Benavidez’s stock falls: Good news for Canelo?

Promoter Sampson Lewkowicz says Canelo Alvarez will never be the ‘biggest star in Mexico’ if he does not fight against David Banavidez until he is tired. Here’s the thing: Sampson mentions that if Canelo does fight against Benavidez (30-0, 24 COs), he ‘will be knocked out, and it won’t be nice.’

In other words, Sampson sinks his own argument about why Canelo ‘The Mexican Monster’ should face. Why would Alvarez want to fight against someone who is going to beat him, especially if they fight against light heavyweight and back-to-back performances against David Morrell and Oleksandr Gvozdyk?

Benavidez’s humble

Last Saturday night, Banavidez, 28, was dragged by hell by former Cuban amateur star Morrell (11-1, 9 COs), dropped in the 11th and equal like a soldier of Shell-to Pieces who returned in the front lines.

All the Cockiness was knocked out of Benavidez by Morrell in that battle. After that, a reported benavidez looked meek, seemingly afraid to make eye contact with Morrell and sounded like a defeated fighter in the interviews after the fight. Morrell struck the filling out of benavidez and left behind the broken soldier who saw fans afterwards.

Begging for a chance

“I wouldn’t say that to the fighter. I would tell Eddy Reynoso. Keep doing a good job. Don’t face Benavidez as he will beat Canelo. It certainly won’t be nice, trust me, ”Sampson Lewkowicz said Sean Zittel Asked whether David Benavidez’s actions against David Morrell are less likely to make Canelo Alvarez fight against him.

“He is (benavidez) much stronger, much larger, and I do not believe that he will be dressed anymore. I believe Benavidez earned the top 10 pounds-by-pound. I believe he is doing his own legacy. He no longer needs Canelo. Canelo let him go because if he retires, he will be ‘the Mexican monster’ and it will not be Canelo.

“He probably has a fight or two fights more. By next year, he will no longer be Canelo, and he will never have the opportunity to be the biggest star in Mexico because he did not fight benavidez. He wouldn’t take the chance. He has not had the chance for the past two years. How would he take the chance now if he had a big battle with Crawford. “

The shame game

It sounds like Sampson is trying the same tricks as Banavidez trying to shame Canelo in a fight against ‘the Mexican monster’. It’s not going to work because Canelo can look through the trick, and he’s not going to be played by these thoughts.

Benavidez and Sampson used shame tactics to try to control and manipulate Canelo to give them the fight they asked for. Benavidez can get a lot of money from a fight against Canelo, so he doesn’t stop using different tactics to push him to give him what he wants – the payday.

“Then he would look for another excuse,” Sampson said of what Alvarez would do after beating Crawford. “So we’re no longer talking about Canelo. I believe in September. Maybe because he is likely to be too busy, Canelo. So it’s a wonderful opportunity (for benavidez to fight), ”says Sampson.

Canelo has already excluded to fight Benavidez and said he does not like his approach to the fight. It is unclear why Sampson is still talking about this battle. Benavidez should focus on staying relevant at 175 because he looked on average against 11-fighting beginner David Morrell last Saturday night.

If Morrell had more experience, he would have knocked down Benavidez last night by pushing him from the beginning, rather than waiting for the championships to put heat under his back. Benavidez breaks from the pressure of the Cuban power station from rounds 10 to 12.