The unification fight seems weird also since Spence is now the one being inactive and all of a sudden the always-keep-it-safe Al Haymon and Showtime approved this? Or is Crawford willing to sign with PBC and commit himself to Showtime after this fight? Nonetheless, I really really hope that it is for real and Spence won't make any excuses later on.
Isn't it official already that the fight between Spence and Crawford has been announced by both fighter and the promotional company itself? We really don't know what's going on behind those negotiations as Crawford has his own set of advisors and maybe this is the only thing that needed though, a more experience middle man to act as a broker, unlike before it was just Crawford directly talking to the big boss of PBC and so maybe there are terms that only an advisor understands and explain it to Crawford and then giving it the go signal and we even hear that there are a rematch clause involved already.
Yeah, it's official since it's been confirmed by Showtime at the very least. Although it seems like there are no press conferences and tours before they focused on their training camps. The date is a little early so there is no time for both fighters to travel to big cities around the world to promote this fight. But at least it is happening. I don't know if Crawford hired other advisors but I know he mentioned after the fallout of the deals that he will try his very best to personally talk with Spence. Unbelievable but it worked. Spence might be also convinced after the result of Tank-Garcia PPV buys that they can also do a hundred million PPV buys which can guarantee him and Crawford a minimum of $30 million.
And after seeing an online interview on both Crawford and Spence at the same time, I am more than convinced that Spence will have no reason not to go on with this fight. Maybe Crawford should not trash-talk Spence nor show some of his scary training because it might scare Spence and will declare another injury in order to get out of this big fight. Thanks for all the contributions.