! LOL!

I see Arum as more at fault for Crawford not fighting often -then add on the pandemic. Last year was a wash for almost all boxers. And I dont think Bud would have ever caught on fire in USA. Omaha yeah!

Yeah, most promotions lost money last year. I don't think Arum expected Manny to beat Thurman the way he did. Bud was going to be his next golden goose and then it looked like Manny got a second/ third wind and Arum put all his eggs in the Manny basket and cash out with Manny vs. spence and then it all disintegrated before his very eyes. So I wouldn't be too surprised to see him start showcasing the other fighters, but i think he's rationing all his fighters now and probably gets up every morning checks his bankbook, grumbles "covid bast@rds..." kicks his wife's dog before going to his desk and inches things along in his master plan where Teo, Bud, Valdez, Loma etc meet in his catch weight heaven and he can run the table..
I too hope Josh Taylor will get his day. But it wont be the fault of Bud, SPence or Porter if he doesn't. They are all live dogs.

I think Porter will do his usual and try to grind down Bud and I know sometimes too much is made of Bud's ability to switch up his stance, But I think there's opportunity there to send Porter to the third level of check hook hell.. Due to the size disparity I do worry about Bud getting an hand/wrist injury or cut stopping it but I really think Porter isn't going to prepare for this fight the way he should. "ortho, southpaw.. wont make a difference as long as he's going backward... and i'm going forward" It's always the bull that thinks the Matador is the one that's so close to dying on every pass.


Perfect analogy.