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Canelo Alvarez’s team is responding to rumors that they’ve been offered big money to fight David Benavidez.
On Thursday, Benavidez’s manager Sampson Lewkowicz claimed that PBC’s Al Haymon had offered Canelo $55 million for a potential boxing match against Benavidez.
‼️ David Benavidez’s promoter Sampson Lewkowicz has declared that Al Haymon’s PBC have now offered Canelo Alvarez a guaranteed purse of $55million to fight Benavidez next, who will be moving up to light-heavyweight to fight Oleksandr Gvozdyk instead if he turns it down.
— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) February 22, 2024
Alvarez’s manager and trainer, Eddy Reynoso, spoke with ESPNMX and denied the offer was ever made.
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“The reality is that none of the big promoters, not Al Haymon from Premiere Boxing Champions, not Eddie Hearn from Matchroom, not Bob Arum from Top Rank and not even Oscar De La Hoya from Golden Boy have given me an offer to fight Benavidez…..and certainly not Terence Crawford,”
Reynoso says that he isn’t sure whether or not Canelo will ever fight Benavidez.
“The fight with Benavidez may take time or may never happen, but it depends on many things. There were fights that never happened, that of Lennox Lewis with Riddick Bowe, that of Julio Cesar Chavez with Terry Norris, that of Erik Morales with Juan Manuel Marquez, and none of them stopped going into the Hall of Fame because of that. There were others that, although it took a while, ended up being done like that of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, among the fighters there is no fear, we just wait for the conditions to be met.”
Canelo Alvarez's trainer/manager Eddy Reynoso on David Benavidez: “I find it in very bad taste that they say that Canelo is afraid of him. I don't know how they dare to classify a fighter as fearful who did not hesitate to face Floyd Mayweather, who faced Miguel Cotto, who faced…
— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) February 23, 2024
Benavidez seems to have moved on from the Canelo fight and will now fight Oleksandr Gvozdyk at light heavyweight in hopes of getting a big fight down the line.
David Benavidez will move up to light heavyweight for a June fight against Oleksandr Gvozdyk, he announced. While Benavidez waits for Canelo, he’ll put himself in position for a shot at Beterbiev or Bivol and the undisputed light heavyweight title.https://t.co/nQVTwX2PG0
— Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) February 23, 2024