Does Crawford Vs. Spence Have Enough Hype Around It?

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00:02 - Do you think there's been enough juice for the fight?

00:07 Like typically, I haven't seen a whole lot of angst

00:12 or venom or any of this screaming and arguing

00:16 and shoving and media attention.

00:19 How has it been in Vegas, let's say,

00:22 this week leading up to it?

00:24 - Well, there's been a lot,

00:26 obviously a lot of attention to the fight.

00:28 These are two fighters who are not oversized personalities.

00:33 Now at the press conference yesterday,

00:36 there was a lot of tension

00:37 and a lot of kind of genuine tension.

00:42 So often, nowadays it's manufactured.

00:48 But this is a fight that will live or die commercially

00:54 on how good the fight is.

00:58 The fight itself is one that is of such interest to people

01:03 and presumably features,

01:05 does feature the two best welterweights,

01:08 in my opinion, still very close to their prime,

01:11 if not in it.

01:12 And so the fight itself is the thing

01:16 that is going to have to get people on board.

01:19 It's not, they're not oversized personalities.

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