Comments Thread For: Canelo Alvarez, focused on Edgar Berlanga, puts Turki Alalshikh on pause

[Oregonian]

Yeah, he's not operating with an eye on Profit and Loss. When you are really rich and funded by a very rich country trying to make a name for themselves, it's hard for normal businessmen/promoters to compete.

The real question is, how long is this gonna last?

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As long as they have oil. Have you seen how much soccer players are getting paid? It’s now the richest soccer league on planet earth.

[Oregonian]

F.uck
Turkey
A MF shame U.S. promoters letting this G.od hater run amuck on our Holy soil.

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“Our Holy” soil? Lol
We invade their lands and kill millions of brown people and loot their oil and we are the “holy ones”? lol what are you smoking?

[Oregonian]

Trust me, soon he will know better In due time. He will find out that all roads lead to your Excellency. Just ask Eddie Hearn, Frank Warren or even Oscar De La Hoya.

All of these promoters are kissing the ring. This has been the best thing that has happened to boxing in the past 25 years.

Boxing fans are finally getting the matchups that we wanted to see.

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Truer words have never been spoken. We are finally getting the fights we should be getting.
Hopefully Tank-Shakur gets made soon.

[ReggieKray]

Canelo is still other fighter's golden ticket. Canelo is giving EB and Munguia a payday that Turkii would have never done, amongst others. Sure those aren't the biggest fights he can make, but this helps other boxers get paid as well as the promoters and everyone else involved. Canelo is fkn putting food on the table for sport.

If Turkii really respects the sport, he needs to respect Canelo, but instead Turkii is acting like a spoiled child who thinks he can make anyone do what he want for money.

I think Crawford will still want the Canelo fight. Yes for money, but also to attempt to push his legacy to the stratosphere. Crawford vs anyone won't come close to the type of money he can get fighting Canelo. Sure Turkii can continue to pay Crawford 2.5m to fight non-legendry fighters but he's done that his whole career for 1m a pop at espn... Turkii isn't really giving him much more. Crawford doesn't have any other options that would net him as big a payday as Canelo.

Honestly Crawford and Canelo can fight in May without Turkii and Crawford will make way more than Turkii is paying him now...

Also fk Turkii for asking Canelo to negotiate while Canelo is in camp and worse ask Canelo to give up his May 5th weekend.. That not only belongs to Canelo but the Mexican, Mexican American, Latino, and American boxing community. Turkii thinks he can just come in and change our cultural holiday with his money. Fk off..

Also let Turkii and UFC compete with Canelo on on Sept 16 weekend.. They well see it won't affect Canelo's bottom line.

[champion4ever]

well except in this case turki wants crawford-canelo and not benavidez-canelo.

i dont care about crawford canelo, that is an easy night for canelo and pay day for crawford but for fans, the outcome is pretty predictable.

I agree and at the same time Turki definitely has the deep pockets in order to make that fight happen. Unless of course if Canelo really wants the fight.

However, if he continues to persist on over pricing himself by making unreasonable demands like $250mil. Then no us boxing would never get the Canelo vs Benavidez fight.

[Oracle01]

The last credible opponent Canelo fought was GGG III.

That was not a credible fight lol. GGG was 40, inactive and never had fought at 168. It was a cherry pick. His last credible opponent was Bivol and that only happened because it was a cherry pick gone wrong. They thought he was a basic average euro fighter.

[Nightfall]

He is never fighting Benavidez

[Oracle01]

Who was the last credible opponent Benavidez had? Remind us again? He's 27 years old, about to be 28 in a couple of months and his biggest claim to fame, and don't you f ucking deny it, is calling Canelo out on social media. That's it. Biggest claim to fame is gathering his handful of fans and a bunch of Canelo haters to rally around him and make him into this mythical boogeyman. Used to, you'd see boogeymen in the ring, now, it's all about the clicks on social media. Benavidez and Morrell are prime examples.

David last 3 fights.

Plant
Andrade
And Gvozdyk.

All very credible and leagues better than old GGG, Ryder, Mungia and Berlanga. lul.

[Slip jab]

Trust me, soon he will know better In due time. He will find out that all roads lead to your Excellency. Just ask Eddie Hearn, Frank Warren or even Oscar De La Hoya.

All of these promoters are kissing the ring. This has been the best thing that has happened to boxing in the past 25 years.

Boxing fans are finally getting the matchups that we wanted to see.

I appreciate what Turki is doing as a fan of this sport and I’ll continue to support the events. It’s sounding like some fans just want to go sit on his lap and fan him off with big leaves

[White-Bob]

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“Our Holy” soil? Lol
We invade their lands and kill millions of brown people and loot their oil and we are the “holy ones”? lol what are you smoking?

Holiest of Soils.
Either eat at the table with us or serve us