Canelo Alvarez would already have a guaranteed opponent for 2025, but it would not be for the May date, but for his second fight of the year, scheduled for September, on the weekend when the Independence of Mexico is celebrated in Las Vegas.
After much insistence, it seems that the effort is bearing fruit for Terence Crawford and Sheikh Turki Alalshikh and the undefeated American fighter will be his opponent for the second fight in 2025.
Canelo Alvarez will have record payday for fight with Terence Crawford
However, Saul Alvarez’s acceptance to face Crawford (41-0) will be quite expensive for the promoters, as the Mexican had already anticipated.
According to boxing insider Ray Jackson, Canelo Alvarez (62-2-2) will receive $150 million for the fight against The Bud, a figure that the Guadalajara native had already mentioned at the end of 2024 if they wanted him to think about the possibility of accepting the fight.
“Canelo Alvarez will get 150M guaranteed for fight with Crawford,” Jackson posted on X.
Saul Alvarez could be the highest paid boxer in 2025
If that payment is made, Saul Alvarez would return to the top of the highest-paid boxers and athletes in 2025, a list from which he dropped out the previous year.
In 2024, the highest-paid boxers were Oleksandr Usyk ($114 million) and Tyson Fury ($105 million) with their two fights under the auspices of Turki Alalshikh, figures that the Mexican would surpass only with the guaranteed fight against Crawford, where surely other income derived from that fight and the one he will have in May, in which he has not yet confirmed an opponent.
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