By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (44-1-1, 31 KOs) will be busy for the next three year with his new HBO contract which will have him fighting 3 times per year for the next 3 years, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.
Of those three fights per year, one of the fights will be a non-pay-per-view fight. You can read that to mean that Canelo will be taking on at least one soft touch per year or possibly more. Unfortunately just because Canelo is fighting on pay-per-view doesn’t necessarily mean he’s going to be facing a quality opponent.
We saw Canelo fighting Alfredo Angulo on Showtime PPV earlier this year, and if he was willing to have a horrible fight like that on PPV then it means that there isn’t a fight that he couldn’t potentially ask boxing fans to pay to see.
“I’m told @caneloOficial’s new deal with @HBOboxing calls for up to 3 fights per year over 3 yrs. At least 1 live HBO fight per year. #boxing,” Dan Rafael said on his Twitter.
Canelo’s next fight on 12/6 on HBO is expected to be Joshua Clottey in a fight on regular HBO. It’s a good thing that they’re not going to ask boxing fans to pay to see the Canelo-Clottey fight because that would have a lot of fans up in arm due to Clottey having been out of things for so long.
He did beat Anthony Mundine recently, but Mundine is almost 40-years-old, so it really doesn’t matter that Clottey was able to beat a 40-year-old version of Mundine. The fact is Clottey hasn’t been fighting or beating the top tier fighters in the junior middleweight division who aren’t near 40.
I’m not sure whose idea it was for Canelo to fight Clottey, but whoever it was, Canelo needed to overrule that decision because this is a really poor choice of an opponent. Canelo should have waited until they found a quality opponent for him rather than to rush into a fight against a guy whose claim to fame was losing a lopsided 12 round decision to Manny Pacquiao in 2010.
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