A boxer in the Saul category has the pan by the handle. You can move up or down to face someone of a higher level
This Saturday I got to stream the NBA game between Mavericks and Nets. The game deflated completely in the final quarter, as Dallas clearly won it against Brooklyn who did not have two of their top three players. Well, I thought, I’ll get to see much of Canelo Alvarez’s fight. Illusion of me …
I just prepared some dinner when I switched the TV to the fight to see the images for which the Turkish Avni Yildirim would no longer go out to fight in the fourth round. The guy was hit every time. As they say, he no longer felt the hard, but the thick. Canelo was partying, discreetly, and there was no choice but to change him definitively to the Blue Lion-Cross.
I consider myself an admirer of the Canelo. I am a believer that to get to the top you need a lot of work, sacrifice, a good dose of talent and a lot of mentality. Saul has all this, and what he does not want to see is a real fool. But you don’t need to be a boxing expert – I’m not, not even close – to realize that the rival they put on him this Saturday in Miami at the Canelo is not up to expectations, of the ‘stage, much less a world champion like the tapatío boxer.
I read many who excuse Canelo with the phrase “he’s not to blame, he was the mandatory challenger.” Not so. A boxer in the Saul category has the pan by the handle. You can move up or down to face someone of a higher level. A contract worth more than $ 300 million for television rights requires a more even shot. If Saul doesn’t want to hear Gennady Golovkin’s name, perfect … then find more competitive challengers to face him. A champion is the belt, but it’s also the way he ratifies his fight-to-fight title.
And it is that here it did not even obtain by the controversy like against Kovalev, Callum Smith or Daniel Jacobs. This Saturday’s was a bad joke, and Canelo knows it. Hopefully his corner, which is now also his own representation, will watch over his interests by raising the bar. Canelo deserves it, And the millions we follow as well.
It has to be that way. At least for dinner to know something.