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malbaker86
Gators
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
apparently dazn were gonna lay off 2 percent of their employees worldwide. Since the tweet was deleted idk though
Canelo-Yildirim WBC Super Middleweight Title Fight Heads To Sept. 21 Purse Bid
By Jake Donovan
Published On Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:14 AM EST
Should present plans hold form, there is a great chance that boxing will forever remember the 21st day of September.
With the allotted negotiation period expiring without a deal in place, an ordered super middleweight title fight between Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Avni Yildirim will now head to a purse bid hearing. The World Boxing Council (WBC) ordered the fight on August 18, after the Board of Governors approved by a vote of 36-1 to allow Alvarez to challenge for the available title.
A world of issues have since surfaced, perhaps even including what lies ahead in regards to this fight.
“The purse bid is scheduled for September 21,” Mauricio Sulaiman, longtime and recently re-elected president of the WBC confirmed to BoxingScene.com of the news first reported by Sky Sports.
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Alvarez (53-1-2, 36KOs) was positioned into contention for the vacant title due to his status as WBC “Franchise” champion, which he was awarded last summer in a new development by the Mexico City-based sanctioning body. The belt in question became available on August 15, shortly after David Benavidez scored a one-sided 10th round stoppage of Alexis Angulo in what was downgraded to a non-title fight due to his missing weight by more than three pounds.
Had Benavidez—now a former two-time titleholder—done his job at the scale, his next assignment would have been a mandatory title defense versus Istanbul, Turkey’s Yildirim (21-2, 12KOs). Plans for Yildirim to once again challenge for the title have been in place since 2019, when he was named as the challenger in waiting for Benavidez’s eventual title-regaining 9th round stoppage of Anthony Dirrell last September.
Efforts to schedule such a fight for earlier this year were thwarted when Yildirim suffered a training camp injury, providing a path for Benavidez to enter a voluntary defense versus Angulo which was to have taken place this past April in his Phoenix hometown. The event was canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with the bout rescheduled for this past August and Yildirim eagerly awaiting the winner.
Instead, he now has the chance to face the biggest star in the sport—if current legal issues don’t get in the way.
At the moment, it’s a very big “if.”
Guadalajara’s Alvarez—the three-division titlist and reigning lineal middleweight king—is currently embroiled in a massive lawsuit with Golden Boy Promotions, company founder and chairman Oscar de la Hoya and over-the-top (OTT) media service DAZN. The lawsuit was filed this past Tuesday, with Alvarez claiming damages of at least $280 million—the remaining balance on his record-breaking contract with DAZN.
Even before the lawsuit, DAZN had no intention of greenlighting a fight between Alvarez and Yildirim, and in fact has become particular in approving far more notable competition for the global superstar.
Nevertheless, the WBC has a process to follow and for Yildirim there will exist the opportunity to challenge for the title, no matter whom against.
“We have nothing to do with the legal case,” Ahmet Oner, Yildirim’s promote told BoxingScene.com. “We have a purse bid on Sept 21 and we will see what happens.”
Yildirim has been in contention for the title since a controversial technical decision defeat to Dirrell last February. The fight ended due to a massive cut suffered by Dirrell in the 7th round of their Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on FS1 main event, with the bout stopped three rounds later.
The WBC ruled at the time that Dirrell would first face Benavidez, at the time a former titlist who was permitted to once again challenge for his belt upon returning from a suspension after testing positive for cocaine in September 2018. Yildirim was awarded the right to challenge the winner, or in this case challenge for the title itself.
This particular ordered fight perhaps doesn’t move the needle for the brass at DAZN, but the prospects of promoting an Alvarez-headlined event certainly serves as an attractive option to potential bidders. The legal ramifications to follow will ultimately dictate whether or not it could proceed in present form, assuming Alvarez still goes through with the fight by that point as he has yet to withdraw his name from consideration.
The forthcoming purse bid hearing will be held virtually via Zoom conference call, in lieu of traveling to WBC headquarters in Mexico City given the ongoing global health crisis.
hmmmmmm...
Must not be alot of money out there
For you peeps that’s regularly train in boxing do yall still do roadwork even if you don’t intended on competing?
yeah man...you need cardio to box...its important
Dallas' 4 Eva
Superstar
Cardio is just as if not more important to your training bro, if not just your boxing then for your overall health. Cardio is essential for good health. I run 4 miles 4 times a week on top of my bag work and sparring.
KingOFKings
All Star
not as much as I should. I get my cardio from shadowboxing and body sparring for 10-12 rounds.
DAZN only committing to 2 fight cards for the rest of the year, these clowns really ruined boxing for 2 promotions. I only copied this portion because the issues between Canelo and DAZN is known.
Adding to the issues between De La Hoya and DAZN is the fact that the streaming service is also supposed to broadcast monthly Golden Boy cards as well as do two cards per month of its Thursday night series featuring up-and-coming fighters.
As of now, DAZN is only committing to two main cards for the rest of the year (besides a potential Alvarez fight) and there are no Thursday shows in the works.
“It’s a frustration because we have 80-plus fighters. We have several world champions who are not fighting,” De La Hoya said. “But the truth of the matter is people want to see Canelo fight. That’s the bottom line. They want to see the biggest star in boxing fight on DAZN and people are getting fed up. I want to deliver the best fights possible.”
DAZN declined to comment.
The two Golden Boy cards in play are one that would take place Oct. 17 or Oct. 30 and be headlined by former junior middleweight titlist and current middleweight contender Jaime Munguia (35-0, 28 KOs), 23, of Mexico, and the vacant interim lightweight title bout between Ryan Garcia (20-0, 17 KOs), 22, of Victorville, California, and England’s Luke Campbell (20-3, 16 KOs), 32, ticketed for late November or early December. However, according to Golden Boy, there are still issues over the money for that card.
With so few dates it leaves out the ability for Golden Boy to reschedule the light heavyweight fight between Sergey Kovalev and Sullivan Barrera, which was postponed from April 25 due to the pandemic, or have dates for junior lightweight world titlist Joseph Diaz Jr., junior middleweight titlist Patrick Teixeira, junior lightweight titlist Rene Alvarado or rising welterweight star Vergil Ortiz Jr., among others.
De La Hoya, as he said repeatedly, is frustrated – and that was before the Alvarez lawsuit dropped.
“If I have a contract and if I don’t live it up to it what’s going to happen? And, yes, we don’t want to litigate. That’s the last resort. That’s not even a resort for us,” De La Hoya said. “We’ve been great partners, yes, they’ve been great partners. We just want to get a fight going. The fans deserve it.”
Adding to the issues between De La Hoya and DAZN is the fact that the streaming service is also supposed to broadcast monthly Golden Boy cards as well as do two cards per month of its Thursday night series featuring up-and-coming fighters.
As of now, DAZN is only committing to two main cards for the rest of the year (besides a potential Alvarez fight) and there are no Thursday shows in the works.
“It’s a frustration because we have 80-plus fighters. We have several world champions who are not fighting,” De La Hoya said. “But the truth of the matter is people want to see Canelo fight. That’s the bottom line. They want to see the biggest star in boxing fight on DAZN and people are getting fed up. I want to deliver the best fights possible.”
DAZN declined to comment.
The two Golden Boy cards in play are one that would take place Oct. 17 or Oct. 30 and be headlined by former junior middleweight titlist and current middleweight contender Jaime Munguia (35-0, 28 KOs), 23, of Mexico, and the vacant interim lightweight title bout between Ryan Garcia (20-0, 17 KOs), 22, of Victorville, California, and England’s Luke Campbell (20-3, 16 KOs), 32, ticketed for late November or early December. However, according to Golden Boy, there are still issues over the money for that card.
With so few dates it leaves out the ability for Golden Boy to reschedule the light heavyweight fight between Sergey Kovalev and Sullivan Barrera, which was postponed from April 25 due to the pandemic, or have dates for junior lightweight world titlist Joseph Diaz Jr., junior middleweight titlist Patrick Teixeira, junior lightweight titlist Rene Alvarado or rising welterweight star Vergil Ortiz Jr., among others.
De La Hoya, as he said repeatedly, is frustrated – and that was before the Alvarez lawsuit dropped.
“If I have a contract and if I don’t live it up to it what’s going to happen? And, yes, we don’t want to litigate. That’s the last resort. That’s not even a resort for us,” De La Hoya said. “We’ve been great partners, yes, they’ve been great partners. We just want to get a fight going. The fans deserve it.”
Dallas' 4 Eva
Superstar
Fishnets is the worst fukking promoter ever bruh, everything to do with him and his promotional company in recent years has been L after L after L, and the majority of the L's are self inflicted wounds. I don't understand how GoldenBoy is gonna stay in business. DAZN is done, they were already on ESPN and ESPN didn't want to fukk with them, HBO is gone, they don't have a good working relationship with the PBC to get on fox and Showtime regularly, how are they about to stay in business I really don't see it.
ChocolateGiddyUp
Superstar
Wow I’m shocked sauna boy is having issues with the contract shocked I say 