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No one faults Canelo for taking this deal.

If my place of employment offered me a long-term contract for multiples times what my work was worth, without any regards for future occurrences or developments..... I'd snatch it up faster than you could say "coddling."

DAZN behaved stupidly, and Canelo & Co. were only too happy to take advantage.

Of course it's on DAZN. No one is claiming otherwise.

It doesn't change the fact that Canelo & Co. have wanted to force cadavers down DAZN's collective throat.

In case you're wondering.... it makes no difference what nationality Canelo happens to be.
The issue is that they are saying that Canelo wasn’t taking enough “premier” fights. The issue with that is that’s subjective. I guess DAZN is claiming that Jacobs and Kovalev weren’t “premier” fights but fighting Oscar in his comeback fight would be as well as fighting UFC fighters like Masvidal and Khabib.

Again, it’s all subjective so DAZN has no ground to stand on. It’s just a bad move to contract that many fights for that many years in boxing. It’s way too hard to make every fight a “premier” fight for the most part especially if you aren’t obviously an ATG like Pacquiao or Mayweather.

You seem like a serious boxing fan, so naturally I'm surprised to see you jump to conclusions regarding what "DAZN is claiming about Jacobs and Kovalev." I'd be interested to see any quotes you can reference showing exactly that. It would be odd though, given that those fights went off and became the 1st two fights under the new contract. I'd be even MORE interested in your claim that DAZN considers ancient DLH and UFC fighters as premier fights for Canelo. If in fact they feel that way, shame on them for contributing to Canelo's overblown (cough) "legend."

Understand I'm in no way defending DAZN. They deserve whatever they get for sheer greed and stupidity. A 10-fight contract with Ginger. What the HELL were they thinking??

As for your last statement, it's bewildering to say the least. Canelo calls himself the world's #1 p4p, and apparently has some boxing orgs behind him. So that would put him in ATG territory (perish the thought) and according to you would then allow us to expect "premier" fights every time out. Except that in Canelo's case they dug up Avni-fukking-Yildirim as a sacrificial lamb to get Canelo another useless trinket. Luckily DAZN still had a leg to stand on and they seriously couldn't stomach the opponent.

We never had this maddening situation with the Pacs and the Floyds.