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 continuing to chase Canelo, appearing desperate and needy, Benavidez should focus on his career, fight the best, and not look 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 nobody will do that. The reason is simple: It won’t turn a profit because Benavidez isn’t a PPV attraction, and he’s fighting on undercards.
Bleak Prospects in the Light Heavyweight Division
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 returns 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 with his career.
There’s no future for him at 175; it’s just a bleak situation in which 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 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.