Canelo-Trout will be a non-PPV bout on April 20th on Showtime

By Boxing News - 02/27/2013 - Comments

trout76By Dan Ambrose: It’s official, the fight between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) is OFF the May 4th Floyd Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero fight card. Instead, the Canelo-Trout fight is going to be moved to April 20th, and it WILL NOT be Pay per view. It’ll be televised on regular Showtime, according to Dan Rafael.

That’s got to hurt Canelo because not only will his fight not be seen by the millions of people that would have saw it had he agreed to fight on Mayweather’s May 4th undercard, but his fight with Trout won’t even be PPV. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

The reason why Canelo is off the Mayweather-Guerrero card was because he wanted Mayweather to agree to fight him on September 14th in order for him to fight on his undercard. In other words, you do something for me and I’ll do something for you type moves.

Mayweather wasn’t feeling it, though, so Canelo pulled out of the May 4th fight card, which would have given Canelo a massive amount of visibility because of large amount of people that will be seeing it on PPV, and also when it’s replayed on non-PPV a week later.

What could make this even worse for Canelo is if he gets beaten by Trout on April 20th. That would be a huge, huge loss for Canelo because it would keep him from being a PPV star for the time being, and then also still wouldn’t be getting the Mayweather fight.
I think Canelo really played this out badly.

I could understand it if Canelo were giving Mayweather an ultimatum if Canelo was someone that had a ton of experience and had actually cleaned out the junior middleweight division first, but that’s not the case here. Canelo has been fighting light welterweights and welterweights while holding down the WBC junior middleweight title.

It’s been kind of mind boggling how he’s been steered around the top guys at his own weight class and matched against smaller guys for some reason by Golden Boy. He simply didn’t have the resume for him to be giving Mayweather, the most popular fighter in all of boxing, an ultimatum.



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