Canelo Alvarez drops Jake Paul to struggle to sign Saudi Arabia contract | Boxing news
Mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez has given up plans to combat YouTube sensation Jake Paul by signing the Riyadh season in Saudi Arabia.
Canelo Alvarez agreed to agree with four fights with the Riyadh season, and it seemed that the Mexican superstar had influenced a wide guessing with Jake Paul for a much bigger contract.
Turks Alalshikh, head of the season in Riyadh and a generally entertaining body of Saudi Arabia, announced a social media agreement on Thursday. “Don’t mess with the lion,” Alalshikh said.
Alvarez replied quickly on social networks: “Let’s go brother.”
The first fight under Alvarez’s new agreement would be in May in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Terrence Crawford-Dugotje Champion in the Welter category-it would be his second fight.
“I’m waiting for Canelo in September,” Crawford wrote on X, in response to Alalshikh, “and I go into shocking of the world in the season in Riyadh!”
The ring magazine, quoting the source with knowledge of detail, said that a fight against Crawford at Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium was planned for September in Las Vegas.
Crawford overcame Israil Madrid in its last fight during a boxer match for the Super Welters Championship in Los Angeles on August 3. The 37-year-old, the consensus best boxer per kilogram, beat Madrid’s unanimous decision to become and champion in four divisions.
Alvarez spent years as the biggest boxer in boxing, and the 34-year super middle champion used a threat to a steamer against Paul to use a great obligation from the Saudi Government of the Saudi Government, which overwhelmed sports with money in the past few years.
Alvarez would be an astronomical favorite to beat Paul, a YouTube star that turned into one of the biggest drawings in combat sports while fighting mixed martial artists and 58-year-old Mike Tyson.
Instead, Alvarez seems to have returned to a meeting with Crawford this year, which will have to move in two grades of weight in the fight against Canel.
Alvarez last fought in September in Las Vegas, Interruption of Edgar Berlang improve on 62-2-2. There are 39 knockouts.
Former UFC Champion Conor McGregor said in a post on social networks in December that he is reached a preliminary agreement to fight Paul In the exhibition boxer match.
