By Jason Kim: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez’s big plans of a fight against Victor Ortiz on September 15th were dashed last weekend with Ortiz’s upset loss to Josesito Lopez. Alvarez’s promoters at Golden Boy now have several options for opponents to put in with Alvarez, but the names that have been mentioned are less than appealing unfortunately.
The 21-year-old Alvarez was asked at the Ortiz-Lopez post fight press conference who he wants to fight next and he said “I wanted to fight Mayweather or Cotto, but they’re on vacation.”
Floyd Mayweather, of course, is serving an 87-day jail sentence, whereas Miguel Cotto just got a nice payday in losing to Mayweather and he’s not about to get in the ring any time soon especially to face a big puncher like Alvarez.
Alvarez is going to have to settle for the likes of the winner of the Cory Spinks vs. Cornelius Bundrage fight, Austin Trout or Carlos Quintana. None of them are the big names that Golden Boy Promotions was hoping for, and it’s going to be less than huge fight because Alvarez still isn’t popular enough to bring in the big ratings on his own. The fight likely won’t be on pay-per-view, because Alvarez needs help to bring in the PPV numbers, and it would take a major star for him to get enough buys to make it worthwhile. Hopefully, Golden Boy doesn’t get stubborn about it and decide to make Alvarez’s next fight a PPV bout if all he’s getting for an opponent is Austin, Quintana, Bundrage or Spinks. Those are really dull fights and it’s hard to imagine them even breaking 50,000 buys.
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