Canelo Alvarez responded to His Excellency Turki Alalshikh’s vital put up in the present day 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 discuss…If he needs to work with me, it’s in my method, not of their method.”
In Alalshikh’s put up early this morning, he implied that Canelo was afraid to battle Crawford and “losing our time” by asking for “huge quantities of cash.”
Canelo revealed that Turki had texted him this week, asking him to debate a battle towards Terence Crawford subsequent February. Nevertheless, Canelo informed him he didn’t wish to talk about the battle as a result of he was centered on his September 14th title protection towards Edgar Berlanga.
It’s unclear whether or not Canelo and Turki can discuss later a few battle towards Crawford or if the Saudis have given up on making an attempt to make this match as a result of cash that Alvarez would possibly need.
— Canelo Alvarez (@Canelo) August 7, 2024
Canelo’s Disinterest in a No-Win State of affairs
Turki fails to grasp why Canelo doesn’t appear enthusiastic about combating Crawford, and the explanations are apparent. It’s a no-win battle for Canelo the place he received’t get credit score.
As Canelo says, he’s keen to battle Crawford however for the appropriate value. That value could be too excessive for Turki, although, for him to be speaking about Canelo wanting “huge quantities of cash.”
There was no point out of how a lot Canelo wished to defend his WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight titles towards Crawford, nevertheless it should have been large for Turki to remark about him wanting “huge quantities.”
No matter Canelo would ask for, Crawford absolutely needs comparable cash, making the battle too costly for even the Saudis to wish to pay for.
Canelo is already very wealthy, and he’s not somebody who could be bothered about dropping out on a giant payday towards Crawford. It’s not a giant deal for Canelo as a result of he’s getting $40 million per battle for title defenses towards Edgar Berlanga, Jaime Munguia, and John Ryder.
Crawford, 36, might be not too glad about Turki giving up on the Canelo battle so rapidly as a result of that’s his greatest probability for a giant payday, and he says he needs 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 received his battle final Saturday evening towards Israil Madrimov at 154, which may sign that he’s getting older.
