Broner picks Mayweather over Canelo by stoppage

By Boxing News - 09/11/2013 - Comments

10(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Eric Thomas: Adrien Broner has no doubts in his mind that his “big brother” Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) will take care of business on Saturday night against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

While Mayweather Jr. isn’t what you’d call a knockout puncher, Broner thinks he’s got enough power to stop the stocky Canelo late in this fight. Broner sees it lasting 9 or 10 rounds before Mayweather Jr. gets to Canelo and takes him out with some big shots.

Mayweather Jr. doesn’t have junior middleweight power for him to be stopping someone as large as Canelo. Sometimes a lighter fighter can stop a bigger guy if he gets tired, but that might be the only way Mayweather will get a stoppage in this fight.

Broner told esnewsreporting “He’s going to stop him in the 9th or 10th.”

I don’t know that Mayweather Jr. has the kind of power to stop Canelo. Just looking at the size of Canelo’s head, it might take a fighter with enormous power to stop him with a shot.

It’s possible that Mayweather can stop Canelo if he runs out of gas from fatigue late in the fight, but for that to happen Mayweather Jr. will have to push the pace. He can’t let Canelo rest up against the ropes for 2 minutes of every round recharging his batter pack for 1 minutes of judge-pleasing power shots.

Canelo is like the Arthur Abraham of the junior middleweight division with his ability to land a small amount of power shots that help him win rounds against guys that land more punches. You can’t expect the 150 lb. Mayweather Jr. to be able to generate the same kind of power on his shots that the much heavier Canelo can.

That means that Mayweather Jr. will have to land a lot of punches if he’s going to stop Canelo. It’ll have to be a flurry thrown by Mayweather late in the fight with Canelo dog-tired for Mayweather to get him out of there. Canelo won’t let himself get tired like that. He’ll do what he did against Trout and retreat to the ropes and rest there while moving his head to make Mayweather’s punches miss.



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