All gospel. Saul Canelo Alvarez will fight Jaime Munguia this weekend, and the fight has been approved by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. They won’t stop Munguia from making a big jump in weight and proving himself against one of the best fighters in the world for the best payday of his career.
Of course, there’s no reason to think that’s a deterrent. But, yes, they’ve done it before.
In 2018, Alvarez failed a drug test and was suspended by Nevada, forcing him to pull out of his fight against Gennady Golovkin on May 5. Team “GGG” chose Munguia as their replacement opponent. All terms and conditions are acceptable. But the National Security Council did not agree to this.
At the time, Bob Bennett and other committee members were concerned, and not without reason, that the fight was futile. Golovkin is within five pounds of the pound-for-pound record with a record of 37-0-1, and is fresh off his draw against Canelo, who many say should win, and some say, middleweight champion of all time. Competed in the heavyweight division under GGG.
On paper, this looks like a competition with clear lines between cats and dogs.
But there’s a big difference between “worrying” and “not playing.” Conor McGregor’s Boxing Rivals Line Up Golovkin Vs. Burned out. It was strange at the time. That’s still weird.
But with Munguia just days away from the biggest payday of his career and partnering in Canelo’s annual Cinco de Mayo pay-per-view, the NSC’s call has turned to “What if?”
What If the Nevada Commission Hadn’t Blocked a Munguia-Golovkin Fight in 2018?https://t.co/aXteVxiRps
— BoxingScene.com (@boxingscene) April 30, 2024
What if Munguia challenges Golovkin? Will this young Mexican earn the million dollar fortunes he now has? If Golovkin vs. Munguia will appear in May 2018, and the possible outcomes will fall into three main categories: GGG will destroy the kid, GGG will win the match, or Munguia will be upset.
Before exploring the three effects of the butterfly, I thought I’d contact a leading boxing coach to find out which of the three conditions occur.
“I’m not going to pick Munguia as the winner, but I think he has a fair chance to compete,” said Stephen Breadman Edwards, the legendary Philadelphia coach and contributor here. . -His youth and size will cause some problems for GGG. However, in my opinion, GGG in 2018, his jab and skills were a bit too much for Jaime at that time, especially when Jaime fought Dennis Hogan not long after winning the title. What’s the problem? I didn’t think he would beat GGG that time.
– But listen, that’s not boxing. You have to fight in the ring and he’s more competitive than that. It’s like the committee said, “If he doesn’t win, we won’t let him fight.” I have never seen a committee do that. I don’t know if you have to win a fight to get into it. More importantly, that’s why the war happened. It’s not that he doesn’t exist because he doesn’t compete in combat.
Therefore, Breadman chose number 2.
Of course, in this case, the young man has nothing to lose at the end of his record, and the market will be less to pay for each B-side view. But if he loses to GGG in May 2018, he won’t be an overnight surprise and won’t be disqualified. Maybe he can still beat Saddam Ali, still knock him out, still claim the championship belt, still climb the scales at the same rate, and still be Canelo’s choice in the month of May 2024, the least evil is better, but it is more powerful. David Bay compared to Edgar Berlanga.
How about the first step: Golovkin running through Munguia like a butcher’s knife at GGG’s favorite food – beef? In other words, what if Golovkin was disqualified by the California commission on May 5, 2018, when he knocked out Vanes Martirosyan in two rounds?
What has happened in the world in the last six years, Munguia, who is still raw in 2018, has learned his job, is sometimes defensive, and plays like a million dollar title holder. The intensity of the competition. If Golovkin had rocked him, it probably wouldn’t have happened. While losing to a future Hall of Famer at the age of 21 isn’t the end of the world, for Munguia it could be the end of his team, the end of the team he led the most. Calculation. He probably never met Eric Morales or Freddie Roach.
Of course, it’s been a long and bumpy journey from a bad loss to Golovkin on your record to being considered Canelo’s best PPV opponent, even six years later.
That’s where Munguia knocked out Golovkin. Although this was possible at the time; we are making assumptions here.
This is a man who changed boxing history in many ways. First, the odds of Canelo-GGG II in September 2018 are very slim.
The bigger question, related to the topic of this article, is what Munguia did after he dropped Golovkin in his first loss. He can get a second match. Or he could call and just provoke GGG into challenging Canelo next September.
There are a lot of what-ifs and what-ifs here, but if the Nevada committee doesn’t block GGG-Munguia, we may not get Canelo-Munguia in 2024, as we saw in the year 2018.
In all three cases, Munguia thanked the NSC for giving Canelo money a few years later. In the other two cases, he still has a chance to succeed, maybe not before.
It’s still interesting that we’re so close to Alvarez vs. This year’s fight in Las Vegas, which means from a “maybe a young unprepared” perspective, is on top of Golovkin’s fight with Munguia. Based on Munguia’s performance when he beat Ali in four rounds on May 12, 2018, I would like to say that Alvarez-Berlanga in 2024 looks better than Golovkin- Join the 2018 Field Committee. (Although this does not mean that a committee should ban fights at all times if boxers, managers and promoters want to compete.)
But Canelo and Berlanga aren’t the only valid comparisons now. The Canelo vs. Diego Pacheco fight is similar to the Golovkin-Mungia fight. The same goes for Gervonta Davis vs. Gervonta Davis. Floyd Schofield. Or Katie Taylor vs. Caroline Dubois.
There have been many fights in the past and Golovkin-Mungia sounds on paper. Perhaps Leon Spinks should not have been allowed to challenge Muhammad Ali in 1978. Or someone to stop Salvador Sanchez from facing Azuma Nelson.
The list goes on and on, with the “what if” story about how boxing history would change if the committee decides to disqualify some of the young athletes and never compete.
In 2024, Jaime Munguia is not at all small and invisible. He made a huge jump in class on Saturday against the best fighter he’s ever faced. If not. There is no suspicion. Six years later, Munguia got another chance to fight.
