This shows the new trend and a precedence surely at the highest level of making fights by the fighters actually themselves.
In the end Terence Crawford beat Errol Spence but it was a fight long over due.
A fight wanted by boxing for years. In the end Spence’s advisor Al Haymon, founder of Premier Boxing Champions, had to be shoved aside.
Speaking to Andre Ward on the All The Smoke Podcast, Crawford said of how it actually went down behind the scenes and how it was made:
“At first Al (Haymon) was speaking for him then I just called Spence. My thing was, I went straight to Al. Al being doing this **** for decades so I was kind of out of my league. But me being from the streets being like — there’s ways around things like that.”
He went on to say:
“I went straight to the source. I called him (Spence). Text him. All that. We talking on the phone. He was like, what’s up? This was after the first turn down (first offer turn down). Me and Errol made the fight and I’m pretty sure Al was mad about it.”
He added:
“The difference was I was pushing for the fight. I had been pushing for the fight.”
He later noted the response was good:
“Once the lawyers got involved and the numbers started being distributed, we had some disagreements on the numbers and then I just went to him, listen, this is what I want. Then he was like, this is you what you want? He was like, alright. Then the lawyers came back and said, alright, then that is what we are going to do.”
That’s quite refreshingly straight forward how two active fighters really made one of the biggest pound for pound fights of our time.
Initiated and brought to fruition by one Crawford.
They cut through the talk, the bull, everything and just made the thing themselves.
A lesson to any professional boxer out there, the above actually makes fights and gets it done.
The fighters are the bosses in the event at the end of the day. In all aspects.
They must never lose sight of that.
Ever.
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