Saul "Canelo" Alvarez retained his undisputed super middleweight title on May 4 when he beat Jaime Munguia by unanimous decision.
As ever when the final bell sounds during a fight involving Alvarez, attention turns towards who the Mexican will face next.
Two names have emerged as front runners with two division undisputed champion Terence Crawford and David Benavidez being linked to a meeting with Alvarez.
A fight between either man would be a huge event and in an interview with Fight Hub TV, promoter Eddie Hearn, who has worked on a number of occasions with Alvarez, revealed who the undisputed super middleweight champion would rather face out of Crawford and Benavidez.
“When I met Saul, he wasn’t crazy on that [Crawford] fight. He just felt that you have got a welterweight coming up to light-middleweight, going up to super-middleweight and that he wouldn’t get any credit for that win," Hearn said.
“Everyone would say ‘you are fighting a 147lber, [you should be winning]’, but Crawford is really, really good and I think Saul likes fighting now. That’s why I think he liked the Munguia fight, because he knew that was a guy that would come at him and attack him, he is not going to be moving around, chasing around the ring, I don’t think that he is mad [keen] on those kinds of fights.
“As Saul has made it very, very clear – money is pretty much the only motivator for him right now. I guess the challenge as well, but he was pretty honest in that respect wasn’t he, in that if the money is right then he will do anything.
“I think that if the money is right, honestly, he will fight anyone. I don’t think that Crawford is a guy that he would necessarily be picking. I think that he would pick Benavidez over Crawford because he knows he would get the credit for that victory, whereas he might not for fighting a guy that is three or four divisions lower.”
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