Terence Crawford in U-turn over Conor McGregor clash with boxer ‘tempted’ after UFC star reveals HUGE fight purse

TERENCE CRAWFORD has admitted helium is tempted by Conor McGregor's two-fight woody - aft seeing the wealth that is connected offer.

McGregor revealed a bundle was connected the array for a never-before-seen doubler header successful boxing and MMA with Crawford.

But the erstwhile undisputed satellite boxing champion initially said nary magnitude of wealth could person him to get kicked oregon elbowed.

That was until McGregor posted online: "Big respect to @tbudcrawford!

"$100million dollars a fight, 1 mma, 1 boxing. $200million dollars!"

To which Crawford responded: "Tempted."

McGregor put his UFC vocation connected clasp successful 2017 to look ringing great Floyd Mayweather in a crossover clash worthy immense sums.

Crawford meantime wrestled successful his younker but went connected to go one of the top boxers of his era.

McGregor said during a Duelbits livestream: “Crawford is precise slick, helium besides has a wrestling inheritance pedigree.

"You cognize they’re ever talking to maine astir bouts. I’ve already boxed a boxer, and the champion boxer successful MMA is me.

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"You cognize what I mean? I make the most. We were talking backmost and distant astir a two-fight deal."

In Crawford's past combat helium bushed Israil Madrimov to triumph the WBA super-welterweight satellite title.

It was besides his archetypal with Saudi boxing supremo Turki Alalshikh's Riyadh Season - who precocious partnered with the UFC.

And McGregor, 36, was the archetypal to uncover that Crawford, 37, was approached for the two-fight woody - earlier declining.

He said: “I get connected the telephone and accidental ‘Crawford, they’re present talking astir you and me. Two-fight deal, MMA first, boxing second.

"I cognize you person an extended wrestling background, and balls the size of a Bengal tiger.

"They’re asking for a fight, it’ll beryllium hundreds of millions connected the line. 'What’s up?', I said.

"And past helium goes, ‘I don’t fancy taking a footwear disconnected Conor McGregor’, that’s what helium said. You person to respect that."

McGregor has been retired of enactment since July 2021 erstwhile helium broke his limb earlier being ruled retired of his instrumentality bout successful June.

The Irishman was forced to propulsion retired of facing Michael Chandler owed to a toed injury.

Chandler, 38, has since signed to rematch Charles Oliveira, 34, connected November 16 to permission McGregor's adjacent combat successful doubt.

Crawford meantime is simply a four-division champion and considered 1 of the champion boxers connected the planet.

He is presently eyeing a super-fight against Mexican icon Canelo Alvarez, 34, contempt rumours of pondering retirement.

And helium joked a power to MMA to combat McGregor is not thing helium takes lightly.

Crawford said to Bernie the Boxer: "I told Conor, 'Hell no'.

"They called maine and they offered maine the combat and maine and Conor got connected the telephone and started trying to fig thing out.

"And I told him, 'Man I ain't getting into nary octagon with you truthful you tin beryllium kicking maine and elbow maine and s***'.

"He started laughing and s*** and helium said 'Man, I respect it. You respect my athletics conscionable similar I respect your athletics and you recognize that if you get successful an octagon you're going to beryllium astatine a disadvantage.

"'Just similar if I get into the boxing ringing with you, I'm going to beryllium astatine a disadvantage'. But helium was like, 'We volition marque a s*** ton of money'.

"I said, 'Yeah, sometimes it ain't astir the money, I tin marque wealth but you ain't astir to beryllium kicking me, dude'. Kicks and elbows antheral that s*** ain't nary joke."