Is Alvarez's "I don't like him" a valid reason for not fighting somebody?

[AKAcronym]

I didn’t want to misspell the fighters name but didn’t Canelo get stripped for not fighting him?

If Canelo got stripped a possible fight between triple G and the other IBF Derevyachenko I believe should fight for that title. Either that or Triple G should fight Boo Boo.

Until Triple gets a belt, he needs to sit down be quiet and should be ashamed of himself for his acting the last 5 years. Triple G has fought and acted scared like a B I T C H

He is fighting Derev. They're announcing the fight sometime this week.

[creekrat77]

Floyd Mayweather was the end of an era. In this mass media and social age, fighters can't suppress the voice of the fans. News, gossip, what have you, spreads fast. There's a fine line where Canelo can go from respected to despised.

[champion4ever]

Is Alvarez's "I don't like him" a valid reason for not fighting somebody?

No it's not. He's just too afraid of fighting him that's all. He gave it all he had in the rematch and still lost in my opinion but now he's burned out. He knows that he can never fight like that again.

[QueensburyRules]

If it is, how can we say any fighter ever ducked another fighter?
I read comments where fans will say how this fighter ducked another fighter, with zero evidence, and here we have Alvarez admitting he don't want to fight Golovkin and fans say it's no duck.
Maybe not, but if that's the case the only time you could call a fighter avoiding another guy a duck, would be if that fighter comes right out and says,"I want to make this crystal clear, I've decided to duck Mr.X"

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They fought twice.

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If you're at the top, and you won't fight the other guys at the top, there's no valid excuse and that's a duck.

[ruedboy]

- -OK, you never got the email.

They fought twice.

Must have missed it.
I get what you're saying.
If a fighter faces another fighter twice, in the future there can be no ducks.
Interesting but untrue. :-)

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- -OK, you never got the email.

They fought twice.

If any of their fights were a definitive win, then you could say a third fight isn't needed.

But neither of them won definitively yet, and we need 12 more rounds to declare the superior fighter.

The fact that canelo doesn't want to declare who the real winner is, is a duck. He's scared to face golovkin. If he really was the better fighter, If he really know he would beat Golovkin, then why doesn't he prove it and do it?

This is a duck.

[Combat Talk Radio]

The comparison can't be applied to Canelo because Canelo is avoiding a guy who he lost to once and arguably lost to again in the rematch.

Manny is avoiding he guy who he lost to once. How's it any different?

("It was a robbery, it's not worth it").

That's what you're all saying, right? Okay then. So if Golovkin was robbed against Carnelo, there's no point in a rematch, right?

[thedarkdragon11]

And yet people praise him for that but say Ruiz is scared / ducking when he has the same issue with rematching Joshua in the UK.

I don't know about them, maybe they're just bitter that AJ was schooled... I don't... I think it's a smart move by Ruiz...

[boogbx]

He is fighting Derev. They're announcing the fight sometime this week.

Very excited about this, fight that needed to be made.