Boxing may simply have its latest chilly struggle that includes Canelo Alvarez and Turki Alalshikh, who has been making the current greatest splashes within the sport. Alalshikh’s had been actively pursuing a struggle with Canelo on behalf of Terence Crawford, however only recently expressed a change of coronary heart. That stark distinction appeared to insinuate some behind the scenes tensions between the 2, which has began to spill over publicly.
So when requested about his ideas on preventing Crawford, Canelo continued to keep up that it’s not one thing he’s significantly searching for.
“Crawford must struggle Teofimo after which we’ll see, proper,” Canelo stated. “On the finish of the day, like I say earlier than, I’m not asking for that struggle. They need to make that struggle as a result of it’s a payday clearly, however I don’t need that struggle. I believe Teofimo deserve [that fight] greater than me.
Then when requested about Turki Alalshikh saying he’s not all for making that struggle anyway, after overtly pushing that agenda for a while now, Canelo despatched this message.
“My response to Turki is that this,” Canelo started. “Yesterday, they textual content me. They textual content me and say ‘we will discuss concerning the struggle in February with Crawford. They textual content me yesterday and I say ‘look, I’m not going to speak about every other struggle, I’m targeted 100% on this struggle.’
“Look, I don’t like the best way he discuss, and I’m not on this place due to [anyone else]. I’m on this place. If he needs to work with me it’s in my approach, not of their approach. I don’t want it.
“It’s not the best way to method to me. Look, I respect all people, and I respect Turki, however look, if he needs to work with me it must be my approach.”
Alalshikh would then situation a public response taking photographs at Canelo upon listening to the feedback.
“I heard what Canelo stated that he respects me however doesn’t like the best way we do enterprise,” Alalshikh wrote. “As for him respecting me, it doesn’t matter to me if he does or not. As for the best way I do enterprise, I do know why he doesn’t prefer it, as a result of I solely goal huge fights at honest costs, so after all anybody who likes straightforward fights received’t like that. And I understand how he feels after dropping to Bivol, so he’s been searching for simpler fights ever since.
“Additionally, I’m not the one who’s afraid of preventing Benavidez or Crawford. Subsequently, I knew he was losing our time and making excuses with huge quantities of cash that may’t be paid. So I’m persevering with my solution to make huge fights that serve the boxing world, and he’s on his solution to making straightforward show-only fights.”
