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ANOTHER week, another megastar linked with a major debut in Saudi. This time, on Wednesday, Turki Alalshikh tweeted a picture of Terence Crawford with a shrug emoji. In the past, a Tweet like that would seem innocuous, but these days it will send the whole app into a spin. This was one of those days.

It ramped up when Crawford replied with a trio of the emoji where the little yellow bloke is holding one of his little yellow fingers over his lips, and by the end of the day, Crawford had already been linked with Kingdom fights with the likes of Josh Kelly and Israil Madrimov. Later this week, another name would also enter the chat.

Meanwhile, fight week for Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia was in full swing (pun intended), but

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