“Canelo Doesn’t Give A F*”: Mikey Garcia Says Alvarez Of Building A $400 Million “Enterprise,” Prioritizing Easy Fights And Big Paydays Over Fan Demands

Mikey Garcia says Canelo Alvarez is just a “businessman” at this point in his career, fighting only for money without caring about what fans think about him taking easy fights. Garcia says Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) is like an “enterprise” now, having already made a colossal fortune and sticking around to make $400 million.

Mikey says Canelo is just taking “low-risk, high-reward” fights to “collect the money,” and he doesn’t blame him.

Ignoring Fan Demands

The Mexican superstar is creating a dynasty with the dough he’s getting for his fights and hasn’t faced a tough opponent since his loss to Dmitry Bivol on May 7, 2022. Alvarez’s last five fights have been easy ones, and fans believe he’s on his retirement tour, only staying around for the money. He’s obviously no longer listening to the fans anymore, as he’s swerved David Benavidez and David Morrell.

Canelo’s fortune is estimated at $250 million now, and that figure is expected to soar from his next three fights against IBF super middleweight champion William Scull on May 3rd, Terence Crawford on September 13th, and possibly Dmitry Bivol, Chris Eubank Jr, Conor Benn or Hamzah Sheeraz in the first half of 2026.

The Scull Selection

“I don’t know if the fans know this guy either, but I also know Canelo don’t give a f***,” said Mikey Garcia to YSM Sports Media about Canelo Alvarez’s undisputed super middleweight clash against little known IBF 168-lb champion William Scull on May 3rd in Riyadh, Saud Arabia.

The casual boxing fans don’t know who the Cuban William Scull is, but that doesn’t matter. Canelo needs his IBF super middleweight title so he can come into his clash against Terence Crawford as the undisputed champion in September. It’s all superficial marketing stuff for image purposes to build interest among the hardcore boxing fans that care about Crawford getting the chance to become a three-division undisputed champ.

Casual fans won’t care that it’s for the undisputed because they either don’t know who the soon-to-be 38-year-old Crawford is or are not fans of his. He’s not a hugely popular fighter because of his counter-ounching style, inactivity [he fights once a year], and nonexistent social media presence.

Fans prefer Canelo to fight Benavidez, Morrell, or Diego Pacheco on May 3rd instead of Scull. He won’t do that because those would be tough fights that he might lose. Also, he needs to be undisputed again to create artificial interest in his fight with Crawford. He wouldn’t need that if Crawford would move up to super middleweight and beat two or three of the top fighters in the division. That’s not going to happen because Crawford isn’t physically capable of besting fighters like Benavidez, Morrell, or Pacheco. He’s too old, weak, small, and inactive to beat those guys. He barely beat 154-pounder Israil Madrimov in his last fight.

“Canelo is there to fight this guy, become champion again, collect that belt [IBF] once again, become undisputed again, and collect a big paycheck,” said Mikey. “Then his new few fights will be the same thing. He’s collecting a big paycheck for whatever fight he chooses to take on.”

It’s too bad that boxing isn’t run like a real sport where fighters like Canelo would be forced to the fight best in his division, and weight jumping wasn’t allowed. Canelo would have likely lost to Benavidez, Morrell, and other contenders. His career would have ended years ago. Crawford wouldn’t be permitted to move up two divisions to challenge immediately for the titles at super middleweight without earning the title shot by beating top contenders.

Garcia’s “Businessman” Blast

“Canelo doesn’t give a f*** about what we think or what we say about who he fights,” said Mikey. “His goals are not in boxing achievements anymore. He’s already done it. He’s been champion in four divisions. He’s been undisputed. He’s been at the top of the game.

“For him now, he’s just there to collect all the money he can. He could have walked away a year or two ago, but why would he if there’s 2, 3 $400 million on the table? He’s not going to walk away from that. He’s going to stick around, collect the money, and take the kinds of fights that he needs to take to make that kind of money. The low-risk, high-reward fights that he’s doing.

“I can’t blame him. He’s more a businessman now than he is a fighter,” Mikey continued about Canelo. “He wants to become a big brand, a big name, like an enterprise or something like that. He knows that there’s so much opportunity now to make money in boxing. Why would he walk away? He doesn’t care,” said Mikey about Alvarez being money-focused now.