By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) has a rematch clause in his contract with WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) in case Canelo loses their April 20th fight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The interesting part is that if Canelo loses the fight, he gets an immediate rematch with Trout, but if Trout loses, he doesn’t get a rematch.
Louie Burke, the trainer for Trout, said to the elpasotimes.com “There is a rematch clause in the contract. If Canelo wins, there is no rematch. But, if Austin wins, there is a rematch clause for Canelo.”
That’s nice, isn’t it? Canelo gets a rematch if he loses, but Trout doesn’t. I wonder why Trout doesn’t get a rematch if he loses. I think it’s pretty obvious. Canelo is considered the bigger name the bigger money guy, so he gets to move on without having to fight Trout again if he wins the fight, but Trout being less popular probably didn’t have the cache to get this put in the contract.
The crowd is expected to be 40,000 or more by April 20th when the two fighters step inside the ring with most of the boxing fans coming to see the 22-year-old Canelo rather than Trout. 35,000 tickets have reportedly been sold for the fight with 10 days to go.
The ticket sales have been helped along dramatically by Canelo insisting on the lowest cost tickets be sold for only $10 instead of $25. How many more tickets were sold because of this is unknown, but I’d be willing to bet that this is one of the driving reasons why there is such a big crowd for the fight.
Canelo was wise to have the tickets sold at a bargain basement price because it’s going to give the impression to boxing fans watching the fight on Showtime from home that Canelo is already a huge star.
The reality is Canelo is very popular with Mexican fans, but he’s still totally unproven at 154, which is what this fight with Trout is all about. Canelo has his first real fight and he’s going to have to prove whether he’s for real or just a fighter that Golden Boy has boosted to the top with help from their careful matchmaking.
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