Understanding the current situation of WBC Franchise champion, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, The WBC in good faith extends 15 days and for a final time the purse offer ceremony for the Alvarez vs Yildirim fight, for the vacant WBC super middleweight title.
The WBC will inquire on the definite status in this period and in order to make a final determination and ruling on the division.
The WBC will do anything dictated by Team Canelo. The WBC Franchise champion belt is simply a “duck my dangerous mandatory” belt. To top it off, it’s only offered to the few privileged fighters. Not the best or most dominant fighters in a division.
Not enough to have eighteen divisions-have to further divide them. Nobody but the hard core fans know who champions are any more.
What value does a “franchise” title have?
I want to see Canelo fight this guy from Vegas named Lionell Thompson. I saw him fight in Atlanta vs Jose Uzcategui. He won easily by unanimous decision. Lionell would give canelo some problems..
To even get $20 million, it would require that Canelo fight on pay-per-view, and he would need to face guys that would sell.
That probably means that more comfortable options like Avni Yildirim, Billy Joe Saunders, and Callum Smith would be out. Those wouldn’t be big enough names for Canelo to fight on pay-per-view and bring in significant numbers. Canelo wouldn’t be able to make $20 million fighting one of the guys mentioned above.
Even in a good economy in the U.S, Canelo fighting the likes of Yildirim, Saunders, and Smith would be poison in terms of PPV buys. The fans aren’t dumb. They know a mismatch when they see one, and they’ve just seen Canelo take three sure-thing fights against Jacobs, Kovalev, and Fielding.
How do you think Canelo got as famous and rich as he is fighting mostly washed up or weak handpicked opponents?
That’s right….. DUMB fans!
Did u really just call Jacobs a sure thing fight? The same guy that put on a show with GGG???U know nothing about boxing my dude. Jacobs is STILL world class. That is why Charlo backed out of that possibility of a fight quite a while back. Fielding, i fell ya on that one. It was a publicity stunt
Should fight Roy Jones – Tyson is full of talk. Would be good to see Canelo v Mundine or Danny Green Machine Green in a comeback fight. They can have an audience in Austrailasia so why not tackle the best they have to offer?
I don’t know what a franchise belt is but it sounds cheap and nasty – so I think a tag team match of Mundine/green v Saul/nacho libre…….
makes for a cheap nasty fight
LOL, at this point, Canelo can fight Mike Tyson, Tyson Fury and Wilder TOGETHER and would win easily!
No way the Sullemein, Oscar and the judges would let him loose ANY fight p e r i o d! Too much money at stake.
At this point, I have zero interest in watching canelo fight not the best competition.