Oscar De La Hoya and GBP are the absolute worst when it comes to negotiating a fight.
Ive never seen anything like it.
It’s allowing Callum Smith and Billy Joe Saunders to control the negotiations.
There’s only two things that can happen now.
1. GBP improves the offer to Smith or Saunders and makes a fight.
2. Canelo Alvarez fights someone no one wants to see him fight.
Why are these the only two options? Because GBP screwed everything up.
First, they publicly pigeon holed a four division fighter into one division.
If this didn’t happen, GBP could pretend that Canelo might fight Andrade, Murata, Charlo, GGG, Smith, Saunders, Plant, Benavidez, Bivol or Beterbiev. Instead, they basically announced (because of the PBC-Golden Boy issues) that they were only considering Smith or Saunders.
GBP also publicly announced that multiple options fell through.
So even though it already seemed like Smith and Saunders were the front runners, there was further confirmation that Murata and Charlo were out of the picture.
They also dismissed potential fights that can be used as negotiating tools as non-options.
Why not use Bivol, Beterbiev or GGG to gain leverage with Smith and Saunders? Instead they basically announced those fights won’t happen.
They also allowed a fighter (Plant) who could have been used as a negotiating tool to publicly dismiss the idea of a fight before ever approaching him and negotiating. Why announce they were turning to Plant? Why not just do it?
Eddie Hearn must be laughing his head off. He knows GBP has to sweeten the pot for Smith and Saunders or risk running Alvarez-Lemieux as the headliner. The only concern for Smith and Saunders at this point is if one of them will take less money.
My prediction is Saunders will take less money and secure the fight, but still make more than what was originally offered.
Ive never seen anything like it.
It’s allowing Callum Smith and Billy Joe Saunders to control the negotiations.
There’s only two things that can happen now.
1. GBP improves the offer to Smith or Saunders and makes a fight.
2. Canelo Alvarez fights someone no one wants to see him fight.
Why are these the only two options? Because GBP screwed everything up.
First, they publicly pigeon holed a four division fighter into one division.
If this didn’t happen, GBP could pretend that Canelo might fight Andrade, Murata, Charlo, GGG, Smith, Saunders, Plant, Benavidez, Bivol or Beterbiev. Instead, they basically announced (because of the PBC-Golden Boy issues) that they were only considering Smith or Saunders.
GBP also publicly announced that multiple options fell through.
So even though it already seemed like Smith and Saunders were the front runners, there was further confirmation that Murata and Charlo were out of the picture.
They also dismissed potential fights that can be used as negotiating tools as non-options.
Why not use Bivol, Beterbiev or GGG to gain leverage with Smith and Saunders? Instead they basically announced those fights won’t happen.
They also allowed a fighter (Plant) who could have been used as a negotiating tool to publicly dismiss the idea of a fight before ever approaching him and negotiating. Why announce they were turning to Plant? Why not just do it?
Eddie Hearn must be laughing his head off. He knows GBP has to sweeten the pot for Smith and Saunders or risk running Alvarez-Lemieux as the headliner. The only concern for Smith and Saunders at this point is if one of them will take less money.
My prediction is Saunders will take less money and secure the fight, but still make more than what was originally offered.
) and they can line up at the buffet again in September and twice a year until Canelo runs out of other options.
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