By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. failed to agree to fight WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in September, and Canelo has now pulled out of Mayweather’s May 4th pay-per-view card in response. If this was supposed to bother Mayweather I think it’s a fail because Mayweather isn’t going to be bothered by not having Canelo on his undercard.
I think Mayweather made the fight decision by not agreeing to fight Canelo on September 14th because is not a junior middleweight. He’s barely a welterweight, and having to fight someone that is going to have a big weight and power advantage over him isn’t worth the trouble.
Mayweather needs to be fighting guys in his own weight class instead of having guys trying to use him to become popular or get a nice payday.
I’m all for a Mayweather-Canelo fight but only if Canelo drained down to 147 to make the fight happen. If Canelo can do that, and then agree to a rehydration limit of 150 an hour before the fight, then I wouldn’t mind Mayweather taking the fight, but I don’t agree with Mayweather fighting at 154 against a guy that will be effectively a super middleweight by the time he gets him in the ring.
Mayweather doesn’t need junior middleweights; he needs to be fighting the best at 147 like Devon Alexander, Kell Brook, Marcos Maidana or Danny Garcia.
Let Canelo fight guys from his own weight class for a change instead of always fighting guys in the 147 pound division and getting a big advantage because of that by having them move up to 154. If Canelo would start fighting guys in the junior middleweight division for a change, he wouldn’t need Mayweather to fight him in order to become popular. He’d be popular by having proven that he can beat the best guys like Austin Trout, Erislandy Lara, Vanes Martirosyan and Miguel Cotto. I’d be surprised if Canelo can get past half of those guys without taking a couple of losses.
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