Canelo’s trainer: We are ready for Sergio Martinez or Mayweather on September 14th

By Boxing News - 04/25/2013 - Comments

canelo765By Dan Ambrose: Eddie Reynoso, the trainer for WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canel” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s), says that they are targeting Floyd Mayweather Jr. and/or Sergio Martinez for Canelo’s next fight date on September 14th in a fight that will likely be put back in Texas.

No word about the open scoring that the World Boxing Council used to great effect, but you’d have to figure that’ll be part of the deal as well. Having the fight in Texas plus semi-open scoring for Canelo’s next fight, which would likely be a deal breaker for landing Mayweather or Martinez.

Reynoso said to Vanguardia.com.mx “We are ready for the big fights; we are ready for Mayweather and Maravilla. They are rivals that really interest us, and hopefully they want this because Canelo is ready.”

Mayweather isn’t going to fight someone that out-weighs him by 25 pounds like Canelo, so Reynoso needs to tell Canelo in plain language that he needs to forget about that fight ever happening. Until Canelo is ready to fight the cruiserweights that are 25 pounds heavier than him like Marco Huck or even a super middleweight like Andre Ward, he needs to forget all about Mayweather.

He’s just wasting his breath and coming across as desperate. If Canelo is as popular as his fans think he is then he and his trainer don’t need to hound Mayweather for a fight. Instead, Canelo should be fighting guys in his own weight class – super middleweight to cruiserweight – and be content to fight guys that weight as much as him.

Martinez may or may not take a fight with Canelo. I haven’t heard that he was interested in facing him. Martinez wants to fight a rematch with former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. later on this year. A fight against Canelo is impossible with the two fighters having their fights televised on different networks.

Martinez fights on HBO, and Canelo fights on Showtime. That right there tells you they will never fight until one of them moves to a different network. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

Miguel Cotto has been mentioned as a possibility for Canelo but I don’t think he’ll agree to the fight unless Golden Boy makes a huge, huge offer. Cotto probably won’t agree to fight in Texas and I don’t see him saying yes to open scoring, so that’ll be a real downer for Canelo I guess and the WBC.

If the WBC is going to insist that all of Canelo’s opponents agree to their open scoring in order to fight him, Canelo could be stuck with very opponents because who wants to be on the receiving end up lopsided scoring in Texas and having to change their game like Austin Trout did to make up rounds that shouldn’t have had to in the first place.

Canelo needs to fight Trout again to erase the doubts in the minds of boxing fans about Canelo’s controversial 12 round decision over him. That decision will follow Canelo around like a skunk for the remainder of his career unless he can clear it up by showing that he can beat Trout without controversy, without open scoring and in a fight outside of Texas.



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