By Dan Ambrose: Boxing great Oscar De La Hoya has his mind made up about his fighter WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) beating the best fighter in the world in Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) on September 14th, and proving that he’s the new Golden Goose or as De La Hoya says, “the new rooster.”
Given the money that Canelo stands to make during his career for himself and Golden Boy Promotions, I like the name that Austin Trout came up with, “Golden Goose” for Canelo a lot better. Regardless of how badly Mayweather beats Canelo on September 14th, Canelo will be laying golden eggs for many years to come for Golden Boy and himself.
All Golden Boy needs to do is keep matching Canelo against welterweights, and Canelo will be laying eggs until he can no longer make the junior middleweight division. But even then, there’s no reason why welterweights can’t be persuaded to come up to the middleweight division to fight Canelo or the super middleweight division.
De La Hoya said to HBO “On September 14th there will be a new Rooster.”
Canelo echoed those thoughts, saying to his loyal fans “I am your Rooster. When I get in the ring I don’t even respect myself. On September 14th, he [Mayweather Jr.] will know who I am.”
I can’t really see the difference between Canelo and Victor Ortiz, one of Golden Boy’s other highly hyped fighters that Mayweather Jr. badly exposed. Canelo is slower than Ortiz, doesn’t jab as well, and definitely doesn’t move as fast as him. The only differences I can see between Ortiz and Canelo is the weight and a little bit more power for Canelo.
Ortiz is about 10 pounds lighter than Canelo, and he doesn’t hit quite as hard. But the power differences between Ortiz and Canelo are negligible. It’s not enough to make Canelo much better than him. Canelo does better against fighters that stand still than Ortiz, but then again if you gave Ortiz another 10 pounds of muscle and threw Josesito Lopez in the ring with him, of course he’s going to blast him out under those circumstances. But I don’t see much difference between Ortiz and Canelo in terms of overall skill.
I think Mayweather is going to turn Canelo into another Ortiz; except I don’t think Canelo will drop his gloves and let Mayweather Jr. tee off on him. But I see it going really badly for Canelo in the middle of the ring just as it was with Ortiz.
Canelo has that flat-footed fighting style that is going to really cripple him against Mayweather, and Canelo is too dependent on his body punching. That style is perfect for guys that stand in one place like the fighters that Golden Boy Promotions has been feeding Canelo all these years, but this is going to be a much different story with Mayweather on September 14th. Get ready to see Canelo get totally clowned by Mayweather.
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