{"id":646851,"date":"2026-06-19T08:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646851\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:23:18","slug":"conor-mcgregor-terence-crawford-turned-down-200-million-offer-for-mma-boxing-doubleheader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646851\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor: Terence Crawford turned down $200 million offer for MMA-boxing doubleheader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">In a recent conversation with an individual close to retired five-division champion Terence Crawford, the person flatly said \u201cno\u201d to the question of if they expect Crawford to fight again.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Conor McGregor said he\u2019s received the same rejection from the man himself.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Appearing on Tuesday\u2019s \u201cThe Ariel Helwani Show,\u201d former two-division UFC champion McGregor said a recent social-media exchange with Crawford over former lightweight champion Ilia Topuria\u2019s Sunday night White House title loss to Justin Gaethje, reminded him of a past offer that emerged for the two to fight.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The first bout would be an MMA fight in the Octagon, the second a boxing match in a ring. The proposed purse was $200 million.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">McGregor said Saudi Arabia boxing financier Turki Alalshikh put Crawford on the phone with McGregor, but Crawford said no deal: \u201cI don\u2019t want to be kicked by you, no way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Having seen frequent footage of Crawford playfully wrestling with grown men, McGregor told Helwani he was surprised by the rejection.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI know he can wrestle,\u201d McGregor said. \u201cHe walked out of a two-fight deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">McGregor will next fight former UFC champion Max Holloway, headlining a UFC card July 11.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Crawford, after attending the White House card, will receive the Boxing Writers Association of America\u2019s fighter-of-the-year award in New York on June 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a recent conversation with an individual close to retired five-division champion Terence Crawford, the person flatly said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,714,101,9553,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}