By Francisco Hernandez: Trainers in boxing have been often compared to bakers. Just like bakers who need to know the exact time when to take the bread out of the oven, so boxing trainers need to know the exact moment when to launch their boxing pupils into big fights. Knowing how to bake bread is an art, knowing how to build fighters no less. Many great prospects in boxing have been exposed before their time by stupid trainers and managers, others have been held back so much that by the time they take a big fight they are grandfathers.
El Canelo has been baking according to plan, the first stage of his formation as a boxer was to fight club fighters. Canelo has now entered his second stage of formation. He is fighting experienced boxers who can test his thinking abilities in the ring, but that don’t present a severe physical challenge because they are older fighters. If Canelo can overwhelm these fighters easily, knocking all or most of them out, then he should be ready for the big fights, his time in the oven is over. If he easily beats Ndou, this should be an indication that he is ready for the big fights. Mathew Hatton tied with Ndou last year, and Hatton is now being touted as the great Welterweight menace. They are probably building Hatton up to face Pacquiao in yet another pick the bum fight.
Canelo fights in the Welterweight division and it is not like Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran, Benitez, and Leonard, are still around. Canelo faces the prospect of fighting average but competitive fighters like Andre Berto, or a master boxer like Floyd Mayweather, but who cannot punch, he has damaged fists, and he needs to wrap them up in huge mounds of gauze which prevent any type of knockout power. Pacquiao will never fight Canelo, Pacquiao who without the advantage of draining and picking fighters, will never agree to fight anyone in Welterweight. He could fight the menace of the welterweight division –Mathew Hatton. Canelo therefore doesn’t have much to fear in the Welterweight division, even at his young age. But in the end it is his team which will decide when the baking is done, so far they are doing a good job.
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