By Sean Jones: Coach Abel Sanchez says 3 guys that may beat Canelo Alvarez are Artur Beterbiev, David Benavidez and Gennadiy Golovkin.
These fighters all possess the kryptonite wanted to defeat Canelo and convey him to his knees, ending his lengthy nine-year because the face of boxing.
If Canelo fights all three of these fighters within the subsequent two years, there’s a superb opportunity that he’ll lose to all of them.
Maybe it’s only a coincidence that Canelo nonetheless hasn’t fought Benavidez (25-0, 22 KOs) and IBF/WBC gentle heavyweight champion Beterbiev (17-0, 17 KOs).
Canelo just lately dismissed Benavidez as an possibility, saying he has nothing to supply him. Nonetheless, Golovkin doesn’t have a belt to supply Canelo, but he’s nonetheless getting an opportunity to battle him in September.
The remark by Canelo made it clear why he turned down the large provide from PBC for him to battle Jermall Charlo and Benavidez in Could and September.
Sanchez believes that even now, with Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs) turning 40 on April eighth, he’ll defeat Canelo if he abandons the boxing fashion that he’s adopted and returns to the high-pressure fighter he was throughout most of his profession.
Sanchez lists 3 guys that beat Canelo
Abel feels that Beterbiev is just too massive and too sturdy for Canelo, and the Mexican star gained’t have the ability to stroll him down with out getting crushed within the course of by the highly effective physique punching from the Russian fighter.
“In my view, there are solely three guys that beat Canelo now,” mentioned Abel Sanchez to Fight Hub TV. “That’s Beterbiev. He’s only a larger, larger man, and he’s as sturdy as a bull. You’re going to must hit him with a bat to cease him.
“David Benavidez and Gennady Golovkin if he will get in form if he will get in form the best way he used to,” continued Sanchez in naming two extra fighters that he thinks will beat Canelo.
“No, I shouldn’t say ‘in form.’ If he [Golovkin] fights like he used to. Proper now, he’s attempting to be one thing that he’s not. He’s attempting to be a boxer, and he’s not a boxer,” Sanchez mentioned of GGG.
“He’s taking photographs and taking punishment that he shouldn’t take. He’s a stalker; he’s a man that can hold Canelo on his backfoot that can hold Canelo pondering as a result of he can crack.
“The Golovkin that stalks like Canelo does can be an excellent battle for the followers. However can he get to that time once more? I don’t know,” mentioned Sanchez.
Ever since Golovkin’s first battle with Canelo in 2017, he’s been boxing extra moderately than slugging like he used to do. It’s logical to imagine that Golovkin studied Floyd Mayweather Jr’s battle with Canelo, and has used that fashion in nearly all of his fights since.
That fashion doesn’t work for Golovkin, and it’s led to him struggling towards Canelo in each of their fights and having a tough time towards Sergiy Derevyanchenko, a fighter he ought to have run over like a tank.
Bivol CAN’T beat Canelo says Abel
“I’ve had one in all my guys, I’m not going to say who, down at Manny’s in Santa Fe Springs or wherever that’s in Whittier, and my man didn’t have a tough time with him,” mentioned Sanchez about his fighter coping with Bivol throughout sparring.
“He’s a really expert fighter, however he’s a really cautious fighter,” mentioned Sanchez about Bivol. “He doesn’t take the probabilities that it is advisable to take at that degree.
“As you’re arising perhaps, however at that degree, it is advisable to take some probabilities to make issues occur. He [Bivol] doesn’t appear to have that gear. Canelo was imagined to have a troublesome battle towards Saunders; Canelo was imagined to have a troublesome battle towards Plant.
“By the fifth or sixth rounds in each of these fights, he was like hitting the bag,” mentioned Sanchez about Canelo. “He might have closed his eyes and hit these guys. I believe Canelo is within the first time of his profession.
“Bivol will current some issues with Canelo to start with identical to Rey [Julio Cesar Martinez] did with Chocolatito [Roman Gonzalez].
“However as soon as Canelo zooms in, perhaps within the sixth, seventh, eighth rounds, I’m not going to say it’s a simple battle, but it surely’s one which will probably be simply gained by him.
“I don’t suppose so,” mentioned Sanchez when requested if Bivol has no likelihood of beating Canelo. “Yeah, I believe it’s a 70-30 battle if Canelo journeys earlier than he will get within the ring and hits his head.
“It’s not that Bivol is a foul fighter. It’s that Canelo, I’m not going to say he’s in his prime, however he’s within the time of his profession the place if he continues to coach the best way he’s coaching, there’s solely going to be just a few guys which can be going to get near him.
“The methods [of Bivol] are nice and the methods are nice, however once you begin getting hit, all that goes out the window.
“When Canelo stalks you the best way he does and lands photographs the place he lands them, it’s going to be troublesome to avoid him.
“Like I reference in his final two fights, by the center of the battle, he’s throwing photographs like he’s hitting the bag. He doesn’t actually haven’t any regard for who’s in entrance of him,” mentioned Sanchez.
Dmitry lacks the gear to win
Sanchez says Bivol doesn’t have the best skilled fashion for him to beat a fighter like Canelo proper now, as he’s preventing like an beginner. Bivol can be too cautious, not attacking in the best way that he must for him to have a shot at beating Canelo.
The way in which to beat Canelo is to assault him, push him again, and power him to defend on his again foot the best way Golovkin did towards him of their first battle in 2017.
Sadly, Bivol is just too timid to battle like that, and Canelo will take full benefit of his weak spot by strolling him down like he did the 4 paper champions he just lately beat at 168 to develop into the undisputed champion.
“That’s often what occurs when guys get on this stage of his profession the place nothing can go incorrect,” mentioned Sanchez about Canelo preventing at a excessive degree. “Nothing of their thoughts can go incorrect, and there’s nothing no person can do to beat them.
“I had it with Terry Norris when he fought Sugar Ray Leonard, Donald Curry, and a few of these guys. I had it with Golovkin when he fought a number of these early earlier than Canelo fights.
“Within the [Curtis] Stevens battle, the place he carried him for eight rounds till he wished to knock him out and punish him. It’s a stage in somebody’s profession the place there’s a lot perception in what they’re doing.
“Once more, it’s not that Bivol is a foul fighter. He’s a world champion, he’s an excellent fighter, however Canelo is on a special degree proper now.
“I don’t suppose so,” mentioned Sanchez when requested if Canelo stops Bivol. “I believe Bivol is difficult sufficient to face up to. He’s going to take punishment in the direction of the final third of the battle. He’s going to take punishment.
“No, it’s not going to be a boring battle. Bivol has acquired abilities. Bivol has acquired an excellent beginner profession, however the amateurs and the professionals are various things. Proper now, he’s not an beginner, however he’s not the professional that he must be for him to beat a Canelo.
“Not expertise however the metallic, the Chocolatito medal that it is advisable to have. The additional. That degree is totally different,” mentioned Sanchez.
There was a interval the place Bivol was extra aggressive than he’s now, however his battle towards Joe Smith Jr. in 2019 took away his aggressiveness, leaving a very cautious fighter, who fights like he’s strolling on eggshells.
In Bivol’s three fights for the reason that Smith battle, he’s regarded afraid of his personal shadow in his wins over Lenin Castillo, Craig Richards, and Umar Salamov.
