After months of negotiations, Turki Alalshikh has deserted establishing a superfight between undisputed super-middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez and WBA gentle middleweight champion Terence Crawford.
With a tweet within the early morning hours Tuesday, the chairman of the Common Leisure Authority in Saudi Arabia stated he’s “disregarding” Alvarez in favor of working towards what he believes will probably be “larger fights” for Crawford in the USA. The Saudi adviser additionally talked about different names he hopes to work with, together with Jaron “Boots” Ennis, Devin Haney, Shakur Stevenson and David Benavidez.
Alalshikh and Riyadh Season are coming off their first main battle card in the USA, a High Rank Boxing occasion held Saturday headlined by Crawford transferring as much as seize the WBA 154-pound belt from Israil Madrimov. The battle was featured within the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
Whereas Alvarez and Crawford have been two of the highest pound-for-pound boxers for roughly a decade, the 2 have lengthy been separated by a number of weight lessons. However with Crawford’s current transfer as much as the division that Alvarez first turned a world champion in, the battle appeared barely extra believable on paper however not within the eyes of Alalshikh.
Regardless of giving up hope on the superfight, Alalshikh gave followers cause for pleasure along with his plans to shut out the calendar yr.
As he detailed additional in his tweet, Alalshikh vowed to deal with the upcoming Riyadh Season battle playing cards on Sept. 21 and Oct. 12, headlined by Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois and Dmitry Bivol vs. Artur Beterbiev.
After its conclusion, he intends to make use of the occasion’s outcomes to form the remainder of the undercard for the huge Dec. 21 occasion that includes the heavyweight title rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury.
