Canelo v Ryder 6/5/23

[TIC]

Did they get behind this one? Just an odd direction.

it's just a meme

[TIC]

[Master]

Eddie Hearn and Oscar De La Hoya have exchanged insults in a spat over Canelo Alvarez’s next fight.

The Mexican boxing superstar will return home to defend his undisputed WBA, WBC, IBF & WBO super-middleweight world titles against John Ryder in Jalisco on May 6.

Canelo was promoted by De La Hoya up until 2020, when he split with Golden Boy and became a free agent.

For a lot of his free agency, he has been signing one/two-fight deals to work with Hearn, who will be staging the Ryder bout.

When asked about Canelo’s next match-up, De La Hoya told Fight Hub: “It seems like he’s regressing inside the ring, he’s regressing in terms of opponents.

“He’s fighting all these British fighters and it does nothing to his legacy

“I don’t know whose fault that is, I don’t want to mention anything…

“He has to step up and fight tough opposition, the tough guys, the guys who are out there who can give him a fight. It’s not the John Ryders of this world.”

In response, Hearn told Fight Hub: “John Ryder’s earned his shot, he beat Danny Jacobs, he beat Zach Parker.

“I did see Oscar say, ‘You’ve gotta fight bigger fights.’ His last three fights have been Caleb Plant, Dmitry Bivol and Gennady Golovkin.

“Sometimes people actually refuse to acknowledge the facts…

“Oscar De La Hoya said, ‘They’re stupid taking that [Bivol] fight, that’s such a tough fight, they’re idiots,’ but all of a sudden he’s taking easy fights?

“Oscar will say whatever suits him. I don’t think half the time he knows what he’s saying.

“But he will never speak honestly about Canelo Alvarez because at the end of the day, Canelo Alvarez left Golden Boy and he’s never been able to accept that.

“I think he needs to look at some of his own matchmaking. Particularly Gilberto Ramirez this weekend and particularly Jaime Munguia, which has been absolutely horrific and embarrassing…

“If you want to look at Canelo’s résumé and criticise, you’re a complete idiot.

Upon seeing some of these quotes, De La Hoya fired back on social media.

He tweeted: “Oh God. Again??

“Eddie Hearn stop attempting to poach another one of my world champions in Jaime Munguia. Why is it impossible for you to build your own?

“To quote Roger Mayweather, ‘You don’t know s*** about boxing.'”

https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/1...vs-john-ryder/

[palmerq]

De la Hoya can bugger off, the catch weight and limits have gone since Alvarez left de la Hoya, he went up and beat three undefeated supermiddle weight champs with no nonsense. Not his fault they were 2/3rds British..

Ryder is an uninspiring match up to be fair to de la Hoya but British boxing fans are quite easy to milk money from.

[TIC]

i'm happy for john the gorilla to get this shot, he should have had a championship already but he was robbed against callum. john also has wins over danny jacobs & zach packer in his last two fights. canelo is coming off surgery & it's a homecoming fight for him & he's still talking about challenging himself against dmitry again at one seventy five next, so i'm good with this fight

[Master]

i'm happy for john the gorilla to get this shot, he should have had a championship already but he was robbed against callum. john also has wins over danny jacobs & zach packer in his last two fights. canelo is coming off surgery & it's a homecoming fight for him & he's still talking about challenging himself against dmitry again at one seventy five next, so i'm good with this fight

Ryder was not robbed against Callum, just as Jacobs was not robbed against Ryder. They were close fights that could have gone either way.

[zoley]

Canello will get trounced by Dmitry

[TitoFan]

he went up and beat three undefeated supermiddle weight champs with no nonsense

Heroically, I might add.

[palmerq]

That was against Kovalev!

[TIC]

come on stevie

[TIC]

even after two rounds

[TIC]

stevie throwing nice combinations. good action fight through three rounds

[palmerq]

Damn it spark

[TIC]

stevie down from a bodyshot in the sixth. gabriel looked tired near the end of the round. both guys throwing defense out the door