Boxing would possibly simply have its latest chilly conflict that includes Canelo Alvarez and Turki Alalshikh, who has been making the latest largest splashes within the sport. Alalshikh’s had been actively pursuing a combat 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 combating Crawford, Canelo continued to keep up that it’s not one thing he’s notably on the lookout for.
“Crawford must combat Teofimo after which we’ll see, proper,” Canelo mentioned. “On the finish of the day, like I say earlier than, I’m not asking for that combat. They need to make that combat as a result of it’s a payday clearly, however I don’t need that combat. I feel Teofimo deserve [that fight] greater than me.
Then when requested about Turki Alalshikh saying he’s now not serious about making that combat anyway, after brazenly 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 combat in February with Crawford. They textual content me yesterday and I say ‘look, I’m not going to speak about every other combat, I’m centered 100% on this combat.’
“Look, I don’t like the way in which he discuss, and I’m not on this place due to [anyone else]. I’m on this place. If he desires to work with me it’s in my manner, not of their manner. I don’t want it.
“It’s not the way in which to method to me. Look, I respect all people, and I respect Turki, however look, if he desires to work with me it must be my manner.”
Alalshikh would then situation a public response taking photographs at Canelo upon listening to the feedback.
“I heard what Canelo mentioned that he respects me however doesn’t like the way in which we do enterprise,” Alalshikh wrote. “As for him respecting me, it doesn’t matter to me if he does or not. As for the way in which I do enterprise, I do know why he doesn’t prefer it, as a result of I solely goal huge fights at truthful costs, so in fact anybody who likes simple fights gained’t like that. And I understand how he feels after dropping to Bivol, so he’s been on the lookout for simpler fights ever since.
“Additionally, I’m not the one who’s afraid of combating 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 technique to make huge fights that serve the boxing world, and he’s on his technique to making simple show-only fights.”
