If it quacks like a duck, walks like a ducks, and avoids other boxers to whom they might lose a bout, then it's a duck.
Well Sir, yes that is blatant ducking. If it ducks like a quack then it is wack. The time is ripe for this fight next as Canelio is not getting any younger and Benavidez seems to be in his prime now. The orange man seems to be pulling inactive fighters from divisions below or trying to go to upper division he's never fought, everything instead of making the fight in his division everyone wants. That's weird and not a good look.
Especially true after Benavidez last fight, but had we not seen that fight majority would think the opposite.
For it to really be a scenario where canelo is ducking Benavidez is when the time comes for benavidez team to activate his WBC mandatory challenger status . It will then force canelo to make a decision to defend or vacate titles.