According to numerous reports on Thursday evening, Jake Paul and Canelo Alvarez were very close to fighting May 3rd in Las Vegas.
However, by the 11th hour the battle was over. Alvarez decided he would not fight the feeling of YouTube as a professional boxer. Instead, he agreed to four battles with Turki Aralsif and Riyadh season to face Terence Crawford in September.
Alvarez vs. Crawford will be the major pay-per-view event. Alvarez said he’s not a YouTuber, he’s only fighting real fighters. However, according to Paul, he had a signature deal ready to go with Alvarez, who would have been streaming on Netflix, similar to his sights with Mike Tyson a few months ago. .
“The truth is, you can buy it,” Paul told Alvarez on a social media video. “You call me a YouTuber, but you’ve never had a big boxing match like I did.”
Paul explained that the fight is ready to be announced Tuesday and even featured a poster that will be used to promote it.
Well, that’s not happening. And we all probably would have better that. To Alvarez’s achievement, he is a real fighter. And he is undoubtedly the best boxer of this generation, a generation labelled “killed boxing.”
And Paul has already grilled Alvarez for nothing for the future of the sport, especially outside the ring. The promotion in this fight was undoubtedly a massive social media clickfest, similar to the Tyson vs Paul build-up. Paul had only just begun fighting within the last decade, and Alvarez had been doing this for his life, but Paul would have found every moment to remind him of that fact.
As an expert, Alvarez is 62-2-2. The latest loss came to Dmitry Bivol in 2022 Where Alvarez tried to gain weight. He’s 5-0. And other losses? It was Floyd Mayweather.
Meanwhile, Paul continues to say that his goal is to become a world champion. There is no denying that his battle with 34-year-old Alvarez was the toughest test ever. Viral knockouts of former NBA and UFC opponents such as Nate Robinson, Ben Asken and Tyron Woodley put Paul on the map, but the boxers he specializes in facing are decorated like Alvarez It’s not something that’s close to being there.
I’m not denying that this was the biggest fight since Paul squared him with Tyson, but it was a real joke. Tyson had no chance. If anything, Paul made it easy for him throughout the past few rounds.
The fight with Alvarez would have been very different as young, inexperienced Paul was concerned about safety.
It’s probably the best for everyone that this fight isn’t happening. Paul finds another path to entertain us and offers a massive event with what he decides to do next. That’s what he does his best. He could forever say that one of the boxing faces avoided him and at the last moment he escaped from the agreement. Another feather in his hat.
Alvarez will have the opportunity to handle “real boxing” against Crawford in September.
