By Dan Ambrose: Canelo Alvarez’s coach Eddy Reynoso listed 4 potential choices for the Mexican star’s subsequent struggle after he faces Caleb Plant this Saturday evening within the undisputed championship conflict at 168 in Las Vegas.
Reynoso desires Canelo (56-1-2, 38 Ok.O.s) to take a giant struggle subsequent in 2022, as he plans on preventing 4 instances within the yr.
The highest of the checklist of potential opponents for Canelo is former two-time WBC tremendous middleweight champion David Benavidez (24-0, 21 Ok.O.s). This fighter, many boxing followers consider, is the real #1 man at 168.
If the 31-year-old Canelo fights the 24-year-old Benavidez, he ought to do it as quickly as potential as a result of he’s bettering with every match.
Reynoso lists 4 choices for Canelo’s subsequent struggle
“Now we have Benavidez, we obtained [Jermall] Charlo. There are fighters with Matchroom that may be of curiosity,” stated Eddy Reynoso to Ring Magazine about potential opponents for Canelo’s subsequent struggle after Plant on Saturday.
“Now we have the doorways large open for us, and we need to do one of the best fights we will which are obtainable,” stated Reynoso. “A struggle with Charlo, Benavidez, Bivol, Beterbiev. There are a variety of good fights at 168, and there are fights there (at 175) too. It’s not an issue,” stated Reynoso.
Hearn desires Canelo to struggle Ryder
“Caleb [Plant] could have it in him, however I’d by no means again in opposition to Canelo Alvarez,” stated Eddie Hearn to iFL T.V. “Simply being round him, ‘You’re unbeatable.’ I simply can’t see anybody [beating Canelo]. It’s simply the mindset.
“But it surely’s an excellent struggle, and Caleb Plant is an efficient champion. He’s [Canelo] a imply mom f****r, and he’s ruthless, and that’s why I don’t see him getting beat,” stated Hearn about Canelo.
“I believe he’s [Canelo] in such a novel place proper now that after this struggle, he’ll have a look at his varied alternatives, however he desires to struggle world wide. He’d like to struggle within the U.Ok.; I do know that. You bought John Ryder is his [WBA] obligatory at 168.
“You bought Chris Eubank Jr is a extremely good struggle as effectively for the U.Ok. market,” stated Hearn about potential choices for Canelo to struggle within the U.Ok. “I simply consider earlier than his profession is over, he’ll struggle within the U.Ok., he’ll struggle in Mexico, he’ll struggle within the Center East, and I’d like to be a component, clearly.
“He had the chance to struggle Bivol in December in Russia, however we wished to see if there was a chance to try this struggle within the U.Ok. or in America early subsequent yr.
“John [Ryder] is coaching already, and it’s a giant necessity to ship him a shot as a result of I really feel that manner personally. Me and Tony are very shut. I need to be certain that John Ryder will get a extremely large struggle,” stated Hearn.
Provided that Canelo would possible be desirous to promote his subsequent struggle on pay-per-view, it’s tough to image him selecting to face John’ The Gorilla’ Ryder (30-5, 17 Ok.O.s) in his subsequent struggle after Plant quite than somebody extra broadly recognized to the American viewers.
Canelo, 31, hasn’t confronted anybody in a protracted, very long time that the U.S. market was desirous about seeing him struggle.
The final time Canelo fought a man that the American boxing followers had been demanding him to struggle was in 2018 when he took on Gennadiy Golovkin in a rematch.
Since that struggle, Canelo has fought these simple choices:
- Rocky Fielding
- Daniel Jacobs
- Sergey Kovalev
- Callum Smith
- Billy Joe Saunders
The followers didn’t ask Canelo any of these guys, and within the case of Kovalev and Jacobs, these had been two fading fighters previous their finest.
Canelo hasn’t taken a threat together with his profession since his questionable win over GGG in 2018, and the followers are getting bored with seeing him pad his report in opposition to flawed fighters.
There’s nothing flawed with Canelo preventing a paper champion at times, however while you see him devoting three strong years to that endeavor, it’s off-putting.
What boxing followers within the U.S. wish to see from Canelo is for him to face these high quality fighters in 2022:
1. David Benavidez
2. Artur Beterbiev
3. Jermall Charlo
4. Dmitry Bivol
5. Gennadiy Golovkin
