{"id":118071,"date":"2025-09-04T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118071\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:19:11","slug":"complete-joke-fans-trashed-canelo-alvarez-becoming-a-first-of-his-kind-champion-in-highly-controversial-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118071\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Complete joke’… Fans trashed Canelo Alvarez becoming a first of his kind champion in highly controversial move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Canelo Alvarez has one of the most impressive trophy cabinets of any professional fighter.<\/p>\n

Through his career, Alvarez has accumulated a lot of belts, and some strange gifts<\/a> for good measure.<\/p>\n

His next outing on September 13 will see him put his undisputed super middleweight championship on the line against Terence Crawford<\/a> in a true super fight.<\/p>\n

Alvarez may have turned the Crawford fight down<\/a> at first but we are now just days away from a matchup that fans have been dreaming about for years.<\/p>\n

However, giving people exactly what they want hasn\u2019t always been a consistent theme of the Mexican star\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

\"CaneloPhoto by Steve Marcus\/Getty ImagesFans slammed Canelo Alvarez being named as the WBC\u2019s first \u2018Franchise Champion\u2019<\/p>\n

Like most legendary boxers, Canelo Alvarez<\/a> has some controversial aspects in his career that go hand-in-hand with his greatest successes.<\/p>\n

The most notable one being the drug tests that Alvarez has failed<\/a> in the past, which remains a cloud over his career to this day.<\/p>\n

There is one moment in his career that was heavily scrutinized despite him not having any input.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the WBC introduced a new kind of title, the \u2018Franchise Championship\u2019, which Alvarez was the first recipient of.<\/p>\n

The honorary title was supposed to be a prestigious award that was given to the best of the best which would require them to vacate their WBC world title to hold this higher accolade.<\/p>\n

The Franchise Championship meant that fighters like Alvarez could compete in multiple divisions in big fights without having to face mandatory challengers.<\/p>\n

\"CaneloPhoto by Omar Vega\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Suffice to say that a lot of fans, sharing their reaction in a Reddit thread<\/a> from the time, were not happy with the way Alvarez\u2019s career was being handled or the need to create any more belts and make things more confusing.<\/p>\n

\u2018I wish I could root for Canelo. He\u2019s so talented, yet favored by judges and so carefully handled.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018This is some WWE level non-sense.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Complete joke.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018What a s\u2014 show, I think this proves just how much money talks in boxing.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018For f\u2014 sake. This is the kind of s\u2014 that turns people away from the sport.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018As a rule, WBC makes a new belt for every Canelo\u2019s sparring session I heard.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018This is the worst thing I\u2019ve ever read, what is the point in all this bulls\u2014 in boxing\u2026 Who the hell thinks this is a good idea!\u2019<\/p>\n

\"TOPSHOT-BOX-USA-SUPERMIDDLE-ALVAREZ-GOLOVKIN\"Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty ImagesFour other fighters were named as Franchise Champions after Canelo Alvarez<\/p>\n

Canelo Alvarez was the first WBC Franchise Champion but the backlash that this move received didn\u2019t put the governing body off handing out more of these titles.<\/p>\n

It quickly turned out that Alvarez was just the start of the process, with the WBC deciding to crown several more champions over the next few years.<\/p>\n

Canelo Alvarez \u2013 middleweight (2019-2020)Vasiliy Lomachenko \u2013 lightweight (2019-2020)Teofimo Lopez \u2013 lightweight (2020-2021)Juan Francisco Estrada \u2013 super flyweight (2021+)George Kambosos Jr. \u2013 lightweight \u2013 (2021-2022) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has one of the most impressive trophy cabinets of any professional fighter. Through his career, Alvarez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,957,85,959,23904],"class_list":["post-118071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-canelo-alvarez","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford","tag-throwbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}