Canelo Alvarez vs Avni Yildrim Was a Disgrace to Boxing

It was a stay busy fight. Now he's sharp and ready for Saunders in May. Making weight should be much easier and he can focus on tactics.

Not agree to it and fight a respectable opponent instead. he is trying to be undisputed and doing it quickly

Ofcourse it was a disgrace. But the only ppl to blame are Morris Sillyman and the WBC. ​​​

Supposedly the top super middleweight on the planet just defended his title against a man who hasn ot boxed for 2 years and the last time out, lost. How has this been allowed to happen again? I would expand this to say both fight cards were a disgrace to the sport. The Dirrell fight was worse than this. Just disgraceful and terrible. Frankly, I was only concerned about the undercards. I didn't give a sh-t about the main events.

It's a mandatory defense. Quit complaining about it. Well that's part of the contest, how does a man coming off a loss 2 years ago who has not had a fight since become mandatory? And which belt was he mandatory for?

Yea, this was an unnecessary fight that only served the purpose of making Canelo money. There was no other reason for it. Canelo doesn't have to fight mandatories. Thats a lame excuse

Canelo is taking it back to the old school , believe it or not there was a time when the top fighters in the sport fought multiple times a year. Not every time was it against a certified killer ,Canelo has the best resume outside of Manny for active fighters. I'd rather see Canelo be active than some dude that fights once every year or two.

So you're saying Andrade could've also not agreed to his pathetic pick and fought Charlo, GGG or Plant instead? When you're the p4p #1, the rules are different. I also believe Andrade at least made the effort to fight every one of those guys.

Not agree to it and fight a respectable opponent instead. So you're saying Andrade could've also not agreed to his pathetic pick and fought Charlo, GGG or Plant instead?

It was his mandatory, what do you want him to do? He ain't dropping the belt because his whole mission is to become undisputed. Canelo deserves props for getting this fight out the way in a window where he usually wouldn't be fighting anyway - so it's not like we've lost a major Canelo date or anything, we've just been given a little extra. I wish more fighters had that mindset - fighting once or twice a year is BS & part of the reason that there are so few mainstream 'stars' in boxing because they're not seen often enough to build any kind of momentum outside of hardcore boxing fans. It was 10 weeks ago he fought undefeated Callum Smith, this week he got his mandatory out the way, next in 9/10 weeks he's got a huge unification bout against undefeated Billy Joe Saunders. You gotta put some respect on that, that's a champion mindset he's showing.

He has a unification bout next, what was he supposed to do?? he agreed to this fight in order to get the Smith fight and the vacant WBC Not agree to it and fight a respectable opponent instead.

Supposedly the top super middleweight on the planet just defended his title against a man who hasn ot boxed for 2 years and the last time out, lost. How has this been allowed to happen again? The crooked wbc and joto Sulaiman forced this bs mando

Supposedly the top super middleweight on the planet just defended his title against a man who hasn ot boxed for 2 years and the last time out, lost. How has this been allowed to happen again? In slow motion pac with one punch stops poverty in the Philippines??? I’m Jewish Mexican... emphasis on not Filipino white boys when black dudes were allowed to participate dominated pinoy boys got dominated when stinky low class espanol putos were fvcking the chit outta pinay puntang most Filipinos in or occupying lands in the USA got fvcked by a lotta non pinoy Kwai!!! butler is a third world mongrel wanna be white man basicallly most of my family B.UTLER

He has a unification bout next, what was he supposed to do?? he agreed to this fight in order to get the Smith fight and the vacant WBC

It's a mandatory defense. Quit complaining about it.

ehh Floyd fought Robert Guerrero manny fought Brandon rios Do some homework, both Guerrero and Rios were miles better fighters than Yildrim.

Did you (the king of agenda driven douche bags) really just call someone else an idiot poster? Really? For someone of Canelos stature to be fighting Yildrim was absolutely a disgrace to boxing. A complete disgrace especially when you have guys like Demetrius Andrade on his own network who can't get a big fight.

ehh Floyd fought Robert Guerrero manny fought Brandon rios Except Guerro was pound for pound 7 in the world when they fought. And Floyd embarrassed him. Canelo doesn't ever fight pound for pound guys and when he does, he loses or gets gifts.

ehh Floyd fought Robert Guerrero manny fought Brandon rios

Lol. What an idiot poster. This fight was an hors d'oeuvre to simply announce BJS in May. what’s your favorite fighter doing now? Did you (the king of agenda driven douche bags) really just call someone else an idiot poster? Really? For someone of Canelos stature to be fighting Yildrim was absolutely a disgrace to boxing.