By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) stopped off at the Golden Boy Promotions headquarters today to meet with the head honchos Oscar De La Hoya and Richard Schaefer to try and decide on who Canelo will be facing next on September 14th this year.
Golden Boy will make a strong attempt to get 32-year-old Miguel Cotto to take the fight with Canelo, but it’s going to take a lot of money to get him to agree. Cotto has lost his last two fights and he may not be excited about being in the position of being used as an old lion for Canelo to tear up and build his name on.
If I’m Cotto’s promoter, I wouldn’t take the fight unless Golden Boy could promise $10 million and there was a rehydration clause mixed in to keep Canelo from going over 160 lbs. Cotto is a former light welterweight and he’s bulked up to junior middleweight, but he’s not a natural 154 pounder and neither is Canelo.
I see Canelo as a natural super middleweight, but who melts down water weight to fight smaller guys at 154. When you get a fighter that balloons up to 172 lbs after making the 154 pound limit like Canelo does, that tells you that he’s fighting in the wrong division. He should be fighting the likes of super middleweight Andre Ward, Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler instead of guys at 154.
Canelo says he wants Floyd Mayweather Jr. next and Golden Boy would like nothing better than to make that fight because it would bring lots and lots of money to the promotional company. That fight is probably a pipe dream on their part, especially with the way that Canelo pulled out of Mayweather’s May 4th fight card after failing to get Mayweather to sign on the dotted line to face him in September.
That move may have permanently ruined Canelo’s chances of ever getting the Money man to fight him. That’s not the only reason that Mayweather won’t fight Canelo. There’s also the fact of the matter that Canelo rehydrates to over 170 lbs when he fights, while Mayweather sticks right at 150. That’s 20+ weight advantage for Canelo.
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