Alvarez avoids Benavidez: A bad career move for Canelo?

Promotor Bob Arum this month has been well stated that Canelo Alvarez has become “businessman“It is focused on collecting salary, not to choose entertainment fights for fans that they could look at on PPV.

Avoiding Benavides’s challenge

The Mexican star has not given their money worth money to fans in recent years. He avoided one fighter who was asked by fans to fight, David Benavidez, and instead sold them secondary matches at a premium price.

Canel’s choice of opponents and avoiding talented candidates hurt his popularity. Some fans compare what he does to the Floyd Mayweather Jr. performance -uu in the last few years in sports.

‘Money’ Mayweather Cherry chose many fighters who shot him in beating. However, the occasional risk against Manny Pacquiao is forced to wait six years and against Miguel Cotto. Canelo does none of that. He almost stopped risking after losing to Dmitry Bivol in 2022 and has since carefully chosen his opposition.

“Bob Arum said this week that he looks at Canela a lot differently than he used to do. Canelo was an elite talent for a pound, a guy who deals with all-festivals. Bob says he views Canela as a more businessman,” said Chris Mannix on his YouTube channel. “Many people have been saying things similar since Canelo decided not to fight David Benavidez. Is Canelo boxer or businessman?”

It was a bad move in his career that Alvarez did not fight the ‘Mexican monster’ of Benavidez, because he was forced to look cowardly, weak and protective of his resume. The last thing a fighter can afford is to be viewed as if threatening them at the elite level of persecution and invites them 24/7.

Arum obviously changed his gaze on Canelo after seeing him for years that he was avoiding Benavidez and struggling easier. Alvarez was still in the early 30s when Benavidez started calling him four years ago.

A “retirement tour” strategy

“I agree with Bob Arum. I think he is more of a businessman than a boxer, but that happens when you are a PPV star, “Sergio said.” Whenever you have been to your tooth like Canel for so long, he is 35 years old with more than 65 fights as a professional, I think he has earned the right to choose whoever wants at this stage of his career. And if they are selected on the right date, I think fans will support him. Fans will always support PPV stars. “

What Arum talks about is Canelo on a long pension tour, charging his cheerleading base to see him dealing with no risky fight. He lost the picture he once had when he occasionally struggled with the best. Even when Canelo was in the main state, he still calculated his choices. He decided to fight many best fighters when they were washed, not a threat.

Older fighters Canelo fought

– Shane Mosley
– Miguel Cotto
– Gennadiy Golovkin
– Sergei Kovalev
– Floyd Mayweather Jr
– Carlos Baldomir

“I think the operating word was earned there. The fighters who achieved what Canelo achieved earned the right to selective with their opponents,” Mannix said. “It’s not an original career strategy (to choose a cherry). Low-risk taking, high-gradual struggle is exactly what Canelo is doing. Canelo, returns to the early years. He fought with Mayweather. He fought at Erislandy Lari when Lara was a killer or at least at that moment.”

Just because Canelo has struggled with some top fighters earlier in his career does not mean that he has earned the right to a businessman and sell his fight against soft touches on PPV. Asking for boxing fans to pay to watch Alvarez fighting a can of tomato or smaller, older, fragile fighters like 38-year-old Welterweight Terrence Crawford is not fair. This is an approach to businessmen. Canelo is not a boxer at the moment. She chooses an exclusively defeated fight against harmless guys like William Scull, Crawford, Edgar Berlang and Jaime Munguia. These should be free struggles as part of a dazn subscription, not a PPV.

Canel’s P4P Discussion

“He fought against Gennadi Golovkin when he was close to his best (Note: GGG was 35 when Canelo finally agreed to fight him. He had been looking for a fight for three years since he was 32 years old). He moved and struggled with a buffalo, and he was a pound of pounds per kilogram, “Mannix said.

It was only when Golovkin was in the mid-30s that Canelo finally agreed to fight him, and even then, followed after his bad appearance against Kell Brook. GGG persecuted Canela for three years since he was 32 years old.

“The question is, when these pounds are pounds, do we still have to have Canelo Alvarez? After his appearance against William Scull, is Canelo still the top fighter per kilogram? I still think I would make him a guy in a 168-pound division, but is he in your mind that should still be ranked)?

Canelo for these reasons should not be on the first list of £ 10 per kilogram:

1. Avoiding Top Fighters: Sorry, Terrence Crawford doesn’t count
2. Performance Lomost from 2022
3. Skills fall: worse skills
4. Zero knockout of 2021

“Absolutely. Once you are a PPV star, it gives you an internship, and only the internship is held in the top 10,” she said.

Sergio talks about popularity, not performance. The criteria for the involvement of fighters should not be based on their popularity, but on how well they work well compared to other fighters. If we are talking about the pound list for pounds as a competition in popularity, the name should be changed to the “most popular list of combat”.