It will be one of the fights of the year, without a doubt. A Mexican duel. The great champion, one of the best in recent times, against the star who has been pushing and asking for a clue. Jaime Munguía: What You Need to Know”>Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez, the monarch, fully demanded by Jaime Munguía, the undefeated who wants to cause the impact that shakes international boxing.
Canelo Álvarez is already 33 years old. He is the WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF super middleweight champion. A solid, impenetrable boxer who has managed to build a successful career that includes 64 professional fights, with 60 wins, two draws and just two defeats, against Floyd Mayweather and Dmitri Bivol.
Jaime Munguía is 27 years old. He is undefeated in 43 fights on the rented field and records 34 victories by KO. He was crying out for an important chance and he will have it, none other than against Álvarez, one of the most prestigious boxers of our time. Although he is accused of avoiding dangerous rivals, such as David Benavides. But Munguía is a careful opponent, a boxer hungry for glory and very confident in his attributes.
This Saturday’s fight, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, however, had its first heated moment in a press conference, introducing both contenders. And it ended in the worst way between the champion and a former monarch who also has history with him: none other than Oscar de la hoya, now in his role as event producer. At 51 years old, it is worth remembering that De la Hoya was world champion in six different categories. A huge character and exponent of the rings
The truth was that at the moment it was his turn to speak, De la Hoya, reading a kind of statement, began to harshly criticize Canelo Álvarez’s attitudes, with serious accusations. In these resounding fights, there is usually a lot of foreplay, threats, challenging looks. But he is usually among the protagonists. Here, the problem broke out with someone who will not be in the ring.
“It seems like he’s having trouble remembering who helped him become a global star. I only have respect for ‘Canelo’ Álvarez as a boxer, his record and ability speak for themselves, but he has spent the last two months insulting me instead of promoting this fight,” De la Hoya said when facing the microphone, a few meters from where Canelo and Munguía were there.
And followed. De La Hoya expressed that Golden Boy, his production company, “built ‘Canelo’ Álvarez.” And he remarked: “A company you have wanted to destroy for decades.”
Canelo listened to him carefully, but he began to lose his calm and respond to De la Hoya’s accusations. First, while still sitting. “Shut up, what are you saying. They have to write down what you say.”, he pointed out on a couple of occasions, while De La Hoya continued speaking. And in a moment he stood up and faced the now promoter, shouting “You’re an asshole, faggot, they have to write down what you say.” And he advanced towards him, clearly showing that he wanted to hit him. Something that, fortunately, did not occur.
Close to an additional fight…
Seconds later, Canelo took the microphone to talk about the incident and the bad moment he had to live through. “I was already Canelo, you were the one who profited from my name, have you already paid Golovkin? You wanted to rob him. It is a scourge of boxing for whoever is with him. He is stealing from him and the only thing he comes to do is steal Munguía’s attention,” Canelo snapped.
Oscar de la Hoya, the promoter.” height=”906″>De la Hoya knew how to represent Canelo Álvarez, until relations became strained and the relationship was put to an end. According to the promoter, it was all because of a suggestion he made a few years ago. “One day, a journalist asked me if Canelo needed another coach and I answered that maybe, I had seven different ones in my career. I suggested that Eddy Reynoso might need help and suddenly they called me a hypocrite, disloyal, that’s how it all started,” De la Hoya told the Fight Hype channel.
And he expanded his speech: “Who the hell is disloyal here? The one who goes from promoter to promoter, from contract to contract with television stations. I think it’s clear who the ungrateful one is. “I never received a ‘thank you’ when I got him what was the biggest contract of his career.”
The face to face of Canelo and Munguía
Outside of the conflict between Canelo and De la Hoya, the protagonists of the expected fight also spoke. Álvarez admitted that he expects a very complicated fight against a strong rival like Munguía, but that he has hopes of winning decisively. “He’s coming to win, so am I, which means it’s going to be a great fight. We respect each other below the ring, but we don’t come to play, we come to win decisively“Let everyone enjoy the fight,” he anticipated.
Munguía found out about Canelo’s omen that he will knock him out. Far from bowing down to a champion with a long history, he told the truth about him: “I don’t think the fight is going to be like he said. I think the same, but on the contrary: I’m going to knock him out. I like that he comes with that mentality of beating me and knocking me out, I go with the same.”