Still waiting for Canelo to announce his May 2 opponent. “Sources” say it’s Billy Joe Saunders. Canelo says don’t get carried away by “sources.” So will it be Saunders? Or will Canelo throw us a curveball? Hint: Word is BJS is headed to Los Angeles this week.
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Unbeaten super lightweight prospect Omar “Pollo” Aguilar (16-0, 15 KOs) returns Saturday night at the Auditorio Municipal in Tijuana. Aguilar will take on Richard Solano (22-2-2, 13 KOs) in a bout for the WBC Youth silver title.
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“Hollywood Fight Night” returns to the legendary Avalon in Hollywood, California on Sunday, March 29. In the main event, unbeaten welterweight Brian Ceballo (11-0, 6 KOs) meets Brian “Sweet” Jones, (15-11, 9 KOs). Jones has lost eight of his last eleven, but did knock out previously unbeaten Julian Sosa last August in Brooklyn.
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I would think a promoter would want to immediately divulge the name of his fighter’s next opponent so promoting and advertising can be effectively done. Boxing is business and business is about one thing; money. Ticket sales matter when it comes to making money. No need to be secretive and playing games with the audience. LOL
Cinnamon has gotten too big headed. He’s simply trying to make it anti climatic who his opponent is going to be, yea okay who will it be-drum roll please, give me a break, like get over yourself already cinnamon. Kind of reminds me of my woman making me wait which neglige or lingerie she’s going to wear! This waiting game is the red one way of self flattery-ridiculous.
ANTI climatic? Do you mean climactic?
Ceballo has real talent. Time for a little step up after this one I think.
Canelo’s popularity is giving a relieve to stretch the negotiations. The fight can be announced two weeks before it happens and still a guaranteed success.
I think the other side is playing games with the urgency of findiding a credible but not too dangerous opponent. Money undoubtedly is the issue.
If the fight has been offered to Bivol or Benavidez, borh IMO by far more dangerous than Saunders and Smith, they would have taken the fight in a heartbeat for whatever money offered.
No promoter on earth is willing to throw his cash cow under the bus, knowing it before hands. Justifiably from the standpoint of business, but hard for us to adapt to this strategies.
Brian Ceballo has the very shining colors of a hype job. Facing a fighter with such disastrous record as Brian Jones has, is nothing new on his record, Luis Eduardo Florez and Daniel Calzada have a combined record of 40-32. Well, at 26 Ceballo needs more credible opponents, in a hurry
Canelo team trying to avoid the extra weeks of backlash for cherry picking BJS. Billy said himself he didnt deserve the Canelo fight because he looked like crap. Hopefully a good under-card, I already pay for Dazn in support of the sport.
NJ boxing? How is BJS a cherry pick? Jus a year ago everyone was saying Canelo cldnt handle a real champ like BJS and others. I believe Saunders last fight was downplayed to lure canelo in. I think it worked. Saunders is the champ in a talented weight class, u dont get to be the champ by being a bum, well in this weight class that is.. i say, if it is Saunders, its gonna be a damn good fight. Well heres to hoping at least
Exactly. When your on top your going to get criticism either way. Canelo gave an offer to Callum as well. It’s not his fault those guys are pricing themselves in comparison to other fighters who Canelo has fought. Callum blew it. And your right! I heard from countless Canelo haters BJS would embarrass him and he’ll never fight him. He looks bad in one fight and it’s all of the sudden he sucks, cherry picked. Callum looked bad, cherry picked. Even if he fought Benevidez and won people would say he picked him when he was too young. Haters gonna hate. He’s going to roll through all these guys and they’ll hate on it just like they did with Money May.
Bullshit he was fat, slow and made it look like he didn’t know what to do in the ring.. BJS isn’t a super Middleweight ! Canelo like Mayweather did before him is allway’s going after the weakest champ in the division..
Or the old one who are no more in their prime.. Why not Beterbiev, Bivol, Benavidez, Gvodzyk and co ?!! Himself, his promoter i loved as a fighter and his team are scared..
Saul has become the biggest Bratt in boxing.
Agreed Whetto.
It seems strange to delay naming an opponent but maybe the deal is not 100% done.
So long as BJS (if it’s him) knows and Callum Smith knows it’s not him then that’s cool with me.
As for the fight , I think it could be a hard fight for Canelo to look good in and while I’d prefer to see Smith in there – due to him being so loyal to Matchroom and not getting a major break – he’s fighting an unbeaten guy who also has ambition.
Such a big secret lolol
Canelita has become a primadonna. He don’t care about promoting a fight well in advance because DAZN gave him that massive contract.
Canelos team just making sure BJS is going follow the script like Jacobs and Kovalev did to make Canelo look good.