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”.
World Boxing News provides results and updates as Johnny Fisher faces Michael Pirotton on Zuffa Boxing 11 at the Copper Box Arena in London.
Fisher returns to heavyweight action over ten rounds against Pirotton as part of Zuffa Boxing’s latest event in the United Kingdom.
Craig Richards faces Radivoje Kalajdzic at light heavyweight, while Lee Cutler takes on Louis Greene and Cesar Mateo Tapia faces Leo Ruiz at middleweight.
WBN provides results and updates from every bout as they happen.
Results
All times are local BST.
23:41
Johnny Fisher defeated Michael Pirotton by majority decision after ten competitive heavyweight rounds at the Copper Box Arena. WBN scored the fight 98-92 for Fisherwhile the official judges returned scores of 98-92 and 96-95 for Fisher, with the third scoring it 95-95.
22:42
Radivoje Kalajdzic improved to 31-3 with a unanimous decision over Craig Richards, who dropped to 20-5-1 after a good ten-round scrap. Both men had their moments and hurt each other at times before “Hot Rod” got the verdict on the scorecards, which included knocking Richards down for the first time in his career.
21:43
Lee Cutler carded a unanimous decision win over Louis Greene in their ten-round middleweight clash. Judges scorecard 98-92 and 97-93 twice in favor on Cutler, who improves to 17-2.
20:52
Ahead of the three main bouts, Zuffa’s only female fighter, Kayla Allendefeated Edina Kiss via TKO in their super lightweight bout.
20:32
Leo Ruiz overcame Cesar Tapia over 10 rounds at middleweight, scoring a unanimous decision to move to 18-1 as Ruiz Tapia suffered a first loss.
19:29
Alex MacMillan moved to 5-0 with a second-round stoppage of Guillaume Azagier, who went down twice in the opening round and again before the finish at 0:32 of the second.
18:40
Rogelio Romero improved to 7-0 with a third-round stoppage of previously unbeaten Aurel Ignat, ending the cruiserweight contest at 2:12.
18:24
Alexis De la Cerda improved to 10-0 with a unanimous decision over Cain Lewis, taking the eight-round contest 80-72, 79-74 and 79-73.
17:42
Fred Pullen marked his professional debut with a four-round points victory over Leonardo Faretina, who was dropped in the second round.
Remaining Bouts
Johnny Fisher vs. Michael Pirotton — 10 rounds, heavyweight
Craig Richards vs. Radivoje Kalajdzic — 10 rounds, light heavyweight
TV Coverage
The event is available live on Sky in the United Kingdom and Paramount+.
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World Boxing News provides results and updates as Liam Davies faces Nathaniel Collins in the main event at bp pulse LIVE in Birmingham.
Davies and Collins collide over 12 rounds for the EBU European featherweight title at the top of the Queensberry Promotions card.
Luke McCormack faces Kay Prospere for the vacant British super lightweight title, while Bradley Goldsmith takes on Amir Abubaker for the IBF International middleweight title.
WBN provides results and updates from every bout as they happen.
Results
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23:11
Gerome Warburton defeated Nathan Heaney for the second time running as the middleweight put an exclamation mark on his first victory.
Heaney walks away from the sport having been an entertainer through a long carer, without reaching the heights of a world title.
22:04
Liam Davies improved to 19-1 after Nathaniel Collins retired at the end of the seventh round due to a cut over his right eye. Collins had also been dropped in the opening round as Davies successfully defended the European featherweight title.
21:22
Bradley Goldsmith improved to 17-1 with a seventh-round stoppage of Amir Abubaker to retain his IBF International middleweight title. Abubaker went down in the fourth and three times in the seventh before the finish at 2:42.
20:10
Lewis Richardson improved to 3-0 with a shutout six-round points victory over Ivan Trofimovich, earning a 60-54 decision.
19:56
Luke McCormack moved to 6-0 and claimed the vacant British super lightweight title with a tenth-round knockout of Kay Prospere, who was counted out after a right uppercut at 1:28.
18:55
Michael Hussain moved to 5-0 with a four-round points victory over Nabil Ahmed, earning a 39-38 decision.
18:11
Nelson Birchall moved to 12-0 with a third-round stoppage of Lewis Morris, who went down before the finish came at 1:12. Lasha Guruli also remained unbeaten at 5-0 after edging Hughie Wilson 77-75 over eight rounds.
17:22
Early action saw John Tom Varey and Reese Lynch claim four-round victories to move to 3-0 and 5-0 respectively.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly spent months trying to get Hamzah Sheeraz into the ring. Now that Sheeraz has vacated his WBO super middleweight title, Janibek is asking fans to stop saying the former champion ran from him. That is generous. It also leaves Janibek with less to say about a fight he wanted badly.
He’s not afraid of me. He didn’t run from me. He made his decision based on his own plans. He has his own goals! He’s my brother, and I ask everyone to stop saying he ran from me. He’s a great fighter, and I have nothing but respect for him! @sheeraz_hamzah 🫂 pic.twitter.com/uxZlegqSmH
— Janibek Alimkhanuly (@qazaqstyle) September 26, 2026
Janibek’s tone has changed since the purse bid. He was eager to fight, said money was not his priority, and publicly pushed Sheeraz to accept. Queensberry then bid $1,001,809 to stage the ordered defense, beating Top Rank’s $820,000 offer. Sheeraz’s 75 percent share would have been roughly $751,000. Days later, he gave up the belt.
That sequence deserves a closer look. Queensberry put a serious number on the fight, so the bid itself cannot be dismissed as proof that nobody valued it. But winning the right to promote a title defense means little to fans when the champion vacates before it happens.
Sheeraz has objected to Janibek receiving a mandatory shot after his failed drug test. He is entitled to explain that position. Fans are equally entitled to ask why the issue reached a purse bid before he surrendered the title. Janibek’s post supplies no answer.
Perhaps Janibek sees no benefit in branding Sheeraz a coward. Doing so would also make the opponent he chased sound less valuable. Calling Sheeraz a great fighter preserves the idea that this was an important contest, even after the belt and the fight slipped away.
The respect between them may be sincere. Janibek still gets no Sheeraz fight, and Sheeraz no longer has to defend his title against Janibek. A friendly photo does not change either result.
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