Saul Alvarez to fight Alfonso Gomez on September 17th
July 18th, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s) has decided to take it easy for his 2nd title defense on September 17th and will be taking on welterweight Alfonso Gomez (23-4-2, 12 KO’s) in what should be an easy little fight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
Alvarez recently beat Ryan Rhodes by a 12th round knockout in his last fight. Alvarez took a lot of flack for that fight, because boxing fans saw it as him taking an easy option. However, at least Rhodes was ranked number #3 by the WBC. Gomez isn’t even ranked by the WBC in the junior middleweight division.
Gomez was destroyed by Miguel Cotto in a 5th round knockout in 2008. That was Gomez’s biggest fight of his career other than his win over Arturo Gatti in 2007. That was at the end of Gatti’s career, which takes away from the win in a big way. Gomez’s other important fights have come against Ben Tackie, Martin Conception, Carson Jones, Jesse Feliciano, Jesse Brinkley, Patrick Thompson, Peter Manfredo Jr, Ahmad Kaddour, and Jose Luis Castillo. In the case of Castillo, he wasn’t the same fighter he was early in his career when Gomez fought him.
Gomez is a decent B level fighter but he’s going to be in away over his head against Alvarez. This is going to be a major slaughter. It will be lucky if it goes past the 4th round. I think Alvarez is better than Cotto and Cotto was able to easily beat Gomez. The problem with Gomez is that he’s not a big puncher and isn’t very fast. He’s kind of a plodder that likes to slug it out. He’s going to be at the mercy of Alvarez’s heavy shots on September 17th.
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Better than COTTO hahahahahahah pleaseeee!!!
Yeah but dude Tyson was a freak of nature… People needed protecting from him!
This is y boxing ain’t so great no more…reasons like this…
I seriously cannot stand u ppl that refer to his age on y he is fighting shety Opponents …. he is only the champ man up and defend that belt….Sergio Martinez’s belt bdw…. Mike Tyson only became the youngest heavyweight in history at 20 bdw then unified the division …. nobody was protecting him by age….come on man up Camelot… take on angulo and vanes….:
Canelo should Vanes next at 154 and Gomez should fight Paulie Magg at 147 it’s only right to see two real lightmiddleweight go toe 2 toe and two real Welterweight go at it at 147. Paulie needs a fight and Gomez is a true Welterweight so make these fight happen and no mismatch fight please.
alfonso gomez got beaten up badly of cotto so wat makes ppl think he is guna do anything against alvarez!! total mismatch, gomez should be fighting matthew hatton
This should be an easy fight for Alvarez, he’s only 21 yrs old & still is green he’s getting there when he’s ready he’ll fight a name & tougher fights I dnt blame gb for taking a lil more time with the kid maybe after this fight he’ll be ready to take on the names of the division, but for dan to say he’s better than cotto is laughable at this point & in 08, cotto would be favored to win if the fought at this point especially in 08 before he lost a lil steam, cotto could still give a lot of fighters problems, let the kid Alvarez beat a top guy first before comments like that..
Damn hype job. Find real fighters.
alvarez very well may eventually be better than cotto, but if you put them together in a ring right now canelo would lose badly.
saul is being very well matched. golden boy r looking after they money making machine. they see el canelo as the next pacquiao. he is young and being fedd bums, just look at his well padded record. i think saul has great skill and he can fight, but id love to see him in with fighters who can fight back. cotto, martinez, williams, margarito, chavez jr..
Alfonso Gomez is garbage but he can give the bum saul alvarez a lesson for continue fighting no names boxers.
Alvarez better then cotto??? Yeah right cotto would school Alvarez please little cotto almost knocked him out in 3 big cotto would demolish him Saul is not ready for someone like miguel cotto!!!
“Alvarez is better than Cotto” … hahaha, and means better than 2008 Cotto… hahaha
Calm down everyone. . He has 10 years ahead of him. The big fights will come within time. Just relax.
Keep boxing alive Promoter and put real fights togather and not mismatch Please. Saul fought Matthew hatton and he’s a welterweight and now Alfonso Gomez man come on Oscar, put some real fights together.
Canelo should fight Vanes at 154 and Gomez fight Paulie Magg. at 147. Should be the fights on Sep 17.
Saul should fight the mandatory challenger at least he’ll gain respect and not lose respect by taking Gomez as his next fight. Gomez is a Welterweight fan and this fight would be a mismatch boxing fans. Gomez got beat-up by Cotto so this fight is a real mismatch that People don’t want to see. Saul vs. Vanes and Gomez vs Paulie should be a doublehitter. A true LM matchup between Canelo vs Vanes and Gomez vs Paulie M. at 147.
Easy night for Alverez…..
Alvarez is worst than Amir Khon: Both with Golden Boy are built to be something they are not. JOKE JOKE JOKE
easy nites work for ALVEREZ .GOOD TO SEE HES KEEPING BUSY
Canelo is just taking it easy and then when’s he’s ready,he’ll blow up like a taliban’s bomb.
Canelo is losing more and more respect. At least fight your mandatory.
gomez shouldnt be underestimated in this fight jes no mug