It looks like any chance of a fight between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Terence Crawford have vanished according to Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority.
Crawford fought for the first time in 2024 on Saturday night when he was part of the main event of the Riyadh Season Los Angeles card which was put together by Alalshikh.
The former undisputed welterweight champion fought WBA light middleweight title holder Israil Madrimov and beat the Uzbekistan fighter to become a world champion in a fourth weight division.
In the aftermath of Crawford's victory, there were immediately calls for Crawford to face Alvarez in what would be one of the biggest fights in recent memory.
However, despite revealing last week an offer had been sent to the Mexican, Alalshikh has since confirmed that he will no longer pursue this particular contest and instead secure bigger fights for Crawford.
"Just wrapped up an important meeting now with my team, planning for the upcoming fights that we will make for 2024-2025. I decided to disregard the Canelo fight, as I don’t want it anymore," Alalshikh wrote on X.
"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."
With a Crawford fight seemingly not on the horizon for Alvarez, he will instead be fully focused on his upcoming WBA, WBC and WBO super middleweight title defence against Edgar Berlanga on September 14.
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