Last Saturday’s so-called fight of the decade between welterweight champions Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford brought in roughly half the combined revenue of last April’s light welterweight catchweight mega-clash between Gervonta Davis & Ryan Garcia.
While the Spence-Crawford fight did do excellent numbers with PPV and gate revenue, it wasn’t in the same ballpark as the much bigger Tank Davis vs. Ryan Garcia fight.
Who’s to blame for Spence & Crawford not doing to the expected mega numbers? It’s a combination of things.
Crawford can take a lot of the blame, as he seemed irritable throughout the build-up, snapping at reporters, appearing defensive to the question being asked, and giving many short answers. He looked like the Grand Inquisitor was questioning him, with his feet being put to the fire.
At times, it looked like Crawford didn’t want to be there and wasn’t even going to try to fake it to sell the fight.
Spence was usually in a good mood, but he looked weak & tired towards the end of the promotion, showing the ill effects of draining down from 200+ lbs to reach 147.
However, even in his drained state, Spence did a lot more work promoting the fight, and it seemed he was doing the work of two people to make up for the way Crawford was doing the minimum.
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