Since the appearance of Honorable Turki Alalshikh, the boxing community has begun to create very high expectations. We thought it was time to see the big fights we all wanted to see, but for one reason or another, this has not happened yet.
Every day, I end with more doubt than certainty. At first, I believed that money, which we thought was the first obstacle in bringing fights between the best in each weight division, was not working.
I must say that Turki could not fight the wars that we thought he should have. Canelo Alvarez didn't face David Benavidez at 168, and we didn't see him fight David Morrell when they were both campaigning in the super middleweight division.
Morrell vs Benavidez is another fight left up in the air. It seems that it is no longer about money but the interests of those who are always in charge of boxing.
Alalshikh's presence and his connections could not unite the promoters of other fighters, which I can see.
The Vergil Ortiz Jr. game. against Terence Crawford is another fight that seemed close. But the latest news indicates that it will not be possible to see it. Something is wrong because we assume that the money is there, but it seems that it is not enough to make the wars worth fighting.
Gervonta Davis vs. Shakur Stevenson was another fight we thought he could do. But the latest news tells us that we won't see it anytime soon. I believe that there is a gap between what Turki wants to do and the fights that boxing fans expect him to do.
In fact, I see very little sense in giving someone like Turki the power to make the fights that most boxing fans expect. And little if, until today, has failed to include at least one of the battles we expected to see.
I think there is little consensus. The promoters are playing a bit on the inexperience of a man with a lot of money and little knowledge of how boxing is done. Sometimes, I think they are waiting for the opposite error to take advantage.
It is inexplicable to me that someone is dying to put Canelo against Crawford in the ring. Since then, we have begun to see that there is a lack of weight in each category. Someone in His Majesty's place needs to explain that this fight is not attractive and almost crazy after seeing Crawford in his last fight at junior middleweight.
Of course, I don't know where this dance of millions will go. What I am very clear about now is that it does not make sense for those who have entered boxing forever to play with people's imaginations and try to lie to die-hard boxing fans.
When you get into a business like boxing, you have to understand that this sports business is run under a controlled environment. That's why we fans think of fights that we should see but never see. And if you have all the money to do it and you don't, that doesn't seem to make sense, does it?
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