There’ll already be lots on the road when Canelo Alvarez places his undisputed tremendous middleweight championship on the road in opposition to Terence Crawford on Sept. 13 in Las Vegas, stay on Netflix. However so as to add further incentive, Turki Alalshikh , chairman of the Basic Leisure Authority and president of the Saudi Boxing Federation, introduced that there will likely be a bonus for a knockout.
The announcement got here in the course of the kickoff presser for Canelo-Crawford in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Friday. Alalshikh has been steadfast in placing an finish to “Tom & Jerry fights,” the place one fighter is “operating across the ring and one other fighter is chasing him.” To counter this, he has put in a KO bonus that will likely be applied in future fights he promotes, beginning with Canelo-Crawford.
“We is not going to have [Tom & Jerry fights] anymore,” Alalshikh stated. “We can have on this battle and our subsequent fights a bonus for a KO.”
Alalshikh didn’t specify how a lot the bonus can be or whether or not it might be put in for the undercard. The implementation mirrors what his selling accomplice, UFC CEO Dana White, makes use of within the UFC with Efficiency Bonuses.
As for the fighters, Canelo and Crawford had been cordial, but stern of their confidence for the upcoming battle.
“Nevertheless I bought to battle, I’ll win,” stated Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs). “I am not going to let another person inform me how you can battle once I’ve been doing that my complete life. I will not be operating. I can let you know that. However I will likely be doing quite a lot of touching.”
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Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) recommended that there was “nothing completely different” about Crawford compared to his earlier opponents and made it clear that he would stop the previous two-division undisputed world champion from leaving Las Vegas as boxing’s solely male fighter to be undisputed in three completely different weight courses.
“He is not going to beat me,” Canelo stated. “Don’t be concerned about it…I am a winner.”
Crawford has knocked out 11 of his final 12 opponents however will likely be leaping up two weight courses, from 154 to 168 kilos, to problem the Mexican famous person. Not solely does he consider his file will stay unblemished, however he will even make historical past with by including all 4 main world title belts in a file third weight division.
“For certain these belts are coming residence with me,” stated Crawford. “I am taking them and ain’t nothing you are able to do about it come battle evening.”