Trout: Canelo isn’t going to make it to a Mayweather fight

By Boxing News - 02/27/2013 - Comments

alvarez324By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) doesn’t much care that he and WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) won’t be fighting on the May 4th undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero fight due to Mayweather failing to sign a contract to fight Canelo on September 14th.

Trout saw that fight as still not happening even if Mayweather did agree to fight Canelo because Trout sees himself beating Canelo when they fight on April 20th at the Astrodome in San Antonio, Texas.

Trout said to RingTV “That’s alright [Trout and Canelo not fighting on May 4th], because he [Canelo] still won’t make it to Mayweather. He will not make it to Floyd Mayweather because he’s going to lose to me.”

I think Trout has a good point. Canelo must have a huge ego to believe that he’s automatically get past Trout to fight Mayweather in September just because Canelo has beaten 41 soft opponents during his career. It’s a big, big jump up from beating the fodder that Golden Boy Promotions has been setting him up with to beating a slick and skilled southpaw like Austin Trout.

Mayweather and Canelo could have signed for a fight in September, but it wouldn’t have any meaning if Trout beat Canelo. The contract would likely be void unless Canelo put in the contract language that he would still get the fight with Mayweather even if he lost to Trout. That would sickening if that happened because who in their right minds would want to pay to see a fight between Mayweather and a guy that was beaten in his last fight?

I know Bob Arum has set his fighter Manny Pacquiao up with guys that were coming off of a loss in their lasts fights, but I think it would be a tough ask for the boxing public to want to see Mayweather fighting Canelo if he were beaten by Trout.



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