Errol Spence Jr. vs Terence Crawford Couldn’t Be Happen Because of This Thing
FightersTalkTV.com – The fight between welterweight champions Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford is the top of must-watch list for boxing fans in the world. It would be the best present of the year if they could see these two unbeaten champions try to drop each other in one ring. Spence Jr. and Crawford are the two best boxers who fight in the most competitive division in the sport and both are at the peak of their powers.
Errol Spence Jr. with his WBC/IBF/WBA (Super) belt after defeated Yordenis Ugas in Texas last April.
The Long Island Errol Spence Jr. is a unified welterweight world champion who held the IBF, WBC and WBA (Super) title. The Truth (28-0, 22 KOs) won his WBA (Super) title in the unification bout by defeating Yordenis Ugas in the tenth round via technical knockout in Texas last April. Spence locked the title after the ringside physician advised the fight to be stopped due to Ugas’ severely swollen right eye.
Terence Crawford after five times retained his WBO title by knocked out Shawn Porter last November.
While, Terence Crawford had a more fantastic record, he won all 38 of his fights with 29 KOs. Bud has been the WBO welterweight champion since defeating Jeff Horn in June 2018. And he has successfully defended the title five times, all of those by technical knockout, most recently with a 10th-round TKO win over Shawn Porter in November.
Spence and Crawford must get this fight made this year because they both have mandatory defenses they’ll need to take care of in 2023 involving talented contenders that could unseat one of these belt holders. Many boxing fans believe Crawford is the #1 fighter in the 147-lb division, is turning 35 in September, and has only been fighting once a year against fringe-level opposition for the last two years.
The combination of age, inactivity, and marginal opposition could prove to be the undoing for Crawford when he gets in there with Spence (32). That would be a tremendous step up for the Nebraska native Crawford with him being on the wrong side of 30.
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“That fight has to happen. It has to happen. The welterweight division is so deep. But as much as it’s deep, you’ve got those two guys at the top. I think even number three is way below them. It’s number one and number two, they have to fight,” says the former WBO super-lightweight title holder, Chris Algieri who boxed Spence in 2016.
As far as technical and professional thought, there are no obstacles standing in the way of the mega-fight from happening this year. But it doesn’t exist for the business, Promoter Bob Arum has doubts the fight can get made because of the piracy problems that exist in boxing in the form of illegal streams.
Arum points out that fans don’t want to pay the expensive price of pay-per-view, which can run as high as $80, so they turn to piracy on the Internet to watch it for free on a stream. He says one option to combat piracy is to lower the price of pay-per-view in theory that if they drop it to such a low number, fans won’t feel the need to watch it on an illegal stream.
But, if the fans paid a lower price, the promoters are out a lot of money that they gave to the fighters in guaranteed purses. “It has tremendous interest from people who follow boxing, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into revenue from pay-per-view, which is the biggest source because of the piracy,” said Top Rank Promoter Bob Arum when asked about the potential Errol Spence Jr. vs. Terence Crawford fight.
Top Rank Promoter Bob Arum doubts Spence vs Crawford’s fight can get made.
“The fighters realize how big a fight it is, and they want to get paid big amounts of money,” Arum continued about Spence – Crawford. “The promoter, in this case, PBC, has to look at it and say, ‘Hey, we’ll put it on, we’ll give you nice guarantees, but you’ve got to really live from the upside,’ which the fighters realize now will not develop.
“So again, unless somebody wants to subsidize that fight, I don’t know how it gets done. One solution might be, and if you pay big guarantees to the fighters, you can’t crap around with experiments. But if you look at our friends in the UK, who still do very robust numbers on the pay-per-view.
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“You say, ‘Why?’ Is it because the English fans are so honest that they won’t tap into a stream? Or is it because it’s a much smaller course to get the pay-per-view into the UK. It’s 20 pounds or 25 pounds for a really big fight.
“My inclination is you reduce the piracy in that way. But again, to put up hard-earned money on a hope, that’s not a good business decision,” said Arum.
Yeah, sport now is a business, no exception in boxing. If you want a good show, you have to pay with the big flow. However, do you think this mega-fight is worth the big money? Or that is all just a number of saturday night entertainee.
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