By Dan Ambrose: By Dan Ambrose: If WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) chooses not to fight on what figures to be a highly successful May 4th pay-per-view card on Showtime/CBS, Golden Boy Promotions is likely going to position WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner as the replacement for Canelo on the card.
I don’t know about you, but I think Broner is a more than adequate replacement for Canelo if he chooses to not to fight on the card.
It was thought that Canelo was a lock for the card, which is headlined by WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. defending his title against interim WBC 147 lb. champion Robert Guerrero, but Canelo wants a guarantee that Mayweather will fight him on September 14th before he’ll sign to fight on Mayweather’s undercard on May 4th, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.
You and I both know that you can’t make Mayweather do something unless he wants to do it in the first place, so Canelo threatening to pull out of the Mayweather undercard is really a pointless gesture because it won’t bring about what Canelo is trying to get out of Mayweather. If Mayweather doesn’t want the fight then Canelo can pull out of the May 4th card, but it’s not change anything.
Canelo pulling out of the card will be Adrien Broner’s gain because he’ll be able to get a lot more attention fighting as the co-main event, and there would now be money enough for Broner to fight on the card. With Canelo on the card, Broner might not have been able to make it on the card due to there possibly not being enough money to go around for the three big stars.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer spoke on this very subject recently, pointing out that he didn’t know how it would work financially to have Mayweather, Canelo and Broner fighting on the card. Well, it’s possible if Canelo chooses to not fight on the card. Broner is put in as the co-main event, and the card doesn’t lose a whole lot.
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