Floyd Mayweather Open To Signing Terence Crawford

Floyd Mayweather would love to sign Terence Crawford.

The WBO welterweight champion is currently a free agent after his contract with Top Rank expired following his win over Shawn Porter last year.

With Errol Spence Jr. coming out on top against Yordenis Ugas in their welterweight title unification clash this past weekend, it now appears more likely than ever that Crawford will finally face the former to unify all the belts.

Spence, of course, is with PBC. And should Crawford choose to sign with another promoter, Mayweather and Mayweather Promotions is open to the prospect.

The main reason? Helping out a fellow Black American and making sure fighters get their fair share of the pie.

“It’s no different from Chinese supporting the Chinese, Dominicans supporting Dominicans, Puerto Ricans supporting Puerto Ricans, Mexicans supporting Mexicans,” Mayweather said in a recent interview (via BoxingScene). “I’m a Black American. I’m going to support a Black American first. I’ve always wanted the best for Terence Crawford — always. We spoke on numerous occasions. We have each other’s phone numbers. Hopefully, everything plays out like it should, and of course, I would love to sign Terence Crawford. I talked about getting Terence Crawford the fights that he wants.

“You see so many young fighters now starting their own promotion company. You have to be able to give fighters [$1 million and up to $6 million] in advance before you get a promotional company. I’m not talking about Terence Crawford, but fighters in general. If you’re not able to do that, and be a major promoter right now, then we should wait on that. That’s what I think. Everything has a time and a place. But I think every fighter should have a dream of being a promoter. Promoting is a rough job. You can look at me for instance. I wanted to be a promoter to help fighters, but the more I help them, the more they hate me. That comes with the territory. That comes with the sport. It is what it is.

“I want to put fighters in a position to get the lion’s share. Before Floyd Mayweather became a promoter in the sport, the promoters were getting the lion’s share and getting more money than the fighters … I changed fighters getting crazy money.”

It certainly wouldn’t hurt to be promoted by Mayweather, especially when negotiations with Spence’s team eventually happen.

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