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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, UNITED STATES NOVEMBER 2, 2019: Mexican boxer Saul «Canelo» Alvarez, WBA Super title holder, at a press conference on winning his WBO light heavyweight title bout against Russian rival Sergey Kovalev at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Valery Sharifulin/TASS (Photo by Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images)
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, UNITED STATES NOVEMBER 2, 2019: Mexican boxer Saul «Canelo» Alvarez, WBA Super title holder, at a press conference on winning his WBO light heavyweight title bout against Russian rival Sergey Kovalev at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Valery Sharifulin/TASS (Photo by Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images)
Last year, Canelo Alvarez became the maiden undisputed super-middleweight champion by beating Caleb Plant. With this, he raised his stakes and fans seemed excited about his next move. Canelo was in the news to scale up and fight at bigger weight classes. Also, over the past few weeks, he’s made it to the headlines for his next fight negotiations.
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It is expected that Canelo can ink a two-fight deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing. But nothing concrete came in the news pertaining to the same.
Recently, Hearn was in a chat with iFL TV. Here he brought the spotlight back on Canelo’s next fight negotiations and more.
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He said, “I mean, look, my copy dude was on the case last week. He was messaging me any comment. I didn’t even reply to him because there was nothing done. And there’s, you know, Canelo came out and said we’re still negotiating, there’s nothing inside and that was the case then, that’s still the case now.”
“Yes, we are in advanced talks with Canelo Alvarez. Yes, it would be huge for me personally, for Matchroom for DAZN to work with Canelo Alvarez again. I’ll do everything I can to try and secure that.”
In the Matchroom deal, Canelo Alvarez will predominantly face Dmitry Bivol and former rival Gennady Golovkin in a trilogy. Also, it was reported that Canelo rejected a two-fight deal from Al-Haymon’s PBC to fight Jermall Charlo and David Benavidez.
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Canelo Alvarez is set to make big gains from his Matchroom deal. The two might close on a whopping $85 million deal for two fights.
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ARLINGTON, TEXAS – MAY 06: Canelo Alvarez looks on against Billy Joe Saunders during the press conference for Alvarez’s WBC and WBA super middleweight titles and Saunders’ WBO super middleweight title at Live! by Loews hotel on May 06, 2021 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Also, Hearn, in the above interview, showcased his keenness to work with the p4p king again. As a result, he will remain on his toes to ink a deal with the Mexican boxing great.
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The coming few days will determine whether Canelo actually signs a two-fight deal with Matchroom.
What do you draw off Hearn’s above comments?
