WBA light heavyweight champion trainer Dmitry Bivol Gennady Mashyanov, in an interview with , said that Mexican Saul Alvarez (Canelo) will depend on rematch with the Russian for his entire future career, but he cannot refuse revenge.
In May 2022, Bivol beat Canelo by unanimous decision and inflicted the Mexican’s second defeat of his career (the first was in 2013 by Floyd Mayweather). The contract for this fight included a rematch option, which Alvarez, according to statements in an interview, still intends to use.
– In the event of failure, both in the category up to 76 kg, and in 79 kg, Canelo will lose so much that he will be able to reconnect with boxing. Maybe he’s not ready for this. He puts a lot on the line for revenge. Another defeat against Dima will testify to the decline of his career.
– But the prerequisites for another Alvarez defeat in the confrontation with Bivol are very high.
– We will try to win, and even more convincingly than in the first fight.
– It also seems that Alvarez only wants revenge in words, and he himself delays the second duel with Bivol as much as possible.
It’s hard to speak for his team. Canelo wants a rematch. It’s just that he will put his entire future career on the line for this rematch.
– Is it necessary to do it? Yet Canelo today is a business machine, not just an athlete.
– And if he doesn’t have a rematch with Dima, he will lose a lot of fans. After the fight with Dima, he significantly decreased his fans. If he doesn’t hold a rematch, he risks losing credibility and fans. It seems to me that he will try to get revenge again. And we will give him the opportunity to have a second fight,” Mashyanov told .
Defending undisputed middleweight champion Canelo has 59 wins, two losses and two draws. Bivol has 21 victories in the professional ring.
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