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

It's not that simple, nor the fault of fans. There’s some blame to go around with the boxers and what they think their price is worth. Look at Tank. Demanding upwards of ten mill to fight, and yet has barely beaten anyone of note.

Ryan Garcia demands a lot and hasn’t done squat other then be popular on Social media.

Canelo asking for $150-200 mill is pointless and unrealistic. That’s a duck clear as day! Just like when Roy Jones said he’d need 100 mill to fight Lewis, no one took that serious.

And there is no more network TV. Once we lost HBO and Showtime, that was it. DAZN has proven to be a bust and unreliable. Fights on Netflix or Amazon will take time to show they aren’t going to be a flash in the pan.

A fighters purse MUST be based on what they generate themselves, as well as what the potential fight is estimated (realistically) to bring in.

And if you look at what Canelo’s guaranteed purses along with his share from the PPVS, his high seems to be around $50 mill. How the eff does someone like that insist on 3-4 times that amount?

Purses have gotten somewhat out of hand in regards to what the boxers monetary value is worth.

 

Wasn't he was a free agent? Why go back to PBC if he wanted 200 million dollars? Connect the dots.

 

Every guy you named has been part of a fight that sold over 1 million buys. Canelo has repeatedly outsold everyone else in the sport. Tank has done pretty great numbers despite not fighting who you want him to fight. All those guys are asking for what they're worth, not what people who dislike them think they are worth. We'll see how true it is with Garcia really soon too. The guys that need to undertstand their worth are the ones who haven't accomplished much or built much of a career. Everyone that gets in the ring with Canelo lately are practically getting their total career earnings in one fight, in many cases more than their career total. It's a super overlooked aspect of these conversations that needs to be considered. And I'm going tk keep saying it, if Fury can pull over 100 mil for Usyk, Canelo is in his rights to ask for a "raise" and it will be considered a duck until he gets it a few months from now, mark my words.

 

The groundwork for that number hadn't even been laid until Canelo just did it. Now it's a conversation, just watch where it goes. Benavidez promoter Lewkowicz just hours later is saying he believes Canelo will get that money. Crazy how asking works.

 

Until Canelo Alvaraz is not at a press conference for another opponent other than David Benavidez, I am not believing that he is seriously interested in the fight.

Canelo was a free agent and could have gone to the Saudis and asked for the 200 million. Instead, he signed to fight Jaime Munguia in Vegas, for considerably less than he would've against Benavidez... and used the press conference to list the reasons why he would NOT fight Benavidez.

Let's see what he does when he's free again. If he's serious about it, @sdot_thadon , surely he will reach out to the Saudis and ask for 200 mil again at the post-fight presser... right?

 

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hard Not to root For Benevidez in this fight.

 

It's easy not to root for Benavidez. This is a dude that avoided all the champions at 168 waiting for the peydey.

 

Huh?
I thought Canelo was the undisputed champion at 168lbs since 2020-2021.

Nobody gonna fight Benevidez if canelo is hovering knocking for
their belts.
Why would Plant, Saunders etc fight Benevidez over a Canelo “PeyDey”?

Although I love watching Nelo fight
It’s easier for me to identify with & hence
root for Benevidez
As he is a more relatable working class dude rather then a A-$ide Silk Pajama wearing Cash Cow. (Good for Nelo)

 

It seems like the Saudis told Canelo to kick rocks.

 

Clenelo has learned from his master floyd mayweather.

 

Good grief...enough the 'people who dislike" sh*t... That has nothing to do with anything here. LIke I said, every you are pointing to indicates canelo can ONLY fight someone who brings a f*ck ton of money as well. Boxing has NEVER worked like that. There's already plenty of examples in Canelo's own CV. ANd yet, you think asking for 150 - 200 mill is acceptable??? You're stanning big time over canelo's money

 

These guys are giving Benavidez sh*t for trying for a 'Payday", yet that's EXAXCTLY what Canelo is doing with the Saudis. F'N fanboys....

 

This is what boxing is and always has been. It has gotten worse over time and now a guy gets one loss and he is written off and his marketability is crushed. The best fighting the best in their absolute prime is a rarity. Canelo's resume compared to the majority of other boxers is exceptional and actually magnified by the fact he was boxing's cash cow. Fighters lose their hunger for risk it seems when they are getting paid big and thanks to dimwitted fans who seem to think that a single fighter can make a PPV attraction no matter who he fights we get what we see in boxing. Guys like Inoue putting out great stuff but unfortunately will never be a cash cow because of the divisions he fights in. Casuals don't know who he is or anyone he fights which sucks.

I agree Canelo has given us some good fights and some have been tainted by bad scorecards but he really only lost badly to Bivol and Mayweather. I also think it is pretty clear he is ducking Benevidez but I also think Benevidez isn't about being "great" than Canelo is. He could have gone after big names in higher divisions but he didn't.