There’s sure to be more than a little speculation as why Turki Alalshikh is no longer interested in pursuing a Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford fight — whether it be Crawford’s most recent performance, Canelo’s financial demands, or a combination of the two — but Alalshikh has now expressed that he’ll be focusing his efforts elsewhere.
In a post on X, Alalshikh says he plans on placing his attention on the US boxing market and outlines his thoughts on what’s to come.
“Just wrapped up an important meeting now with my team, planning for the upcoming fights that we will make for 2024-2025,” Alalshikh wrote. “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.”
A lot of the potential interest in a Canelo vs Crawford card seemed to have dulled considering the fact Crawford wasn’t able to put a demonstrative dent into 154 lb Israil Madrimov (despite him winning a unanimous decision), and perhaps that was enough to kill off the notion.
There still remains a number of other big fights that Alalshikh could potentially finance through his Riyadh Season which boxing fans would be plenty satisfied to see, so we’ll just have to wait and see how those develop in the coming weeks and months.