Via Sean Jones: According to reports, Canelo Alvarez will disappoint many boxing fans with his choice of next opponent on May 7. Salvador Rodriguez of ESPN Knockout says that Canelo’s next fight will be the one where “boxers” will not be satisfied with.
It shouldn’t come as a shock that Canelo’s next opponent will be a disappointment to boxers because he has let fans down over the past four years with his lackluster rivalry. me.
For Canelo to do anything other than disappoint would be a shock at this point as he’s become completely predictable in that area.
Some boxing fans believe that Canelo is mentally scarred from his two fights with Gennady Golovkin, which led the Mexican star to fail to respond to what his fans wanted and move away emotionlessly, staring with fishy eyes, revealing the horror of what he experienced against the Kazakhs in their two wars.
Maybe what Canelo went through in his two wars with GGG left him stunned, scared of battle, did not want to return to the front to be in a war zone again with other armies.
All we can say is that Canelo has become risk-averse since his second fight with Golovkin in 2018 and it’s easy to surmise that the competition took something away from the throne. Mexican star, leaving what some fans consider a boxer to be. ONLY interested in cherry picking.
Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn said Canelo and coach Eddy Reynoso will meet this week to pick opponents for the May 7 bout.
Hearn wanted Canelo to go in the direction of trying to be the undisputed champion at 175, but he was not expected to do so.
It is believed that Canelo (57-1-2, 39 KOs) will go with Reynoso’s plan for him to move up to cruiserweight to challenge the WBC champion. Ilunga Makabu for a fifth division title.
It is a The half-baked idea Reynosos came up with with Canelo, that was supposed to strengthen his legacy, but clearly not.
The way to cement the legacy is to beat the elite level opponent boxing fans of this era want to see Canelo fight, not to claim division titles against the paper champions, something that the Mexican stars have gathered since 2018.
Canelo’s victories over the PAPER champion since 2018:
- Rocky Fielding
- Billy Joe Saunders
- Caleb . Factory
- Callum Smith
- Sergey Kovalev
None of those guys are close to the elite level, and they’re not the fighters the boxing public wants to see Canelo face off.
Kovalev would be a good pick for Canelo to fight if he were to go up against him in 2012 when he was at his peak, beating everyone and almost impossible to beat.
Unfortunately, by the time Canelo played Kovalev, the Russian was 36 years old and had recently been beaten by Andre Ward x 2 and Eleider Alvarez. Kovalev was basically shot to pieces as Canelo grabbed the old Russian boxer’s hand to claim his fourth-place world champion title.
The row of the killer Canelo chose NOT to fight
- Gennadiy Golovkin
- David Benavidez
- David Morrell Jr
- Demetrius Andrade
- Dmitry Bivol
- Artur Betterbiev
- Joe Smith Jr
While Canelo’s rise to the cruiser rank to add to his legacy is considered admirable, 34-year-old Makabu is not the right choice for the Mexican star to impress fans.
Canelo’s problem is that people remember Makabu’s third-round loss to Tony Bellew in 2016, and that was the last time he played against a talented opponent. All of Makabu’s fights since then have been met with defeatable opposition.
It will be interesting to see an adverse reaction from boxing fans when Makabu is announced as Canelo’s next opponent. As long as Canelo is willing to ignore the negative fan reaction, he should be fine.
