By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is saying the May 4th unification bout between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBA 154 lb. champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) still isn’t a done deal, according to Dan Rafael.
However, the fact that Canelo is tweeting that the fight is happening on May 4th at the MGM Grand in Las, Nevada, is good enough for me to know that it WILL be happening.
It’s unclear what loose ends Schaefer still has to tie up in order for the Canelo-Trout to be official, but it can’t be that big of a deal for Canelo to already be letting the cat out of the bag by leaking the news ahead of Schaefer and Golden Boy.
It might that Schaefer doesn’t like the fact that Alvarez is breaking the news ahead of time because the big promoters like Golden Boy and Top Rank like to be the ones to tell the public about the fights rather than the fighters themselves, but in the big scheme of things it really doesn’t matter, as long as the Canelo-Trout fight is happening.
One gets the sense that Schaefer isn’t too happy this fight is taking place because he was the one saying that Trout still hadn’t done enough to earn the fight with Canelo last December despite the fact that Trout had just badly beaten Miguel Cotto.
In the same breath, Schaefer mentioned James Kirkland and Alfredo Angulo as possible opponents for Canelo, which didn’t much sense because those guys have done even less than Trout.
It just looked like Schaefer was trying to keep Canelo protected from the big bad Trout, who has the potential to pluck Golden Boy’s Golden Goose Canelo clean on May 4th.
Just by the fact that Canelo is fighting on May 4th, it tells you there is likely a deal for Canelo to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in September because that was one of the conditions that Canelo had reportedly wanted before he’d agree to fight on Mayweather’s undercard.
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