Comments Thread For: Canelo Alvarez stripped of IBF title after agreeing to fight Edgar Berlanga

[BoxingUpdates]

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez has been stripped of his IBF super middleweight title after confirming he will fight Edgar Berlanga on Sept. 14.
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[boxing IQ]

Oh, sure. If Canelo chose to fight Scull, that would definitely silence his critics

[OnePunch]

funny how the writer is quick to point out Usyk and Bud being stripped, but fails to mention that both fighters had agreed to immediate rematches in violation of a well known IBF rule, knowing full well that they would be stripped.

[Bronx2245]

IBF don’t F around!

[Toprope]

I guess if Canelo wants that IBF title back I don't know...this a hard one, what ya'll think.. $150M do it?

[1power]

They let Ginger live for a minute with that belt. I agree with the writer regarding Crawford and Usyk being stripped way quicker than Canelo oil. Rules don’t apply all around sometimes.

[HandsofIron]

Probably the only consolation prize the boxing worlds gets in the Canelo cherry picking gone wild fiasco.

[Elastic Recoilz]

More power to the IBF for not being like the others who seem to facilitate his career. Canelo is now downgraded to a unified champ lol

[famicommander]

To me there's really no difference between Berlanga and Scull. Canelo may as well have just fought Scull if Berlanga is the best he can come up with. Either way, it's sad that the WBC and WBA actually had good mandatory challengers in Benavidez and Morrell but decided to bait them to 175 instead of actually making Canelo fight them. The IBF is actually enforcing its mandatory, which is good, but Scull is a bogus challenger so they suck too.

The whole situation just sucks across the board. Scull vs Shiskin is a lame title fight, but the champ isn't taking on legitimate challengers anyway.

[vitruvian]

One down and three to go. If dude wants to run around ripping off the fans by fighting the next tier down in a circus over and over instead of giving us the only two fights we care to see him in (Benavidez and Morrell) then he can do it beltless.