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Angel Garcia slams HBO for Crawford vs. Postol fight being on PPV

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By Chris Williams: Angel Garcia, the trainer/father of WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia, thinks that HBO should be embarrassed that they put the fight between WBC 140lb champion Viktor Postol and WBO light welterweight champion Terence Crawford on pay-per-view last month.

Angel thinks it was a bad idea for HBO to have televised that fight, which is rumored to have brought in low PPV numbers. I think there’s a lot of boxing fans that agree with Angel about the Crawford-Postol fight being on HBO PPV. The fight wasn’t PPV worthy in the minds of many fans. Having to pay to see fighters that aren’t stars rubbed the fans the wrong, especially after the overpriced PPV disappointment from last year in the Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight.

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Crawford vs. Postol PPV numbers rumored to be 50K

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By Allan Fox: For some fans hoping to find the next superstar in the Floyd Mayweather Jr. mold, they were sadly disappointed last Saturday night with a less than Mayweather-esque performance from unbeaten WBO light welterweight champion Terence Crawford (29-0, 20 KOs) in his 12 round unanimous decision win over WBC 140lb champion Viktor Postol (28-1, 12 KOs) on HBO pay-per-view at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Promotional company Top Rank needs a new pay-per-view star to replace their No.1 star Manny Pacquiao, and boxing needs a replacement for the retired Floyd Mayweather Jr. There was hope that the 28-year-old Crawford could be the next Mayweather both in talent and in PPV bulling ability.

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Crawford vs. Postol replay this Saturday, July 30

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By Dan Ambrose: This Saturday night on July 30, HBO Sports will be playing the Terence Crawford vs. Viktor Postol light welterweight unification fight at 10:15 p.m. ET/PT. This is a replay of last Saturday’s unification match-up on HBO pay-per-view. While Crawford-Postol fight probably had no business being televised on PPV and might end up losing money for Top Rank, the undercard at least had a good performance in featherweight Oscar Valdez’s 2nd round knockout win over previously Matias Rueda to claim the vacant WBO featherweight title.

If there was a potential superstar on the card, it was Valdez, not Crawford. Valdez looks like the real deal. Whether he can get enough casual boxing fans excited about seeing him fight at featherweight is another question. Valdez might need to move up to at least light welterweight to have a chance of becoming a huge star. Since that’s not likely to happen, he’ll probably need to be satisfied with toiling away at featherweight or super featherweight his entire career and probably not getting the attention he would receive if he fought at 140 or 147.

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Crawford: I could have pressed the gas but why?

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By Chris Williams: Terence Crawford (29-0, 20 KOs) expressed a disappointing viewpoint after his less than thrilling to watch fight last Saturday night against Viktor Postol (28-1, 12 KOs) by saying that he had the fight under control, so why should he press the fight to his over-matched opponent Postol? Crawford probably could have scored a knockout in this fight if he’d switched gears from 1st to at least 2nd gear.

The KO was there for the 28-year-old Crawford if he’d been willing to step it up a gear to try and make it exciting for the paying fans, who had paid as much as $59.99 to watch the fight on HBO pay-per-view. These are fans that were willing to pay to see the fight.

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Viktor Postol talks about loss to Crawford

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By Patrick McHugh: Former WBC light welterweight champion Viktor Postol says he kind of got away from his game plan against WBO light welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford (29-0, 25 KOs) after being knocked down two times by him in round five last Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Crawford won the fight by a 12 round unanimous decision. It wasn’t pretty but he did the job and got the ‘W.’

Postol says he wants a rematch against Crawford in the near future. However, it’s unlikely that fight will happen unless Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has no real options for opponents for the two.

Arum likes to do repetitive rematches, so it’s quite possible that Postol could get a number of rematches against Crawford if he can get back on the winning track after this. Arum would look bad if he puts them back in with each other straightaway though.

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Did Crawford just lure Pacquiao out of retirement?

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By J. Calderon: WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford (29-0, 20 KOs) technically out-classed a frustrated and ineffective Viktor “The Iceman” Postol (28-1, 12 KOs), last Saturday night, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in front of over 7,000 fans. Both Crawford and Postol are technical fighters, and Crawford was simply the better chess player of the two.

Postol might have done better if he would’ve applied more pressure and use his superior size to push Crawford into a corner, or at least against the ropes, but that’s just not his style, and he is just too lean and long to bully the much-sturdier and muscular Crawford.

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Donaire: Crawford needs Pacquiao to become a star

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By Patrick McHugh: WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire believes that light welterweight champion Terence Crawford is at the point where he absolutely needs a win over a big name like Manny Pacquiao for him to become the new star in the sport of boxing. Donaire sees it as a passing of the torch. He notes that Pacquiao become a huge PPV attraction in his own right after he beat an old lion in Oscar De La Hoya in 2008, and now it’s Crawford’s turn in needing a big name for him to get to the next level.

Donaire doesn’t think Pacquiao should take the fight with Crawford in his next fight. He thinks he should fight WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas in his next fight.

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Who’s next for Terence Crawford?

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By Gerardo Granados: Last Saturday night the new unified WBC-WBO and also new Ring Magazine Champion undefeated light welterweight Terence “Bud” Crawford put up a boxing counter-punching clinic to outbox, outsmart, outpoint and outclass a clueless Viktor Postol. The official scorecards had Crawford winning by unanimous decision (118-107 twice and 117-108); I didn’t give Postol a single round.

Crawford used his speed and footwork to take total control since the first round. It is funny how fight fans criticize Guillermo Rigondeaux but Terence Crawford gets a pass for boxing the exact same way. As far for boxing counter-punching skills it was a superb exhibition, as for entertainment value it was not worth the pay per view cost.

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Bradley favors Crawford over Pacquiao

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(Photo credit: Sumio Yamada) By Dan Ambrose: Former world champion Tim Bradley says he’s picking WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Terence Crawford to defeat Manny Pacquiao if the two of them face each other next on November 5. Bradley thinks the combination of Crawford’s size, power, boxing IQ and ring movement will be enough for him to defeat the 37-year-old Pacquiao. However, Bradley sees it as a tough fight for Crawford because Pacquiao isn’t one-dimensional like Crawford’s opponent from last Saturday night former WBC 140lb champion Viktor Postol (28-1, 12 KOs), who Bradley beat by a 12 round unanimous decision at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“He looked sensational. He has so many dimensions to his game,” said Bradley about Crawford to Hoopjab. “It’s a tough match [Crawford vs. Pacquiao]. I’m going to go with my boy, Terence. I think the IQ, and the movement. I think he will definitely give Manny problems with all that movement. I would favor my boy, Terence. With his size, I would favor him in a fight. With Manny, you can never count that guy out. He’s a beast,” said Bradley.

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Will Terrence Crawford’s greatness be a gift or a curse?

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By Robbie Bannatyne: As I watched Terrence Crawford’s clinical display against Viktor Postol I kept saying to my girlfriend that it was ‘just like watching Floyd Mayweather Jnr’. In terms of pure boxing ability, being compared to Floyd Mayweather Jnr is the loftiest of praise that can be bestowed upon a boxer.

An anti-fan of the stick and move counter punch style, my girlfriend retorted bluntly that Bud Crawford’s performance was about as boring as his interviews during fight week. That in a nutshell is the caveat with Crawford, he simply doesn’t have the brash, controversial personality to offset his often cautious and cerebral fighting style.

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