By: Sean Crose
“Simply wrapped up an necessary assembly now with my crew,” Saudi boxing guru Turki Alalshikh posted on social media Tuesday, “planning for the upcoming fights that we’ll make for 2024-2025.” Alalshikh then went on to debate the hoped for (in some quarters) potential battle between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford. “I made a decision to ignore the Canelo battle,” Alalshikh stated, “as I don’t need it anymore.” Though he didn’t outright say why, Canelo is rumored to have demanded an outrageous sum of cash. Additionally, Crawford is considerably smaller than tremendous middleweight Canelo – which could make for a one sided affair.
But Alalshikh nonetheless has his thoughts on huge occasions. “I might be focusing for the US market with greater fights,” he said, “particularly for the legend Crawford. Moreover, I’ll help making fights for Boots, Haney, Shakur, Ortiz, Anderson, Benavidez, Zepeda and extra, concerning Tim Tszyu, there’s one thing unclear with the communications from his crew with our crew, so I consider I’ll rethink his state of affairs.”
And that’s not all. “I’m specializing in Riyadh Season card,” Alalshikh provides, “wembley [sic] version twenty first of September (AJ vs. Dubois) and relying on the outcomes and the outcomes of Riyadh Season’s opening card (Bivol vs. Beterbiev) on the twelfth of October, I’ll construct the cardboard for the rematch of Fury vs. Usyk on the twenty first of December and one other huge card on the primary quarter of 2025. Keep tuned.”
As for Canelo, he’s obtained a September 14th bout forward of him in opposition to Edgar Berlanga. Though Berlanga isn’t seen as a prime opponent for Canelo, there’s no denying that the purple haired star is on the level in his profession the place he can face just about anybody he desires. Sadly, the identical can’t be stated for Crawford, who has solely had one blockbuster battle (late summer time’s utter destruction of Spence) to his identify.
Now that he’s backed by none aside from Alalshikh, nevertheless, Crawford would possibly effectively discover himself in additional profitable and even excessive profile bouts. For, if something may be stated about Alalshikh it’s that he could make notable fights occur. He’s, in brief, buddy to have within the up to date boxing scene. Canelo would possibly disagree, however Alakshikh has already lined up a substantial variety of main fights, and can little question line up extra within the close to future.
At the very least for the second, nevertheless, Canelo-Crawford gained’t be seen on his agenda.
