David Benavidez continues his campaign to hound superstar Canelo Alvarez into giving him a fight with his ‘ducking season’ merchandise for sake.
Benavidez’s Misguided Pursuit
The t-shirt for sale shows a cartoon image of Benavidez standing in tall grass and aiming a shotgun toward flying ducks overhead. Resorting to taunts and gimmicks to try and pressure Canelo by shaming him into giving him the payday won’t work.
Unfortunately, creating a duck season t-shirt won’t help Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) to taunt Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) into giving him the fight that he’s looking to get.
Instead of Benavidez continuing to chase Canelo, appearing desperate and needy, he should be focusing on his own career, fighting the best, and not looking for a helping hand from the superstar. Canelo did it alone without begging fighters to face him, and Benavidez should follow his lead.
Returning to 168 does nothing for Benavidez unless someone with big cash meets Canelo’s asking price of $200 million, and there isn’t anybody who will do that. The reason is simple: It won’t turn a profit because Benavidez isn’t a PPV attraction on his own, and he’s fighting on undercards..
Benavidez is in a tough position career-wise because he moved up to 175 and was terrible in his debut in a new weight class against Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June 15th, winning a twelve-round unanimous decision in a fight that was much closer than the wide scores the three judges turned in for the contest at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
After that horrible performance, Benavidez is now returning to the 168-lb division and will continue his tireless pursuit of Canelo. It’s so empty, and pathetic, but it gives one a glimpse of where Benavidez is at with his career.
There’s no future for him at 175, just a bleak situation where he’ll fight the winner of the undisputed light heavyweight championship between Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev and likely get blown out of the water.
After Benavidez loses to one or both of those fighters, he’ll have no choice but to return to 168 and try to continue draining down to that division for as long as his body will allow him to safely do so without putting his health in danger.
If Benavidez stays at 175, he’ll be just one of the many contenders in the division. He will never win a world title as long as Bivol, Beterbiev, and David Morrell are around, presenting unsurpassable obstacles for him. The only thing Benavidez can do is try to stay at 168 until his body gives out.
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