Via Sean Jones: Matchroom boxing promoter Eddie Hearn flatly denies that Canelo Alvarez is beating 168-pound WBC 1st place contender David Benavidez despite fans’ growing belief that the blonde star didn’t want to confront him.
Regardless of what Hearn says, the perception from fans is that 31-year-old Canelo is AVOID against the two-time undefeated Benavidez (25-0, 22 KOs).
Unfortunately for Hearn, fans believe Canelo is beating Benavidez, and there’s nothing he can say or do to change that perception because it’s fixed and reinforced with every match against the star. Mexico.
Canelo battling supposedly weak champions like Caleb Plant, Billy Joe Saunders, and Rocky Fielding instead of Benavidez gave rise to confidence that he would take down Benavidez as fans believed he would easily hit him. beat everyone who ever held that belt.
Proofs Canelo AVOID Benavidez:
- Canelo fought in the same tournament for four years without facing Benavidez from 2018 to 2022. Mexican star Canelo may have fought Benavidez in those four years since he moved up the weight division. in 2018, but he chose not to instead.
- Canelo chose to fight for the 168-lb . WBC title immediately AFTER Benavidez lost the title against Roamer Alexis Angulo in August 2020. Four months after Benavidez lost his WBC belt due to being overweight, Canelo fought for the vacant WBC belt to Callum Smith in December 2020. The fan given is Canelo should have fought Benavidez while he was still holding the WBC belt, as he has held the belt continuously since 2017. Why did Canelo only choose to fight for WBC 168 after Benavidez was stripped of the belt in 2020? There was a 3-year period where Canelo could fight Benavidez for the WBC title but didn’t. Why?
- Canelo could have fought Benavidez in 2021 but chose inferior fighters like Avni Yildrim, his former teammate hasn’t fought in two years since 2019 and is about to lose to Anthony Dirrell, a former Benavidez knockout victim. Hearn says Benavidez needs to WIN a fight with Canelo, but who beat Yildirim to earn a hit against Canelo in 2021?
- Dmitry Bivol is being picked by Canelo, a lesser-known fighter than Benavidez, whose American fans haven’t asked him to fight. Fans in the United States pushed Canelo against Benavidez, NOT Bivol, who was seen by many of them as a belt holder rather than an elite light heavyweight champion.
- Why Canelo chose 40-year-old Gennady Golovkin to fight in September 2022 when there is NO belt to win against the star Kazahstan? Although Golovkin holds the IBF middleweight belt, he will go up to 168 to challenge Canelo in a volunteer defense of the Mexican star. This is not a mandatory defense for Canelo against GGG. It will be a voluntary defense. Canelo says his opposition needs to have something for him to gain in order for him to go against them. The question is which belt will Canelo win against challenger Golovkin?
Hearn refuses Canelo to drown Benavidez
“Benavidez is an excellent fighter, but I believe they are doing a bad job with him because who is he fighting? Nobody,” said Eddie Hearn Against TV Hub.
“With Canelo, people say, ‘Oh, he bent over’ [Jermall] Charlo, and he dodged Benavidez. ‘ Absolute bull! Canelo won’t shy away from anyone, but Canelo wants to feel like he’s gaining something from fighting you or winning a belt or something or winning a fight.
“He looks at Benavidez and he looks at Charlo, and he wouldn’t want to say it publicly because he would feel like he was making excuses. But he was like, “Those guys don’t fight anybody,” Hearn said.
Benavidez doesn’t have the advantages that Canelo possesses in acquiring lesser-known belt-holders like those the Mexican star beat from 2018 to 2021 in the super-middle class.
Canelo was able to bring the champions at 168 to fight him in turn because he is such a big star and the money they were offered made them worthy to go up against him.
When you’re a star like Canelo, you can literally fight ANY GOD. Hearn’s comment about Benavidez not fighting “anyone” shows that he’s not aware of the difficulty the non-stars have in getting the belt holders to defend themselves.
With years of promoting Demetrius Andrade, Hearn should know the problems talented boxers like Benavidez face when trying to pit the belt holder against him.
That boxer is in the same boat as Benavidez, struggling to get belt holders or any of the big names to go up against him. Are these former 168 lb champions ready to fight Andrade: Billy Joe Saunders, Caleb Plant, Rocky Fielding and Callum Smith? Sure is not. Simply put, the reason they fought Canelo was for the money.
Set up barriers for Canelo and Benavidez
“The same goes for Demetrius. It wasn’t their fault, it was probably Charlo’s fault, but it wasn’t Benavidez’s fault, and it wasn’t Andrade’s fault either. I believe Benavidez wants to take part in the big fights, but they can’t serve him.
“I know that Demetrius wants to take part in great battles. II’m not sure about Charlo. He turned down a lot of big fights.
“The two are going to have a fight, but it is the plan to bring them together,” Hearn said of wanting to host a fight between Demetrius Andrade and David Benavidez.
“I think Benavidez could be a big star, and in bot lane, Canelo vs Benavidez could be a big fight. if he has some decent names on his resume to be a big fight,” Hearn on Benavidez said it was necessary to beat good opponents like Andrade to build a future clash with Canelo.
Well, Hearn could help with the situation with Benavidez getting “decent names” on his resume by staging a fight between him and Andrade.
If Hearn is interested, it’s one way he could help build a fight between Canelo and Benavidez much larger than the one the Mexican star pitted against the little-known 175-lb WBA belt holder and The 40-year-old Golovkin is fading, who has already succumbed. Haven’t fought any big names since losing to Canelo in 2018.
