Via Brian Webber: WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo says he will face David Benavidez in 2023 and he is confident he will win that bout.
Charlo (32-0, 22 KOs) didn’t say why the fight against the undefeated Benavidez (25-0, 22 KOs) couldn’t happen this year, as he had an easy defensive volition against Maciej Sulecki he will take place on June 18.
Perhaps one reason why Jermall is in no rush to face Benavidez this year is because he still hopes to get a match against Canelo Alvarez.
It’s a match Jermall mentioned quite often on Friday, and it’s one that shows he’s likely to get a high-paying day in his career.
“I feel like my brother is going to do great,” Jermall Charlo said Against TV Hub about his brother Jermell Charlo’s fight against Brian Castano on Saturday.
“I will continue to dodge. I don’t need to fight Canelo to be one of the greatest warriors in history,” Jermall continued. “If he doesn’t fight me, then everything is fine. S*** happens sometimes,” says Jermall.
I’m not sure if the 31-year-old Charlo is joking when he says he’s going to be one of the “greatest boxers in history” because his background is so bad for him. be remembered after his retirement.
If anything, Jermall will be remembered for having an inflated resume rife with midway dissidents.
“I just feel like Bivol has grown a lot,” Charlo said when asked if he was disappointed to see Canelo Alvarez lose to Dmitry Bivol last Saturday. “I could have used my swing a lot faster and was a smarter fighter than Bivol. He defeated Canelo in a landslide match.
“We offered him a lot of money, and we came close to it, but, look, there might be a fight in the future if you don’t blow it for me, you bastard, ” Jermall talks about a fight between him and Canelo.
“You are all hyping it up for me with all these damn interviews and questions. Let him [Canelo] choose me. It’s time for him to come. Like I said, I have the best management team in the world. Al Haymon has never let me down, so I realize it happens sooner or later,” Charlo said of his fight with Canelo.
“It is coming very close. It will happen in 2023. I want it,” Jermall said of him and David Benavidez. “Next year, we should start. We’ll find that out when we get there,” Charlo said when asked how he would beat Benavidez.
“He was beaten a lot. We’ve seen it happen before. I have the best coach in the world, and I have the best team in the world. I will train one of mine for it. He can’t beat me no matter what weight class it is.
“He [Benavidez] worries every time he sees me. He mentions me a lot, so every time he sees me, I instantly recognize his**. This is what we do in Texas; this is how we are. This is my mentality.
“We will also beat one of his. I tried to keep it up with Terence Crawford, but his career didn’t work out. Obviously, he has to try and make a name for himself. Stay away from the Charlo boys; Stay away from Spence. They come from Texas.
“Let him cheer all he wants; that’s what cheerleaders do. They cheer,” Charlo said as Crawford called Jermell Charlo a cheerleader.
“He was a cheerleader; that’s why he’s cheering. He put on a facade. He weighs 140 pounds. He’s probably this tall. He is [Crawford] Not at our level. We got over that damn thing. We don’t need to call anyone out anymore. They will call us out.
“F*** David Benavidez. He can’t hit me at s ***. No. Don’t worry about it. I want the war to happen. I talked to Al. We will fight [Benavidez] happens, and if we don’t, we’ll continue to fight the people we’re fighting.
“I have the best management in the team, believe me. My managers are doing great with my career.
“Did you write down these questions?” Jermall said when asked about his June 18 against struggling opponent Maciej Sulecki. “Sulecki is a** tough fighter. I’ll hit his **.
“I’m going to go in there with the game plan my coach gives me, and I’m going to stick with it. Whatever the coach asks me to do, I will do. He won the fight, I didn’t.
“I am a martial artist. It’s like playing Playstation or something. He’s in control of everything. I’m in it fighting, I’m defending myself and we’ll come up with the most ingenious game plan and we’ll beat him [Sulecki] one**.
“I know but watch me do some matches,” said Jermall, saying that 32-year-old Sulecki has never been stopped despite losing two of his last four matches.
