Coach/supervisor Eddy Reynoso says unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez has no real interest in combating 160-lb contender Chris Eubank Jr. for his subsequent title protection. Reynoso revealed the experiences of ongoing combat discussions are “completely false.”
Reynoso states that Eubank Jr. had the prospect to face Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) for his final combat on September 14th, however he made issues difficult with the negotiations. So, there’ll now not be any additional talks.
Eubank Jr’s supervisor, Ben Shalom, advised the media this week that talks had been underway for a combat with Canelo. It’s unclear when the talks ended as a result of Reynoso says they moved on final September for Canelo’s title protection towards his WBA obligatory Edgar Berlanga.
U.S. followers might be glad that Canelo isn’t losing one in every of his precious fights on defending towards the 35-year-old Eubank Jr.
The 13-year professional Eubank Jr’s finest profession wins got here towards older, past-their-prime fighters Liam Smith, James DeGale, and Arthur Abraham.
“It’s completely false,” Eddy Reynoso mentioned to Combat Freaks Unite in regards to the experiences of Canelo negotiating to combat Eubank Jr. “Eubank had his likelihood to combat Canelo in September, and the one factor he did was complicate the negotiations. We is not going to contact base with him once more for a future combat! No matter I let you know is all the time true! I don’t like making statements, however what I declare is true.”
Eubank Jr. appeared poor in his latest combat towards veteran Kamil Szeremeta on October 12 on the undercard of Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol on the Kingdom Enviornment in Riyadh. He’d come off a 13-month layoff and appeared rusty en path to knocking out Szeremeta within the seventh spherical.
Eubank Jr. is the son of the well-known British fighter Chris Eubank, and he’s made good cash combating domestic-level guys who aren’t world-class. He’s turn out to be a millionaire with out ever profitable a world title or beating any of the high-grade fighters throughout his lengthy 13-year skilled profession.
Eubank Jr’s estimated at $6.5 million, which is a gigantic quantity for a fighter whose finest profession win got here towards 36-year-old Liam Smith in 2023.
The boxing public hopes that Canelo fights undisputed mild heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev subsequent or the winner of the David Benavidez vs. David Morrell combat on January twenty fifth. Beterbiev can be the very best wager if he may get an exception from the IBF to delay his obligatory protection towards Michael Eifert.
Canelo hasn’t mentioned a world about wanting to maneuver as much as 175 to problem undisputed mild heavyweight champion Beterbiev for his 4 titles. Earlier than Beterbiev’s combat towards Bivol on October twelfth, Canelo had expressed curiosity in combating Dmitry in a rematch if he had been victorious. Nevertheless, with Beterbiev profitable their combat by a 12-round majority choice, Canelo has gone quiet.
That may solely be interpreted as non-interest on his half as a result of if he did wish to combat Beterbiev, he would wish to behave rapidly earlier than His Excellency Turki Alalshikh started engaged on establishing the rematch.
It’s going to be attention-grabbing to see if Eubank Jr. retains speaking up a combat towards Canelo for clout-chasing functions to assist preserve his recognition up with British followers and to assist in his negotiations with Conor Benn.
U.S. followers don’t acknowledge Eubank Jr. as a severe fighter to observe, they usually view him as a man who by no means fights notable opposition. He’s strictly a British phenomenon. It will be attention-grabbing if he tried to interrupt out of his mildew and challenged IBF and WBO middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhnuly to point out that he’s for actual.
At this level within the 35-year-old Eubank Jr’s profession, I don’t assume that’s going to occur. He’s a prizefighter and never somebody that’s involved about combating and profitable world titles. The one purpose he can be combating Canelo can be for the cash, to not attempt to win his titles.
