By Dan Ambrose: It looks like Golden Boy Promotions is continuing with their trend of matching WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s) against nothing but soft opposition. The 21-year-old Alvarez will be facing 40-year-old Shane Mosley (46-7-1, 39 KO’s) on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto fight on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to Oscar De La Hoya, the president of Golden Boy Promotions.
De La Hoya just made the announcement on his twitter “May 5th Mayweather vs. Cotto, Canelo vs. Mosley done deal.”
This going to be a tough fight for Mosley and it’s going to be difficult for him to get through it without getting knocked out or at the minimum taking a severe pounding. Mosley obviously wants the payday otherwise he wouldn’t have signed on for this, but I just hope Alvarez takes it easy on him and doesn’t beat him too badly.
Mosley looked terrible in his last fight against Manny Pacquiao last May and treated it like a glorified sparing match. It was sad to see, but this will be far worse because of how young Alvarez is compared to Mosley.
If this was a prime Mosley, I wouldn’t mind so much because he would he would likely easily beat Alvarez. But Mosley hasn’t looked the same since he beat Antonio Margarito in January 2009. That was a long time ago, and Mosley wasted 16 months before he saw action again.
Alvarez has looked good in beating the guys like Golden Boy Promotions has lined up for him in the past year. He hasn’t faced anyone that you could consider a real threat to him and that obviously won’t change with the 40-year-old Mosley being put in with him.
The addition of Mosley-Alvarez will give the Mayweather vs. Cotto fight card a real shot in the arm because it will give the card two big names that will help attract the casual boxing fans.
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