Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford Receives $500,000 Sponsorship Approval From LVCVA

LVCVA announced an additional $500,000 sponsorship budget for Canelo vs Crawford. The governing body's president and CEO, Steve Hill, noted UNLV was compensated for the date adjustment, but not the specifics. He said:

There’s costs associated with it (moving the date). But they (UNLV) were more than happy to do it. It’s somewhat disruptive for them and we really just appreciate their partnership and recognizing that this weekend is going to be huge.

This is the first boxing event to ever take place at Allegiant Stadium, a venue with a minimum capacity of 65,000, which can be expanded for larger events such as the Super Bowl.

Hill expects an electric atmosphere for the Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford event and thinks the entire city will be buzzing that night. He said:

The atmosphere that night in a venue of that size is going to be electric. If you go through Las Vegas now when there’s a major boxing event in town you can feel it, you know, the excitement in the community… to do it in Allegiant Stadium is going to magnify that energy and that emotion and it’s going to be an epic weekend.

The two fighters had a three city press tour, which took place in Riyadh, New York, and Las Vegas. The fight is now a little over two months away.