Trout: Canelo will fight me the same way Cotto did

By Boxing News - 02/23/2013 - Comments

alvarez777By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) sees WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) using the same fight strategy Miguel Cotto tried against him when he meets Canelo on May 4th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Trout said to RingTV “I think, for his part, that Canelo’s going to try to use the same game plan that Cotto did, which he is welcome to try.”

Cotto tried using a lot of left hooks, jabs and pressure to get to the taller and longer-armed Trout. Canelo is also giving away height and reach against the 5’10” Trout, and this could be just as much of a problem for Canelo as it was for Cotto.

Trout was able to neutralize Cotto’s attempts at throwing left hooks by staying at a distance, jabbing, grabbing and keeping his guard up when he would come in Cotto’s range for him to land.

Canelo isn’t as good on his feet as Cotto is, so it’s going to be tougher for him to be able to do the same things that Cotto tried against Trout. Initially, Cotto found some success in landing his left hooks and jabs early in the fight, but after Trout adapted to what Cotto was doing then he had little success after that.

What’s working against Canelo in this fight is his lack of experience against quality opposition. Golden Boy has been so careful in matchmaking with Canelo that he’s pretty much coming into this fight with next to no experience against quality opposition to get him ready for this fight.

You can’t count fights against past their best welterweights as experience for a fight against the 154 lb. Trout because he’s bigger, and he’s not in his 40s. He’s also not a light welterweight.



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