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An interview with Loeffler on Alvarez/GGG III
On if they’ve received assurances from DAZN that they’ll get a fight in the fall with Canelo should they both win their upcoming fights:
“Well, DAZN really aggressively pursued GGG. When Canelo signed with DAZN, their goal wasn’t — I mean it was to sign Canelo but really as part of that goal was to make the third fight with GGG. Once they signed Canelo, they really went after Gennady, as did many other platforms. That’s kinda where it started off that whole bidding process. And the goal for DAZN is to make the third fight with GGG.
“They made it clear on our side that the fastest path, the easiest path to making the Canelo fight was to sign with DAZN. That’s what GGG did. And they told us that they made it clear to Canelo apart of that big contract he signed includes a third fight with GGG...”
On if DAZN can force Canelo to fight Golovkin:
“When you’re paying whatever the number is, $365 million, whatever that number is, I think DAZN has a lot of leverage to say who they want as part of that deal. So, you know, I can’t get into the details of their side. From our side they’ve made representations that that fight — if Canelo’s successful and if GGG’s successful — that they’ll do everything in their power to make sure that fight happens in the fall.”
On if Gennady is willing to fight Canelo a third time in Las Vegas considering the judging from the first two fights:
“Gennady love Vegas. We love Vegas. We love the MGM. We love the T-Mobile. We don’t love the judging, the scoring. Whether that’s a reflection of being in Vegas or not — when arguably you’ve won two fights in a row which a majority of the fans, a majority of the media thought Gennady won both those fights, at worst a draw in the second fight, and you only get one score out of six...there’s promoters out there based in Las Vegas that would call for an FBI investigation when you have one judge scoring 10 rounds to 2 for a fight that HBO scored 8 rounds to 4 for GGG...
“We’re not gonna dwell on those fights but the second fight with the 12th round clearly a GGG round and two of the judges scored it for Canelo. And that’s really what took Gennady’s titles away. If one of those judges scored it for GGG he’d still have all of his titles right now. So, you know, that makes [Vegas] a tough sell. Going back there naturally Gennady’s going to make the decision if it comes down to that, you know, where the fight would be...
“Again, there’s nothing against Las Vegas. We got the hand wrapping situation now straightened out with the commission. They’ve acknowledged that Abel was right the first time when he was protesting the hand wraps that Canelo was using and was being threatened to be thrown out of the locker room, which in the second fight they acknowledged that Abel was right, that there is a limited amount under their current rules...that they can put on, to apply on the hand wraps. So I’m not gonna say he’s not gonna go back to Vegas. Doing a third fight with Canelo in Vegas is probably challenging, but again, that’s Gennady’s decision, that’s up to Canelo and Golden Boy...”
I never believed Alvarez had any say about NOT fighting G a 3rd time. His excuse of G needing to have a belt in order for Alvarez to consider a 3rd fight was bs. DAZN WILL order GB/Alvarez to make the trilogy if both win their upcoming fights.
On if they’ve received assurances from DAZN that they’ll get a fight in the fall with Canelo should they both win their upcoming fights:
“Well, DAZN really aggressively pursued GGG. When Canelo signed with DAZN, their goal wasn’t — I mean it was to sign Canelo but really as part of that goal was to make the third fight with GGG. Once they signed Canelo, they really went after Gennady, as did many other platforms. That’s kinda where it started off that whole bidding process. And the goal for DAZN is to make the third fight with GGG.
“They made it clear on our side that the fastest path, the easiest path to making the Canelo fight was to sign with DAZN. That’s what GGG did. And they told us that they made it clear to Canelo apart of that big contract he signed includes a third fight with GGG...”
On if DAZN can force Canelo to fight Golovkin:
“When you’re paying whatever the number is, $365 million, whatever that number is, I think DAZN has a lot of leverage to say who they want as part of that deal. So, you know, I can’t get into the details of their side. From our side they’ve made representations that that fight — if Canelo’s successful and if GGG’s successful — that they’ll do everything in their power to make sure that fight happens in the fall.”
On if Gennady is willing to fight Canelo a third time in Las Vegas considering the judging from the first two fights:
“Gennady love Vegas. We love Vegas. We love the MGM. We love the T-Mobile. We don’t love the judging, the scoring. Whether that’s a reflection of being in Vegas or not — when arguably you’ve won two fights in a row which a majority of the fans, a majority of the media thought Gennady won both those fights, at worst a draw in the second fight, and you only get one score out of six...there’s promoters out there based in Las Vegas that would call for an FBI investigation when you have one judge scoring 10 rounds to 2 for a fight that HBO scored 8 rounds to 4 for GGG...
“We’re not gonna dwell on those fights but the second fight with the 12th round clearly a GGG round and two of the judges scored it for Canelo. And that’s really what took Gennady’s titles away. If one of those judges scored it for GGG he’d still have all of his titles right now. So, you know, that makes [Vegas] a tough sell. Going back there naturally Gennady’s going to make the decision if it comes down to that, you know, where the fight would be...
“Again, there’s nothing against Las Vegas. We got the hand wrapping situation now straightened out with the commission. They’ve acknowledged that Abel was right the first time when he was protesting the hand wraps that Canelo was using and was being threatened to be thrown out of the locker room, which in the second fight they acknowledged that Abel was right, that there is a limited amount under their current rules...that they can put on, to apply on the hand wraps. So I’m not gonna say he’s not gonna go back to Vegas. Doing a third fight with Canelo in Vegas is probably challenging, but again, that’s Gennady’s decision, that’s up to Canelo and Golden Boy...”
I never believed Alvarez had any say about NOT fighting G a 3rd time. His excuse of G needing to have a belt in order for Alvarez to consider a 3rd fight was bs. DAZN WILL order GB/Alvarez to make the trilogy if both win their upcoming fights.
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