Boxing skilled Paulie Malignaggi is irritated by unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez’s determination to choose and select his opponents, deciding on simpler choices whereas freezing out the proficient 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 a substitute of Canelo preventing the very best, 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 fireplace to pressure him to struggle his necessary challengers, and he’s not bending to stress from the media to step it up. Malignaggi feels Canelo can ignore the stress and the criticism as a result of he’s so fashionable.
His giant fan base will proceed to assist him irrespective of who he fights, and so they don’t care that he’s not concerned about preventing dangerous fighters. They’re pleased to pay $90 to observe Canelo defend towards Berlanga, a fighter with a file that has no substance to it.
Reputation Breeds Political Management
“In the event you don’t struggle your prime 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,” mentioned boxing skilled Paulie Malignaggi to the Probox TV YouTube channel, speaking about Canelo Alvarez choosing and selecting who he’ll struggle 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 loads in fight sports activities in recent times with the appearance of social media, the place the most well-liked man isn’t essentially the very best. You’ve extra political management when you’re extra fashionable than a few of the guys who could also be higher than you.
“At this level, is Canelo the very best? Most individuals would say no. He can stay off that reputation for so long as he needs, and stay fashionable regardless. When he says he’s the very best when he’s clearly not the very best in his weight class, it permits him to stay in that denial due to the recognition he has.
For normal fighters, they have to struggle the very best to make cash, and acquire reputation. They will’t take mushy opposition with out it stunting their careers. We’re seeing that with Shakur Stevenson. He’s preventing mushy opposition and his reputation is failing to extend.
However with Canelo, he can struggle anybody as a result of he already has a large fan base, and so they’ve proven repeatedly that they’re positive with him preventing lesser guys like Munguia, Ryder, Plant, and Jermell Charlo.
“In the event you’re going to stay that approach, it’s a must to take that method. There’s nothing improper from a sporting sense of it, however from a private sense, if that’s the best way he has to method it, then he’s doing it proper,” mentioned Malignaggi about Canelo.
“He’s an previous 33. He’s been across the block” mentioned Chris Algieri about Canelo.
