Canelo Is A True Student Of Mayweather, He Wants Benavidez To Be His May/Pac(Good Read)
Please No Straight Canelo Hate Right Now. Just Hear Me Out And Be A Human Being With Knowledge. THE END IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART
CANELO ALVAREZ
When you're involved in anything that's your true calling in life/passion and you have someone that does the exact same thing you do ON TOP of them being discussed as possibly being the best to ever do it, some people become addicted with the idea of obtaining that level of success. Alot of the times this is the energy that attributes to bringing the greatness out of people.
Mayweather, hate him or love him, is the ultimate goal of ANY BOXER of this AND the next generation. Highest paid boxer EVER, multiple weight class champion, his influence and impact, defeated MANY boxing Hall of famer. regarded as one if not the best ever, , undefeated. Once again, hate him or love him, unless you're a professional boxer, you won't understand the level of regard that Mayweather is viewed by other boxers does what he does. Even the boxers that may have hate for him cannot deny that his career and success from his god tier and second to none.
Canelo is actually a true student of Mayweather in every way. Canelo definitely views Floyd as TBE and is a great himself who knows he has the same greatness in him. In turn, he has studied Mayweather to the point that he fused everything he took in from Floyd, combined it with himself, and became what he is. From the style of fighting, to the business....everything about Canelo has a substance of Floyd in it. The first GGG fight literally had the gameplan of "beat GGG the way Floyd beat you". I mean, the man was even trying to set traps on the ropes EXACTLY like Floyd did to him.
BECOMING THE KING
This is how Canelo feels. He gave the world the fights people said he wouldnt take to prove how much of a great he is striving to be, and it isn't appreciated enough. Why? Because it wasn't appreciated by EVERYBODY. Everyone said he wouldn't fight Lara, he fought him. Wouldn't fight Trout, fought him. Wouldn't fight Jacobs, fought him. Fought Floyd well before he was truly read but risked it all for that win. The biggest blow was fighting GGG. Look. You can lose any fight, all it takes is once punch, so Canelo could have lost any fight. But this fight here was the fight that would be either his biggest/signature win or the loss that would start a down spiral in his career. He beat him. For Got criticized for "robbing" GGG by alot of people. That was a slap in the face and honestly hurt TF out his feelings. He could have easily REALLY ducked GGG and fought other good fighters and still made ALOT of money, but he wanted to prove his greatness and his win wasn't received by EVERYBODY. What did he do? He rematched him. And he fought him the way that his detractors said he need to fight to win. And he looked absolutely marvelous. He backed GGG, the "most feared fighter ever" up the whole fight. Won that fight much more convincingly. His detractors then said "Yeah but he lost the first fight". That was a wakeup call. At this point, Canelo proved his greatness to himself and really accepted his caliber. At this point, the pressure of showing his greatness completely eased, and now he felt every time he got in the ring, he knew he was going to show his greatness whether you acknowledged it or not. This is the same thing that happened to Floyd when he beat Oscar De La Hoya. He knew he was the king whether you liked it or not.
Remember, boxing is a business. Fighters aren't just fighting to prove they're the best, the are also fighting to make the most money possible. Trust me, majority of the time you say a fighter is "ducking" someone, they would love to fight them and shut everybody the f*** up. These are fighters and "fear" is thrown around too loosely in a sport where these men have signed up for a combat sport. Canelo is at a point where he can take the fights that make the most financial sense along with showcasing his greatness. Say what you want about the 168lb divison champions he beat, they were CHAMPIONS. He came champion at 175lb beating Kovalev. That was a hell of a win. He unified a division in 1 year. That is a true showcase of greatness. It is an achievement that will appreciate over time. Remember, Canelo is a student of Floyd so at this point his business moves are calculated just like Floyd's. And there is no ducking, it is just an understanding that some of these business moves are going to give meaningless criticizers ammo but they are so irrelevant at this point.
DAVID BENAVIDEZ
Here comes David Benavidez, a fighter who is being considered to be Canelo's biggest threat right now. David Benavidez is the only current fighter with the potential to give Canelo a Mayweather/Pacqiao type of payday and win significance. GGG was his first true arch enemy but David Benavidez has potential to strongly surpass that. This is seemingly like the fight that would really be the end goal of his lifelong journey in boxing. Canelo is waiting for Benavidez to truly become his arch enemy before he fights him. Canelo is pretty much on top of his throne(career) waiting for Benavidez to really reach the top of his throne and then he will fight him as a fellow king. That doesn't mean being the #1 contender. That doesnt mean being a good option amongst other good options. That means being the only option. That means being a household name, that means establishing wins that can rival Canelo's, beating other great fighters. David Benavidez has not done none of that YET but it's on him to do his part. Now is the time for Benavidez to do this.
PAY ATTENTION. Remember, this is business. ALL PROMOTION IS GOOD PROMOTION. Canelo haters, you are the biggest contribution to adding value to a fight. Canelo loves the fact that people are mentioning David Benavidez. He needs more. This is why David Benavidez needs to win fights that will make HIS detractors to even acknowledge him. Right now, you still hear "he failed weight caz he's a cokehead" "he didnt make wait" "he really lost to Gravil" etc. Benavidez needs wins that will shut them up.
IT'S ALREADY STARTED
Floyd Mayweather is in on this. Another thing that is second to none in comparison to any other better is Floyds power. Influence wise. He still has higher authorities but he has granted power that no boxer has ever had with their higher autorities. Obviously, because he's made them more money than anybody EVER...by far. Remember when Floyd seemed to randomly diss Canelo at Tank's fight? That wasn't random, that was a seed being planted. Floyd is an influence, which means anything he says will be reported. Floyd talking about Canelo just adds to Canelo being relevant with current talked about topics. Thanks Floyd. The biggest part is that Mayweather said Canelo is ducking Floyd. This adds ALOT of clout to Benavidez which will add to the needed popularity. Thanks Floyd. This is important because this fight needs to also reach the peak financial gain. We're talking 100 million dollar purses. Floyd is PBC and this fight has the potential to be the biggest fight any of their fighters can ever have. This is on a different financial level than even Spence-Crawford. DAVID'S THRONE
David Benavidez needs to conquer his own throne and become a king before he faces Canelo. Imagine if this happened next
-Benavidez fights Plant and KOs him in more spectacular fashion than Canelo
-Canelo fights Bivol and wins a title at 175
-Canelo drops his WBO belt
-Benavidez fights Charlo in Texas on Cinco De Mayo in 2023 on FRIDAY(the actual date)for the WBO title while Canelo fights on Saturday in Vegas
-Canelo beats Triple G
-Benavidez moves up to 175 and beats Beterbiev after Beterbiev beats Joe Smith and unifies.
Now he would be a 2 weight division champion and be a unified champion at 175lb with Canelo having the other title while Canelo holds a title at 175 and and the remaining belts at 168. Now, I'm not saying this is the set up needed to for the fight to reach its maximum potential but if I thought of it like this then the higher authorities have as well. For a fight of this signifiance, if this was the set up, they could even do something crazy like make all the belts on the line. 2 divisions worth of championships go to the winner. But whatever route Benavidez takes to have his own throne, he needs to take that route.
THE POINT
The point is that Canelo would love for this fight to happen. He is not avoiding Benavidez AT ALL. No one should ever say this. Be patient people. Let this fight be what its supposed to be. These are 2 special fighter but one of them has to get there. Mayweather/Pacquiao was not at all stalled too long. They conquered everybody else to the point that they only had each other. We wanted it bad, but the timing was perfect. The success of the event shows that. Biggest fight ever. Let these 2 special fighters get that same opportunity. But, the hate is needed so please continue to add value to this fight. One thing about this fight is that it will be the action we wanted from Mayweather/Pacquiao. That was a special BOXING match where the intelligence level was one of a kind. This will be a FIGHT where the action will be one of a kind.
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