Alvarez avoids Benavidez: A bad play for Canelo?

Promoter Bob Arum made a good point this month that Canelo Alvarez has become a “Business man“He focused on paying payments instead of choosing entertaining struggles so that fans can see PPV.

Avoid Benavidez’s challenge

The Mexican star has not given fans their money in recent years with their money -driven approach. Avoided the only fighter the fans asked him to fight, David Benavidez, And they sold secondary matches instead at a premium price.

The selection of opponents and the avoidance of talented contenders have hurt their popularity. Some fans compare what he does with the representation of Floyd Mayweather Jr. In its last years in sports.

The “Money” Mayweather Cherry chose many fighters who had a shot to hit him. However, he assumed timely risks against Manny Pacquiao after waiting for six years and against Miguel Cotto. Canelo does nothing of that. He has practically stopped taking risks after his loss at Dmitry Bivol in 2022 and has been carefully selecting his opposition since then.

“Bob Arum said this week to look Canelo in a very different way than he did. Canelo was an elite talent of pound for pounds, a type of holder of all customers. Now, Bob says he is considered to be Canelo as a businessman,” said Chris Mannix to his YouTube Canal. “Many people have been saying similar things since Canelo decided not to fight David Benavidez. Is Canelo a boxer or businessman?”

It was a bad play for Alvarez not to fight with the “Mexican monster” Benavidez because it made him seem cowardly, weak and protector of his resume. The last one who can afford a fighter can afford to make a threat to the elite level chasing and shouting at them 24 hours a day.

Arum, obviously, changed his Canelo’s vision after seeing Benavidez for years and making easier struggles. Alvarez was still in his early 30’s when Benavidez started calling it four years ago.

The “retirement tour” strategy

“I would agree with Bob Arum. I think it’s more than a business man That a boxer, but this happens when you are a PPV star, “said Sergio Mora.” Whenever you are as long on the tooth as Canelo, he is 35 years old with more than 65 fights as a professional, I think he won the right to choose and choose whoever wants at this stage of his career. And if you are selected on the right date, I think fans will support you. Fans will always support PPV stars. “”

What Arum speaks is Canelo on a long retirement tour, loading his fanbase to see him fight without risk. He has lost the picture he once had when he sometimes fought the best. Even when Canelo was at first, he was still calculated with his options. He chose to fight many of the highest fighters when he washed and not a threat.

Major fighters fought Canelo

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

“I think it won is the operational word there. The fighters who have achieved what Canelo has achieved have won the right to be selective with their opponents,” said Mannix. “It is not an original career strategy (for the selection of cherry trees). Taking a type of low -risk and low reward struggle is exactly what Canelo does. Canelo, dates back to the early years. He fought against Mayweather. He fought against Erislandy Lara when she was killed, or at least a hard fighter at this time.”

The fact that Canelo fought against the highest fighters of his career does not mean that he has obtained the right to be a businessman and sell his fights against gentle touches on PPV. Asking the boxing fans to pay to see Alvarez Fight Tomato, larger and more fragile fighters, such as Terence Crawford, 38, Terence Crawford, is not fair. This is the focus of a business man. Canelo is not a boxer right now. He is choosing exclusively wise fights against boys christened such as William Scull, Crawford, Edgar Berlanga and Jaime Munguia. These must be free struggles as part of the Dazn subscription, not by PPV.

The Canelo P4P debate

“He fought against Gennadiy Golovkin when he was nearing the possibleNote: GGG was 35 years old when Canelo finally agreed to fight him. He had been asking for a fight for three years from the age of 32). He got up and fought against Bivol, and was a type of pound for pounds, “said Mannix.

It wasn’t until Golovkin was in the mid -1930’s that Canelo finally agreed to fight him, and even came after his bad performance against Kell Brook. GGG had been chasing Canelo for three years since 32 years without luck.

“The question is that when these pound lists leave for pounds, should we have Canelo Alvarez? After his performance against William Scull, is Canelo still a higher fighter for pounds?

Canelo should not be on the top list of 10 pounds per pounds for these reasons:

1. Avoidance of the best fighters: sorry, Terence Crawford does not count
2. Rare actions since 2022
3. Leave the skills: deteriorat
4. Zero Knockouts since 2021

“Absolutely. Once you are a PPV star, it gives you antiquity, and only the seniority keeps you in the top 10,” said Mora.

Sergio talks about popularity, not performance. The criteria for including fighters should not be based on their popularity, but on the performance that they work compared to other fighters. If we talk about the list of pounds for pounds is a popularity contest, the name should be changed to “the most popular hunting list”.