Comments Thread For: Demetrius Andrade Jabs Canelo: He's Fighting Undisputed at 154, That Makes You The Best?

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There's a consensus in the super middleweight division. One that makes all the sense in the world. Canelo Alvarez, thanks to his overall skills and ability to aggregate every world title at 168 pounds, is regarded as the best fighter that the division has to offer. That very statement, while it may ring true to some, is flat-out erroneous in the mind of Demetrius Andrade
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Andrade finally has a big fight. Let’s see what he does with the opportunity.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

It’s a fair point but when your last two opponents are Demond Nicholson and Jason Quigley it comes across highly hypocritical.

[gooderz84]

naah man. 60-2-2 makes you the best

[Goatintheboat]

No he's the best because he challenged all the champions and took their belts. You could of done the same when MW champion but didn't. Let's see how it goes against Benny. Winner should be up next for Canelo.

[thack]

Andrade will come and go without much fuss.

[Bronx2245]

Canelo Alvarez Vs. Jaime Munguia In The Works For May 2024 On Showtime PPV
10/25/2023 - By Will Arons

Jaime Munguia is being discussed as the next opponent for undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez to defend against in May 2024 on Showtime PPV.
The plan is for Canelo to defend against Munguia (42-0, 33 KOs) in May and David Benavidez in September, with both fights taking place on Showtime pay-per-view.

Fans will be excited at seeing Canelo fight Benavidez next year, but they’ll be less eager to see him face Munguia, who has done nothing to earn this match-up.

If Canelo throws Munguia a bone by fighting him, he would be sending a message to promoters that if they match their fighters against weak opposition long enough, they’ll get a massive payday fight like Jaime.

It encourages promoters to keep pitting their fighters against poor opposition because they’ll be rewarded one of these days with a massive payday.

Canelo has two remaining fights on his three-fight contract with Premier Boxing Champions [PBC]. Although Showtime will no longer be broadcasting boxing events after 2023, they still have two fights that they’re contracted with Canelo in 2024 before they’re completely done.

Salvador Rodriguez of ESPN Knockout is reporting the plans for Canelo to potentially face Munguia & Benavidez next. Munguia has a fight planned against John ‘The Gorilla’ Ryder in January that he needs to get out of the way before he can challenge Canelo for his undisputed 168-lb championship in May.

For Canelo to fight Munguia next May suggests that he doesn’t care what the boxing public thinks about him and that he’s not interested in giving people a good fight against Dmitry Bivol, Terence Crawford, David Benavidez, or David Morrell in that month.

Perhaps Canelo is saving Crawford, Bivol & Morrell for later. Hopefully, that’s the case because Canelo has had a lot of weak opposition lately with his fights against Jermell Charlo, John Ryder, and Gennadiy Golovkin.

People would like to see Canelo end that three-fight streak of weaker opponents and face someone good like Crawford, Bivol, Benavidez, or Morrell next May, but he wants to play it safe.

WBC interim super middleweight champion Benavidez (27-0, 23 KOs) has to win his fight next month against Demetrius Andrade (32-0, 19 KOs) on November 25th on Showtime PPV before he can face Canelo next year in September on the Mexican holiday weekend.

The plans for Canelo to fight Munguia & Benavidez in 2024 could go up in smoke if one or both fighters lose their next fights, which is entirely possible.

Munguia looked bad in his last fight against Sergiy Derevyanchenko earlier this year, barely winning a 12 round unanimous decision after getting the stuffing beaten out of him by the past his best 37-year-old former world title challenger.

https://www.boxing247.com/boxing-new...ime-ppv/270095

[Goatintheboat]

Can understand keeping Benevidez until the 3rd fight as it's the biggest match up going but struggling to see why Munguia would get the shot. Guess it's an all Mexican shootout but surely it's going to be someone else on the PBC roster. Wonder if they now regret making the Andrade-Benevidez fight before the Charlo fight?

[Jab jab boom]

I don’t think anyone sane considers canelo “the best” at this stage. But his reputation over the years was primarily built on having the opportunity to fight great names, although they were all 35-40 yrs old when he faced them.
But to Andrade’s point, Canelo is the only guy ever who avoided fighting someone in his own division and instead chose to fight someone 2 weight classes below him. He did it when he fought Amir khan for the mw title while ggg was mandatory (then dropped his belt 2 weeks later to avoid ggg) and he just did it now with charlo, while Benavidez was clearly the best fight to make. Truly not the actions of someone who has boldly claimed to consistently be “chasing greatness”, someone who says “Mexican don’t fook around” or “this canelo beats anyone”.

[Chavmex40]

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Andrade was the one that said Fk Canelo, he didn’t want to talk about him and now he says about him! For all of you that are the Canelo haters! Everyone fights over the hill fighters, everyone fights guys in lower weight classes. If you are not a fighter aficionado and don’t know shot about boxing history, then shut the fk off with this Canelo advantages!