Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez v Avni Yildirim

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You have to call good when it's good and bad when it's bad. Fans can't be so eager to shovel in whatever the smoky room pacts of promotion and crooked governing bodies choose to slop into our extended tiny tin bowls. Sergio Mora said it..."it doesn't matter who he fights" . Huh. When did this start? Are we that needy. That has a shelf life and sounds like an extended credit plan taken for granted. Yeh even elite fighters have the occasional showcase gimme..at lower levels with less limelight some call those shameful mismatches..but when they hide behind well we had no choice because they were #1. That is a tired crutch of a marketing tag. In case we overslept, Yildirim was not and is not listed as mandatory #1. Not by the WbC official rankings, not on any random listings and not by The Ring Mag belt who just endorsed that set up. All while Yildrim is not found anywhere at all in their own top 10 ranks . Never happened. That 1 is Chuck Benavidez, the guy who KO'd Dirrell. The same Dirrell who beat the guy Canelo just called the mandatory. I'm not hating on Canelo just taking it case by case with no blank checks. Onto bigger and much better things let's hope call for.

If Canelo was only fighting one/twice a year like like most of the big name champions, then maybe but since he's fighting 3/4 times then these shitty mandatories will be par for the course.
Is the "mandatory" always the number 1 ranked in the division, or could a gov body accept maybe any of the top 3 as a mandatory defence of the title? I'm not fully sure on this. But I am sure Yildrim has been around the top of the WBC ranks for some time....you need to ask them the reason why they have him so highly ranked! He was number 1 back in August when Benavidez was the champ before I guess he was stripped? SO David is back to number 1 and Yildrim number 2.

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