Alvarez avoids benavidez: a bad career movement for Canelo?

Promoter Bob Arum made a good point this month that Canelo Alvarez a ‘Businessman‘Focus on the collection of salaries rather than watching entertaining battles for fans on PPV.

Avoid the challenge of benavidez

The Mexican star has not given their money worth its money -driven approach over the past few years. He avoids the one fighter who fans asked him to fight, David benavidez, And their secondary matches sell at a premium price instead.

Canelo’s choice of opponents and avoidance of talented contenders harmed its popularity. Some fans compare what he does with Floyd Mayweather Jr. performance in his last few years in the sport.

‘Money’ Mayweather Cherry chose many fighters who beat him. However, he occasionally took risks against Manny Pacquiao after waiting for Miguel Cotto for six years and against Miguel. Canelo does nothing of it. He virtually stopped taking risks after his loss of Dmitry Biblical in 2022 and has since chosen his opposition carefully.

“Bob Arum said this week that he looks at Canelo very differently than he once did. Canelo was an elite-pound-for-pound talent, a kind of guy who takes up. Now, Bob says he sees Canelo as more of a businessman,” Chris Mannix said on his Youtube channel. “Many people have said things similar since Canelo has decided not to take a fight against David Banavidez. Is Canelo a boxer or a businessman? ‘

It was a bad career movement for Alvarez not to fight with ‘the Mexican monster’ benavidez because it made him look cowardly, weak and protective of his resume. The last thing a fighter can afford to do is seen as a threat at elite level that chases them and calls for 24/7.

Arum, of course, changed his view of Canelo after seeing that he was avoiding Benavidez for years, and they had easier fighting. Alvarez was still in the early thirties when Banavidez began calling him four years ago.

The strategy “Retirement Tour”

“I’ll agree with Bob Arum. I think he’s more a businessman As a boxer, but that’s what happens if you’re a PPV star, ‘says Sergio Mora.’ If you are in the tooth as long as Canelo, he is 35 years old with over 65 fights as a professional, I think he deserves the right to choose and choose whoever he wants at this stage of his career. And when I’m selected on the right date, I think fans will support him. Fans will always support PPV stars. “

What Arum is talking about is Canelo on a long pension tour that uploads his fanbase to see how he takes non-risk fights. He lost the image he once had when he occasionally fought the best. Even when Canelo was in his lead, he was still calculated with his choices. He chose to fight many of the top fighters when they were washed up and not a threat.

The older fighters who fought Canelo

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

“I think earnings are the operative word there. Fighters who have reached Canelo have earned the right to be selective with their opponents,” Mannix said. ‘It is not an original career strategy (to choose a cherry). Taking a low risk, high reward type fights are exactly what Canelo does. Canelo, go back to the early years. He fought Mayweather. He fought against Erislandy Lara at this stage when Lara was a murderer, or at least a tough fighter at that point. “

Just because Canelo fought a few top fighters earlier in his career doesn’t mean he deserved the right to be a businessman and sell his fighting against soft touch on PPV. Ask box fans to pay to see how alvarez tomato can or smaller, older, weakened fighters like the 38-year-old welterweight Terence Crawford are not fair. It’s a businessman’s approach. Canelo is not a boxer at this point. He chooses exclusively winning battles against beatable guys like William Scull, Crawford, Edgar Berlanga and Jaime Munguia. It should be free fighting as part of the DAZN subscription, not PPV.

Canelo’s P4P debate

“He fought Gennadiy Golovkin when he was near his best (Comment: GGG was 35 when Canelo finally agreed to fight against him. He has been asking for a fight since he was 32). He went up and fought against Biblical, and he was a pound-by-pound-kind man, ‘says Mannix.

It was only before Golovkin was in the middle of the 1930s that Canelo finally agreed to fight against him, and even then it came to his poor performance against Kell Brook. GGG has been chasing Canelo for three years since he was 32 without any luck.

“The question is: If these pounds-for-pound lists come out, should we still have Canelo Alvarez on it? After his actions against William Scull, is Canelo still a pound-by-pound top fighter? I still think I would make the #1-man in the 168 pound section, but he is in your mind a man who still has to be in the top 10 (pound-by-ask)? ‘

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

1. Avoiding Top Fighters: Sorry, Terence Crawford doesn’t count
2. Ominous performances since 2022
3. Skills Waste: Weaking in Skills
4. Zero knockout since 2021

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

Sergio talks about popularity, not performance. The criteria for the inclusion of fighters should not be based on their popularity, but on how well they perform compared to other fighters. If we talk about the pound-for-pound list as a popularity competition, the name should be changed to ‘the most popular fighter toll’.