Roach sees Mayweather Jr. having easy time beating Canelo on September 14th

By Boxing News - 08/11/2013 - Comments

Mayweather(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: Unlike a lot of people who see Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) as having to struggle to beat WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) in their fight on September 14th, trainer Freddie Roach sees this as an easy fight for Mayweather. Roach thinks Mayweather’s difficult to beat when he’s choosing to box his opposition rather giving them chances by choosing to mix it up.

Roach said in an interview with ewsnewsreporting.com “I think Mayweather wins easily. When he wants to box and he doesn’t take any chances, he’s very good at it. I think he’s going to win this fight easily.”

Roach does appear to have a good point. Canelo fights in a flat-footed manner, and he likes to load up with everything he throws at his opposition. Mayweather Jr. does very well against those types of opponents, because he’s able to hit with fast counter shots when they try to hit him with power punches. But with Canelo it’s even easier for Mayweather, mainly because Canelo doesn’t have the stamina to fight hard for long durations.

Canelo can’t even fight hard for short durations without needing a rest break after every brief flurry he throws. You can tell Canelo needs the rest breaks, as his face turns red, and he backs off and stops punching.

Canelo reminds me a lot of a bigger version of Juan Manuel Marquez, but without the ability to fight hard like him, and without the same counter punching ability. Canelo can counter puncher, but he’s slower than Marquez, and he’s obviously blessed with the same reflexes.

It’s pretty clear what Canelo is try to do against Mayweather. Canelo is going to try and cut off the, corner Mayweather, and trap him into exchanges. That’s about all Canelo can to do in this fight, because he’s not going to beat Mayweather Jr. with his speed. That’s not going to happen.

It’ll be suicide if Canelo fights like he did against Austin Trout last April in Texas, because this fight won’t be Texas, and he’s not going to get rounds handed to him based on landing 2 or 3 punches per round.



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