Canelo Alvarez: ‘He (Conor McGregor) Knows That He’s My Son’

The war of words between two of the biggest stars in combat sports took place earlier today on both X and video while the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Edgar Berlanga press conference was hosted in Beverly Hills, CA. Canelo was asked to respond to remarks made by Conor McGregor earlier in the day, to which Canelo said, “He (McGregor) is helping Dana White with selling the UFC [event], which is why he is saying that. He (McGregor) knows that he’s my son.”

The root of this response begins with Turki Alalshikh, who posted a message on social media this morning concerning the possibility of a Canelo vs Terence Crawford fight in February.

Alalshikh said “Just wrapped up an important meeting now with my team, planning for the upcoming fights that we will make for 2024-2025. I decided to disregard the Canelo fight, as I don’t want it anymore. Instead, I will be focusing for the US market with bigger fights, especially for the legend Crawford. Additionally, I will support making fights for Boots, Haney, Shakur, Ortiz, Anderson, Benavidez, Zepeda, and more, regarding Tim Tszyu, there’s something unclear with the communications from his team with our team, so I believe I will reconsider his situation. and for the rest of the world, definitely, I am focusing on Riyadh Season card, Wembley edition 21st of September (AJ vs. Dubois) and depending on the results and the results of Riyadh Season’s opening card (Bivol vs. Beterbiev) on the 12th of October, I will build the card for the rematch of Fury vs. Usyk on the 21st of December and another big card on the first quarter of 2025. Stay tuned.

That prompted UFC star McGregor to add his two cents to the conversation. McGregor posted, “Canelo is a cornflake. He has about 300k buys in him. He does not generate nothing near what he seeks to be paid. UFC NOCHE is going to run them from the strip. Sheik Turki was right moving on. CANELO DOESN’T SELL.”

While FightsATW was at the Canelo-Berlanga press conference, I asked Canelo to comment on what McGregor had posted, and that’s when he referred to him as “his son.” Canelo was firing on all cylinders today, and no one was safe from catching a stray, not even the UFC megastar. It’ll be interesting to see how well Canelo-Berlanga does in Las Vegas on September 14, as they will be competing against the UFC, which has a show at the Sphere that same night.

Abraham Gonzalez

Abraham Gonzalez is the founder of FightsATW. His journalistic work has been published and used across several platforms to include online, network TV and promotional companies. He is an American Public University alumnus and a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA). Abraham was the Managing Editor for NYFights, Big Fight Weekend, contributed to FanSidedMMA and ProBoxTV.

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