Canelo: The Trout-Cotto fight was close

By Boxing News - 03/24/2013 - Comments

cotto444By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) believes the Miguel Cotto vs. Austin Trout fight last December was a close one with very little difference between the winner and the loser of the fight. Trout won the fight by a fairly lopsided 12 round unanimous decision by the scores 117-111, 117-111, and 119-109.

Canelo said to esnewsreporting.com “It was very close. There wasn’t much difference between them.”

I’m not sure which fight Canelo was watching but the one that I saw was pretty one-sided after the fourth round. Cotto fought well in the first four rounds because Trout wasn’t throwing enough punches, but once he started letting his hands go from the 5th round on, it was embarrassingly one-sided with Cotto taking a beating and getting hurt. There was nothing close about the fight unless you see a one-sided beating as close fight.

I think it’s more a case of wishful thinking on Canelo’s part that Trout struggled with Cotto because I can see where it might make Canelo feel a little more secure about his own chances as his crucial fight with Trout approaches for next month on April 20th at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

If Canelo gets humiliated and badly beaten by Trout like some people think will happen, Canelo’s hopes of expanding into pay-per-view bouts will be down the drain for now. It’ll be a setback for him, and he’ll have to work his way back to where he is now by taking on a number of top fighters before the boxing public will forget about the loss.

Canelo won’t be able to fight the same old and over-the-hill welterweights that he fought since picking up the WBC strap in a fight against a fringe welterweight contender Matthew Hatton.

Canelo would have to be taken off the easy soft diet and put in with the top guys finally like Erislandy Lara. That could lead to another loss for Canelo, and I’d be surprised if Golden Boy would be willing to let Canelo take that kind of test, but it’s something they would need to do in order for him to erase the image of him losing to Trout in the minds of boxing fans.



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