Let’s be actual right here. Everybody complaining about Canelo Alvarez preventing John Ryder on Could 6 was going to complain about whoever Alvarez determined to face– as they’ve accomplished for the reason that Mexican famous person bought sufficiently big to piss these fickle followers off.
These individuals have been warming up behind their keyboards, honing their selective outrage, simply ready to pounce on the official Alvarez-Ryder announcement. And now, for them, it’s SHOWTIME!
Predictably, social media has been overrun with whining and griping and laments about Alvarez ducking or dodging or cherry choosing or no matter serial whiners, gripers, and lamenters usually bitch about.
For the Canelo critics, nothing is ever ok.
Battle veteran former champs– Canelo sucks as a result of he’s preventing previous, light fighters.
Battle elegant boxers like Lara and Trout– Canelo sucks as a result of he didn’t look dominant towards these guys who make everybody look not-so-dominant.
Battle Cotto– Canelo sucks as a result of Cotto is simply too previous.
Battle Mayweather– Canelo sucks as a result of he seemed like he was in over his head.
Battle Golovkin (Thrice– as a result of he’s “ducking “GGG”)– Canelo sucks as a result of he didn’t beat GGG the “proper” method.
Transfer up in weight– Canelo sucks as a result of he’s not preventing the “proper” bigger fighters.
Unify the tremendous middleweight division in a 4-fight in 11-month run– The tremendous middleweight division is weak, he must be preventing the fellows who AREN’T the champions.
As you may see, there seems to be a sample right here.
Like Floyd Mayweather, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez simply appears to fall into that slot of fighter the place nothing they do will ever be ok for the cynics and critics who’ve determined, just about from day one, that THIS man was by no means gonna be worthy of their macho fairy story man-love. But in addition like with Mayweather, the sour-puss set doesn’t appear to matter all that a lot to Alvarez’s backside line bankability.
John Ryder was an apparent next-opponent alternative for Alvarez for a lot of causes, particularly since Ryder is an Eddie Hearn fighter and Hearn– who has made a bundle being a pilot fish for Alvarez, choosing off scraps from across the Mexican shark’s mouth– appears to have the attention and ear of Alvarez.
However [and I’ll brace myself for the angry backlash as I write this] Ryder is as deserving of this chance as anybody else. If we’re speaking in pure sporting phrases, he’s most likely essentially the most deserving tremendous middleweight on the market proper now. As a result of, whereas David Benavidez, David Morrell, and Demetrius Andrade, could also be extra formidable foes, stylistically, Ryder’s victory over Daniel Jacobs and his ought to’ve-been victory over Callum Smith trump something on the tremendous middleweight resumes of Benavidez, Morrell, or Andrade as of proper now.
Sorry. I do know it burns the haters’ gizzards to learn this, however any individual, someplace must be shoving some bitter actuality down their gullets.
Whether or not Canelo-Ryder is a PPV-worthy combat is as much as the patron. As I’ve all the time mentioned about pay-per-view occasions, the followers will decide whether or not the present is well worth the price ticket. That’s a enterprise problem that’s solely my enterprise if I had been to get a bit of the pay-per-view cash (and, sadly, I’m not).
Competitively, Ryder must be over his head towards Canelo. However he received’t cease coming, he received’t cease making an attempt, and we all know sufficient in regards to the man to know that he’ll put in a very good displaying for so long as he can.
Realistically, this can be a showcase combat for Alvarez and a little bit of a pause after a tricky 2022 and a really lively, spectacular 11-month run earlier than that. That is Alvarez’s Greg Haugen combat, the place, like Julio Cesar Chavez did again in 1993, he will get to return dwelling in massive vogue and bask slightly in “conquering returning hero” glory. Let him have this second. I do know the cynics and critics don’t assume so, however he’s earned this one-fight victory lap.
