Boxing knowledgeable Paulie Malignaggi is irritated by unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez’s determination to select and select his opponents, choosing simpler choices whereas freezing out the gifted guys.
We simply witnessed how two high quality 168-pound fighters, David Benavidez and David Morrell, gave up on the tremendous middleweight division after being ignored by Canelo. As an alternative of Canelo preventing the perfect, he’s eating on weaker guys with inflated resumes: Edgar Berlanga, Jaime Munguia, John Ryder, and Caleb Plant.
The sanctioning our bodies aren’t holding Canelo’s ft to the hearth to drive him to combat his necessary challengers, and he’s not bending to strain from the media to step it up. Malignaggi feels Canelo can ignore the strain and the criticism as a result of he’s so well-liked.
His giant fan base will proceed to assist him irrespective of who he fights, they usually don’t care that he’s not focused on preventing dangerous fighters. They’re pleased to pay $90 to observe Canelo defend towards Berlanga, a fighter with a document that has no substance to it.
Recognition Breeds Political Management
“In the event you don’t combat your high contenders, you’re going to be criticized. In the event you’re capable of let it go and never let it have an effect on you, you continue to are a star,” stated boxing knowledgeable Paulie Malignaggi to the Probox TV YouTube channel, speaking about Canelo Alvarez selecting and selecting who he’ll combat because the unified tremendous middleweight champion.
“Though this can be a sport, it’s additionally about who’s the most well-liked. We’ve seen that quite a bit in fight sports activities in recent times with the arrival of social media, the place the most well-liked man isn’t essentially the perfect. You might have extra political management if you happen to’re extra well-liked than among the guys who could also be higher than you.
“At this level, is Canelo the perfect? Most individuals would say no. He can dwell off that reputation for so long as he needs, and stay well-liked regardless. When he says he’s the perfect when he’s clearly not the perfect in his weight class, it permits him to dwell in that denial due to the recognition he has.
For normal fighters, they have to combat the perfect to earn cash, and acquire reputation. They will’t take gentle opposition with out it stunting their careers. We’re seeing that with Shakur Stevenson. He’s preventing gentle opposition and his reputation is failing to extend.
However with Canelo, he can combat anybody as a result of he already has a large fan base, they usually’ve proven repeatedly that they’re nice with him preventing lesser guys like Munguia, Ryder, Plant, and Jermell Charlo.
“In the event you’re going to dwell that means, you need to take that method. There’s nothing flawed from a sporting sense of it, however from a private sense, if that’s the way in which he has to method it, then he’s doing it proper,” stated Malignaggi about Canelo.
“He’s an outdated 33. He’s been across the block” stated Chris Algieri about Canelo.
