Bad timing. Too little time. Training camp was already halfway done. Yarde fight was already signed. Tickets sold. Massive step aside fee to Yarde.
“I have to say that the tickets were already on sale. Official agreements were already made. It was just three weeks before the fight. And the offer was indeed a big one, a substantial one. But you never do it like that, because I have to be here. This is my home and this is not what I do. Everything was already agreed. My primary task is to defend the title. If the fight will still be very interesting for Canelo [after Saturday night], OK.”
