The Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez vs. Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford superfight will take place in an appropriately grand location in $1.9 billion Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and the guaranteed purse is set at a total US$200 million with $150 million going to Alvarez and the remainder for Crawford.
Previously, there had been a big question over the location of the fight for weeks as Islamic Solidarity Sport Federation (ISSF) chairman Turki bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Sheikh (Alalshikh)’s team of promoters worked to sort out a scheduling issue with the venue.
It’s clear they wanted the 65,000-seat venue for their fight, but things were complicated since the bout was moved from September 12 to the following, September 13th.
The multi-purpose stadium was originally set to host a college football game between the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Rebels and Idaho State Bengals, but a deal has been struck for the boxing event to take over the date and venue. The fight will be the venue’s first combat sports event since opening in 2020.
It was announced last week that the fight between the undisputed super middleweight champion Alvarez (63-2-2, 39 KOs) and Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) will stream on Netflix.
There is still the question of how involved UFC CEO Dana White and parent company TKO will be in the whole endeavor. White was initially announced as the main promoter by Alalshikh and the event was set to kick off Zuffa Boxing, the new boxing league partnership between TKO and Turki. All hints of that have been scrubbed from the UFC’s webpage and Alalshikh no longer namedrops White or TKO.
White recently said he ‘hated’ the idea of holding Canelo vs. Crawford at Allegiant Stadium.