Trout: I’m bigger and stronger than Canelo; I’m putting on a boxing clinic on Saturday

By Boxing News - 04/19/2013 - Comments

COMAIN EVENT_KR6A2172(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) sees himself as the bigger and stronger and more talented fighter compared to his shorter opponent WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) for this Saturday night at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

Trout said to eastsideboxing.com “They’re [the Alamodome fans] going to see a boxing clinic…If I see thing aren’t going well for me, I’ll change up…I feel I’m the bigger, stronger guy. I’m going to prove it on Saturday…they say he’s the stronger guy…he’s not. He hasn’t fought anyone my size.”

I agree with Trout. He does look like the bigger fighter, and even if he’s not quite the same puncher as Canelo, he punches hard enough to make it really close in the power department. The main differences between the two of them are the size advantage that Trout has in addition to his superior boxing skills and southpaw stance.

Trout is truly a nightmare opponent for any fighter, especially a flat-footed guy like Canelo who has been brought along in fights against smaller guys that stood directly in front of him to make it easy for his style.

I’ve said this before many times but I’ll say it again: Canelo is basically a smaller version of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in that he fights at a slow pace, doesn’t fight the full three minutes of every round because he needs rest breaks and he can’t fight on the move.

Canelo needs to be able to plant his feet squarely on the canvas for him to be able to throw with the kind of power that he does. He’s not someone that can punch on the move and change directions quickly. Canelo is like a little red-haired tank that is devastating if you’re smaller than him and if you stand directly in front of him so he can plant his feet and get his shots off.



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