Comments Thread For: Raymond Muratalla-Andy Cruz title fight talks hit financial snag

[BoxingUpdates]

Negotiations for the IBF lightweight title fight have stalled and will likely require a purse bid.
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[brankobugarski]

Muratalle wants more money because he knows what is going to happen.

[James Hunt]

Maybe Muratalla's promoter knows that IBF will not order Cruz fight next -will allow Muratalla a voluntary defense first?

[James Hunt]

Muratalle wants more money because he knows what is going to happen.

It's more likely he wants another opponent.
He knows that no one will pay him more than Saudis to fight Cruz.

[boxingitis]

Suprise the Saudis could afford this one.

[JakeNDaBox]

Maybe Muratalla's promoter knows that IBF will not order Cruz fight next -will allow Muratalla a voluntary defense first?

It was already ordered. He has to fight him before the end of the year and can't take a voluntary, outside of unification.

[Rumblerr]

There's always a greedy one. I'm pretty sure that he was getting paid well for the fight, but someone put in his ear that they should ask for more money.

[brankobugarski]

At the end of of the day it does not matter. When they fight, Muratalla will no longer be the champion. Might as well cash out while he can.

[Boxing2695]

I think he knows Cruz is a difficult fight and he knows how talented Cruz is so he’s thinking if I gotta fight this guy then I want to get paid as much as I possibly can, but the problem is it’s not a super fight or a big money fight and both guys wouldn’t be coming out with huge purses.. same thing use to happen with Rigondeaux wasn’t the most entertaining or the biggest money fight out there for the champions but so talented he’d of probably beat all the champions back then, so guys like Santa Cruz,Frampton,Quigg etc all just avoided him like the plague. Hope Cruz doesn’t get the same treatment.

[beast702]

Muratalla is ok, not really impressive. I say he is definitely avoiding Cruz.