By Eric Thomas: Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya will be giving the fighter with the best knockout on the September 15th “Knockout Kings” fight card a $100,000 bonus. The headline fight is WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Josesito Lopez.
The undercard fights are as follows:
Jhonny Gonzalez vs. Daniel Ponce De Leon
Leo Santa Cruz vs. Eric Morel
Marcos Rene Maidana vs. Jesus Soto Karass
Sergio Thompson vs. TBA
Salvador Sanchez vs. TBA
One would hope that the $100,000 goes to the fighter that that gets the best knockout against quality opposition. There’s no point in De La Hoya and Golden Boy Promotions giving one of the undercard fighters the $100,000 if the fights are mismatches in the first place. Who knows what opponents Thompson and Sanchez will be fighting, but I’m guessing they could be the soft variety.
De La Hoya said to RingTV “Giving all of the fighters an incentive for the best knockout of the fight, we will include $100,000 to the winner of the best knockout of the night.”
I think De La Hoya should only include that bonus for the top three fights – Alvarez-Lopez, Gonzalez-De Leon and Maidana-Soto Karass. Those are likely going to be the competitive fights on the card. I don’t care for the Morel-Santa Cruz fight because Morel is 36 and coming off a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision loss to Abner Mares last April. Morel will likely lose to Santa Cruz, although I don’t think for a second he’ll lose by a knockout.
Alvarez vs. Lopez will probably end in decision, because Lopez has a good chin and Alvarez doesn’t fight at a fast pace required to score knockouts.
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