Trout: Canelo’s style won’t give me problems

By Boxing News - 04/16/2013 - Comments

canelo211By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) isn’t worried about the flat-footed fighting style of his opponent WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) for their fight this Saturday night.

Trout is more concerned with the skills that the 22-year-old Canelo has than his plodding style of fighting because he understands completely the type of fighter Canelo is because he’s been in with his types many, many times in the past. It’s the Chavez Jr. style of fighting, and he knows how to defeat that style.

Trout said to the Press Enterprise “We don’t think his style is necessarily going to give up problems, but the skills that he brings within that style are going to be bit of a problem. “

I think Canelo is going to have to show more than he has in the past if he wants to win this fight because he’s not going to be able to beat Trout if he can’t get out of 1st gear.

The main argument about Canelo ever making it to be one of the great fighters is he fights in such a slow, plodding style that it seems like he doesn’t have the stamina or the foot speed to shift into 2nd gear, even when he has his mostly smaller opponents hurt.

Canelo continues to fight like he’s incapable of finding that 2nd gear. Against Trout, Canelo is going to have to find not only the 2nd gear, but 3rd, 4th and 5th, and I don’t think that’s realistic. He fights in too much of a slow manner for him to be able to step it up, and perhaps that’s why his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions has been so reluctant to put him in with the southpaw Trout because the chances are too high that Canelo will get exposed by the fighter and embarrassed before he even starts making them big money in pay per view.

Golden Boy wants Canelo, the Golden Goose, to lay the golden eggs for them, but that’s not going to happen if Trout beats him and exposes him to all the boxing fans that will be watching the fight on Showtime.



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