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I agree with that, it's not a problem to sell this fight, the big problem is if these two will agree on the sharing of the revenue and purse. If one will demand a 50/50 share while the other boxer will not agree because he wants more, then this fight will just remain a speculation.

That 50/50 is never gonna happen as Spence would never accept that, the final call now is from Crawford, if he will agree to lower his share then most likely this fight will be realized. We have been anticipating this fight, it's a big disappointment if it will not happen this year after all the hype that is happening.

Crawford will accept a lower share and it's nothing new. It's on Spence if he really wants to force that ridiculous 60/40 or even 70/30. I say 55/45 in favor of Spence should be fair enough. It's not like Spence is a huge PPV draw either so his previous demands were unreasonable. The event will most likely draw 500k to 1 million PPV buys. It's like Spence 250k and Crawford 150k and the huge chunk of the draw is because they are fighting each other.

The latest in the grapevine is this will happen in November this year. So from early this year, then to October and now November. Does it look like Spence is still not confident to face his fears? So he is continuing to buy some time to make Crawford older and more inactive. Years of ducking and avoiding the boogeyman.

Even a 55/45 share won't get Spence interested to make the fight happen, I bet a 60/40 will be the nearest speculation we had so far we discussed here because Spence has said that he will only agree if he will get the bigger slice.

Honestly, this fight is not about the money anymore because the money that they will get is just a by-product of this fight. Both camps are now trying to talk about making their legacy to become an undisputed fighter in the Welterweight and Spence or Crawford will be the 7th boxer who will be going to attain the status next to Canelo Alvarez.

I totally see Spence trying to play the book where he is indeed trying to get some time because Crawford will get older day by day and will be a year inactive in the coming months while Spence will gain the advantage side.

In this order of ideas, I think that Spence will take advantage of the fact of being younger than Crawford, he will be able to get some kind of advantage, but I don't know, on the one hand there is youth, and on the other there is experience, as much as I feel that Crawford he has the skill of a fox when hunting, and he knows very well how he can fight Spence, I think the most intelligent and cunning will win this, because physically I see them both very well, I don't know who has more training, Crawford certainly doesn't take Spence's youth into account because I'm sure he'll advocate for his experience and strategy, which he'll have ready by now.

Both Spence Jr. and Crawford has the skill and ability to school one another but if the fight were to happen this year, for sure, I will put my bet on Crawford because he has more capabilities in his sleeve and probably more IQ and experience in the ring than Spence Jr.

But if this fight will happen next year then I have to re-assess and reconsider my options here because a month that will pass will bring more disadvantage to Crawford as he will be inactive this coming November and he's getting any older too. While Spence Jr. will still be fresh from his fight against Ugas recently and still standing at the peak of his youth and prime.

Do you think this fight will happen next year? I have the hope that it would happen this year, for the other year it would also be good, but I think that the emotions and what the fans expect is for this same year and not take so long, the promoters know very well that they can put on a good show and taking into account that the business model is very good, we could talk about a lot of money and this is perhaps a plus so that they can give a better scenario, I do not know how much ESPN, Fox or the prestigious networks that can broadcast it can offer, but yes the boom is now, why not do it? I'm very curious who wins that fight.

Quote from: mirakal on August 01, 2022, 06:46:35 PM

I don't think that both of them is nearing to have the deal close to make the fight happen this year because Crawford recently revealed to an interview that they still haven't carve anything on a stone yet, which means that both camps are still discussing on the Phase 1 until now.

I surely hope that both of them will share a ring this year because this fight has been expected by almost everyone who is a fan of boxing around the globe and a bad news that it didn't materialized will really put a bad image to them especially now that people are waiting for some updates.

I think that Crawford just wants to do things formally and that this fight becomes a good deal for him, in a nutshell money, where he was a little more dedicated to what the sport is about, or at least had the need to show what that it is because of some bad moment that was past, as has happened to many boxers who need fights to be able to enter the business with everything, I think I would organize that fight whatever, of course what I say is mere speculation, maybe I I'm wrong, but wherever I wanted, I'm sure they would move heaven and earth to make it happen.