By Sean Jones: Artur Beterbiev is viewed as being a guy that ultimately is too good for Saul Canelo Alvarez to dare to ever face inside the ring. The unbeaten Beterbiev’s recent 10th round knockout victory over WBC light heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk (17-1, 14 KOs) on October 18 may have scared off Canelo and his team off for good.
Can Alvarez face the real thing in Beterbiev?
Canelo Alvarez impressed a lot of fans with his 11th round knockout win over WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev on November 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. However, what a lot of boxing fans fail to realize is that Canelo wasn’t fighting the top fighter at 175 in Beterbiev.
Kovalev was the equivalent of fool’s gold with the way he had the casual fans tricked into believing that he had a chance against Canelo. It would be a different story with Beterbiev. He’s the genuine article. Would Canelo DARE to take on the real mccoy in Beterbiev or is too dangerous?
A lot of casual fans don’t even know who Beterbiev is, which makes things easy for Canelo. He doesn’t take the flak from them like he got from the hardcore for fans for him choosing the passed his best 36-year-old Kovalev to go after for his 4th division title.
There are a lot of boxing fans that believe the Kovalev fight was a set-up match for Canelo. They think the fix was in due to Kovalev throwing punches without his usual power behind them.
Canelo would be showing courage to face Beterbiev
If Canelo wants to prove to the boxing world that he’s not afraid of Beterbiev, it would look great if he agreed to fight him next. Right now, almost no one believes Canelo Alvarez (53-1-2, 36 KOs) will get anywhere near Beterbiev, because it would be such a bad match-up.
Beterbiev’s body punching, pressure and fearlessness would be something that Canelo wouldn’t likely be ready for. Virtually everyone that’s faced Canelo in the last six years have shown fear against him. Even Gennadiy Golovkin was backing away from Canelo, and that’s obviously why he l
