Escape the plastic panchos and splash-guard eye shields, it’s time for an additional Thursday equine-like cash shot of gooey, salty boxing fact. This week we now have questions/feedback relating to subsequent strikes for Canelo Alvarez, Tank Davis, and Terence Crawford, in addition to sincere assessments of Teofimo Lopez and PBC’s presence in boxing.
Canelo’s Selection
What’s good P Magazine? Hope all is nicely with you and your loved ones. Everybody desires to see Canelo struggle Benavidez (Benny) subsequent, someday this 12 months, or earlier than he retires. If this struggle would not occur it would not actually matter to me and fairly frankly it will not cease Canelo from stepping into the Corridor of Fame. I do perceive this about being a money cow, there may be ALWAYS going to be another person on the market to struggle. Do I believe Canelo/Benny is a superb struggle? Completely!!! However once more, I am not slamming Canelo if the struggle would not occur? Ideas?
— Robert Elmore
Hey Robert.
Zero doubt, Canelo is already a Corridor of Famer. That shouldn’t be in query by anybody, particularly given present Corridor of Fame requirements. However, I received’t lie, not preventing Benavidez WILL carry him some merited derision and, in my eyes at the very least, a little bit of a success within the space of legacy. I do know there’s at all times going to be another struggle, another opponent for the highest canine, which at all times offers critics the opening to name them a “duck.” However Benavidez as an opponent just isn’t the identical as Antonio Margarito, for instance, when Floyd Mayweather was accused of ducking him. Within the case of Margarito (and I simply picked this instance off the highest of my head), he was by no means THE man for Mayweather. He was A man and a high man, however he was by no means the consensus “should struggle” for Floyd and had by no means, at any level, earned that distinction. Within the case of Benavidez– he HAS earned his option to being the ONLY man worthy of a shot at Canelo’s unified 168 lb. title. There’s, actually, no one else extra deserving. Not even shut. The place Benavidez was as soon as a gifted younger fighter with a few titles who perhaps deserved a shot, he’s now confirmed himself, by way of blowouts in opposition to Plant and Andrade, to be THE man who completely deserves that chance. And for Canelo to not meet that problem, nicely, it should communicate very poorly of him. It actually opens up the query of why Canelo is round, holding all of the titles, if he’s not going to stay as much as his duties and obligations as unified champ, particularly as a star attraction supposedly targeted on giving followers the most important fights. For Canelo, the Benavidez struggle just isn’t solely the most important one on the market for him, but additionally the most effective. It’ll appear like a really cynical enterprise determination if the struggle is rarely made. I’ve religion that it occurs, although. We’ll see.
Tank/Teo/Canelo
Hello Paul. Hope you might be doing nicely.
Tank: What’s the deal on him not asserting something? He’s such an enormous fighter and I’m beginning to consider fighters are steering clear from him. Ideas?
Teofimo: That struggle sucked to look at [vs. Jamaine Ortiz]. Snorefest. Virtually suppose the carnival walkout was most likely the spotlight of that shit and ESPN was fast to chop out of his struggle ASAP (particularly when he instructed everybody to suck a d**ok no homo stay). Are you a fan of this man or is he all hype?
Canelo’s Subsequent Selection: Rumor mill is swirling on Canelo’s subsequent fighter. American fighter? Until Charlo is bluffing, fingers level to Crawford? What are your ideas on his subsequent fighter (s) in 2024.
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— Alexis from Oregon
Hey Alexis.
I’ll sort out these so as.
I don’t know why Tank doesn’t have something on the schedule but. Most definitely, as a result of it IS troublesome to get him an enormous struggle in the intervening time. Whereas there are high guys calling him out, the enterprise most likely isn’t proper for Tank and his staff, who consider (and perhaps rightfully so) that these different guys have to struggle beneath Tank’s banner and never anticipate 50-50 throughout the board. The fact is that Tank is the A-side– by a mile– in opposition to anybody from 135 to 140 and whereas I’ll bristle at that “A-side” speak typically, it’s only a enterprise actuality. It at all times has been with regards to reducing offers in boxing. All the time.
Teofimo is precisely who I at all times thought he was– a gifted younger fighter who is superb at what he does, however who just isn’t excellent at adapting mid-fight. I additionally see him as a little bit of a head case, to be sincere. However I wouldn’t name him a hype job. What he does, how he does it, is sweet sufficient to beat most everybody at 140. His folks simply have to preserve him away from sure sorts of fighters– movers, spoilers– or, higher but, have him discover ways to deal with these sorts of guys.
I don’t know with regards to Canelo’s subsequent opponent. Given his said preferences– no Mexicans, no Terence Crawford, huge fights only– there aren’t many choices on the market. Mainly, we solely have David Benavidez and Jermall Charlo– and Charlo’s erratic habits, mixed with the stink left over from his twin brother’s struggle with Canelo, makes him an unlikely Could 4 foe. So, I don’t know. I’m considering Benavidez is the one route left if Canelo’s concerned with a blockbuster. However I wouldn’t be stunned at a swerve from Alvarez, perhaps concentrating on one other UK opponent (Chris Eubank Jr.?) or perhaps middleweight interim champ Carlos Adames.
And thanks for the sort phrases. I attempt.
Terence vs. Teo? Has PBC benefited boxing?
Hello Magno,
Thanks on your articles. The boxing world is stuffed with BS and rumors and I recognize your willingness to deal in FACTS whereas additionally being clear on when one thing is theory or simply your opinion. That mentioned, I’ve received just a few questions for you.
Can Teofimo v. Crawford get made?
Because the Terence “Boo Boo” Crawford (lack of) saga continues, it seems that he won’t have a dance companion any time quickly. I do know that is going to set off the “Bud Buddies”, however Crawford is a enterprise legal responsibility. With the BLK Prime crap he pulled within the first Spence negotiations, him stalling on the Spence rematch, and along with his measurable worth being inconsistent along with his compensation calls for, the Fits don’t need something to do with this guy- and who can blame them? And may we dispatch with the Crawford-Canelo speak? He’s not getting anyplace close to Canelo for all the explanations I simply said. So why not struggle Teofimo? He is the most important title on the market who is asking Crawford out. It looks like a really winnable struggle. I believe Teo is loopy personally, however I counted him out in opposition to Loma and Taylor and was unsuitable so, why not? We all know that Bob Arum was clear that he didn’t wish to be within the “Terence Crawford Enterprise”, so can the struggle be made?
Has the PBC benefited Boxing?
I used to be skeptical at first, however I believe that the PBC has been the most important enchancment that we now have seen in boxing in many years. Nevertheless, it appears that there’s a community of Black, race-baiting YouTubers who’re dedicated to disparaging Al Haymon, the PBC, and PBC fighters. WTF? Al Haymon shook up a whole trade whose enterprise mannequin was just about, white guys exploiting minorities for achieve. I imply, children ought to be writing about Al Haymon for his or her Black Historical past Month studies, however you’ve got these fool YouTubers (claiming to be pro-Black) spouting nonsense, half-truths, and flat out lies. I do know the PBC has it is faults, however total, do you suppose that it has been useful to the game?
Thanks.
– Will
Hey Will.
Thanks for the sort phrases. Dealing in actuality is unquestionably an uphill battle in boxing.
I’ll admit that I’m a complete mark for Terence Crawford, the fighter. Outdoors the ring, although, the person is a frustratingly cussed piece of labor who’s steadily his personal worst enemy. The reality is that he’s the most important motive he’s not an even bigger star. From the shitty re-signing with Prime Rank to those newest travails in getting a struggle, Terence Crawford solely has Terence Crawford guilty. After beating Spence, there was a wave of help and a spotlight washing over him. However, apart from present up on some speak exhibits, he took no benefit of it. Relatively than getting again into the ring to proceed to construct his star momentum, he’s spent the final seven months telling us who he WON’T struggle and, primarily, doing unto others what he feels they did unto him with regards to alternatives. So, with nothing on the horizon and the dream of a Canelo struggle slipping away, why not struggle Teofimo? It most likely received’t occur, although. Making that struggle would imply working with Bob Arum once more and, given Crawford’s obvious mindset, that’s not prone to occur. On the opposite facet of the fence, I additionally suppose Arum can be very reluctant in giving Terence an opportunity to beat one in all his high guys.
Loads of these YouTube/social media guys who hate so aggressively on Haymon and PBC had been individuals who, at one level early on, tried to get a PBC gig or hoped they might get some type of piggyback experience from the boxing firm. They’re personally butt-hurt from the rejection (or perceived rejection) and at the moment are all about burning down the home that wouldn’t give them room and board. It’s defeatist habits, however they’ve discovered a little bit area of interest in interesting to the haters, cynics, and boxing tradition warriors out to carry Haymon/PBC down. Their time is numbered, although. And so they higher hope and pray that PBC DOESN’T exit of enterprise as a result of, with out the fixed harping on all issues Haymon, they don’t have anything to say, zero content material to herald visitors.
So far as whether or not PBC has benefited boxing? I believe boxing is boxing and any adjustments which have occurred within the enterprise, total, had been set to occur whether or not PBC was round or not. I’ve gone on report, nonetheless, as saying that I do suppose the PBC enterprise mannequin is the fitting option to go along with the game. It has put extra money instantly into the fighters’ palms, has given fighters extra energy over their very own careers, and has chipped away on the foundations of the outdated guard enterprise mannequin/energy dynamic, which had sunk boxing into a large number of corruption that served to push away the mainstream sports activities world. Main mainstream enterprise entities– like Amazon Prime, for example– trying to discover boxing content material is a testomony to a hit story, even when some folks attempt to paint the PBC story as an abject failure.
There’ve been some setbacks and mis-turns of their run, however I believe Al Haymon and PBC, on the very least, have paved the best way for boxing to re-enter the dialog among the many much-needed company energy brokers. And that’s a primary, large step in getting boxing to be seen as soon as once more as a “actual” sport.
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