This past Saturday, Terence Crawford defeated Israil Madrimov by unanimous decision to become the new WBA Super Welterweight Champion. Canelo Alvarez is scheduled to defend his Unified Super Middleweight Championship against Edgar Berlanga next month.
Recently, Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, had an idea for a potential boxing fight between Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez.
However, Alalshikh announced on Monday that he is no longer interested in the Crawford vs. Alvarez fight. Alalshikh added that he is now focusing on the United States market and support to make fights for Jaron “Boots” Ennis, Devin Haney, Shakur Stevenson, Vergil Ortiz Jr., Jared Anderson, David Benavidez, William Zepeda, and more.
“Just wrapped up an important meeting now with my team, planning for the upcoming fights that we will make for 2024-2025. I decided to disregard the Canelo fight, as I don’t want it anymore.
Instead, I will be focusing for the US market with bigger fights, especially for the legend Crawford.
Additionally, I will support making fights for Boots, Haney, Shakur, Ortiz, Anderson, Benavidez, Zepeda and more, regarding Tim Tszyu, there’s something unclear with the communications from his team with our team, so I believe I will reconsider his situation. and for the rest of the world, definitely, I am focusing on Riyadh Season card, Wembley edition 21st of September (AJ vs. Dubois) and depending on the results and the results of Riyadh Season’s opening card (Bivol vs. Beterbiev) on the 12th of October, I will build the card for the rematch of Fury vs. Usyk on the 21st of December and another big card on the first quarter of 2025. Stay tuned. 🥊”
Just wrapped up an important meeting now with my team, planning for the upcoming fights that we will make for 2024-2025. I decided to disregard the Canelo fight, as I don’t want it anymore.
— TURKI ALALSHIKH (@Turki_alalshikh) August 6, 2024
Instead, I will be focusing for the US market with bigger fights, especially for the…