Terence Crawford reveals his negotiations to fight Canelo Alvarez lasted for nine hours.
Crawford is coming off of a unanimous decision win against Canelo met in the ‘fight of the century’ on September 13.
As ‘Bud’ moved up two weight classes to action their bout, the boxing fraternity were left wondering how it even came about.
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During an interview with Andre Ward, Crawford has explained the gruelling process of negotiating the purse for his clash with Canelo.
It all unfolded while he was in Saudi Arabia for Shakur Stevenson’s fight in February.
On All The Smoke Fight, he said: “They brought me in there, we went into a little back room and we were there for like nine hours.
“Going back-and-forth.
“They weren’t budging, I wasn’t budging.”
Crawford was left to finalise the terms for the superfight, without the assistance of his legal team.
He continued: “We finally came to terms.
“That day, everything happened that day.”
“It wasn’t the agreement that they wanted, it wasn’t the agreement that I wanted.
“It was kind of in the middle.”
Why did the negotiations take so long?
Saudi boxing promoter, Turki Alalshikh, was not so keen on a match-up between Crawford and Canelo at first.
Although once Canelo had penned his four-fight deal with the Saudi giant, it became inevitable that Crawford would get his way.
The Mexican walked away from his scheduled fight with Jake Paul, in order to pursue the first fight of his deal with William Scull in May.
After claiming a unanimous decision win, he headed into back camp to gear up for the hotly anticipated showdown with ‘Bud’.
Once Alalshikh had given his nod of approval, it left the nine-hours of negotiations up for grabs for Crawford.
