According to the boss Showtime Sports Stephen Espinosa, negotiations over the organization of the fight between pound Welterweight kings Americans Errol Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) and Terence Crawford (38-0, 29 KOs) inspire restrained optimism. But no more.
He is very pleased that “Negotiations are being held behind closed doors,” but he does not hide the fact that the process is not going well: “A lot of time has already passed. In the course of the negotiations, we now approach the battle, then move away from it. But I think it’s normal. As of today, nothing concrete, alas, I can not say. That is, I will not say that the negotiation process is dead or that everything is moving towards this. There are many questions. Some close quickly, and some are very difficult.”
Espinosa admitted that “at this stage, we are a bit stalled. But no one is going to give up. Yes, the process is going slower than we would like. But he’s coming. And, I repeat, it is very important that none of the parties makes dirty linen in public, does not make the negotiations public. I know the fans would prefer to know everything. I would like to share everything I know. But most of all, I don’t want to be the dude who caused everything to fall apart. And in such things it is very easy to accidentally offend one of the parties, to provoke them to withdraw from the negotiations. It happened so many times.”
Espinosa says he is “optimistic. It is very likely that the fight will take place before the end of the year. To be honest, we practically did not communicate with Crawford – so far we are completely focused on Spence. How serious are we? Our goal is to get both of them back into negotiations, even if things fall apart now. This is not just a fight, but a very important fight. Both fighters want it, and they want it strongly, they want it the most, they want it 100%. And that’s where I get my optimism about the talks.”
The other day, a veteran businessman simply explained why the Spence-Crawford fight might not take place. And the ex-applicant gave the idea that in fact this is a “so-so duel.”
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