The rumored combat between Terence Crawford and former middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin just isn’t taking place.
His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has reportedly denied that he’s planning on placing collectively a combat between the inactive 42-year-old Golovkin and WBA junior middleweight champion Crawford.
The combat could be a no-win scenario for Crawford, the place he wouldn’t obtain credit score if he had been victorious, and if he had been overwhelmed or struggled, he’d be criticized by followers.
It might have been attention-grabbing for followers to see how effectively Crawford held up towards an enormous puncher like Golovkin, who could be placing their palms on him.
Crawford’s final opponent, ‘Little GGG’ Israil Madrimov, solely sporadically threw punches, however the ones he did throw affected the Nebraska native. He regarded very beatable, squeaking by with a slim choice.
Golovkin would have been a extra harmful menace to Crawford, who isn’t designed to combat above 147 on the elite stage and could be out of his depth at 160 and above.
Crawford Centered on Canelo
Turki doesn’t say whether or not he needed to place the combat collectively, as he not too long ago commented about Crawford solely wanting a combat towards Canelo Alvarez. If that’s the one combat Crawford needs, he wouldn’t settle for a smaller one with threat towards Golovkin.
It stays to be seen if Turki can produce the Canelo combat for Crawford, who turns 37 on September twenty eighth. He doesn’t have a lot time left in his profession and might want to get the Canelo combat quickly.
Crawford will sit and wait for so long as it takes to seek out out if His Excellency can negotiate a mega-fight towards the Mexican celebrity Canelo, who instructed him that he didn’t wish to focus on one other combat till he acquired by way of his title protection towards Edgar Berlanga on September 14th.
If Turki can’t put that combat collectively, Crawford may select to retire from the game. He would threat his unbeaten file and legacy if he continued combating at 154 towards the youthful fighters, who hit onerous and would stress him far more than his final opponent, Israil Madrimov.
