Comments Thread For: Canelo Alvarez vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Deal Reached

[icha]

It'll sell, Canelo will win a decision, and Canelo will use this as leverage against GGG. God I hope Chavez shocks the world and KO's Canelo.

you are damn right, ggg will pray the ppv sales flop or else his offer could go from 15 to 10 million....

[ShoulderRoll]

You hear that noise? It's the sound of Lil G's leverage getting flushed down the toilet.

He can still get the Canelo fight. But he's going to have to be reasonable about his money demands.

[millcitymauler]

the dude is still a multimillionaire and a unified champ no matter what, and you're still here with hurtfeelings...........

Besides that, they were never, ever gonna put Canelo in with GGG for his next fight.

[Raonic]

I like it. He wasn't fighting GGG anyway. Get the biggest name out there.

[TOBYLEE1]

Another circus fight for Canelo. He will beat Jr and this will prove nothing. I want to see if they will keep him high on the p4p list after this

[Shrap]

164.5lbs

You can't make this **** up.

[Shadoww702]

gggg always fought the best at 160 he could, never ducked no one. Canelo says he doesn't want to move up to 160 because the wait is too high, but then moved up to 165. What does that tell you?

Tells me what everyone knows... MW division is currently SHT outside of GGG and Jacobs. Don't forget Chavez is a DREAM FIGHT of GGG's...Google that??

[QballLobo]

If its in Texas I will be there. My co worker has season tix to the cowboys and he gets first dibs on other events at cost with no mark up. He said if this fight goes down he will let me buy his club level tickets for the fight.
I have a feeling it will be in Vegas but Cowboy stadium would be rocking. Was at Canelo/Trout in San Antonio and it was a great crowd. This one would be more hyped.
Canelo by 8th round KO is my early prediction.

[Scipio2009]

oh I dont think it would take a Chavez KO for there to be an immediate rematch. I think if the fight does good numbers and is even REMOTELY competitive, they will do an immediate rematch.

And thats what convinced me that the offer to GGG was loaded with escape clauses. They were negotiating with GGG and Chavez both at the same time. There is no way they could have inserted rematch language into the Chavez deal unless they had a way out of the GGG fight.

I think Golovkin's camp not locking in the September fight when initially offered to them, gave Alvarez the space to plan out other fights, with no care or worry for what it'd mean for the Golovkin fight.

If K2 signed the offer when it was offered, no different than what was done in the build to Kovalev-Ward, HBO/Golden Boy/K2 would've aligned all of their efforts in the name of maximising the build to the signed fight; Alvarez would've fought Liam Smith, a soft touch for December, with a solid fight in May, while K2 would've put up the money to lock-in the Billy Joe Saunders fight, with the rest of the time spent clearing up his mandatory defenses in the run-up.

With no obligation to Golovkin, Alvarez is basically in position to treat Golovkin as any other opponent, weigh-in his name against the other options that would be available at that time.

[STEELHEAD]

so alvarez goes after clown chavez jr for bigger money at a higher weight.good for him.
joke jr doesnt deserve this fight but i'd pay to see jr. get beat down.