When Alvarez rejected Benavidez and made an offer of $150 million to $200 million, Benavidez was cold. Although Alvarez explained why, saying that he rejected Benavidez because the other party did not respect him enough, the refusal seemed to hurt Benavidez. A few days ago, some media reported that Benavidez was drunk late at night, and later he publicly apologized for it, I don't know if it was because of the incident. But one thing is for sure, Benavidez no longer has the luxury of fighting Alvarez, and he's determined to move up to light heavyweight and challenge stronger opponents.
Speaking to the media, Benavidez said: Alvarez said he needed respect and I would not kneel down to anyone because I won the opportunity to challenge them. My fight with Alvarez is not going to happen because he wants $150 million, and that's telling me he's scared. He gave Monguia a chance, and Monguia did nothing. The excuse Alvarez gave was because he was very respectful of people, and I would say bro don't be funny. I don't think I'm going to have to fight Alvarez, so I have to keep going. The 175-pound guys were killers, like Beterbiev and Bivol, and now my 100 percent attention is on them.
In fact, Alvarez also has a lot of complaints about the choice of opponents. Speaking to the camera, he said: "Actually, I'm always playing against people who say I'm not going to fight against, I'm in a position, a position where I can do whatever I want. At the end of the day, I couldn't please them with anything, I played against Golovkin when they wanted me to fight, and I played against each of them, Callum and Miguel, Mayweather and Austin. So if you look at this, they're never going to be happy with anything, so I choose to do what I want.