Kamaru Usman's manager Ali Abdelaziz believes Canelo Alvarez blew the chance for a major MMA vs boxing crossover fight by losing to Dmitry Bivol.
Alvarez was beaten by Bivol last month in his first loss since 2013, and will now move back down from light-heavyweight to super-middleweight and defend his undisputed crown against Gennady Golovkin in a trilogy bout. And the Dominance MMA boss believes that he could have got himself an even more lucrative bout against Usman had he beaten the Russian.
Usman had been angling for a boxing fight between he and Alvarez for months before the Bivol loss, but there was never any real heat between the pair. Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather famously had one of the biggest fights in history back in 2017, but the hype for Alvarez vs Usman would have needed a major push to get to that level of excitement.
