By Miguel Maravilla
After dominating Jermell Charlo (35-2-1, 19 KOs), Mexican superstar and undisputed super middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Álvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) addressed the media at the post-fight press conference on his Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The fight matched undisputed super middleweight champion against undisputed super welterweight champion.
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We knew this before it happen Big Red. Your fight played out exactly as it should have. Fight Bivol next and avenge the beat down you suffered by a fellow that was your size. Ginger bells.
“Your size” ?? Charlo was taller than Canelo you I swear, you Canelo haters get dumber and dumber You always have and excuse when he wins(which he does a lot!!). Canelo is the most active champion in boxing and always fight real fighters. Not journeymen and uber drivers like the other so called champions and most of the time the opponents are bigger than Canelo.
Hey James, you are the dumb one. Charlo was taller? Huh? Height don’t mean nuthin. It’s like Saying S.Fundora could fight heavyweights. I meant that he fought at 154 lbs, and Canelo at 168. He went up, Canelo didn’t. If canelo is so great, fight the top guys in YOUR division. Period.
JT, that’s the bottom line, fight top guys in YOUR weight division. I do not doubt canelos record or who he has fought. I know he has got some questionable wins on his record, but he has two guys (morrell and benavidez) that have earned their shot at him. Especially benavidez. Having charlo come up to me was nothing more than a tune up. He must fight benavidez next, if not then he is scared.
Your size? Bivol is 6’0” and comes in at 195lbs on fight night… Canelo starts his pro career at 140lbs and has gone up all the way to 175lbs… he has challenged himself every time he has gone up in weight!! That’s greatness!!
Your size..?! Go get your eyes examined…
Charlo is a spineless coward smh
He made good money and avoided a ko. However, the only time the lion came.out was at the end when being interviewed was asked about Tzyu and Crawford, especially Crawford. Funny how quick his demeanor changed, at the end that was exactly the attitude he needed in the whole promotion and build-up for this canelo fight. Funny guy!
He did throw the fight and didn’t give the public a good fight he was in survival mode because he was afraid of being KO’d I would check if he even bet on himself to make few extra bucks
He knew he was outgunned so he fought a defensive fight! What’s wrong with that?
He fought him! Let’s see your fight highlight reel
It’s disgusting for an undisputed champion to show this little or no effort to win a bout
It’s called defense
real “lions” dont run. glad i didn’t buy it.
I bought it. Damn it. I keep telling myself the friends and family hanging out on fight night was priceless which it was. The Crawford Spence fight was better even though Spence got whipped.
So you’re one of the guys responsible for such fights being supported. Those who knew understood this was a terrible fight
It’s called defense. Are you guys boxing fans or not?
Obviously this was a great opportunity for both camps to make money with no risk.Thank God i didnt buy this.Charlo always knew he would just go back to 154 and Canelo knew he would win.Im not buying any Canelo fight unless its Benevides
And Benevides is who he should have fought. Both men are the only ones to beat Caleb Plant. Funny how Charlo said before the fight that he was going to bring some Texas heat to the fight.
Yes, it is strange because I think he meant soy and that’s exactly what he brought to the fight.
When he got in there and saw Canelo was much more powerful than him he fought defensively as he should have
Over hyped garbage fight that suckers were happy about. I knew it was crap from the beginning, never wanted to see it, and
Did NOT watch it because I knew it would be shit.
Hey rwb, I watched it and didn’t pay for it. It was crap fight. You missed nothing. For real!
Killa King
glad you were Not one of the suckers that paid for this predictable mis-match
Canelo is a top elite undisputed champion. and we deserve better than this
Most definitely, RWB. I honestly was more interested in the undercard. Hell, no, I won’t pay for that shite.
Jermell seemed to fight scared or mervouse, seemed to always be on defense anticipating a shot that will hurt and he did not want to feel that so from his side of the fight it was boring due to his lack of encouragement. Canelo did what he had to and could only look as good as possible given Jermell was always on the run
Charlo came in for a paycheck and when he felt the power he played it safe, give him credit for avoiding a knockout because he was on survival mode so it’s nothing surprising here.
At the end of the day Charlo is laughing all the way to the bank and Canelo did what he has done before pick and choose just like he did with other fights so this is nothing new.
I agree with the above comments. Canelo is afraid to fight Benevides. It’s obvious.
FIGHT BENAVIDEZ NEXT!!!! Or are you waiting and hoping that he loses so that you won’t have to fight him??!!
Benavidez should fight David Morrell next, with the winner fighting Canelo. Morrell has looked sensational so far, so I have it as a pick em fight between the Cuban and Equadorian.
Benavidez has already earned the right to fight Canelo!! What else does the poor guy have to do?? Keep fighting all of the top guys so that Canelo doesn’t have to?? What did Charlo do to earn it before Benavidez??!!
Charlo was in survival mode the entire match. He probably just wanted to cash out the biggest payday of its life and go back to its weightclass without getting hurt. In terms of strategy that makes sense, in terms of legacy not so much.
Yes he can go back to his 3 belts that he hasnt had to defend, physically, for 18 months, and now he is calling out Spence, too scared to put his titles on the line and fight a mandatory, what a joke these authorities are
What more can we say about Canelo. I thought Charlo would be highly competitive but Canelo took control from the get go and never look back. Canelo’s defense was superb.
I wonder how much the Canelo contingent is going to pay off Bivol next.
If Bivol was going to take a dive he would have done it in the first fight. You’re just making excuses for your guy who was a massive recipient of the DEI movement.
Wow, you have to be mentally ill to believe something like that. How do you function in life?
DMV, is ill. Very much so.
didnt watch glad i didnt pay saved 85dollars charlo fools the boxing public
Canelo easy cherrie pick
Canelo….trying to escape criticism now… understands boxing fans disappointment….Canelo …at the very least….Chavez and many other great fighters…Sanchez..Zarate .of whom and which…Canelo cannot even grace their wall of greatness …do not even place Canelo above Wilfredo Gomez…those great fighters at the very least fought guys that they knew were capable of beating the crap out of them and those aforementioned fighters understood that they could be carried out on their shield..
..Don’t usually call out fighters…cause it takes a lot to step in that ring…but it also takes a lot for the average Joe to work dedicated to their craft and drop down 80 dollars for PPV fights…Joes …the boxing fans.. step in their own arena as well daily….CANELO YOU ARE A FRAUD…GAVE YOU A PAST BUT YOU AVAIL YOURSELF OF THIS MANTLE OF MEXICAN GREATNESS BY CHERRY PICKING YOUR OPPONENTS..AND YOU MAYNOT DESERVE IT….WHILE YOU CAN FIGHT…NO DOUBT…YOU CANNOT CONTINUE TO ROB THE PUBLIC…if it is the money you want., understand that…this is America …”get that money”…But don’t pretend that you are this great Mexican fighter and you money is earned that way…..FIGHT BENEVEDIZ….THE MEXICAN MONSTER
….FULFILL OR DEFINE YOUR DESTINY….
Charlo never tried because he immediately realized he’d get KO’d. Same thing will happen to Crawford if he tries to take on Canelo.
You clearly don’t know anything about Crawford and what makes him as great as he is. He’d never phone in a performance like this.
Funny how people like you just take any opportunity to talk shit about fighter you don’t like.
I agree with you, Crawford would put up a fight, but I think it would have a similar outcome. Crawford would have took chances and engaged canelo, but canelo would ultimately win.
I love Crawford, you’re trying to put words into my comment that aren’t there. It’s not about like, I’m not a big Canelo fan frankly. I’m just telling it like it is. Crawford would get smashed by Canelo, he’s simply too big and powerful for him. Next time try to keep your sensitivity at bay before commenting yourself.
Crawford’s motivation is to become a undisputed champion in 3 weight divisions.
From the finalized contract, I strongly suspected Charlo only wanted to plan for the following goals:
1) Talk up a bold game to trigger off the boxing world and to further establish his big money chance.
2) Dealing with a real deal 168 pounder, Charlo DEFINITELY REFUSED to excite the pro Canelo fans (including ‘fightnews’ fans) by getting his face seriously bashed in for a TKO or KO defeat and possible hospitalization. During the fight, the Canelo fans were mostly quiet because a severely undersized Charlo was not seriously damaged.
3) After the 12th Round, Charlo obtained his money and moved on with his life full of smiles because he has his health; Canelo fans did not smile/see Charlo in serious pain (caused by a much larger Canelo).
No way Charlo could have defeated Canelo, so he pulled a grift on the boxing world. Charlo knew his performance would later get severely criticized, but he had no concern about that because it will wear off eventually – while he laughs at the bank ($$$$$).
I expect Charlo to fight at 160.
Canelo is a tough hombre and has a chin of granite, but I still can’t get past that physique at 168 lbs; chiseled like a Marvel Comic hero. Mexicans don’t normally have a physique like that.
Hard work and dedication with a little ped
I thought charlo would have done better by keeping canelo to the distance with the jab but, he fought smart, he made big bucks and kept his undisputed status in his weight division. So, it was a big gain/low risk by not fully engaging with canelo. That weight division is full of heavy hungry lions waiting for an opportunity so, that division would have made charlo look like a little kitten and not like a lion!
charlo tanked and took the money instead!!
Hey Harvey Dock you are allowed to issue warnings and deduct points if a guy just wants to keep holding. Now we know why this Charlo won’t leave 154
Charlo being from Texas, showed less guts than the men that defended the Alamo i heard!!
Charlo didn’t try to win and canelo didn’t push to knock him out. It was there almost all night.
Charlo fought a timid fight and never tried to win. His side to side movement was to get away and not to set up his attacks. Canelo was doing what he does nowadays. He throws single punches and cranks up most of them. As Bivol stated, he doesn’t believe Canelo has natural power. He just throws hard with every punch. When you allow him to set the pace and march forward with impunity, he can be a monster.
Bivol moved in and out quickly and set up his punches with his jab. Totally different fight. You can see Canelo loading up on many of his punches but Charlo never made him pay.
It was a disappointing performance by Charlo. I feel sorry for all the suckers who paid their hard earned money to watch the fight. I had a feeling this fight would be a dud but I watched it anyway. This coupled with the Ramos robbery by the judges are enough to turn a lot of fans off. Not me, because I have been a long time boxing fan and have seen just about everything happen through the years.
Charlo vs Crawford should be a good fight. This one was a mismatch. The fight I was actually looking forward to was the Ramos-Lubin fight but it turned out to be a tame affair with a really bad decision afterwards.
APDuenas .,not so quick to say Ramos won the fight…look at the last thirty secs of the fight…very telling….very interesting….did it look as if Ramos was even trying to win?
I totally understood this was a money fight for Charlo. It’s called prize fighting and Canelo is his biggest prize. From a competitive standpoint this fight should have never happened in the first place. Charlo needs to give Tszyu his title shot NEXT and Canelo needs to stop being a coward and fight Benavidez.
Charlo talked trash then showed the bitch that he is by running all night. In the old days he wouldn’t have got paid.
Canelo doesn’t want any part of neither Benevitez or Morrell so he should retire.
Suckers paid to see a sparring session. IE: “Never give a sucker an even break.”
Charlo talked trash then showed the bitch that he is by running all night. In the old days he wouldn’t have got paid.
Canelo doesn’t want any part of neither Benevitez or Morrell so he should retire.
Suckers paid to see a sparring session. IE: “Never give a sucker an even break.”
It was supposed to be a good fight if only Charlo threw more and tried something. This is Canelos proper weight instead of Bivols weight. Canelo should stay in his weight and fight Benavides and anybody else.
The Crawford – Canelo should happen immediately. Canelo is in shape and weight for the fight. Crawford should not need a lot of time in camp coming off his fight with Spence. Crawford completely different mind set then Charlo and will fight Canelo from the get go.
Even a reporter in the audience asked him why he didn’t try to fight more, engage more instead of kinda selling out,, hahahaha but Charlo got mad so the reporter had to twist his words so Charlo would calm down!
I agree with Canelo. Charlo didn’t try to win. It was as if his sole purpose all along, was to just survive and get a big payday. It was like watching Everett “Bigfoot” Martin fighting George Foreman back in 1989. Martin in that fight looked just like Jermell fighting Canelo: running, ducking, hiding, holding, anything to survive. Quite pathetic. He wouldn’t be able to beat Crawford either and this is OK with him as long as he makes a lot of money.
Cowardly Lion is the kind of lion the Charlos represent. Here is Jermell fighting like Everett Bigfoot Martin did against George Foreman in 1989, running, hiding, ducking holding. This contrasts with his behavior outside the ring where he’s an enraged, fast talking, loud mouth bully. His brother Jermall acts the same outside the ring, yet when confronted by a known sucker puncher in Caleb Plant, Jermall stood there, helpless and intimidated, pretending to be unaware, knowing that Plant was about to slap or hit him, AND HE LET HIM DO IT. Charlos are beginning to get the reputation as money-chasing frauds, who prefer to ride the hype, fight once every one or two years. I think Jermell hurt his reputation with this pathetic performance.
Jarmell was definitely trying to win this fight, his trainer told him he was losing and even in the last round he told him he needed a knockout. But Canelo was too much for him.
Don’t talk about size! Please no excuse and please give the respect to Canelo for being active and always coming prepare to a fight… her we go with Bivol….Bivol is 6’0” and comes in at 195lbs on fight night… Canelo started his pro career at 140lbs and has gone up all the way to 175lbs… he has challenged himself every time he has gone up in weight!! That’s greatness!!
I never thought Canelo could pull it thru and beat him.
We know Jermell is a great fighter at 154 not 14lbs bigger. He fought a defensive fight and did what he could. Amir khan should have done the same