‘Canelo Doesn’t Sell’ Claims He’s Ducking Benavidez

Set to make his return to the ring subsequent month in a brilliant middleweight title struggle towards the unbeaten, Edgar Berlanga, defending champion, Canelo Alvarez is unlikely to set the world alight with pay-per-view numbers – based on UFC star, Conor McGregor.

Set to make his return to motion subsequent month in Las Vegas, Alvarez places his undisputed WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight titles on the road towards the unbeaten New York challenger, Berlanga within the pair’s heated grudge match.

Final that includes in April, Guadalajara native, Alvarez turned in a unanimous determination win over compatriot, Jaime Munguia over the course of 12 rounds in Nevada – extending his successful spree on the weight class to 4 fights following an unsuccessful transfer to mild heavyweight, the place he misplaced to Dmitry Bivol in a title cost.

As for McGregor, the previous undisputed UFC light-weight and featherweight champion, has been closely linked with an end-of-year return at UFC 310 in December, within the type of a welterweight struggle with rescheduled foe, Michael Chandler.

McGregor was scheduled to headline UFC 303 on the finish of June throughout Worldwide Combat Week, nevertheless, withdrew from the matchup with former three-time Bellator MMA champion, Chandler after fracturing a toe on his left foot.

Conor McGregor hits out at Canelo Alvarez

Hitting out at Alvarez because the UFC put together to host a Noche card on the identical date on the Las Vegas Sphere, McGregor has regarded to quell potential considerations of a pay-per-view conflict on the identical night time – claiming Alvarez “doesn’t promote”.

“Canelo is a cornflake,” Conor McGregor posted in a now-deleted message on his official X account. “He has about 300k buys in him. He doesn’t generate nothing close to what he seeks to be paid. UFC NOCHE goes to run them from the strip. Shiek Turki was proper shifting on. CANELO DOESN’T SELL.”