The fight with Makabu never transpired, with Alvarez instead agreeing to a multi-fight deal with Matchroom Boxing and DAZN Pay-Per-View beginning with Saturday’s fight with Bivol at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. With a win, Alvarez has already acknowledged plans for a trilogy bout with Gennadiy Golovkin (42-1-1, 37KOs), putting his undisputed super middleweight championship at stake for a targeted September 17 date likely in Vegas or Texas.
A repeat win over Golovkin should theoretically free up Alvarez for a fight with Benavidez or any of his other mandatory title defenses with the WBO and WBA. Instead, it will likely be kept in house with Matchroom and DAZN.
Benavidez will do his part to use it as motivation. His fight with Lemieux is the second straight in his home region, airing live on Showtime from Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona. The event is roughly 30 minutes from Phoenix, where Benavidez headlined in a seventh-round stoppage of Kyrone Davis last November on Showtime in front of a sizable and rabid crowd at Footprint Center, home to the NBA’s Phoenix Suns.
With a win on May 21, Benavidez will continue to wait his turn for a shot at Alvarez but not wasting any more time in allowing other opportunities to fall through in the interim.
“Of course, everyone wants to fight Canelo. But if he doesn’t want to fight me, I’ve gotta write my own history,” notes Benavidez. “I got to beat all the guys at PBC and then one day if we can make the fight happen, it will happen. I’m just ready to fight whoever and whenever. I don’t know what’s going on. There are a lot of unanswered questions.
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“I don’t know what the game plan is. They say they want to do things like fight at cruiserweight, then they do this. Now we’re hearing he might fight John Ryder, another 168-pounder in December. That doesn’t make any sense. But Canelo is at that stage where he calls the shots and just fights whoever he wants and we all just have to accept that fact. Whatever happens, I’ll be right here. I’ll be waiting, I’ll be ready whenever that fight happens.”
