David Benavidez wasn't surprised when he saw one of the biggest boxing upsets in recent years. He’s got PBC behind him, he’s settled at 168 (unless he doesn’t make weight again), and he’s the clear biggest stylistic and physical threat to Canelo among the fighters already at super middleweight. Stating the obvious, a fight against Usyk will be the biggest challenge of Canelo’s illustrious career. Yet nine years on from Canelo’s only previous defeat, which came against Floyd Mayweather at light middleweight, his second loss was also a chance to reflect on how far he has come. He's going up to cruiserweight, I'm not knocking him, but that same guy was at the Mayweather Boxing Gym, the guys were really getting the best of him in the Mayweather Boxing Gym. Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KO) is going to turn 40 next April, and he has a legit fight slated for Dec. 29 in Japan, when he looks to unify his IBF middleweight title with the WBA belt held by Ryota Murata.
And with his next training camp focusing on Bivol, it seems Gennady Golovkin’s hopes of completing their trilogy are also over; “GGG” is already 40 and was unconvincing against Ryota Murata, so a third and final instalment would appear to be off the cards. Canelo has been lukewarm at best on the idea of fighting GGG for a third time - which is why it hasn’t happened despite DAZN pushing very hard for the trilogy bout when both were signed there - but if the money talks a lot louder than it does anywhere else, if Golovkin agrees to go to a full 168, then yeah, it can happen. Herring tells me he’s hearing Atlanta is in the driver’s seat to stage the bout because Madison Square Garden backed out following Stevenson’s uninspired performance while defeating big underdog Jeremia Nakathila last month in Las Vegas. Benavidez, 24, fights late replacement opponent Kyrone Davis in a Nov. 13 Showtime main event, which isn’t exactly a marquee matchup, and neither was the originally scheduled bout against Jose Uzcategui.
The titleholder has headlined on Fox in three consecutive fights and isn't shy when it comes to boasting about his talent and dedication to the sport. Either way, both fights are not definitive wins. Man, these are close. Bivol allowed Alvarez to stand at close range in front of him but never gave him a clean enough strike zone to land upon. Fire TV is a range of streaming devices by Amazon that open up amazing entertainment possibilities. Canelo earned an estimated $35 million for beating Billy Joe Saunders in his last fight. In 2020, Caleb Plant’s net worth was estimated at $1 million. Both bouts produced over $1 million pay-per-view buys and over $20 million in gate receipts. Nevada desert and the first time he'll share the marquee on a significant pay-per-view card. Ruiz shocked the world by becoming the first man to knockout 'AJ' earlier that year, winning the Brit's belts on short notice in a thrilling fight at Madison Square Garden. Six months after becoming the first undisputed super middleweight champion of the four-belt era, Alvarez moved back up to 175 pounds for the first time since claiming the WBC title via knockout from Sergey Kovalev in 2019. But during the same week he teased a possible future move to heavyweight, Alvarez was unable to break through the technical strength of Bivol, a former Russian amateur star whose strength is muting the offense of his opponents.
However, with the unified super middleweight champion merely days away from attempting to become the division’s first undisputed titlist when he takes on Caleb Plant, James is struggling to make a prediction. Canelo Alvarez became the first fighter in history to be crowned undisputed super middleweight champion after beating Caleb Plant in Las Vegas at the start of the month and said he would be waiting for "some other crazy thing from Eddy" for his next fight. Now holding all four major super middleweight world titles -- the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO -- victory over American Plant in Las Vegas crowned another historic year for Canelo, having already defeated two previously undefeated titleholders in British pair Callum Smith and Billy Joe Saunders. And as I wrote recently, one possible in-house PBC opponent would be Uzbekistan’s Batyr Akhmedov, but from what I was told Monday, Davis is seeking a bigger name and wants to move rather rapidly to fight again, by the end of the year. Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Coach of the Year in an interview. Many boxing fans will want to attend the fight and tickets are already on sale. However, the Mexican superstar continues to teeter near the line of unthinkable as he enters this fight with significant disadvantages in both height and reach against Bivol.