Terry Dooley
EVERYONE knows that the IBF stringently enforce their mandatories and that this applies to all of their fighters. However, the organisation recently made a huge mistake by trying to make Canelo Alvarez fulfil his mandatory obligation against Sergiy Derevyanchenko. The parties tried and failed to agree terms, with Oscar De La Hoya revealing via a Golden Boy statement that: “We offered his team an unprecedented amount of money for a fighter of his limited stature and limited popularity.”
That was very nice of them, yet once the parties failed to reach a deal the IBF decided to strip Canelo of his title.