By Dan Ambrose: We’re hearing that WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez is hard at work in training for his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. for later this year. Canelo reportedly is working as hard as Mayweather Jr. is in training camp, and Canelo’s camp feels this will help him triumph over Mayweather when they face each other at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
However, sometimes it really doesn’t matter how much training a fighter does; if he doesn’t have the basic talent and boxing brain, he’s going to lose the fight even if he works himself to the bone in training camp.
When you train yourself the best that you can do, you’re still pretty much where you were in your previous fights, and I’m not sure that’s going to be enough for the young Canelo.
If you’re starting point is well beneath Mayweather in talent, then I don’t think there;s much change that takes place by working even harder. If anything, Canelo could end up hurting himself by over-training. In fact, I see that happening in this fight.
Canelo wants to work hard on his conditioning so that he doesn’t run out of gas like he did in his last fight against Austin Trout, but I think Canelo’s conditioning problems is one of those things that is in-fixable. He is what he is. He’s a slugger type that will likely always have problems with his stamina and working hard in training camp won’t change it.
If Canelo has been having these problems for years now, then he’s not going to be able to change it in on camp because he’s already been working hard on this problem for years and it’s not getting better.
The only thing Canelo can do is to try and be smarter by working at a slower pace like George Foreman used to do when he learned how to pace himself. Canelo needs to make sure that he fights Mayweather as slow as possible because if he gasses out in this fight then he’s going to get badly beaten and embarrassed.
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