By Richard Rodriguez: According to Esto at oem.com.mx, WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s) says he was given an agreement by his promoters that if he fought against 40-year-old Shane Mosley (46-7-1, 39 KO’s) on May 5th on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, that the 21-year-old Alvarez would then be able to fight the winner of that fight next.
Alvarez said that if Mayweather wins the fight, then he’d most likely fight him in 2013 rather than this year because Mayweather generally only fights only once a year. Alvarez will gladly take the fight this year if Mayweather is up for it. If Cotto wins, then Alvarez will look to fight him this year in what would be a unification bout.
Alvarez getting a fight with Mayweather was the condition he set for him to agree to fight on Mayweather’s undercard, because Alvarez is no longer seen as an undercard type fighter since he’s become such a huge attraction in Mexico and now in the United States.
Mayweather said he wanted to wait on the Alvarez fight to get him some more experience and notoriety before he faced him. I don’t know how much more attention he’ll receive in beating Mosley, but it should be enough. The experience that Alvarez gets from the Mosley fight might not be all that much because Mosley is so far gone now and can’t fight hard more than a few rounds without tiring out and going into vapor lock. Alvarez will no doubt look good in beating him, but he probably wont get much from this fight in terms of learning anything due to Mosley being so far past his prime at this point in his career.
It’s not much of a surprise that Alvarez will be facing Mayweather – or Cotto next – due to there being so few other opponents for the two guys to fight. Mayweather wants Manny Pacquiao but he’s having no luck in trying to negotiate the fight with him so it’s better to just ignore that one until something dramatic happens in the near future with age creeping up in the management department and with Pacquiao himself.
Comments are closed.