Some fascinating feedback by Saudi moneyman Turki Alalshikh have been posted on social media on X, and Turki has had a lot to say about Terence Crawford. Alalshikh – who lately mentioned the Crawford-Canelo combat is off the desk, that he doesn’t need it anymore – writes how a proposal will probably be made to Crawford for him to combat Vergil Ortiz (final seen being pushed more durable than arduous by Serhii Bohachuk, this in a Struggle of the 12 months that cries out for a rematch), however Turki doubts “Bud” will take it.
And relating to a combat between Crawford and new welterweight star Jaron “Boots” Ennis, Alalshikh says that is “not the highest combat we need to see.” Alalshikh says he thinks Crawford desires Canelo and no person else and that the 36-year-old pound-for-pound star could retire if he can not get the Mexican star within the ring.
“I don’t suppose Crawford will combat anybody besides Canelo,” Alalshikh informed Charlie Parsons earlier as we speak. “We [will] give him a proposal for [Vergil] Ortiz, [but] I don’t know if he’ll take it or not. We now have an settlement to do [a] large combat for Ortiz if Crawford doesn’t take the combat.”
So, would possibly we by no means see Crawford combat once more if he can not get that tremendous combat with Canelo? Who is aware of, however that is what Alalshikh feels might be the case. If he doesn’t ever combat once more, Crawford, we all know, is a lock for the Corridor of Fame, with some saying he deserves all-time nice standing; this can be a debate for one more time.
As for Canelo, Turki says he nonetheless desires to see Canelo combat David Benavidez and that “nothing is unimaginable.”
“If anybody could make that combat (Canelo-Benavidez), it’s Riyadh Season,” he mentioned.
So what may the “large combat” be for Ortiz if Crawford exhibits little interest in going through the unbeaten 154-pounder? Would possibly Ortiz find yourself preventing Ennis, who Crawford doesn’t appear concerned with preventing? Perhaps.
Proper now, Alalshikh is busy plotting large combat situations, and there are guarantees of extra large, stacked playing cards over the approaching months.
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His Excellency Turki Alalshikh thinks WBA junior middleweight champion Terence Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) is just concerned with a conflict towards famous person Canelo Alvarez at 168, not in a match towards WBC interim 154-lb champ Vergil Ortiz Jr.
It’ll be as much as Turki to place collectively an interesting deal for Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) to conform to a combat towards Crawford, who could be transferring up two weight divisions to take the match towards him.
That’s 14 lbs Crawford could be transferring up, and numerous weight for a man that seemed weak in his current debut at 154 towards WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov on August third.
“I don’t suppose Crawford will combat anybody besides Canelo,” mentioned Turki Alalshikh to the Stomping Grounds about Terence Crawford solely eager to combat Canelo Alvarez subsequent, not WBC interim junior middleweight champion Vergil Ortiz Jr.
Crawford’s Perceived Greed and Danger Aversion
Social media followers criticize the 36-year-old Crawford for under eager to combat Canelo. They really feel he’s grasping and unwilling to take dangers after his unimpressive combat towards Madrimov, which he virtually misplaced.
Folks need to see Crawford correctly examined at 154 towards Vergil Ortiz Jr., Sebastian Fundora, Tim Tszyu, and Serhii Bohachuk earlier than he can combat King Canelo Alvarez at 168.
Followers really feel that Crawford is ducking Vergil and Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis, simply searching for a fast mega-money payday to offer him a great deal of money to cushion his retirement.
The best way that Crawford is making an attempt to maneuver straight right into a combat towards Canelo with out preventing the killers at 154 is off-putting to followers as a result of he didn’t look good towards Madrimov. Furthermore, the fighters that Crawford beat at 147, 140, and 135 throughout his profession had been a mixture of previous and lesser guys. Crawford’s resume has no prime elite-level fighters, and he’s nonetheless unproven.
Followers doubt Crawford would beat the younger gun Vergil Jr., they usually don’t like how he’s making an attempt to keep away from that combat, as he did with Boots Ennis, to get that large payday towards Canelo.
Crawford hasn’t earned the best to combat Canelo, and his reported low PPV numbers for the Madrimov occasion are much more the reason why he shouldn’t get the match towards Alvarez subsequent.
