By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0, 30 KO’s) is hoping to get a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. later on this year on September 14th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The deal is that if Golden Boy Promotions can get Canelo the Mayweather fight in September, he’ll agree to fight on Mayweather’s undercard on May 4th, according to Fightnews.com.
The names that have been floated for Canelo’s fight on May 4th are as follows: Miguel Cotto, Robert Guerrero and Austin Trout. Yes, Guerrero’s name is now being rumored as someone that Canelo could fight instead of Guerrero fighting Mayweather.
Guerrero fights for Golden Boy Promotions, so it’s not surprising that his name is now being rumored to be in the mix for Canelo’s next fight. Plus, Guerrero is a welterweight, and those are the type of fighters that Golden Boy has been matching against Canelo for the past couple of years instead of junior middleweights.
It’s not likely that Canelo will get the Cotto fight because that would likely require too much money to get Cotto and trying to balance out the big money that will be split between Mayweather, Alvarez and Cotto. There probably won’t be enough to give each of them what they want for the fight. So it’s not likely Canelo will get a fight with Cotto even if Golden Boy wants that fight. The question here is if Canelo doesn’t fight Austin Trout should Canelo get a September fight with Mayweather?
I don’t think it’s a good deal if all Canelo has to do is beat welterweight Guerrero or someone else that Golden Boy drags out for him to fight like welterweight Marcos Maidana. Canelo should at least prove that he can beat a quality fighter like Trout from the division that Canelo holds a title in before being given a fight with Mayweather.
Even if Canelo was fighting at welterweight, which is probably where he should be fighting given all the welterweights he’s been fighting lately, then I still don’t think Canelo would deserve the Mayweather fight because he hasn’t fought any really good welterweights yet. I don’t rate past Canelo victims Kermit Cintron, Alfonso Gomez, Matthew Hatton and Shane Mosley as being really good fighters.
Mosley obviously was a great fighter but he was 40-years-old in his last fight and fighting a much bigger Canelo at 154 last year. I don’t consider that a worthy win by Canelo and it’s so, so sad that Golden Boy is matching Canelo up so weakly despite him holding the WBC junior middleweight title. Say what you want about Manny Pacquiao at his catch weights, but at least he fights guys from his own division instead of looking to fight smaller guys.
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