Crawford cant be the future when he's already older than most of his contemporaries
He'll already be 30 in September and he's not running the game now.....no disrespect
I said that when he was 26.
The future isnt in reference to ones age, but is relative to what the game offers at said time.
in reference to Crawford, when I said it, we were talking post-Mayweather era as "the future"
so out of the top P4P fighters, Kov, GGG, Ward, and Rigo are all 3-6 years older than Crawford, and Loma and Roman are the same age.

yet, he aint the future.

none of those guys are huge PPV stars. and please dont say GGG is because Kell got paid way more than he did for their fight.
Crawford not a big PPV star yet, but its going to start thinning out at the top with most of these guys passing their primes. by your definition Lubin only qualifies as the future, but he is a long ways from household recognition and PPV stardom.
what has held Crawford back has been his promoters unwillingness to feed his meal ticket to him. you dont become a PPV star without beating a former one.