(Photo credit: Trapp/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) isn’t much of a puncher when it comes to throwing head shots. His specialty is to throw body shots. If he’s got an opponent that stands directly in front of him without moving, Canelo is incredibly dangerous with body punching.
Canelo is like a mini Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. when it comes to throwing to the body. Unfortunately for him, Canelo is facing a modern fighter on April 20th in WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) that isn’t the type that just stands there foolishly letting his opponents throw punches to the body.
Trout moves around the ring, and keeps a wide distance between him and his opponents. If you look at any of his fights, Trout is too far back for his shorter-armed opponents like Canelo to throw body shots. That doesn’t mean that Canelo still won’t try to land to the body, but we’ll see a lot of desperate body shots thrown from a mile away, and it’s going to be incredibly easy for Trout to avoid those punches.
Canelo will basically plod after Trout for 12 rounds, looking for the opportunity to throw his body shots. He’ll get the opportunity now and then, but enough to where he’ll be able to get his full power behind the shots.
Canelo is one of those guys that needs to plant his feet to get full power on his punches. He can’t throw with power on the move, and he gets red in the face and tired if he’s forced to move quickly to pursue an opponent.
Canelo doesn’t have the stamina to face a modern fighter with good movement. His main weaponry, his body punching, is going to remain holstered for this fight because he won’t be able to use it. If you take away Canelo’s body punching the way that Trout will be doing on April 20th, Canelo is a pretty basic fighter and no better than guys that Trout has already beaten before like Canelo’s brother Rigoberto Alvarez and Delvin Rodriguez.
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