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EPISODE: Episode 22
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A bit of commentary today regarding Terence Crawford’s recent comments regarding two hedge funds offering $25 million a piece in order to see him fight Errol Spence starts off the episode, and then we have a few quotes from both Dennis “The Menace” McCann and Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz – the latter managed by Manny Pacquiao Promotions – to conclude the show.
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https://www.boxingnews24.com/2022/11/terence-crawford-sounds-off-on-errol-spence-failed-negotiations/
https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/1236167/errol-spence-terence-crawford-exchange-words-twitter/
https://www.boxingscene.com/crawford-hedge-fund-offered-me-spence-25m-guaranteed-apiece-haymon-wasnt-interested–170159
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Foreign box of fans around the world.
Thank you for join me once again here on talk and fight for another episode of boxing news today, courtesy of our friends cross upon a boxing247.
com uh, but before we get into the headlines of the day, I want to Circle back around to discuss Terence Crawford and His little spat with uh Al Haymon, not to mention his prior spat with Bob arum.
This all goes back to uh.
You know basically Terence Crawford, not thinking he’s getting paid enough for his uh fighting uh in the ring as a champion uh at his level and being able to um.
If you will pick and choose the amount of monies that he’s deserved, so he left uh Top Rank and is now.
If you will self-managed and was attempting to negotiate directly with Al Haymon uh with respect to setting up a fight between himself and Errol Spence.
And he brought to light the other day that there were two hedge funds offering 25 million a piece.
Now that to me sounded quite frankly, a little unrealistic simply because hedge funds aren’t in the business of laying out money up front without any guarantee of return.
And if there’s one thing that Bob Aaron was adamant about it’s, that Terence Crawford’s value in the ring isn’t as large as Terence Crawford believes it to be from a a monetary perspective.
So therefore, relying on, if you will pay-per-view numbers, uh Bob air, was saying in a nutshell, Terence, you don’t do enough talking promoting quite frankly uh to interest me and or the fans, despite your wonderful uh record.
So, in a nutshell, uh Al Haymon offered him absolutely zero money, uh guaranteed uh.
Yet an 80 20 split of the pay-per-view Revenue which didn’t tickle the fancy of Terry Crawford very much, and so he went to.
As I said, the hedge funds, apparently who had approached them, confirmed that they were offering 25 million a piece to he and Errol Spence and he went to Errol Spence.
So now, if I may, I’m going to Simply refer back to a couple of Articles which I have posted links to in the show’s description down below here.
So um in a nutshell, Terence Crawford says he’s mad at me for taking a fight with a tough opponent.
David as Nate EVS nasian, you might not know him, but he’s a tough opponent for a bigger purse.
I guarantee that I wasn’t gon na get now you’re crazy in the head he’s talking Daryl Spencer.
So now we go back to square one.
What do you expect? You expect me to be disrespected run over stepped on and just sit there and take it.
That’S crazy that ain’t, my style me personally, I wasn’t even gon na say nothing because I’m not the talkative type and you all pretty much know that.
But sometimes you got to say what’s real and say: what’s on your mind, you got to stop these people from doing what they want with you.
A lot of people say: did you ask to see Bob arum’s books? Did you ask for transparency with Barbara? No, I didn’t do you know why a lot of people don’t even know why, but I was signed with Bob Aaron and I wasn’t my own boss.
I was given a guarantee for every single fight that I fought for Bob arum and top rank.
That’S the difference.
You guys so if you guys don’t understand that, I don’t know what to tell you so, in other words, basically in a nutshell, despite the fact he didn’t really answer the transparency issue with respect to seeing Bob Aaron’s books, he is arguing that uh at the end Of the day he’s going back and forth between the numbers, and he did want a guarantee for the fight with Daryl Spence, which Al Haymon apparently wasn’t going to give so Errol, Spence and Terence Crawford got into a bit of a Twitter duel.
If you might um and on uh so 24 hours after Terence Crawford had said his words with respect to what he had negotiated with these hedge funds, which I deemed to be unlikely um.
But that’s just given my experience in the business world, uh Errol, Spence, tweeted back to Terence Crawford.
Why it take you two weeks to say something you tried getting your together laugh out loud.
We can see you looking at some flash cards or a piece of paper.
Good you speaking now, I was worried.
He claims that his concerns over having transparency on the revenues and expenses for the fight was a big issue that killed the negotiations cap.
My side agreed to show him everything.
The draft included specific Provisions that required that both of us would receive a complete and full written, detailed accounting showing all Pay-Per-View sales of the event and then the status of all net revenues received in all expense expenses incurred and paid zero spends.
If I’m not telling the truth tell them to post the draft he’s talking about, he didn’t have a guarantee and he’s talking all the risk mother, for I didn’t even guarantee just a higher percentage, all money, not good money.
I asked him where the 50 million was coming from, who is Over the Hedge Fund? Putting the money up, he couldn’t tell me, I think we all just need to meet in person.
This provoked a back and forth between the pair, which can be seen on the website uh talksport.
com, which, as I said, I posted Below in the description uh Crawford by the way he’s uh he’s 38 no 29 Knockouts, as I said earlier, uh will instead defend this 147, pound Crown against Russia’s David of nasian he’s 29 3-1, 17 Knockouts and they’ll take place on December 10th in Omaha Nebraska Spencer’s Parts expected to face Keith Thurman Spence is a three division: champ uh, 28-0 22 Knockouts he’s the ibf wbawbc 147 pound champ uh, but Anyway, we want to see it unified and we want to see him go up against Crawford.
We all were I’m sure you were too uh, but that won’t happen, maybe in maybe in the New Year, if both of them win their expected battles, as I expected, because the The Spence and Thurman fight has not yet been confirmed.
So I just want to give you a bit of an update uh, because I’ve got a few comments regarding my comments and the hedge fund, that I mentioned hedge funds, that I mentioned and my doubt about those hedge funds and the amounts of monies, especially given what Uh Bob – and it just goes to show you quite frankly how tightly controlled, uh the boxing industry is, and I think, potentially uh the boxing industry, the people who control it uh, it’s an oligarchy.
Without a doubt, there are only six people really who control what goes on in the boxing World um in terms of putting these fights together and offering the kinds of guarantees that they do, or at Al haymon’s case no guarantee.
Yet a decent split of the anticipated uh pay-per-view purse, which Barbarian would argue, wouldn’t be worth the risk.
So let’s put that aside and move along, let’s go to see what is happening in Dennis McCann’s front.
There’S the Menace McCann, as you know, has been featured several times on talk and fight, especially by Mike Gore on his show.
Uh knuckle up and uh, probably on knockout of the week, but anyway he’s got a fight upcoming um on a card that features a bunch of other Fighters, but anyway he’s on a card um.
Sorry, I shouldn’t jump ahead, but the reality is he’s on a card with WBO interim World Super weight, middleweight showdown between Zach, Parker and John Ryder, and also has a Hamza shariz and eibach gym teammate, Sam Knox and Pierce O’Leary in Championship action as well.
That’S taking place on November 26th at the O2 Arena and, as I say on this undercard is one of our favorite Fighters Dennis the men’s McCann and he promises Johan that he’s going to feel the power when, when they get into battle uh for the super bantamweight Title that’s at stake on that card.
Let’S have a quick look at what Dennis the Menace McCann has to say he and he’s talking about ham.
He is an ex-team GB fighter and is boxed all around the world, but he hasn’t met Dennis the Menace yet or fought anyone like me when he feels the power he is not gon na, like it trust me uh, you got ta love what some of these Guys have to say to each other is kind of funny, but anyway um.
He he uh by the way um McCann is, is facing tougher tests as he moves up his his his his record speaks to itself.
I believe, he’s undefeated.
Let me have a quick little look here, see if you’ve got his record on yes, 13-07 Knockouts and uh.
You know he he’s got uh some pretty good words for for his opponent, Joe ham, and if you want the full story, just go to boxing247.
com or else uh you’ll find me talking Forever on this episode.
Let’S move quickly forward now to um Isaac, Pitbull Cruz, who’s managed by many Pacquiao promotions, uh to see what he has to say about his uh uh life in the in the squared Circle without hesitation says this article on boxing247.
com without hesitation, Isaac, Pitbull Cruz, would fight Vasil lomachenko, as Orlando San salido did, and even knock him out.
This was assured by Isaac, Cruz, father and coach of pitbull Cruz, who said in an interview that he saw the Ukrainian out of rhythm and that they would already know how to defeat him.
He said it would be an identical copy of the fight that sin Salado did to Loma.
He said, if Solano beat him at a certain age with great experience.
I really have no doubt that we would beat lomachenko because of the demonstration gave against Jim and the Tweet Ortiz and what he showed in the ring.
Isaac Cruz thinks that his son could knock out the Ukrainian.
He said I saw him in bad shape.
I have no doubt at all, and what I could confirm is that his decision would not be reached anyway.
The European defeated Ortiz, as you all know, uh back in New York in an event where Loma had struggled against a rival who, at times looked quite good.
Uh Loma had suffered dude two defeats in his career, the first and the second duel as a professional against Orlando salido, so that same pressing strategy would be carried out by put bill in the eventual bout if it were to occur.
Now.
I have mentioned this before this is getting um.
This division is getting quite heated.
There are lots of uh verbal battles going on uh in the the lightweight sector, but anyway I leave it up to you.
At the moment.
Um Pitbull defeated Eduardo Ramirez back on September.
4Th and he’s apparently taking a well-deserved break uh that will see him fight again, probably in March or April, according to his management team.
So there you go boxing fans, there’s all the news fit to print for today and a little bit of commentary in the introduction with respect to what I’d stated the other day and Terence Crawford and the hedge funds that he mentioned, and the 50 million dollars uh Guaranteed that they were offering to see him and Earl Spence go Toe to Toe which, quite frankly, I doubt um, not not calling Errol Spence.
Sorry, uh not calling Terence Crawford a liar, but I think he might be stretching the truth on that one, because I can’t see a hedge fund putting up 25 million, let alone two of them, putting up 50 million to see a fight.
That would not, quite frankly, offer that return um anyway, thanks for joining me appreciate, it remember to join Mike or Cedric Ben at 4 pm at Knuckle Up.
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