The WBO Championship Committee has ordered welterweight champion Terence Crawford (39-0, 30 KOs) to commence negotiations with Alexis Rocha (22-1, 14 KOs) for a mandatory defense. The parties have twenty days to reach an agreement. If an accord is not reached within that timeframe, a purse bid will be ordered. The minimum acceptable bid is $200,000, but the winning bid will likely be in the millions. Any of the parties involved may request a purse bid procedure at any time during the negotiation process. The purse split will be no be greater than 75/25 for Crawford using a ratio based upon the average purse of each fighter’s last three fights.
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IT’S ABOUT TIME THEY MAKE THESE FIGHTERS GET OFF THEIR ASSES!!!
I can’t find the least bit of excitement at Crawford or Spence announcing their latest victim.
People complain about these youtuber/influencer clowns ruining Boxing. But this s*** was around way before any of that started, with the politics of Boxing continuing to deny the fans super fights by keeping the best fighters away from each other.
It’s not the “politics of boxing” it’s the consumer that is the issue. None of this is possible without consumers. When the consumer finally says we’re tired of seeing this and we will show you by withdrawing our financial support, that is when the big fights will happen. Until then I don’t blame businesses because they’re doing what they’re supposed to do. I blame the consumers who empower them.
You are exactly correct. If idiots will pay to see crap, that’s exactly what we will continue to get.
Could not agree more.
I concur. Don’t buy the fight. Besides if we really try, there are several ways to watch fights w/o empowering promoters.wink,wink.
If Spence’s name is not next to Crawford as an opponent I’m not interested UNLESS its a jump to 154 for a title shot.
HawnJay, at this point the Crawford-Spence fight seems like it’s going to be another Mayweather-Pacquiao.
Bright idea if they put this fight in PPV, it will be the sure winner of flop of the year
I actually don’t have much of a problem with this fight – only because I have given up all hope of Crawford – Spence ever happening. That ship has sailed…. I don’t even think it actually ever was a ship. It was a kayak.
I think the problem is that Crawford and Spence do not have the drawing power of Leonard, Hearns, Dela Hoya, Trinidad, Mayweather, or Pac. They may have the ability but outside of hard core boxing fans they do not have the following. If I were to ask a regular person who Spence and Crawford are they would not know. They could join me and my buddy for a Sunday breakfast and I doubt the server would know the difference. It is the non boxing fans that make up the difference in these super fights. Yes Crawford – Spence will draw more then Crawford Rocha…but the difference is not enough to cover what both parties want and they of course want even more because it is a super fight. It is a shame because I think both legacies will suffer. I wish that mattered enough for them to take lower (but still very good) money to make this happen.
Yeah, that’s a good point. They may be expecting super, mainstream fight money and it isn’t that. It’s just a really good fight. Surely will have far more interest in it than this fight, but will people really care THAT much more about Spence – Crawford than they will about Spence – Thurman??? I hope so, but I don’t know so; both may just be of interest to boxing fans and the difference will be those of us — like you see around here — who’re going to boycott anything that isn’t Spence – Crawford.
That being said though, I’ve given up hope that it ever happens. When they’re both long retired, they’ll schedule an exhibition and it’ll be canceled because they can’t agree on some minute detail.
This fight is nothing more than a sparring match for Crawford. Rocha does not move enough to keep his defense in check against the sharp-shooter Crawford. Rocha may last some rounds with chin taking some blows, but it will be a matter of time before it crumbles. Crawford TKO.
The last thing in Crawford’s mind is to approach this fight as a sparring match, he will go directly for the kill, the sooner, the better, put the money on his pockets and enjoy it
I’m not sure who Terence Crawford is ordered to fight but this waiting game isn’t going to play out like Mayweather and Pacquiao with big bucks like they think and hope. The boxing public is going to get very impatient and very uninterested.
You are right! I think some of the problem is Mayweather and Pacquiao were rewarded for making the public wait for years. This imo set a bad example that others have since seems to be trying to follow. Crawford and Spence are simply not and never will be Mayweather and Pacquiao. I am not talking about ability that is debatable…I am talking about box office appeal. I also maybe naïve but I believe when the boxing Gods demand a match the fighters should feel some obligation to make it. Even if they have to make less. 10 million a piece should be enough to make a legacy defining fight even if they can each make 15 fighting someone else who is willing to fight for less then 5. It should matter. We are not asking them to fight for free. There is still enough money on the table for them to make more money then most of us will ever dream of.
So let’s see…if they are negotiating now, the fight won’t take place until December, in which time Spence will have his annual fight (presumably with Thurman), Jermell Charlo will suffer yet another injury to push the Tszyu fight up to January 2024, and Jermall Charlo to continue to sit back and wait for the “perfect deal”. Sound about right?
easy win for Bud, Rocha is tailor made for him
Crawford ran over to Golden Boy of all places to avoid Spence. He could have easily went to PBC and had tremendous fights. Golden Boy is just another promotional company throwing money at Crawford to prevent the mega fight with Spence. This is an attempt by all others involved to block PBC and Crawford to make the mega fight that the other promoters wouldn’t profit from.
Most of youll would never figure this out.
Crawford is no different than Canelo: fighting B class and collecting checks instead of the fights the fans want. Spence did exactly as he said he would. You gotta be slow to drag Spence name in this mess.
Im not mad at Crawford for collecting checks but dont pretend that you wanted the Spence fight.
i’m 64, i have to say, i am so lucky that as a life long boxing fan being able to watch for free great fights every saturday sunday, and the friday night fights on abc. and most of those fighters are now in the hall of fame, its not about who would beat who, but in that era they fought often and anybody they could, being only the w.b.c., w.b.a. and the n.a.b.f., today what 5 titles and the gold, silver, and what 10 other ones. watching hagler fight on a sat. or sun. along with countless others was something we will never experince again.
I like Rocha, but he ain’t going to like what Bud has for him.
probably wont see this…
Another fight for Crawford that nobody wants to see him in. This guy is wasting his legacy fighting #2’s & 3’s.
Crawford should be called “the ducker”. he is afraid of spence and will never fight him. Ennis is the best welterweight by far and would kayo both of them.
how many tickets will they sell for this sparring match? crawford is not great of a draw spence crawford will probably never come off rocha picks up a paycheck and goes on his way
boxing is disgraceful. Crawford need to FIGHT!! He’s already past his peak. Thanks to PBC and the corrupt so called governing bodies this once important sport is in the toilet.It was better when Frankie Carbo, Blinky Palermo and the Norris family and the IBC ran the sport. if you don’t know who those guys are you don’t know boxing
hold up everybody up until this announcement the WBO had Vergil Ortiz #1 and jaron Ennis #2 Rocha was not even ranked in their to 10 WTF whos running this shit they the WBO dropped Ennis and made Ortiz #2 why? oh ill tell you why Rocha is a “safe” fight for him hell Rocha has already been easily beaten by Rashi Ellis who is ranked #7 by the wbo total circus bullshit you guys gotta see the truth and thats Crawfish not fighting current world champions or true mandatories only up & comers or has beens aka leftovers hes scared period.
Ennis is the IBF interim champion so the WBO dropped him. Ortiz is fighting for the WBA secondary title against Stanionis and unavailable.
easy fight for crawford