Canelo finally lists his price for fighting Benavidez: $150 or 200 million

Ludicrous sum of money to be asking for, for this fight. Canelo is a draw but Benavidez isn't and simply isn't known outside hardcore fans. His last fight was $85 for the PPV, so that's 2-2.5 mill PPV buys and that's never happening. The Saudi pockets are deep but even they would balk at that kind of money, not even Mayweather was guaranteed that much when he fought Pacquiao.

He's really painting himself into a corner by making statements like this. I believe that this is all just some story they are spinning to generate interest in the fight, to build the fight for when it happens. But if Canelo never fights Benavidez now, he's painted an image of himself ducking Benavidez and that's what he'll be remembered for when he does retire as the guy who aged out GGG and when a young lion came along ducked him. It would go down as one of the biggest ducks in boxing history.

 

Canello being a ducking coward with this one.

 

first canelo tries to do a lowball 5mm to get out of the fight which backfires on him when benevedez agrees to the offer so canelo now goes teh way of a 200mm highball to get out of the fight.

im sure canelos PR team has tried to tell him not to speak to the media about benevedez but hes so clueless and delusional that he is beyond hope.

seriously?...."no one can beat this version of canelo" because he was able to knockdown a 154 pounder?...

jermell would not even entertain the thought of getting in the ring with benevdez...

 

Yeah, I've talked about highly popular boxers on a message board for boxing. You freak out over POSTERS.... get a life.

 

This all you can do now? Talk about posters who talk about a popular boxer on a boxing board?? Get a life...

 

Benavidez's response to Canelo on his IG:

@canelo if I have nothing to offer then why are you demanding you get 150-200 million to fight someone who isn’t worth anything? Hopefully after you make that 150 million you have enough left over to buy a pair of nuts.

 

There is no boxer in all of history that commands an amount even close to that....................unbridled hubris

 

I beg to differ, Fury's purse is estimated to be near or in that same window if you've followed the talk about his fight with Usyk.

 

Funny that when Avni Yildirim is Canelo's WBC mandatory, he has no problem with facing his mandatory straight away

But when David Benavidez is his WBC mandatory, he freezes him out for years, and demands $200m otherwise he won't face him

The length of time Canelo has ducked Benavidez for, along with the ridiculous excuses (most notably "I don't fight Mexicans" but has no problem fighting Mexican Jaime Munguia) makes this one of the worst ducks of all-time.

 

Even funnier, Avni Yildirim had been mandatory longer than Benavidez before he got his fight.....

 

He would never be able to enjoy the money

 

Yall still not convinced hes ducking the Mexican Monster?

 

$100 million I believe is the narrative (which I'm still skeptical of), but that's a lot less than $150-200 million.

 

You obsessed over De La Hoya, Mayweather, and now Canelo. It's what it is.