Canelo Alvarez responded to His Excellency Turki Alalshikh’s vital put up at present with a crying emoji, signaling his indifference about his views. Certainly, Alvarez doesn’t appear bothered by Turki’s feedback as a result of he wants him and never vice versa.
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Turki’s Lecture and Accusations
Turki had lectured Canelo (61-1-2, 39 KOs) in his put up on X, reacting to him saying, “I don’t like the best way he speak…If he desires to work with me, it’s in my manner, not of their manner.”
In Alalshikh’s put up early this morning, he implied that Canelo was afraid to struggle Crawford and “losing our time” by asking for “large quantities of cash.”
Canelo revealed that Turki had texted him this week, asking him to debate a struggle in opposition to Terence Crawford subsequent February. Nevertheless, Canelo informed him he didn’t wish to talk about the struggle as a result of he was targeted on his September 14th title protection in opposition to Edgar Berlanga.
It’s unclear whether or not Canelo and Turki can speak later a few struggle in opposition to Crawford or if the Saudis have given up on attempting to make this match because of the cash that Alvarez may need.
— Canelo Alvarez (@Canelo) August 7, 2024
Canelo’s Disinterest in a No-Win State of affairs
Turki fails to know why Canelo doesn’t appear enthusiastic about combating Crawford, and the explanations are apparent. It’s a no-win struggle for Canelo the place he gained’t get credit score.
As Canelo says, he’s keen to struggle Crawford however for the appropriate value. That value may be too excessive for Turki, although, for him to be speaking about Canelo wanting “large quantities of cash.”
There was no point out of how a lot Canelo needed to defend his WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight titles in opposition to Crawford, but it surely will need to have been big for Turki to remark about him wanting “large quantities.”
No matter Canelo would ask for, Crawford certainly desires comparable cash, making the struggle too costly for even the Saudis to wish to pay for.
Canelo is already very wealthy, and he’s not somebody who can be bothered about dropping out on an enormous payday in opposition to Crawford. It’s not an enormous deal for Canelo as a result of he’s getting $40 million per struggle for title defenses in opposition to Edgar Berlanga, Jaime Munguia, and John Ryder.
Crawford, 36, might be not too comfortable about Turki giving up on the Canelo struggle so shortly as a result of that’s his finest likelihood for an enormous payday, and he says he desires that match for his “legacy.”
If it doesn’t occur, Crawford’s choices are far much less interesting, and a few are dangerous. Crawford barely gained his struggle final Saturday night time in opposition to Israil Madrimov at 154, which might sign that he’s getting older.
