Comments Thread For: Canelo Alvarez vs. Jermell Charlo: September 30 in Las Vegas

[tkoboxingscene]

You bum @ss weirdos are ****** for thinking Charlo ducking Tszyu. We're talking life changing cash to fight boxing's outgoing cash cow. Easy decision to take instead of fighting some nobody from Australia only getting into the light just now through his father's name.

[Bad_Guy]

At this point Mell deserves it more than Mall

Inoue deserves it more than Mell. Should Canelo call him up to 168?

[Oregonian]

Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez will proceed with plans to fight a Charlo in September. Just not the one that everyone expected. The undisputed super middleweight champion confirmed a deal in place to face Jermell Charlo atop a September 30 Showtime Pay-Per-View event from a yet-to-be-determined Las Vegas venue. Alvarez announced the fight Friday afternoon to end weeks of speculation and also dispel previously and widely believed rumors that he would next face WBC middleweight titlist Jermall Charlo.
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Al Haymon is a shrewd MoFo man.

So we all thought it was going to be his older brother fighting Canelo until this switcharoo.

This basically means Spence will move to 154 after he KO’s Crawford and the hope here is Jermell beats Canelo which is highly unlikely, regardless, Jermell gets a career payday and still gets a chance to fight Tszyu or all the belts at 154 go up for grabs and everyone gets a piece of it while laughing all the way to the bank.

[Ry92]

This PBC deal is robbery @ best. Jermall Charlo is 154. Spence is a 147er with a real test in Bud. His elite max is 154 @ this rate Canelo 3rd fight will be Danny Garcia vs Lara winner. Canelo don't want no smoke from Benavidez or Morrell jr which is why he ain't want the. Bivol fight @168. Canelo knows his body via injuries n knew issues is slowing down. When he finishes this deal he will link back up with hearn to fight Berlanga the easiest threat @168. Then Mugunia then retire. Canelo not aging well his 32 ish is more like 37. Some folks age horribly like Canelo, some like Mayweather n Pacquiao can do it til 40 cause there 40 is like 35. 35-38 is when an athlete becomes shot on avg some can be earlier Canelo some longer. Hell Luis Ortiz was beating wilder til the ko both times n he was like 42 but really like 50

[damned1974]

Well, he asked for the ass whooping, now he got his retirement check.

[Timur78]

Charlo hand just magically instantly healed!

[Goatintheboat]

Taylor was the one out of the ring too long against an active Lopez. Charlo is the one who is inactive and moving up two weights. Canelo has this secured all day with those advantages just as Lopez did.

Only Breadman said that and on the week of the fight. No other expert thought Lopez had any chance at all. Popular consensus on Canelo is that he has slowed down and isn't the fighter he was too. Charlo is the naturally bigger guy and this is their job so let's not use the he hasn't fought for a while excuse. If he ain't ready don't accept the fight but come on he's got three months to get ready for it.

[Carmaine]

I always joke that if they gave me 10 million dollars, I'd step in the ring and let Mike Tyson knock me out.

So it's a welcome surprise to see it come to reality with Jermell agreeing to this fight.

[Goatintheboat]

Don’t know why people are surprised, he’s not going to start off a 3 fight deal with benavidez

itll probably be next tho

Who's fight no 2 and 3 then? And what will be the fights PBC make for the other Canelo contenders they have that don't get the golden ticket?

[tritium_arma]

You bum @ss weirdos are ****** for thinking Charlo ducking Tszyu. We're talking life changing cash to fight boxing's outgoing cash cow. Easy decision to take instead of fighting some nobody from Australia only getting into the light just now through his father's name.

If you were lined up to fight a guy and waited it out to fight someone else instead, you ducked a person. He may have done what the majority of people would have but it doesn't change the fact it was a duck. Brian Custer said this was in the works for a while as well so that means Charlo's hand was fine for a while but he decided to wait out for a possible Canelo payday instead of rescheduling the Tsyzu fight.