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卡内洛准备好和金童分手了吗?
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aul Magno | 2019年8月6日
Let’s be real—Saul “Canelo” Alvarez IS Golden Boy and he’s been Golden Boy’s only true bankable asset for quite some time now.
Back in 2017, when Golden Boy entered into their ill-advised (and, ultimately, failed) anti-trust lawsuit against Haymon Boxing, the veil was unintentionally lifted on some very interesting financial info. According to court documents, in 2015, Canelo Alvarez accounted for 94% of Golden Boy’s income from boxing operations and ALL of their boxing profits through the first half of 2016.
In late 2018, Golden Boy then signed a lucrative deal with DAZN, taking the opportunity to piggyback on Canelo’s 11-fight, $365 million arrangement with the streaming service. It’s not a stretch to say that the Golden Boy-DAZN deal was pretty much a finder’s fee to Golden Boy for bringing Canelo and his name value/star power to the table.
Why do I bring all this up? Because, allegedly, Canelo Alvarez is pissed off at Golden Boy for a multitude of reasons and, if he gets pissed enough and finds a way out of his contract (there is a very direct path to doing so—but more on that later), Golden Boy is royally screwed.
So, why is Canelo pissed at Golden Boy?
It’s not entirely about being stripped of his IBF middleweight title for a failure to come to terms with mandatory challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko, although that might turn out to be the straw that breaks the red-headed camel’s back. It was Golden Boy matchmaker Robert Diaz, after all, who made the deal with the IBF—supposedly without the knowledge or consent of Alvarez—that eventually led to him being stripped.
But this whole Canelo/IBF situation may have some keener minds asking why a Golden Boy matchmaker was handling this wheeling and dealing with the sanctioning body and not Golden Boy president Eric Gomez or Oscar De La Hoya, himself.
Well, the rumor —and, mind you, it’s just a rumor at this point, but one that seems to have legs because I’ve been hearing it from many different “insiders”—is that Canelo is currently not on good terms with the Golden Boy head honchos.
The story is that the DAZN deal has caused some real animosity between Alvarez and his promoter.
Canelo reportedly resented Golden Boy using his name to fatten their own wallets with a deal tied to his own deal without seeing a cent kicked back his way.
Then there’s been the whole Golovkin mess with Golden Boy having apparently led DAZN to believe, if not flat-out promising, a third Golovkin bout with Alvarez prior to signing their mega-contract. That alleged promise led to DAZN using a Canelo bout as lure to sign Golovkin to a big-money multi-fight deal—and something that could cause them to be in breach of contract if they can’t deliver it.
By all accounts, Alvarez is done with Golovkin, wants nothing to do with a second rematch, and was under the assumption that his own DAZN contract was not at all predicated on that third GGG fight. The animosity is very real when it comes to Canelo and his feelings towards Golovkin and it’s hard to imagine him budging to make good on a promise Golden Boy made and one that DAZN has to make good on.
The bad blood between Canelo and Golden Boy might be at least somewhat confirmed by Golden Boy prospect Ryan Garcia’s recent public shots at the promotional company. The 20-year-old Garcia, who has been training under Alvarez trainer Eddy Reynoso and, in theory, privy to the disharmony as a Canelo gym mate, recently took to social media to assert that he deserves “the right promotion for fights” and that he pretty much has to do all the promotion for his fights himself. It seems like the kid has had his head turned by some things overheard in the gym or locker room.
If all of this is true and Canelo is at odds with Golden Boy, then it only stands to reason that he may just decide to break free and run everything through his own promotional company. It certainly wouldn’t be hard to find good boxing people to latch on to Canelo’s star and be part of his team.
Alvarez would have to null and void his Golden Boy contract or force a buy-out in order to get on the road to independence, but that might not be as hard as some would imagine. All he’d have to do is prove that De La Hoya, who has suffered through a couple of rounds of drug dependency spells during their time together, was somehow negligent in promoting Canelo’s career due to his addiction issues. And that could be as easy as pointing to some Canelo press conferences no-showed by De La Hoya and some missed opportunities stemming from De La Hoya not being in the right state of mind to reel them in.
We should find out soon enough whether there’s some real bite to this story or if, in this case, two and two don’t make four.
But if Canelo IS ready to ditch Golden Boy, I’ll reiterate—Golden Boy is royally screwed. |
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2023-10-23 21:34:09
