Promoter Bob Arum meant this month that Canelo Alvarez became “businessman“He focused on collecting payments, instead of choosing humorous fights for fans to watch on PPV.
Avoiding the challenge of Benavidez
The Mexican star has not given fans the value of their money in recent years thanks to its money -based approach. He avoided one warrior whose fans asked him to fight, David Benavidez, And instead, he sold them secondary matches at the premium price.
The choice of Canelo opponents and avoiding talented contenders hurt his popularity. Some fans compare what he does with the performance of Floyd Mayweather Jr. Over the past few years in sport.
“Money” Mayweather chose many fighters who had a chance to beat him. However, from time to time he took a risk against Manny Pacquiao after waiting six years and against Miguel Cotto. Canelo doesn’t. He practically ceased to take the risk after his losing to Dmitry Bivol in 2022 and since then he has been cautious about his opposition.
“Bob Arum said this week that he was looking at Canelo much differently than it used to be. Canelo was a pound elite talent, a type of guy like” “. YouTube canal. “Many people have said similar things since Canelo decided not to fight David Benavidez. Is Canelo a boxer or businessman?”
It was a bad career movement for Alvarez so as not to fight Benavidez’s “Mexican monster” because he made him look cowardly, delicate and caring his CV. The last thing the fighter can afford is to perceive the threat chasing them at the elite level and calling them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Arum apparently changed his view of Canelo after he saw him avoided Benavidez for years and fights easier. Alvarez was still after 30 years, when Benavidez began to call him four years ago.
Strategy of the “Pension Route”
“I would agree with Bob Arum. I think he is more a businessman than a boxer, but it happens when you are a PPV star, “said Sergio Mora.” Whenever you are so long in a tooth, like Canelo, he is 35 years aged with over 65 fights as a professional, I think he deserved to be right and choose anyone who wants at this stage of his career.
Arum talks about Canelo during a long pension route, accusing his fans to see how he fights for unlimited fights. He lost the picture he had once when he fought the best from time to time. Even when Canelo was in great shape, he was still calculated with his choices. He decided to fight many best warriors when they were washed, not a threat.
Canelo’s older fighters fought
– Shane Mosley – Miguel Cotto – Gennadiy Golovkin – Sergey Kovalev – Floyd Mayweather Jr – Carlos Baldomir
“I think that deservedly is an operative word there. Fighters who achieved what Canelo achieved have gained the right to selectivity towards their opponents,” said Mannix. “This is not a primary career strategy [to cherry pick]. Considering the fight with low risk and reward, it is exactly what Canelo does. Canelo, go back to early years. Mayweather fought. He fought Erislanda Lara when Lara was a killer, or at least a difficult warrior at that moment. “
The fact that Canelo fought with some of the best warriors earlier in her career does not mean that he deserved the right to being a businessman and selling his fights with the gentle PPV accents. Asking boxing fans to pay that Alvarez is fighting tomato cans or smaller, older, shortbread fighters, such as 38-year-old Crawford, he is not fair. This is a businessman’s approach. Canelo is not a boxer at the moment. He only chooses fights with defeated guys such as William Scull, Crawford, Edgar Berlanga and Jaime Munguia. These should be free fights under Dazna subscription, not PPV.
P4P Canelo debate
“Gennadiy Golovkin fought when he was close to his best [Note: GGG was 35 when Canelo finally agreed to fight him. He’d been asking for a fight for three years since he was 32]. Bivol got up and fought, and he was a pound guy for pounds, said Mannix.
It wasn’t until Golovkin was in his thirties, Canelo finally agreed to fight him, and even then he came after his delicate performance against Kell Brook. GGG has been chasing Canelo for three years since he was 32 years aged without happiness.
“The question is when these pound lists appear for pounds, should we still have a Canelo Alvarez? After his performance against William Sculle, is Canelo still a pound war? [pound-for-pound]? “
Canelo should not be on the list of 10 pounds per pound for these reasons:
Avoiding the best warriors: I’m sorry, Terenka Crawford doesn’t count
Indigent performances from 2022
Skills are falling: deterioration in skills
Zero knockout from 2021
“Of course. When you are a PPV star, it gives you a seniority and the seniority keeps you in the top ten,” Mora said.
Sergio talks about popularity, not performance. The criteria for switching on fighters should not be based on their popularity, but how well they work compared to other warriors. If we talk about pounds for pounds, which is a popularity competition, the name should be changed to “the most popular list of fighters”.
Next month, Ryan Garcia will go toe-to-toe with Conor Benn in the first defence of his WBC welterweight title, and now former pound-for-pound king Terence Crawford has doubled down on his prediction for the clash.
Crawford hung up the gloves whilst recognised as the pound-for-pound number one in December, but that has not stopped ‘Bud’ from developing a heated rivalry with Garcia since his retirement, with the pair making regular jibes at one another in recent months.
Garcia has now revealed his intentions to tempt the undefeated southpaw out of retirement if he retains his title against Benn, but the Omaha-born sensation has declared his belief that Garcia will lose his belt to the Briton, favouring the challenger’s size and power.
Now, as fight week edges closer, Crawford has once again insisted that Benn will pull off the upset, as he told Fight Hub TV that he is picking ‘The Destroyer’ to come out on top.
“It’s going to be a good fight. I got Conor Benn!”
Benn will be competing at welterweight for the first time in nearly five years, looking to wrestle away the belt that Garcia won back in February with a win over Mario Barrios.
The event takes place on Saturday, September 12, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and on the undercard, Jai Opetaia is set to take on current WBC cruiserweight world champion Noel Mikaelian.
It currently remains to be seen whether the Armenian will still be the reigning titleholder when fight night comes around though, due to rumours that Mikaelian will be stripped for avoiding a fight with David Benavidez.
Terence Crawford faced and defeated 42 different opponents during a 17-year career, but super-middleweight icon Carl Froch believes that there is one welterweight who would have put an end to Crawford’s unbeaten streak if they were to meet in their primes.
Crawford became the first post-war boxer to claim the undisputed title in three separate weight divisions last September; a run which began as a super-lightweight in 2015 by defeating Thomas Dulorme, then unifying against Viktor Postol before halting Julius Indongo in an undisputed title showdown.
‘Bud’ then moved on to the welterweight scene and knocked out Jeff Horn to capture the WBO world title on his 147lb debut, making five defences of the title before colliding with fierce rival and three-belt unified titleholder, Errol Spence Jr, in 2023.
In a unforgettable fight, Crawford brutally beat Spence down in an authoritative ninth-round stoppage win to capture the undisputed welterweight throne. Talk then turned to an unprecedented three-weight move up to super-middleweight to take on Canelo Alvarez.
After stopping off at super-welterweight to dethrone Israil Madrimov on his way up, Crawford debuted at super-middleweight in a challenge for Canelo’s undisputed crown and outboxed the Mexican superstar in an iconic win last year, hanging up the gloves three months later.
Despite those legendary achievements, Froch picked Floyd Mayweather Jr to come out on top in a potential fantasy fight against the Omaha southpaw, in an episode of ‘Froch on Fighting’.
Mayweather’s achievements speak for themselves, retiring with a perfect 50-0 unbeaten record after claiming world honours in five divisions, with his most impressive reign coming at 147lbs, where he defeated the likes of Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley.
Mayweather has been rumoured to make a comeback, but while there would be huge finances that would be on offer, Crawford has revealed that he would have no interest in ending his retirement for a bout with ‘TBE’, believing that the 49-year-old is ‘old’ and ‘done’.
Terence Crawford has been hailed by many as the best fighter of this generation following his retirement, and now WBC welterweight title hopeful Conor Benn has shared how he thinks ‘Bud’ would have fared against six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya.
Crawford became boxing’s sixth five-division world champion with an iconic win over Canelo Alvarez back in September; joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in that elite and exclusive club reserved only for legends of the sport.
Of that group, only De La Hoya and Pacquiao have gone on to conquer a sixth division, with De La Hoya’s 2004 WBO middleweight world title win over Felix Sturm seeing the Californian become the first boxer to ever become a sextuple champion.
Crawford could have joined ‘’The Golden Boy’ and ‘Pac-Man’ in achieving that feat, having been offered a middleweight world title shot during the aftermath of his triumph over Canelo late last year – a proposal which later fell apart due to a failed doping test by Janibek Alimkhanuly.
Continuing the praise that the Omaha-born southpaw has received since announcing his retirement last December, Benn told Daily Mail Boxing that he would favour the undefeated star to get the better of De La Hoya, if they were to meet in their primes.
Benn also went on to predict that Crawford would retain his unbeaten streak against other greats of the game, picking him to come out on top against each of Mayweather, Julio Cesar Chavez, Pernell Whitaker and Roberto Duran.
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