Although he’d reportedly secured a September date with Terence Crawford, Canelo Alvarez has but to disclose a dance associate for his conventional Cinco de Mayo weekend bout. IBF champion William Scull and undefeated contender Christian Mbilli emerged as doubtless candidates, however Julius Julianis experiences that Alvarez has as a substitute struck a cope with Jake Paul.
Paul (11-1, 7 KO) is, in fact, coming off an insanely profitable sideshow towards the traditional Mike Tyson in November, which adopted a radical drubbing of MMA veteran turned bare-knuckle standout Mike Perry in July. He stands no probability towards Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KO), who stays among the many greatest pound-for-pound fighters within the recreation.
I don’t acquired it in me to be righteously offended. Sure, it’s a moronic, uncompetitive money seize that no self-respecting fee would sanction. Sure, because of this unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez will as soon as once more go a whole 12 months with out going through an excellent middleweight contender. I’ve stated my piece; my recommendation is to simply take the wins (extreme cranial trauma to a horrible human being) the place you will get ‘em.