Comments Thread For: Yes, there are still several legacy fights for Canelo Alvarez - if he's interested

[hugh grant]

Will he fight someone hes underdog against?

[Tibburon245]

Canelo is the Taylor Swift of boxing. We don't remember greats of the past saying they have earned the right to pick and choose. It's a new era of ultra-rich divas. Canelo is a hell of a fighter, but he likes being a diva.

[PRvazquez]

Won't fight Benavidez and claims he's too big. Didn't want a Bivol rematch. Chose a shot Kovalev over Beterbiev. But will challenge the winner of this fight? Yeah right. He'll only do that if the winner is damaged goods. Other than that it's not happening.

At this point he has to fight Johnny Cage , Goro, and Shang Tsung. You still gonna be around to nitpick. I get it I used to be a fan that hated my sport like this . The man gotta beat all the 175 guys and if he does or doesn't? He wasn't a good fighter? Man stop. At least he fights more than anyone else favorite fighter right now and hes the payday. Nobody else is . They all want a piece .

[Caxcan]

Did this writer really suggest Canelo's top career win would be beating Benavidez who rejected Plant and Smith unifications only to end up going the distance with Plant (and getting boxed up for half the fight) after Canelo already stopped him? And that's Benavidez's top career fight. Meanwhile it was Benavidez who dropped his belt and left the division without activating.


In reality, recent opponents GGG and Mell brought more legacy to the table. GGG was a hall of famer who'd only lost to Canelo and remained a unified champ going in. And Mell notched up history as an undisputed champ-- and no neither fighter was naturally smaller--Canelo just chose to continue moving up to face career super middleweights and light heavyweights unlike those two who got the chance at 1 fight undisputed against a shorter fighter who started out below them in weight. People mainly try to downplay those wins because they're reluctant to give Canelo for shutting them down, never mind he also shut down super middleweight giant Smith in the same way, while champs Plant and Smith got stopped.

And how's the writer going to dismiss Munguia who actually made a statement by taking out Ryder after he went the distance with Canelo, unlike Benavidez. Munguia proved himself worthy by giving one of the gutsiest performances of a Canelo at 168.

It's also absurd to dismiss 6ft 154lb undisputed Mell, HOF unified middleweight GGG and Munguia coming off a statement win at 168 yet prop up Bud who's smaller than any of them and struggled in his only fight above 154.

Meanwhile, Canelo who started at 140 already fought 2 of the 3 Russian champs at 175 while the 3 haven't faced each other once, but now he's calling him to move to 200lbs? Canelo fought more champs than anyone today including the only fighter in history to unify titles at 154, 160 and 168-- and at 175 he's only the second fighter beside Hearns to claim a title moving up that many divisions. But 20 years into his career, he's supposed to single handedly chase every fighter from 147-200lbs? To top it off, he suggests it would be better for him to fight social media fighters than a top ranked challenger in his division lol?


It's interesting how people don't have that energy with Bud who's only fought 6 times over the past 6 years, or with Bivol and Beterbiev who took 7 years into being champs in order to unify in their one career division. Canelo handled his business-- he became the only fighter to unify all four titles at 168 and did it as the smallest fighter in the division, and is now actively defending against number one challengers. This is his second fight of 2024 with a third fight planned at a time when younger fighters, with only a fraction of his accomplishments combined, are barely active.

[BodyBagz]

Canelo is the Taylor Swift of boxing. We don't remember greats of the past saying they have earned the right to pick and choose. It's a new era of ultra-rich divas. Canelo is a hell of a fighter, but he likes being a diva.

Fight fans expect more from Nelo

Lesser fighters ( AKA Boogeymen) are praised and respected for having shltty resumes

Go figure

[joseph5620]

Canelo is like a NBA player that came out of high school. He is still young in life but he has more fights and miles on him than other fighters his age.

His legacy is set. There’s no current fighter that will change what he’s done.

You're right. No fighter is going to change the fact that he ducked his mandatory for 3 years without getting stripped. The biggest and most disgraceful duck I've ever seen in all my years of following boxing.

[Rbs3rd]

Only two that matter at this point are Benavidez and a Bivol rematch but he aint fighting either. I’ll be glad when he fuggin retires. 168 will start to pick up again because Canelo wont be holding the division, im sorry, the sport hostage anymore. Same thing happened when Floyd retired, new crop of guys came in at 47 and started mixing it up. Guys like Thurman, DSG, Shawn Porter, Kell Brook, Errol Spence and later Bud Crawford got that shiht poppin again. Fucc that super star and diva Shiht. It just makes boxing look gimmicky, like wrestling. Would much rather see lesser known fighters, against evenly matched competition, that are gonna fight ANY and EVERYbody in their division. THAT keeps the sport alive. Its why 54 has been so hot these last few years. Mell Carlo, Swift Hurd, Banana Rosario, J rock Williams, Castano, Lara, Lubin. No stars but they mix it up. And the new crop at 54 will do the same. So good riddance Canelo.

[Rbs3rd]

Did this writer really suggest Canelo's top career win would be beating Benavidez who rejected Plant and Smith unifications only to end up going the distance with Plant (and getting boxed up for half the fight) after Canelo already stopped him? And that's Benavidez's top career fight. Meanwhile it was Benavidez who dropped his belt and left the division without activating.


In reality, recent opponents GGG and Mell brought more legacy to the table. GGG was a hall of famer who'd only lost to Canelo and remained a unified champ going in. And Mell notched up history as an undisputed champ-- and no neither fighter was naturally smaller--Canelo just chose to continue moving up to face career super middleweights and light heavyweights unlike those two who got the chance at 1 fight undisputed against a shorter fighter who started out below them in weight. People mainly try to downplay those wins because they're reluctant to give Canelo for shutting them down, never mind he also shut down super middleweight giant Smith in the same way, while champs Plant and Smith got stopped.

And how's the writer going to dismiss Munguia who actually made a statement by taking out Ryder after he went the distance with Canelo, unlike Benavidez. Munguia proved himself worthy by giving one of the gutsiest performances of a Canelo at 168.

It's also absurd to dismiss 6ft 154lb undisputed Mell, HOF unified middleweight GGG and Munguia coming off a statement win at 168 yet prop up Bud who's smaller than any of them and struggled in his only fight above 154.

Meanwhile, Canelo who started at 140 already fought 2 of the 3 Russian champs at 175 while the 3 haven't faced each other once, but now he's calling him to move to 200lbs? Canelo fought more champs than anyone today including the only fighter in history to unify titles at 154, 160 and 168-- and at 175 he's only the second fighter beside Hearns to claim a title moving up that many divisions. But 20 years into his career, he's supposed to single handedly chase every fighter from 147-200lbs? To top it off, he suggests it would be better for him to fight social media fighters than a top ranked challenger in his division lol?


It's interesting how people don't have that energy with Bud who's only fought 6 times over the past 6 years, or with Bivol and Beterbiev who took 7 years into being champs in order to unify in their one career division. Canelo handled his business-- he became the only fighter to unify all four titles at 168 and did it as the smallest fighter in the division, and is now actively defending against number one challengers. This is his second fight of 2024 with a third fight planned at a time when younger fighters, with only a fraction of his accomplishments combined, are barely active.

We have been asking for a Benavidez fight for several years now. No one asked for Mungia or Berlanga. Bud unified a division against the other top guy at 147, Errol Spence, and beat the breaks off him. Canelo did not because that guy is David Benavidez. No self respecting fan will respect the duck. I dont give a fucc who or how many times he fought in the past. Benavidez was the other top guy in that division and Canelo swerved all the way around him. If it walks and quacks, guess what it is.

[QballLobo]

You're right. No fighter is going to change the fact that he ducked his mandatory for 3 years without getting stripped. The biggest and most disgraceful duck I've ever seen in all my years of following boxing.

Maybe if his mandatory took care of his business and didn’t lose his title on the scales or get popped for that nose candy he would have been in a stronger position instead of begging for that payday.
No one outside of fight fans care about Benny or know who he is. Fight happens or not won’t change what Canelo has done or his place as a top guy of his era. Cry more.

[Caxcan]

We have been asking for a Benavidez fight for several years now. No one asked for Mungia or Berlanga. Bud unified a division against the other top guy at 147, Errol Spence, and beat the breaks off him. Canelo did not because that guy is David Benavidez. No self respecting fan will respect the duck. I dont give a fucc who or how many times he fought in the past. Benavidez was the other top guy in that division and Canelo swerved all the way around him. If it walks and quacks, guess what it is.

You should have a talk with Benavidez who ducked all the smoke in the division, dropped his belt and refused to activate even though he's the one who needed it. Munguia had more name recognition than Benavidez who got demoted to undercard status after being a failure as a headliner. The public doesn't care about Benavidez and he never gave them a reason to with his padded resume, not even his twitter fanboys will pay to watch him fight, because most aren't really fans of his, they're just Canelo haters who ran out of guys to prop up as avoided so they had to settle for the overgrown screw up who didn't want it for himself. Benavidez refused to activate and left the division just to fight a guy coming out of retirement on undercard, and only further killed his "monster" self hype with his performance. Not only did Benavidez once again fail to make a statement, he's out of commission from all the damage he took from a post retirement fighter lol.