Comments Thread For: Canelo Explains Why He Rejected WBC Belt, His Beef With WBC

[icha]

He acts like they were telling him to fight in 15 days. All he had to do was agree to it, why should that take longer than two weeks? And how does take balls to fight an undersized washed up WW in the twilight of his career?

its been 6 months since they made ggg an 8 figure offer, and he has yet to agree... it takes longer in fights like this, canelo was going to court and he asked an adittional 15 days to handle his business, the wbc refused and he show them the middle finger...

[icha]

So, let me get this straight...Canelo told the WBC he doesn't want them involved so they went ahead and created a belt anyway? They seem desperate to get their logos all over this event to the point of creating a belt, thinking Canelo couldn't possibly refuse a belt. Sad ****ers. Good for Canelo.

I'm starting to see things from his perspective. If he had legal troubles then a further 15 day extension sounds reasonable. I wish all this was apparent at the time instead of the "he was scared and vacated" narrative.

not only their logo,there is also an sponsor right in the middle of the belt "MEXICO" , mexicos tourism pays a lot of money for their logo to be in big events, they have been in other big fights, this has been critisized a lot by people how the goverment in mexico spends so much money in sports events... guess who was going to keep those millions???
this is a big hit to sulaiman pockets not just the sanctioning fees...

[icha]

There is no reason for the WBC to be involved.

actually there is, the reason is money and is a big reason if you ask me, the mofos already had an sponsor right in the middle of the Belt... wbc wasnt doing this for charity...

[gmc_rfc_06]

actually there is, the reason is money and is a big reason if you ask me, the mofos already had an sponsor right in the middle of the Belt... wbc wasnt doing this for charity...

I'm talking from the fighters perspective. There is no reason to have the WBC involved.

I'm very aware of why the WBC are trying to involve themselves, that being $$$

[BaDaBingVIP2]

nowadays fighters can fight for more prize money than fighting for trinkets. no one is giving cotto beef after he didnt want to pay wbc more sanction funds and was stripped of the wbc belt as well. GGG was mandatory and cotto was to pay GGG 800k to allow the cotto vs canelo fight and cotto was also to pay $150k to wbc. wbc flip the script and ask for 300k sanctioning fee for cotto to take the canelo fight., cotto decided to drop the belt and keep the 1.1 mil. and go ahead and fight for canelo win or lose he wasnt keeping the belt. cotto was making about 10mil for the fight. canelo paid his fee and was to pick up belt if he won and he did. same with canelo wbc forced him to negotiate if not purse bid. GGG being offered 3-4 times his biggest payday and still refused. canelo drop the belt and made another payday in fighting Khan. everybody hates the way is doing business not what he does in the ring. canelo will continue to earn big payday with or without a trinket on the line.

[Wicky]

Canelo was avoiding GGG, waiting for him to get old. He deserved to get stripped of the belt because he wasn't prepared to defend it. That said, it doesn't mean Sulaiman is good or correct. Sulaiman is one of the most corrupt and self serving people in boxing. He's vile and very bad for the sport. Canelo's a pu5sy for handing over the belt without a fight, but respect to him for tuning Sulaiman out of the mix. The sanctioning bodies are just business middle men try to cash in on fighters hard work. It's good to see Sulaiman punished for his greed.

[iamboxing]

not only their logo,there is also an sponsor right in the middle of the belt "MEXICO" , mexicos tourism pays a lot of money for their logo to be in big events, they have been in other big fights, this has been critisized a lot by people how the goverment in mexico spends so much money in sports events... guess who was going to keep those millions???
this is a big hit to sulaiman pockets not just the sanctioning fees...

Thanks for the explanation. Didn't realise about the tourism ad.

[Chaos]

its been 6 months since they made ggg an 8 figure offer, and he has yet to agree... it takes longer in fights like this, canelo was going to court and he asked an adittional 15 days to handle his business, the wbc refused and he show them the middle finger...

He had a lot more than 15 days to make a decision. GGG was his mandatory after Cotto but he paid him off and chose Khan for an easy payday. Then instead of finally agreeing to fight GGG he chose to give up the belt instead. Pathetic.

[icha]

He had a lot more than 15 days to make a decision. GGG was his mandatory after Cotto but he paid him off and chose Khan for an easy payday. Then instead of finally agreeing to fight GGG he chose to give up the belt instead. Pathetic.

The decision was made, ggg was next, but they still needed to negotiate and reach and agreement after the khan fight, thats where 15 days wasnt enough considering canelo had a big trail in court which also involved millions...
And by the way canelo never paid ggg a dime, after the cotto fight he was given a voluntary defense by the wbc just like every other champion... the only one who paid it was cotto since he holded that belt for like 2 years or so..

[icha]

Thanks for the explanation. Didn't realise about the tourism ad.

Yep, thats an important part that people seem to ignore here...