Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez has been linked with a conflict towards David Benavidez for fairly a while now.
The unified tremendous middleweight champion has overwhelmed a few of the biggest fighters of a era, however seems to be to be fairly apprehensive in relation to accepting a problem from ‘The Mexican Monster’, who at the moment holds the WBC ‘interim’ mild heavyweight title.
Benavidez is a two-time tremendous middleweight champion, having just lately made the transfer as much as 175lbs. The 28-year-old has additionally revealed his curiosity in a transfer as much as cruiserweight, concentrating on a showdown with WBA and WBO champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez.
Talking to FightHub TV, ‘Canelo’ insisted he would take a combat towards Benavidez on the drop of a hat, so long as the cash made sense for the pound for pound star.
“Perhaps it’s one of many greatest fights, who is aware of. However you recognize, he brings nothing to he desk for me, he simply brings 25lbs further on combat evening.
But when a promoter, not him as a result of he’s not ready to supply me any cash, but when a promoter who I work with, if they provide me $150m-$200m, I’ll combat him tomorrow. That’s the one purpose I combat with him, the one factor he brings to the desk is 25 extra kilos.
No strain to make the combat, I don’t must combat anyone, I don’t must show something to anyone as a result of I bear in mind when this occurred with Golovkin.”
The Mexican celebrity has additionally been linked with a mega combat towards Terence Crawford, with Turki Alalshikh displaying severe curiosity in getting the combat finalised for the primary half of 2025.