{"id":168659,"date":"2025-06-08T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168659\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:10:09","slug":"turki-alalshikh-confirms-dana-white-will-promote-canelo-alvarez-v-terence-crawford-as-he-teases-major-joint-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168659\/","title":{"rendered":"Turki Alalshikh confirms Dana White will promote Canelo Alvarez v Terence Crawford as he teases major joint announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Turki Alalshikh has confirmed that Dana White will still be the lead promoter for boxing\u2019s biggest fight after initially teasing a split.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UFC CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/03\/17\/break-the-sport-down-dana-whites-revolutionary-plan-for-boxing-leaves-fans-divided\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White announced earlier this year that he and Alalshikh would be launching TKO Boxing<\/a> later this year. Their first event was slated to be a super-fight between undisputed champions <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/canelo-alvarez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a> vs <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/terence-crawford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, when Alalshikh claimed that Saudi outfit SELA would be promoting the bout instead and failed to mention White it concerned fans who expected to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA<\/a> supremo take to boxing. Now, it seems they have patched up their differences and have a major announcement coming tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Turki Alalshikh insists Dana White is still promoting Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford<\/p>\n<p>Following a series of questions from the media, including Bloody Elbow, at last night\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ufc-316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC 316<\/a> press conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/dana-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana White<\/a> confirmed that he and <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/turki-alalshikh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turki Alalshikh<\/a> are still on good terms and planning to work together on Canelo-Crawford.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2158780197-scaled-e1749378066990-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"Turki Alalshikh and Dana White speak into ESPN microphones\" class=\"wp-image-145348\" \/>Photo by Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Alalshikh shared a clip of some of those media interactions, accompanied by the caption: \u201cMy brother Dana will promote this fight. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the fight of Riyadh Season, and we have a deal with TKO to promote it and it will the biggest fight in boxing, and tomorrow I think I will tell the details and the platform and the place for this fight, me and and Dana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dana White can\u2019t remember when he last spoke to Turki Alalshikh<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of these social media pleasantries, it appears that White and Alalshikh haven\u2019t been in contact  much in recent weeks. Asked by Bloody Elbow when the pair last spoke, he couldn\u2019t recall exactly how long it had been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really know [what happened],\u201d he said of a potential rift between the pair following Alalshikh\u2019s tweets. \u201cListen, when we\u2019re at work in UFC headquarters, I\u2019m in my own little world, man. I don\u2019t pay attention to any of that s\u2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what\u2019s going on, I know what we\u2019re doing, I don\u2019t really pay attention to that stuff. It doesn\u2019t matter to me\u2026 S\u2014, I don\u2019t even remember the last time I talked to him [Alalshikh], but we\u2019re good. We\u2019re very good.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turki Alalshikh has confirmed that Dana White will still be the lead promoter for boxing\u2019s biggest fight after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4851,4778,79,22178,7080,70484,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-168659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-canelo-alvarez","10":"tag-dana-white","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-terence-crawford","13":"tag-turki-alalshikh","14":"tag-ufc-316","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}