Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez would be ready to take on Conor McGregor the UFC star wants to step into a boxing ring again, but the Mexican will not be entertaining the idea of a MMA bout.
Alvarez took his record to a sensational 53-1-2 and claimed a world title in a fourth weight division with his 11th round stoppage of Sergey Kovalev in November last year.
The 29-year-old has now won world honours from light middle all the way up to light heavyweight and tops many observers’ pound-for-pound rankings as a result.
The Mexican is expected to face Gennady Golovkin for a third time when boxing returns after the coronavirus hiatus, but his trainer, Eddy Reynoso, says the team are very open to taking on McGregor in the future.
‘The reports are pure speculation because right now there is no news about anything, there are no fights,’ Reynoso told Boxing Scene.
‘Boxing is a business. Saul right now is the best fighter pound for pound and if McGregor jumps into boxing, then we are going to hit him.
‘What we are not going to do is get into a cage [to fight McGregor].’
The comment from Reynoso is not out of nowhere as McGregor teased a meeting by posting a video of him in boxing training and shouting ‘Canelo’ while throwing punches.
Canelo himself as spoken of facing McGregor in the past, before the Irishman fought Floyd Mayweather back in August 2017.
The Mexican said that if the Notorious had pulled off the mammoth upset and beaten Mayweather, then he would have stepped forward to fight the former UFC champion.
‘If that miracle was to happen, then we have a conversation,’ Alvarez said in 2017. ‘If that miracle were to happen, but I doubt it very much that Conor beats Floyd.
Conor did not beat Floyd, being stopped in the 10th round of their Las Vegas scrap.
McGregor has plenty of time to engineer a fight with Canelo, if he wants it, with the boxer saying he still has seven years in the sport, as he doesn’t turn 30 until July.
‘Boxing is my life. My body asks me to fight. I keep training because I love boxing, I train whether I have a fight or not,’ he told Box Azteca,
’36-years-old – for me that’s a good time to retire, 37-years-old at the max.’
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