Trout: Canelo’s handlers didn’t want him to fight me

By Boxing News - 02/27/2013 - Comments

trout8By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) says WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s handlers [read: Richard Schaefer, Oscar De La Hoya, More!] didn’t want him to fight him because of the high risk involved for Canelo.

Trout says he’s happy the 22-year-old Canelo agreed to fight him, but he’s going to prove that Canelo’s handlers were right in their wishes to keep Canelo far, far away from him.

Canelo and Trout will be fighting on April 20th at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Trout said to Dan Rafael of ESPN “His [Canelo] handlers were 100 percent against a fight with Austin Trout. Canelo would go out there and say this was the fight he wanted, but De La Hoya would shoot the fight down. Canelo put his foot down and said this was the fight he wanted.”

I think it goes without saying that De La Hoya and Schaefer are geniuses in knowing the limitations of their fighters. They know which fighters they can take chances with and the ones they’ve got to spoon-feed for their entire careers, and the fact that they were dead set against matching their “Golden goose” with Trout is really telling.

It says a lot about what they believe will happen when the two of them are matched up with each other. Trout, who refers to Canelo as Golden Boy’s “Golden Goose”, already took the air out of a big fight that Golden Boy wanted to put together between Canelo and Miguel Cotto by Trout beating Cotto by a 12 round decision last December.

After that fight, you could see that Schaefer wasn’t too thrilled at the prospects of putting Canelo in with Trout because when he was asked about it during the Trout-Cotto post-fight press conference, Schaefer started stuttering and saying Trout might not get the fight because there were other guys that they were looking at for Canelo.

That right there told you that Schaefer wasn’t confident that Canelo could beat Trout. Like I said, Schaefer is a smart man, and he’s wise enough to see that Canelo just doesn’t have the ability to beat a crafty southpaw like Trout.

Schaefer didn’t want his “Golden Goose” Canelo to be plucked clean by Trout before he laid those beautiful golden eggs for Golden Boy through high pay-per-view sales. Believe me, if Trout plucks the golden goose on April 20th, it’s going to keep Canelo from laying those golden eggs for a long time, perhaps permanently. It’s going to stop up his golden egg laying apparatus something fierce.



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