David Benavidez has been calling out Canelo Alvarez for quite some time now.
And despite Benavidez being the WBC interim super middleweight titleholder and mandatory challenger to Alvarez's undisputed 168-pound championship, "The Mexican Monster" has had to take a backseat to Jermell Charlo moving up two weight classes to contend for Canelo's four titles on September 30 in Las Vegas, instead.
That will trigger some fans to think that Canelo is ducking Benavidez — rhetoric that the boxing superstar is used to by now.
"Everybody says the same thing all my life," Alvarez told "The Breakfast Club" on Tuesday about notions of him dodging Benavidez.
"When I fight with [Austin] Trout, they say I'm ducking Trout, when I fight other fighters they say I'm ducking [Gennadiy] Golovkin, I'm ducking Erislandy Lara and everything," he continued. "Every time I beat every single fighter, they say 'OK, I have this other fighter.' They find somebody else."
He added: "I'm ducking nobody. I've been in this position a lot of times so I just do the fights that I think are best for the fans."
Alvarez recently signed a three-fight deal with Premier Boxing Champions, with his bout against Charlo marking the first fight of that contract.
When pressed by "The Breakfast Club's" Charlamagne tha God to know if Benavidez will be one of the two remaining fights for that deal, Alvarez offered:
"I don't know. We don't know that. We're 100 percent focused on this fight and then we'll see. I'm going to sit down with Al Haymon and make that decision for that next fight."
At 33, Alvarez stands at 59-2-2 including 39 KOs. If successful against Charlo next month, there will certainly be clamoring to make Benavidez his next fight.
At a rangy six-foot-two, the 26-year-old Benavidez (27-0, 23 KOs) towers six inches over Alvarez and owns an eight-inch reach advantage.
One of the best switch hitters in boxing, Benavidez seemingly owns all the tools to possibly give Alvarez fits.
Whether that fight comes to fruition remains to be seen.