By: Sean Crose
Speaking to FightHype on the WBC conference in Acapulco, famed coach Abel Sanchez had a substantial bit of reports to present. “I’m retired,” he stated. ” Sold my gymnasium and I’m utterly out of it.” Yet the person who led Gennady Golovkin to change into one of the vital domineering forces in boxing isn’t out of the sport solely. “I want to stay in involved in this part of it,” Sanchez stated, basically stating he desires to stay within the combat sport with out coaching fighters. Sanchez was requested if he would change into a commentator. “Maybe so,” he stated. “I want to spend some time in my family fight now.”
He won’t be a coach anymore, however Sanchez clearly had issues to say about previous Golovkin foe Canelo Alvarez. Although Canelo handily defeated Golovkin just lately of their third combat (Golovkin was not educated by Sanchez on the time, by the best way) Canelo was himself defeated by the gifted Dmitry Bivol final spring. Suffice to say, there’s discuss of Canelo dealing with WBA mild heavyweight champion Bivol in a rematch. Sanchez doesn’t assume that’s the perfect plan of action.
“In my opinion,” he stated of Canelo, “he should just stay at 168. There’s a couple of young lions at that weight that would like an opportunity at him.” Sure sufficient, Canelo needed to go up in weight to face Bivol at mild heavyweight. And certainly, the person’s executed fairly effectively for himself at tremendous middleweight. “I think that’s probably his best weight,” stated Sanchez “One sixty is a good weight for him too, but 175s are a little to big for him.”
With all that being stated, Sanchez admitted he’s been impressed with Bivol. “I have to give Bivol a lot of credit for what he’s done in the last two fights,” stated Sanchez. “It’s a difficult fight for Canelo. Bivol’s a bigger guy. He’s a natural at that weight, and I think it would be a stretch for Canelo to beat him.” Not that he had something unhealthy to say about multi-divisional champion Canelo. To the opposite. “He ventured up,” Sanchez stated in reference to Canelo leaping to mild heavyweight to be able to face Bivol, “and it was a little too big for him. I think that all great champions are like that, aspiring to move up and hopefully command those divisions.”
In different phrases, though he misplaced, Sanchez feels Canelo deserves credit score for daring to be nice. “He fought one of the best at that weight,” he stated of Canelo’s bounce to mild heavyweight. “It would have been a difficult fight for Bivol if it had come down to 168 but at 175, I think that was the weight for him, and Canelo’s just too small.”
