Head Shake And Confusion: Alalshikh Blocks WBC Belt, Contradicts Undisputed Push For Canelo Vs. Crawford

Turki Alalshikh shook his head to let Canelo Alvarez’s trainer/manager Eddy Reynso not to bring the WBC belt on stage when he had IBF super middleweight William Scull posed for pictures at today’s kickoff press conference for their undisputed 168-lb championship fight on May 3rd at The Venue in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Belt Blocked

You could see Turki look at Reynoso when he brought the WBC belt on stage, shake his head as if to say, ‘Don’t bring the belt on stage.’

Canelo looked at Turki and pointed to the WBC belt, as if asking if he didn’t want it for posing.

What’s strange about the whole thing is that Turki wants WBA, WBC, and WBO super middleweight champion Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) to capture the IBF title from Scull (23-0, 9 KOs) so that he can hold the undisputed championship for “The big fight” against Terence Crawford on September 13th. However, Turki says he wants to have only one belt for each division with his new boxing league that he’s creating with Dana White.

As such, why would he care that Canelo capture the last remaining title [IBF] to become undisputed champion when he’s not going to be recognizing any of the four alphabet titles from organizations outside of his new league. Turki might as well start right now by ignoring Scull’s belt and focusing on calling Canelo his new champion at 168 for his new league.

Turki’s League

Whatever name Turki wants to call the belt. He could Ring Magazine, but he should come up with something different to reflect the name of his league. Using the Ring belts makes more sense just in case Turki’s boxing league folds and turns out to be a half-baked idea, like the World Football League, which started with the thought of competing with the NFL in 1974 and folded in 1975. The people that created that league were saying a lot of the same things that Dana White was about the league talking off and becoming huge.

“I think it’s going to be bigger than the Mayweather fight,” said Canelo Alvarez to iFL TV about his fight against Terence Crawford on September 13th in Las Vegas. “I think so,” said Alvarez when asked if the fight with Bud will bring in more than the 2.2 million PPV buys that his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2013. “First things first, I’m going to focus on Scull.

“I could see that people wanted to see that fight too. So, it started making sense, and it’s a possibility. We’ll see after May [3rd],” said Canelo Alvarez to Ring Magazine when asked what made him change his mind about not wanting to fight Crawford.

Heres one angle of the face off. You can see here they bring the WBC belt and Turki shakes his head NOPE! pic.twitter.com/b8Iw3sIFrs

— Marcos Villegas (@heyitsmarcosv) March 6, 2025