Another Canelo fight that makes too much sense: Chavez Jr. 2 at 175

[nino brown21]

canelo Smith ppv wirh audience or. canelo bjs ppv live audience. only way I see it making financial sense. if DAZN wants to start making money back then they're gonna have to switch up their model....

[Outwest Exp 355]

The first fight ******. Why would anyone want to subscribe to see that fight again? It’s not a sellable fight.

[r2rsoto]

Make Canelo-BJS o Canelo-CallumSmith, and Bivol vs Chavez Jr on the Undercard, that way canelo gets more viewer from Europe and Bivol gets exposition to casual mexican crowd, then Make Canelo-GGG which even if GGG barely wins or draws again, it's a Canelo sure win (GGG isn't getting any faster and both guys counter each other strenghts beatuitully), Bivol vs (any past prime american, by american I mean the continent). Then you get a lot of interest on a win or lose Bivol fight that absolutely everybody will be interested.

[boliodogs]

There isn't a shortage of guys wanting to fight Canelo. Canelo just doesn't want to fight any of them. It's why we're hearing names like Dirrell and Lemieux

This is true. Bivol has been saying for about 18 months that he would love to drop to 168 and fight Canelo at Canelo's preferred weight but you never hear anyone from team Canelo say Bivol's name. They don't want that fight. Bivol is actually younger than Canelo for a change. He is an undefeated champion who can really box well and punch hard. I think he would beat Canelo at 168 even in Vegas. But Canelo will probably never fight Bivol. Bivol would be happy to fight Canelo for 5 million and he might take less than that.

[champion4ever]

No! He already defeated the loser.

[boliodogs]

Canelo vs Chavez is horrible and makes no sense at all. How many times does Chavez have to quit in the middle of a fight before everyone gets the message that he is nothing like his dad skillwise or heartwise. Canelo already made a punching bag of him and Canelo is better now. This fight would be beatdown and KO loss for Chavez but actually Chavez would probably quit after a round or two and go cash his big check.

[whollisboxing]

I know some of you guys think I’m nuts but here’s the dilemma for DAZN:

Canelo doesn’t have an attractive opponent until GGG 3 and that fight isn’t happening next.

We all might be excited about Alavrez-Callum Smith but DAZN is thinking about subs.

That fight doesn’t really matter.

And it isn’t exciting for the holiday.

It’ll also be hard to find an opponent for Canelo that does matter.

There’s no audience so the opponent has to take less. No one is taking less to fight Canelo. No one wants to be the quarantine opponent.

And even if they find someone that will take less (a la Callum Smith), DAZN is likely time yawn at said opponent.

Enter Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

You might think its dumb, I think it’s dumb, but is it really?

Chavez has no options his career is toast and a $2 million payday is a no brainer for him.

He’s already in house as well.

And while he’s an embarrassment, he’s also a pop culture icon. He should have never gotten the Jacobs or Canelo fights. Yet people keep coming back.

It’ll sell.

DAZN will have a rematch of a fight that sold 1 million PPVs.

That number is higher than some of the most successful PPVs rival promoters have done recently. It’s a number that rivals the Canelo-GGG PPV numbers DAZN is obsessing over.

Let’s pretend Canelo-Chavez 2 was on PPV and 70% of the people who bought it the first time say no thanks (not happening.)

That still rivals all the pbc and espn numbers.

And I think DAZN would have welcomed any of those PPV cards on their app.

So I think this makes the most sense. Chavez the most sensible coronavirus opponent that’ll sell.

It can also be done at 175 and Chavez can play the weight drained angle.

I love it, I would watch. But I thought the david light idea was brilliant too and it apparently wasn’t lol.

Please tell me Im dumb hahah.

I understand where you're coming from, and honestly this might be a somewhat attractive option IF Chavez Jr. hadn't managed to squander ALL of his privilege as the son of a legend.

He has missed weight, failed drug tests, and quit multiple times, even when he had massive weight advantages. For example, Danny Jacobs said he felt like he was in with a cruiserweight and Chavez Jr. STILL quit as soon as the going got tough.

At this point the man just can't be trusted to come through, not even to win necessarily but to at least come through with a solid, professional performance

[whollisboxing]

Canelo vs Chavez is horrible and makes no sense at all. How many times does Chavez have to quit in the middle of a fight before everyone gets the message that he is nothing like his dad skillwise or heartwise. Canelo already made a punching bag of him and Canelo is better now. This fight would be beatdown and KO loss for Chavez but actually Chavez would probably quit after a round or two and go cash his big check.

Exactly. He can't be trusted to put forth a solid effort, especially if things aren't going his way.