By Dan Ambrose: 20-year-year-old Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) and his management are kidding themselves if they want this kid to stay at welterweight and fight for the WBA welterweight paper title against little known Vyacheslav Senchenko next year. It’s a waste of a time to have Alvarez, now the WBC Silver junior middleweight champion, boil down to make 147 just to pick up this worthless paper title that no one will care about. These worthless trinkets have no meaning unless they’re won against fighters that boxing fans that really care about.
Senchenko is pretty much a nonentity in United States among casual and hardcore boxing fans. As such, Golden Boy Promotions might as well spare Alvarez the ordeal of having to melt down to 147 to take this fight against Senchenko. I wouldn’t even waste time fighting Matthew Hatton either. That’s not worth it. Alvarez is too big to fight at welterweight anymore without the risk of hurting himself by having to take off massive amounts of water weight and/or muscle just to squeeze down there.
I can understand GBP wanting Alvarez to drop back down to welterweight for a big fight against someone like Shane Mosley, Manny Pacquiao, Andre Berto or Floyd Mayweather Jr but not against Senchenko or Hatton. That’s not worth the trouble that Alvarez would have to undertake to get back down in weight. What they need to do is position Alvarez against the top junior middleweights in 2011, such as Alfredo Angulo, Kermit Cintron, Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito, Erislandy Lara, Vanes Martirosyan, Yuri Foreman, Cornelius Bundradge. Sergeii Dzinziruk and Fernando Guerrero.
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