Canelo wants rematch with Mayweather Jr; says outcome will be different next time

By Boxing News - 01/22/2014 - Comments

canelo8988By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-1-1, 30 KO’s) says he wants to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. again, and he thinks it’ll be a much different outcome than it was last September when he was beaten by a 12 round majority decision. Canelo thinks he’s learned from that fight, and will look to fix the mistakes he made if and when Floyd Jr. gives him a second chance. The judges scored the fight 116-112, 117-111 for Floyd, and 114-114 even. The judge that scored it a draw was C.J. Ross.

“I hope to fight him [Mayweather] once again in the future, and I promise you it’ll be much different,” Canelo said via Fighthub.

Mayweather’s next two fights in 2014 will need to tank pretty badly for him to want to fight Canelo again. Besides that, there are a couple of things that stand in the way for Canelo in trying to get a rematch with Mayweather. The first is he has to beat Alfredo Angulo (22-3, 18 KO’s) in their fight on March 8th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Canelo will also need to beat Miguel Cotto if the two of them can negotiate a fight. Cotto wants the Canelo fight after he faces Sergio Martinez in June.

With the soft opposition that Canelo has been fed up until he fought Mayweather, you can’t say that Angulo will be a slam dunk for the red-haired Canelo. Look at the guys that Canelo fought in his 7 previous fights before the Mayweather fight: Austin Trout [no power and timid], Josesito Lopez [a light welterweight dragged up to 154], Shane Mosley [over-the-hill welterweight], Kermit Cintron [past his best welterweight], Alfonso Gomez [who?], Ryan Rhodes [at the end of his career British fighter] and Matthew Hatton [a fringe welterweight contender pulled up to fight Canelo at a catch-weight for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title instead of Canelo fighting a 154 lb. contender. Contender failed to make catch-weight].

Despite Canelo being a hugely popular fighter with some fans, he’s still largely an unproven fighter at 154. What this means is that Angulo could very well beat Canelo and it wouldn’t even be an upset. You could call it an upset if Canelo had beaten top guys at 154 to prove that he deserves to be a favorite over Angulo, but he hasn’t done that. Look at the names of Canelo’s opponents since moving up to 154: Trout, Lopez, Mosley, Cintron, Gomez, Rhodes and Hatton. Where’s Erislandy Lara or Vanes Martirosyan?



Comments are closed.