Comments Thread For: Alalshikh Had Hoped To Match Benavidez With Crawford

[BoxingUpdates]

David Benavidez has revealed that Turki Alalshikh approached him with the intention of making a possible fight between the former two-time world super middleweight champion Benavidez and three-weight world champion Terence Crawford.
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[bcalvert1]

Insanity…

[Smash]

so bud wants to fight canelo at 168 who refused, sounds like bud will do 160 with benny, who refuses

whats the world coming to

[crimsonfalcon07]

How is Benavidez going to make 160?

[Smash]

turki cant make canelo fight anyone, its like trying to get tank to fight someone, not happening, they play their own games, turki wants to make the matchups that he thinks the public want most which will usually be the hardest matchups on paper

[Tibburon245]

Bad idea--Crawford is good at 147, even 154 but Benavidez is looking at light-heavy and up.

[BrilliantAJ]

Love and respect that he’s willing to try and make the big fights, obviously some sort of Canelo eliminator but that’s ludicrous, no way Bena’s getting near 160!

I’d love to see Janibek-Adames while Crawford defends against Boots, winners fight.

[Oldskoolg]

This is evidence that the Saudi needs to be properly advised. That’s a disturbing proposal for a fight. Hopefully he works more with pbc to set up some good fights in the future and gets good advice on how to do that. Also, respect to DB for not referring to him as “his excellency”

[SteveM]

turki cant make canelo fight anyone, its like trying to get tank to fight someone, not happening, they play their own games, turki wants to make the matchups that he thinks the public want most which will usually be the hardest matchups on paper

everyone has a price when it comes to doing something they already do anyway - Canelo already suggested 150 million which was him pricing himself out- but what if Turki calls him on it

then again if Turki really suggested DB makes 160 then he is not as big a fan or as clued up as he ought to be - next he'll be proposing Inoue-Tank and winner of Ortiz/Tim vs winner of Beter/Bivol

[Hooded Terror]

The irony of this situation is that Turki Alalshikh seems aware that Bene likes to take on naturally smaller foes. Curiously, the offer comes at precisely the time Bene has decided to step up to light heavyweight for a fight with a perceived faded former champion. And all of this after some over indulgence, during training, no less, for the world to see. Lets hope Bene doesn't sleep on Gvozdyk.