Canelo Alvarez may have plans this weekend, but that doesn’t mean he can’t make room for Conor McGregor later.
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While speaking to combat sports reporter Manouk Akopyan ahead of Saturday’s main event against Edgar Berlanga, the super middleweight champ took time to speculate on how a “mega fight” against the former UFC champion would play out.
“Easy, easy, way easy money,” Canelo Alvarez said of the challenge. “We show boxing is better,” he continued.
By his estimation, the knockout victory happens within “one round, two rounds, three rounds, whenever I want.”
That bold prediction follows a war of words from the pair of accomplished prize fighters.
When commenting on the UFC and Alvarez sharing the Sept 14 date for pay-per-view buys and Las Vegas fans, McGregor downplayed the boxing star’s commercial appeal in a now-deleted social media post.
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“Canelo is a cornflake. He has about 300k buys in him. He does not generate nothing near what he seeks to be paid. UFC Noche is going to run them from the strip.” The brash Irish fighter concluded with the declaration that “Canelo doesn’t sell.”
Alvarez dismissed the criticism as an attempt to help “Dana White to sell for the UFC. That’s why he’s saying that. But he knows he’s my son.”
Interestingly, emerging Alvarez-detractor Turki Alalshikh‘s Riyadh Season is serving as co-promoter of UFC 306.
Canelo Alvarez Calls Truce with UFC Great
While one former UFC champ has decided to take shots at Alvarez, another has mended fences.
In an appearance on Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo’s Pound 4 Pound podcast, Alvarez and the former welterweight king got to clear the air after speculation about a crossover matchup between the two sparked a brief social media exchange.
“I’m a fan of yours, I’m fan of your work. I’m a fan of everything you’ve done in the sport of boxing…at the end of the day we know as fighters that anything can happen in the fight. So that’s what it was. So, I hope there’s no hard feelings in that, because I respect you as a fighter.”
While Alvarez accepted the kind words and politely dismissed Usman’s chances against him in the ring, he did admit that things would “be different” if their encounter took place in the Octagon.
Canelo Alvarez faces Edgar Berlanga in defense of his WBA, WBC, and WBO super middleweight belts this Saturday from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Meanwhile UFC 306, also branded Noche UFC, will take place a short distance away at The Sphere.
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