Canelo Alvarez, Joseph Parker, Julio Cesar Martinez are all heavy favorites this Saturday in televised boxing. Anthony Dirrell against Kyrone Davis looks to be the toughest fight on paper.
DAZN (1:30AM ET/10:30PM PT)
Joseph Parker -1250 vs. Junior Fa +800
(heavyweights)
DAZN (7PM ET/4PM PT)
Canelo Alvarez -5000 vs. Avni Yildirim +3000
(WBC/WBA super middleweight titles)
Julio Cesar Martinez -1500 vs. McWilliams Arroyo +1000
(WBC flyweight title)
FOX (8PM ET/5PM PT)
Anthony Dirrell -365 vs. Kyrone Davis +275
(WBC super middleweight eliminator)
Canelo is fighting nobodies, playing it safe, avoiding more challenging opposition. Disappointing. I’m not interested in any of his mismatches. Just pathetic.
Avni Yildirim was destroyed by eubanks jnr, makes you wonder.
Jorge Linares has been destroyed at least 5 times…. by lesser opposition…. and he appears to be next up for Haney…..
Poor Linares, it’s like he gets a couple of good-ish victories and then gets blasted by a Mexican.
Point being, this is boxing and we can hardly blame Canelo for the way Sanctioning bodies work.
Either enjoy the game or move on.
Dude (or dudette)…. Canelo just dethroned Callum Smith, who was supposed to be the BEST 168 pounder in the world….
He has beat both foreign and domestic fighters, everybody who is anybody.
The only ones left are those who didn’t/haven’t signed the contract.
And before you throw out Beterbiev, I demand he fight Bivol and unify 175…. that’s the better fight and idea.
Canelo had been training for months before he announced CS as his opponent 5 weeks before the fight? Didn’t give him enough time to get in shape.
Arturo, friend….. please view a post fight interview done by Callum Smith….. where he admits that even with “full and proper camp” the result probably wouldn’t have changed. He is man enough to admit that Canelo is better than him.
Hats off to him, much respect !
But from this point on, even I have been advised that Canelo plans to unify 168….. so…. being that I walk around at 175, I’ve started training…. just in case I get the call!!!!!!!
Canelo haters…. stop being chumps…… every single fighter he’s beat from the age of 15 til now, would steal your soul in the ring……. respect.
At this point, its getting old bashing Canelo for his choice of opponents. If he doesn’t want to fight a guy then that’s that. He’s not the first: Bowe wasnt running to fight Lennex. And Spence is not chasing down Crawford.
The problem is Canelo is recognized as the face of Boxing. And thats what makes him bad for Boxing. Not making the fights fans want to see, favoritism in (WBC)rankings, PEDs, etc. Canelo simply should not be considered p4p king. Its bad for the sport. Canelo fans are the biggest hypocrites, they love to bring up Mayweather to justify the actions of team Canelo. So hate Mayweather when their favorite fighter does the same? Another 10 years from now Canelo will be copying exhibitions with MMA and YouTube stars too. What they gonna say now?
Yes, they are heavy favorites, and for good reason
I’m no Canelo fan and I don’t like the idea of him fighting Yildirim which is a very predictable win but outside of that I give credit where credit is due.
I didn’t think he would ever fight GGG and he did. Although I had GGG winning both times I give Canelo credit. I remember reading right here by several that Callum Smith was the one who was going to kick Canelo’s ass and yet when Canelo did the same to Smith those same skeptics were no where to be found. Now we have boneheads like LexusNexus- totally silly feminine name by the way, crying that Canelo fights no one. It would take Canelo to fight Tyson Fury to satisfy these naysayers. No wait, if Canelo were to pull off a miracle you’d still get these foolish people complaining about something.
Sal Lopez: Canelo is for sure one of the best fighters in the ring in current times, but the predictable win scenario I guess is like watching a movie and somebody has spoilt it and given away the story and ending to the movie beforehand. You just don’t feel like watching the movie anymore.
So the Parker/Fa fight is 1:30 am in the morning? Anyone gonna stay up and see this?
Arturo: For sure, want to see where Parker is at. Great kid, the nicest of people when a person sees his interviews. A Parker fan, he has all the tools. but disappointed by whatever is missing making him fight like in a reserved mode. Maybe he will let his hands go in this fight and be the fighter he can be.
Canelo is a heavy favorite???…I am shocked.
Canelo’s last 6 fights: Golovkin (twice), Rocky Fielding, Daniel Jacobs, Kovalev, and Callum Smith. All in all, the competition level there is not bad at all. Kovalev was a bit faded, but was a belt holder at the time, and was coming off two pretty good wins, plus Canelo jumped 2 weight classes for that fight, and won by highlight-reel KO. Fielding was the weakest of the group, but even he was 27-1 and was a belt holder at the time as well. I’m indifferent towards Canelo, but to suggest he’s been avoiding good competition is a little unfair, unless you’re specifically talking about his fight with Yildirim….which I agree Yildirim is undeserving of a title shot. Thank the WBC for that.
Those odds explain why few want to watch boxing; complete non-competitive fights.
Dean: -5000 vs. +3000 is ridicules yes.
LexusNexus you really should stick to men’s figure skating and leave the sweet science to the real men!