Canelo Alvarez’s staggering fight purse and | Sports News

Terence Crawford prolonged his congratulations to Canelo Alvarez after it was disclosed that the Mexican boxer would rake in over $100 million from their upcoming weekend fight.

Alvarez is set to defend his 4 super-middleweight world titles on the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Saturday night time, and regardless of the end result, he is set for a huge payday, whereas Mike Tyson has made his prediction for the fight. 

UFC CEO Dana White, who’s selling this weekend’s face-off, hinted earlier within the week that Alvarez can be incomes a nine-figure sum. It comes after White had a brutal response to Eddie Hearn over boxing competitors. 

This was introduced up during Thursday’s press convention. In response, Alvarez humorously retorted: “Why are you lowering the bag? I’m fighting for more and you’re lowering it.”

Saudi boxing bigwig Turki Alalshikh then chimed in to right: “No, you get the number wrong. The contract between us and Canelo [is] more than that.”

At this juncture, Crawford congratulated Alvarez with a easy: “Congrats, Canelo”.

Earlier this 12 months, Alvarez inked a four-year deal with Alalshikh, simply as he was about to comply with a match with YouTuber Jake Paul. Alvarez confronted William Scull within the first bout of his deal, setting up his showdown with Crawford with a decisive factors victory in May.

Alvarez is predicted to conclude his deal with fights in February and October of subsequent 12 months, each more likely to be held in Riyadh. Meanwhile, Crawford has beforehand disclosed that he’ll earn $10 million from this weekend’s fight, which is much less than 10% of his opponent’s paycheck.

Alvarez, who’s favored to win the Saturday match, will likely be combating in entrance of a crowd that helps Mexico. “I feel great. For me, this fight means a lot and I feel great. Ready. I can’t wait for Saturday night.

“I am unable to look forward to Saturday night time and thank all people coming to assist the occasion,” he said. “This fight for me is massive. It’s one of the largest fights in my profession. For sure it means a lot… this win goes to be within the very high.”

Crawford chimed in: “I feel fights like this help the game of boxing grow within the sense of having the best fight the best and it ain’t going to do nothing however make the game higher and the best goes to begin combating the best. It’s going to be stamped within the historical past books and the talk goes to be over.”