Saturday night’s Top Rank Boxing on ESPN main event pits undefeated WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford (33-0, 24 KOs) against former amateur star Jose Benavidez Jr (27-0, 18 KOs) in what is clearly a grudge match. It will be a partisan crowd in Crawford’s hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, with the CHI Health Center sold out.
This is Crawford’s first fight under his lucrative new Top Rank contract, and as one of the promotion’s top stars, he’s getting paid handsomely despite not being a pay-per-view draw. ESPN’s Dan Rafael has the salaries for both men:
Purses from Omaha: Crawford official purse $2 million, guaranteed $3.