De La Hoya gives Saul Alvarez advice where to tag 40-year-old Shane Mosley

By Boxing News - 04/13/2012 - Comments

Image: De La Hoya gives Saul Alvarez advice where to tag 40-year-old Shane MosleyBy Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya has reportedly given WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez instructions in where to hit 40-year-old Shane Mosley in their May 5th pay-per-view fight, according to boxing news from Fighthype.com.

It sounds like a good thing that De La Hoya is trying to help out the young 21-year-old Alvarez get through this fight with Mosley with flying colors. However, if Alvarez needs advice in how to beat Mosley, who looks pretty well used up at this point in his career, then Alvarez is going to have serious problems when he finally is matched against someone good one of these days. The training wheels are still on Alvarez even though he’s technically the World Boxing Council junior middleweight champion.

Alvarez is one of those champions that is being still matched as if he’s a prospect instead of a real champion. We see that from time to time, most notably with WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly.

I guess the promoters don’t want to wait for these guys to fully develop before having them go after a paper title. But what happens unfortunately is you get them being put in with a lot of soft opponents for a year or two, and it’s hard on the eyes to see this mismatches.

Alvarez is going to wipe Mosley out even if De La Hoya gave Alvarez the worst of advice. It doesn’t matter anymore. Mosley hasn’t won a fight in three years and has looked positively awful in every fight since his last win in January 2009. De La Hoya needs to recognize that Alvarez has good enough boxing skills and ring intelligence to know for himself what will work or not work against a fighter like Mosley. He’ll try things out as the fight goes on and decide if they’re working or not. Alvarez certainly doesn’t need De Hoya to find a way to beating a guy as old as Mosley. This is Alvarez’s fight to lose as long he doesn’t get clipped with a big shot early in the fight and get stopped. Mosley will be dangerous in the first two possibly three rounds, but after that point, Mosley will go downhill dramatically and end up losing by a wide points decision.

The real shocker here is Alvarez wants to fight unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. if he can get past Mosley. That makes no sense. All those soft fights for Alvarez that culminates in a payday fight against Mayweather. That’s like being rewarded for easy fights and a padded record.



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