Bud was nowhere close to Spences drawing power. Bud as NEVER done anything close to filling up ATT stadium. Manny chose Spence over Bud for a reason. Once again what stopped Bud from signing to PBC and getting great pay days and snatching nikkas belts? nikka resigned to TR when they had nobody when at worst he could have bet on himself and done short term deals like Devin.AJ lost popularity after the losses too, before the Usyk fight there was no way AJ was going to fight at the O2 arena lol, he did that twice (Franklin, Helenius) now. The difference between his and Usyk’s drawing power was just too big for Usyk to take his place as a draw, not the same as Bud and Spence who weren’t that far apart to begin with.
Idk about your Cruz example either, did Cruz even highlighted a card as the A side? I can only recall the Tank fight where he was the main event and there obviously Tank was the drawing name. What do we know about how big Cruz is?
So I just doubt Spence would be the draw he was before and even then he wasn’t a superstar. Guess we’ll see it soon
And Spence being back in talks of a titke fight speaks volumes of PBC trying to do in-house stuff than anything else. I know, other promoters do this shyt too just saying.
As I said this isn’t the 147 landscape though, Bud don’t need that “he can beat Haymon’s guys” validation anymore, he can go in different directions.
The nikkas caping for Bud dont even go to his fights and be in here asking for Links lol.
Like I said Bud is generational talent but that nikka is a fukking nobody. Look at his BLK prime bullshyt compared to Spences fights lol. They were fukking selling tickets on grupon.