WBC and WBO junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora’s promoter, Sampson Lewkowicz, says he’s open to negotiating a combat with necessary Terence Crawford.
Lewkowicz states that Crawford hasn’t talked about desirous to combat Fundora (21-1-1, 13 KOs), and the World Boxing Group hasn’t despatched a letter ordering them to barter. He additionally says His Excellency Turki Alalshikh hasn’t talked of desirous to make a combat between Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs).
Crawford Nonetheless Desires Canelo
Possible, Crawford continues to be holding out his dim hope of a combat towards famous person Canelo Alvarez falling into his lap, which is extremely unlikely. Canelo already stated he doesn’t want to focus on a combat towards anybody else till after his subsequent title protection towards Edgar Berlanga on September 14th.
He’s open to a match towards Crawford, however his asking value could also be too excessive for Turki to agree. Until Canelo is keen to drop his asking value of $150 million, Crawford should transfer on and take the following finest combat, simply Fundora, except he needs to combat younger Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis.
“We’re ready for the WBO to ship us a letter for the necessary and negotiate,” stated promoter Sampson Lewkowicz to Fighthype when requested if Sebastian Fundora might be defending his WBC and WBO Junior middleweight titles towards Errol Spence subsequent.
“Should you see Crawford, he talks about everybody, however he by no means mentions Fundora in addition to Turki Alalshikh. I respect him, though he didn’t point out Fundora. He has a proper to not point out, however nobody acquired in contact with me about that combat [Crawford vs. Fundora].
If Crawford, 36, chooses to not drive a title combat towards WBC/WBO 154-lb champion Fundora, ‘The Towering Inferno’ will seemingly defend towards Errol Spence subsequent. That large combat will herald numerous income on PPV and ticket gross sales.
It’s comprehensible why Crawford may not be in a rush to combat once more, as he’s coming off a win over WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov final Saturday evening. Furthermore, Crawford normally solely fights every year.
So, he’ll sit inactive for the following 12+ months, reveling in his win over Madrimov earlier than returning to the ring within the first half of 2025.
“Most likely there’s no curiosity, and no matter he comes to a decision, I’ll by no means go towards a brand new promoter [Turki]. I might by no means try this,” stated Lewkowicz about Turki’s curiosity in a combat between Crawford and WBC and WBO 154-lb champion Fundora. “If he needs to do the perfect combat, let him do it, however I might by no means intervene with Turki.
Crawford’s Choice
“We have to negotiate. That may be a tricky combat, however we wait. It is a chess recreation. We have to wait,” stated Lewkowicz when requested if he’d wish to make a combat between Fundora and Crawford. “We’re the champions. So, we’re ready for that letter, and we’ll see what occurs ultimately.”
Lewkowicz has a transparent curiosity in a combat between Crawford and Fundora. Now, it’s as much as Crawford and Turki in the event that they wish to go in that course for the Nebraska native’s subsequent combat or concentrate on making an attempt to place collectively a match towards Canelo as soon as he’s performed together with his protection towards Berlanga.
