By Eric Thomas: According to RingTV, WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) is expected to announce his next fight on Wednesday at his license hearing with the NSAC. The leading candidate is thought to be WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s), who would be perfect for Mayweather’s May 5th fight date at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
May 5th is the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo, and it’s important for Mayweather to choose a Mexican fighter so that he can take advantage of the large Mexican population that will be celebrating the holiday and might be more inclined to purchase one of Mayweather’s fights on pay per view if he’s facing a Mexican opponent.
Miguel Cotto is also said to be a possibility. However, his promoter Bob Arum has said that Mayweather won’t get him. In other words, Arum could be using him for Manny Pacquiao in June or else promising Cotto a fight against WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. if he can get by challenger Marco Antonio Rubio on Saturday night in San Antonio, Texas.
Mayweather wanted to fight Pacquiao, but was met with stiff resistance from Arum, who provided a number of roadblocks that constantly changed from day to day until finally Arum settled on one main them – that of Mayweather not agreeing to a 50-50 purse split with Pacquiao. Once that was revealed, Arum quickly started plans for a four fighter tournament for Pacquiao, which could keep him busy for the entire year. So there’s a strong possibility that Mayweather Jr. won’t get a shot against Pacquiao until 2013 if then.
Alvarez-Mayweather should be a good if Alvarez is the one that gets picked. He doesn’t have much in the way of experience but he’s looked good in beating veterans like Ryan Rhodes, Kermit Cintron and Matthew Hatton.
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