Saul Alvarez vs. Ricardo Mayorga rumored to be in the works for June
March 20th, 2011
By Sean McDaniel: A potential fight between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (36-0-1, 26 KO’s) and two-time former world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-8-1, 23 KO’s) is rumored to be taking place in June. Mayorga, 38, was recently stopped in the 12th round by WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto in his last fight on March 12th. After the bout, Mayorga spoke of retirement and wanting to look for new profession.
If the money is good, which it probably would be because it almost definitely be an HBO fight, Mayorga could find this too hard to resist taking this fight. It was thought that Alvarez would defend his new captured WBC title by facing one of his top contenders like Ryan Rhodes. But if this rumor of Mayorga is true, it looks like Rhodes is going to have to wait a while before he gets a shot at Alvarez. In his last fight, Alvarez won a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision over Matthew Hatton on March 5th. Alvarez looked powerful in that fight, but very vulnerable as well due to his lack of head movement and defensive skills. Mayorga might be trouble for Alvarez because Mayorga wouldn’t have to go looking for him like he did in his loss to Cotto.
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Would be a good “right of passage” fight for Canelo, but a very dangerous one.
Good Fight! Want to see how Canelo responds to Mayorga’s relentless craziness
Good Fight!
alvarez is only 20 years old this lad has it all. and not alot too lose think in the right hand this lad will be a boxing god. think where he will be in ten years time. may be next year the pac man or the money mayweather i am not joking this lad is that good
and who is going to pay this fight of alvares and mayorga maybe only mexican fans will watch the fight bc they know alvares will win by ud.
only in America.
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Agreed. Any fight against Mayorga is potentially dangerous, but for someone whose weakness is his head moving, at this stage of his career anyway is going to be in trouble. Think Canelo will be a great but this could derail him some what.
get the fight on
It must be saul’s birthday,cause golden boy got him a clown.
the ranked n5 and n4 at 154 pounds are two beatable opponent for cinamon boy; bundrage looks so much like william joppy that wont give anybody trouble and cintron past is prime (did he had a prime?)kiermit looks slow out of balace all the time and looks not able to take any power punches without going down. martinez who also belong to these categorie had trouble in a even fights with cintron so i do think that these guy at 154 he’s is a beateble one.
alvarez shows already that he is willing to exchange power punches with anybody but would be a big mistake to go in the ring with mayorga with out plan b and c . miguel cotto plan a worked well becouse miguel’s experience. cinamon boy was hurt and shaked around from a small guy in jose cotto. i think mayorga at now he’s at least strong as jose cotto. that will give trouble again to canelo. better for alvarez to try to box out a softer but good boxer in malignaggi or clottey(no fire back guy)or peter manfredo in order to have a better chance to win and not to be injured by a crazy psico boxer like mayorga.i also thing maidana would be taylormade for alvarez to look good if he has enough chin to stand maidana hard hooks.
alvarez has the wbc belt they better put that boy to the test against the top 5 at 154.
I think this would be a good test to see if Saul Alvarez can really handle fighting against more experience fighters. At least he would be fighting someone that can give him trouble and even have a chance of knocking him out.
Mayorga is a stepping stone for every boxer
Alvarez just using Moayorga as a stepping stone. Just to bulken up his record with a big name smh.