Canelo Alvarez has refused to fight David Benavidez, but now he has a lot of incentive to do so.
After knocking out Demetrius ‘Boo Boo’ Andrade, Benavidez straight up called out Alvarez to a fight.
“I just think I just solidified myself as the dominant performer, I think it’s a reminder to let everyone who the real champion is at 168.
They want to see me vs Canelo and this is what we want too.”“Let’s give people want they want to see, they want to see Benavidez vs Canelo.”
"Give me the fight we all want to see."@Benavidez300 WANTS the king next
@Canelo | #BenavidezAndrade pic.twitter.com/631kn5njzx
— SHOWTIME Boxing (@ShowtimeBoxing)
In December, Canelo, who has refused to fight Benavidez for years, fired back by saying that he’ll fight whoever he wants because he’s the “king.”
“Look, a lot of things can be said, but, at the end of the day, I’m the king and I can do what I want,” Alvarez said in a video transcribed by Fight Hub.
“We’ll see. Like I’ve said, always, I’m here to make the good fights. If that’s a good fight for September, or he has to wait a little bit, we’ll see. At the end of the day, sometimes the fights are bigger when you have to wait a little bit.”
Alvarez’s promoter, Al Haymon of PBC, is reportedly offering him $55 million guaranteed to fight Benavidez in May.
David Benavidez’s promoter Sampson Lewkowicz has declared that Al Haymon’s PBC have now offered Canelo Alvarez a guaranteed purse of $55million to fight Benavidez next, who will be moving up to light-heavyweight to fight Oleksandr Gvozdyk instead if he turns it down.
— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn)
Canelo may be forced to eventually fight Benavidez or get stripped of his 168-pound belt by the WBC in the future.
David Benavidez will be officially set as Canelo Alvarez’s WBC mandatory challenger in March, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has reaffirmed. Sulaiman has not clarified when fight will be ordered, but indicated Canelo will be free to face another opponent in May. [@ProBoxingFans]
— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn)
 
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