(PHOTO CREDIT: Gene Blevins – Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions) By Dan Ambrose: Showing a big hint of favoritism to his young fighter WBC junior middleweight Saul “Canelo Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) at today’s media workout to promote Canelo’s fight with WBA 154 lb. champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) this month on April 20th at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya said “Canelo is on the fight path and April 20th is going to show is if he’s able to make that jump.”
I have a strong feeling that Canelo’s path is about to get blocked in a major way by the 27-year-old Trout in this fight. There honestly hasn’t been much of a path for Canelo aside from a bunch of easy fights against washed up smaller fighters and tiny handful of guys at 154 that were well past their best by the time Canelo fought them.
If this is the path for super stardom then that’s a pretty sad statement for boxing because Canelo has been spoon fed soft opposition up until now. He hasn’t fought Erislandy Lara, Vanes Martirosyan, Cornelius Bundrage, Sergio Martinez, Demetrius Andrade, Sergiy Rabchenko or Miguel Cotto.
Instead of those guys, Canelo has faced light welterweight Josesito Lopez, welterweight Matthew Hatton, welterweight Kermit Cintron, past his best junior middleweight Ryan Rhodes, past their best welterweights Carlos Baldomir, Shane Mosley and Lovemore N’dou.
There just hasn’t been any quality at all that Canelo has been in with, and it makes you want to laugh to hear De La Hoya saying that Canelo has been on the path of super stardom. That’s a pretty sad path if De La Hoya sees it as the path to greatness. It seems to be the path to an inflated record filled with past their best smaller fighters rather than guys that you would think would lead to super stardom.
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