Yes, instead of making these fights easier to avoid conflicts in politics, Crawford's got the opposite outcome because his decision to leave the stable of Bob Arum seems to become his biggest nightmare now because he's not getting any good deals after that. I don't know what's the plan of Crawford because the last rumor months back was that he might sign under Eddie Hearn but nothing happened until now.
As far as I remember, Crawford being under the shadow of Top Rank, he is always actively fighting but the only problem is, Crawford didn't get what he wants of fighting a top-ranked boxer which he wants for a long time. Since he parted ways with Bob, not just he ends up fighting a non-popular boxer but also not active much in the ring compared to his Top Rank days.
Now that wee the outcome of his decision, does his decision to leave Arum, a good choice or not?
Arum is a money maker handler in terms of big events/fight it was a mistake in my opinion, but the decision behind is only Crawford can answer. For now, Crawford still hasn't got that mega fight against Spence and instead of facing another champ in his same division to unify the belts, Spence might move forward and accept the fight against Thurman without any belt at risk.
A good choice in terms of his own decision, but career wise and money making wise, leaving Arum means to miss those possible quality fights that Arum can provide.
The only reason why Terence Crawford left the promotional company is because he wanted that unification fight happen as he already knew that if he's still with Arum, his chances to make that fight happen is really low because of the political issues in the boxing industry knowing that Bob Arum wouldn't want to settle for less for most cases.
Other than that, Crawford believed that Arum was the only hurdle in making that bout and fell with the hopes that Al Haymon will offer him that bout if he's flying solo but what happened was way more worse than what he expected. Now, he's all alone, and seemingly don't know what to do next.
Unfortunately for Crawford, that's what happen to him after he left Bob Arum, he thought that he can go solo and talk to Al Haymon just like that to set up the fight with Spence for the unification and get the money that he wanted. But it's different when you are alone specially a high profile fight against one of the top boxing entity right now in Al Haymon.
So it's not just an easy as leaving Top Rank, it has more than that. As Crawford explain further, Al Haymon is talking to someone who is negotiating in behalf of Terrence, unfortunately, he says that the guy wasn't affiliated with him or his team. So that is the first disconnect. And then they talk money and who is going to be involved and Al says no, no other business entity will be involved, except Al Haymon himself, so it means it will be Showtime and others that are connected with PBC and the network. So it's a intricate process and obviously it gobble up and Crawford says no to it.
Although I have been seeing dates for this fight, June 17, but then again, we really don't know if this is true or not.
