By Dan Ambrose: It seems that CBS has decided for whatever reason to not televise the September 15th fight between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez and Josesito Lopez, according to Dan Rafael. That’s got to really hurt Golden Boy Promotions, the promoter for the young 21-year-old Alvarez.
Had CBS aired the fight it would have given Alvarez a lot of badly needed attention from casual boxing fans, and with Lopez essentially standing no chance in this fight, Alvarez would almost surely come out of this fight looking good.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, who is promoting the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Sergio Martinez fight on the same night on HBO, said this to Steve Kim on his twitter “Les Moonves [President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation] won’t let this garbage on CBS.”
I wouldn’t call the fight garbage, but I do think it’s a terrible mismatch and I completely agree with Arum about CBS likely not being interested in this fight. If you’re CBS this isn’t the fight you want to waste time televising, because there are lot better things that they can put on in terms of regular television instead of showcasing a fight that will pits a light welterweight against a junior middleweight. Lopez is too skinny and scrawny to compete with Alvarez, and if Lopez does put on some weight before September 15th, he won’t be able to put on enough in that short time frame for it to help him.
I’m really surprised that Golden Boy is taking advantage of Lopez’s recent fame from his upset win over Victor Ortiz by putting him in an unwinnable fight. It’s not good for Lopez, it’s not good for Alvarez, and it’s not good for Golden Boy to have Alvarez facing guys that are too small for him. Alvarez needs to be fighting guys from his own division rather than having Golden Boy dig up smaller guys over and over again for Alvarez to beat up.
It’s not sporting. Alvarez was matched against 40-year-old Shane Mosley in his last fight. Before that it was Kermit Cintron, and before that Alfonso Gomez. Golden Boy needs to start matching Alvarez against guys that are good enough to be competitive with him because they’re stunting his career with all of these weak and/or small opponents.
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