Yesterday, coincidentally on the identical day that Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga went face-to-face for the primary time prematurely of their September combat, Turki Alalshikh introduced on social media that Canelo in opposition to Terence Crawford is not a combat that he’s thinking about making; with the Saudi cash man writing how he “doesn’t need it anymore.”
Crawford is more likely to as a substitute keep at 154 kilos, the place he in fact just lately received a belt, whereas Canelo, if he will get previous Berlanga, will transfer on and combat, nicely, we don’t know who (though everyone knows who we wish Canelo to combat, and that’s David Benavidez).
Alalshikh wrote how he’ll now be concentrating on making massive fights, not just for “Bud,” but additionally for Jaron Ennis, Devin Haney, Shakur Stevenson and others. Moreover, Alalshikh wrote how he will likely be trying to stack the below card of the December 21 rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury.
“Simply wrapped up an necessary assembly now with my staff, planning for the upcoming fights that we’ll make for 2024-2025. I made a decision to discard the Canelo combat, as I don’t need it anymore,” Alalshikh wrote.
“As a substitute, I will likely be focusing for the US market with larger fights, particularly for the legend Crawford. Moreover, I’ll help making fights for Boots, Haney, Shakur, Ortiz, Anderson, Benavidez, Zepeda, and extra. Relating to Tim Tszyu, there’s one thing unclear with the communications from his staff with our staff, so I consider I’ll rethink the scenario. For the remainder of the world, undoubtedly, I’m specializing in Riyadh Season card, Wembley 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 massive card on the primary quarter of 2025. Keep tuned.”
It will likely be very attention-grabbing seeing what fights, what match ups, Alalshikh will placed on for the AJ-Dubois card and the Usyk-Fury II card. Hopefully, there will likely be extra heavyweight fights on each playing cards. Martin Bakole’s identify springs to thoughts so far as who might combat on both card, and perhaps Joseph Parker, Zhilei Zhang (if he doesn’t get a giant combat in his homeland of China), Jarrell Miller, and perhaps Agit Kabayel and one or two different heavyweights.
Each heavyweight headliners would pull within the followers as stand alone fights, however with some stacked below card motion the P-P-V numbers might show huge. There guarantees to be some extra massive, massive combat playing cards this yr. We could have misplaced Crawford Vs. Canelo, however loads of followers felt that one was unrealistic all the best way, with 168 being simply too massive of a soar for “Bud.”
