By Sean Jones: Canelo Alvarez re-tweeted a publish in the present day from any person that reminded followers that Badou Jack was prepared to battle the Mexican star at 168 solely two years in the past in 2021.
The publish that Canelo re-Tweeted was one to indicate that he wasn’t the ‘unhealthy man’ for insisting the 39-year-old Badou Jack drain all the way down to 180 lbs to defend his WBC cruiserweight title, with an added rehydration clause.
Now, Badou is rejecting Canelo’s request for a 180-lb catchweight + rehydration clause for a battle for his not too long ago received WBC cruiserweight title. In order that , the load restrict for the cruiserweight division is 200 lbs.
For all intents and functions, If Badou agreed to Canelo’s requests, he can be promoting his WBC cruiserweight title to him to get a giant payday for preventing the Mexican star at a 180-lb strength-draining catchweight + rehydration clause.
When Badou supplied to battle Canelo at 168, the Sweden native was campaigning at 175, so he would want solely seven kilos to come back all the way down to battle him.
Nevertheless, within the final two years, Badou has bulked as much as 200+ lbs, and his walking-around weight is reportedly 210 lbs.
“In July 2021, Jack mentioned he’d battle 168 Canelo at 175.
In June 2023, Jack is 200 and tells backyard gnome Canelo — who continues to be holding his 168 belts — to battle him at cruiser.
Canelo agrees to battle at 180 (nonetheless cruiser), however Jack says no method, and now Canelo is the unhealthy man? 😂” @HardTimesBoxing.
It goes with out that that it could be an enormous shift in weight for Badou to dehydrate all the way down to 180 lbs & then take care of the rehydration clause for a title protection of his WBC cruiserweight belt towards Canelo.
For all that to be attainable, Badou would want to weight loss program by not consuming to lose huge quantities of muscle, run every day to assist trim down after which dehydrate like mad to make the 180-lb catchweight restrict + rehydration clause mixture.
To say that Badou can be the equal of a zombie on battle night time towards Canelo is a given. Badou can be so weakened that he would probably provide little resistance, making it a cakewalk for Canelo to seize his fifth division world title.
It’s unhealthy sufficient that Canelo is focusing on the 39-year-old Badou Jack to try to seize his fifth division world title at cruiserweight as a result of he’s arguably the weakest hyperlink among the many champions within the 200-lb division. The arguably extra proficient champions at cruiserweight are these guys:
Jai Opetaia – IBF
Arsen Goulamirian – WBA
Chris Billiam-Smith – WBO
Badou not too long ago defeated WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu by a twelfth spherical knockout final February to seize his belt.
