Terence Crawford blew his top today by blasting the WBC for stripping him of his super middleweight title after failing to pay the $300,000 sanction fee of the $50 million he was paid for his September 13 fight against Canelo Alvarez.
Crawford loses it
Sounding like he was carrying a chip on his shoulder, a venom-spewing Crawford devalued the stripped WBC title, saying it was a mere “trophy” that meant nothing. For a title he says meant nothing, Crawford looked apoplectic.
Terence says WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman should have taken what he was willing to pay for sanctioning the $300,000 fee they asked for. Apparently they lowered it from 3% to 0.6% before, but he still hasn’t paid.
Fairy Math Crawford Hated
“You said, allegedly, I made X amount of money. You don’t know how much I made. You don’t know how much I made. You’re speculating,” says Terence Crawford in his bitter rant today social media. “Mauricio (Sulaiman), everybody in the world knows you went for Canelo, and you were mad that I beat Canelo.”
Turki Alalshikh was reported to have paid Crawford $50 million for the fight. If this is the number the WBC is concerned with when calculating the sanctioning fee, it is understandable. If Crawford had wanted to show them exactly how much he earned, maybe he would have gotten a reduced sanctioning fee. Of course, if the $50M is accurate, he can’t say much.
“If you were a true fan of the sport, you would be congratulating instead of having that smile on your face, all angry and pouting. You should have taken the money,” Crawford said of what he was willing to give the WBC for the sanctioning fee instead of the $300,0000 of the $50 million.
Special treatment?
Why does the WBC have to give Crawford special rules over anyone else when tabulating their sanctioning fees? Does he feel entitled and get special treatment that the average fighter doesn’t? Crawford has already been allowed to jump the line to fight Canelo Alvarez for his undisputed super middleweight title without ever competing in the 168-lb division.
168’s Forgotten Contenders
How fair was it for the contenders waiting in line for their shot at the super middleweight titles against Canelo? Would it have been too much to ask that Turki Alalshikh insisted that Terence deserves his chance at Canelo by running this rig at 168?
- Osley Iglesias
- Christian Mbilli
- Lester Martinez
- Diego Pacheco
- Hamzah Sheeraz
Last updated on 12/03/2025
