Is Canelo Alvarez teasing a battle with Conor McGregor?

Boxing appears to be at it once more, testing the waters and gauging fan curiosity in one other particular attraction tremendous battle. This time, the individuals are Canelo Alvarez and Conor McGregor. Fight sport web site Roots of Fight posted a clip of a younger Canelo within the ring with Floyd Mayweather Jr., with the phrase “masterclass” written above. McGregor retweeted the submit whereas touchdown a jab on the champ concurrently.

“One of many biggest performances in Skilled Boxing this was. I landed extra photographs on Floyd than Canelo. I’d love one other go.” – Conor McGregor

After all, Alvarez, being the “preventing” champion he’s, couldn’t let this slide. McGregor’s taunt labored completely in drawing out Canelo, who didn’t go up the chance to get a dialog going with the previous UFC champ.

“I simply want one hand with you, and I don’t must throw so many punches.” – Canelo Alvarez

Perhaps they assume they’re fooling the common fan, however that is nothing greater than the beginning of a plan to get these fighters within the ring. Gauging fan curiosity and the powers that be are in all probability the social media response to date. McGregor’s sneak shot at Canelo has almost 10 million views on Twitter, over 1,000 feedback, almost 1,000 retweets, and over 23,000 likes.

That doesn’t essentially imply this battle is assured, however each guys have big fan bases that can journey to observe their guys. It solely is smart that these camps may very well be working behind the scenes to make this occur. And sure, people will purchase this battle on pay-per-view. Between the 2 fan bases, they’d in all probability obtain a million buys simply for a mediocre battle at finest.

McGregor vs. Mayweather generated over 4 million PPV buys domestically in 2017. Whereas that battle was a lot nearer to the peak of McGregor’s reputation in UFC, a bout between him and Alvarez could be a global affair and would possible do giant numbers regardless.

Don’t be stunned should you hear official experiences of a battle within the works pitting McGregor towards Canelo very quickly. Boxing and MMA purists may not care a lot for the crossover matches, however they aren’t those paying for fights. Most followers will signal as much as see two big names like this 9 instances out of ten. That’s all promoters care about. Whether or not followers pays cash to both watch in particular person or on PPV. They could not whole the identical quantity as McGregor’s battle towards Floyd, however they might get shut.