{"id":263699,"date":"2025-07-14T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263699\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:57:09","slug":"turki-alalshikh-eyes-two-key-fights-for-canelo-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263699\/","title":{"rendered":"Turki Alalshikh Eyes Two Key Fights For Canelo Undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turki Alalhikh is planning to add <strong>\u201ctwo big fights\u201d<\/strong> to the undercard of Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford on September 13th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The fights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jared Anderson vs. Jarrell Miller: A heavyweight clash between fringe contenders<\/li>\n<li>Christian Mbilli vs. Lester Martinez: This is a super middleweight match-up between two punchers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mike Coppinger<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeCoppinger\/status\/1944589971009986917\" rel=\"nofollow\"> broke the story<\/a> on the two fights Turki hopes to add to the Canelo-Crawford card on September 13th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Fan Reaction Negative?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reaction from fans on social media about the potential two-fight addition to the September 13th card is negative. They don\u2019t see either of these match-ups as \u201cbig fights.\u201d These are mediocre fights in the public\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n<p>People aren\u2019t interested in seeing 36-year-old \u2018Big Baby\u2019 Miller (26-1-2, 22 KOs) fight on the card against Jared Anderson (18-1, 15 KOs).<\/p>\n<p>Miller has tested positive for PEDs multiple times during the last 11 years. Many fans had given up on him. He hasn\u2019t fought since battling to a 12-round draw against Andy Ruiz last August. Miller looked old and shot in that fight.<\/p>\n<p>Last August, Jared, 25, was knocked out in five rounds by Martin Bakole. He\u2019s only fought once since, beating Marios Kollias by a 10-round decision last February. It would be better for Turki Alalshikh to leave Jared Anderson off the September 13th card. Fans know what he\u2019s about and view him as a hype job that got exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Lester Martinez (19-0, 16 KOs) has been fighting exclusively lower-level opposition since turning professional in 2019. Martinez, 29, doesn\u2019t look nearly ready to fight someone like Mbilli.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Mbilli (29-0, 24 KOs) is worth keeping on the September 13th card, but only if he fights someone good. He\u2019s the only good fighter of the four that Turki is hoping to add to his September card. However, it\u2019s a waste for Mbillo to be matched against Martinez rather than one of the talented fighters at 168.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excellent options for Mbilli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Osley Iglesias<br \/>\u2013 Jose Armando Resendiz<br \/>\u2013 Diego Pacheco<br \/>\u2013 Caleb Plant<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingnews24.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb Turki Alalshikh Eyes Two Key Fights for Canelo Undercard<\/p>\n<p>Last Updated on 07\/14\/2025 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turki Alalhikh is planning to add \u201ctwo big fights\u201d to the undercard of Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[82969,1935,12509,556,4332,4331,62894,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-263699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-bmo-stadium","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-fight-night","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-mark-robinson","13":"tag-matchroom-boxing","14":"tag-riydah-season","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114850525541054381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263699","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=263699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}