Alvarez: I want Mayweather or Cotto after Mosley fight

By Boxing News - 03/24/2012 - Comments

Image: Alvarez: I want Mayweather or Cotto after Mosley fightBy Dan Ambrose: 21-year-old WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s) doesn’t believe in taking things slowly with his career, as he faces Shane Mosley (46-7-1, 39 KO’s) on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alvarez is expected to win that fight without problems. Once he gets past Mosley. Alvarez is targeting unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. or WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto for his next fight.

Speaking with esnewsreporting.com, Alvarez said “First of all, I want to win this fight [Mosley] in order to get the big fights. I want to get the Mayweathers, the Cottos. My mind is in this fight first and then we go for them.”

Ideally, Alvarez will be looking to ONLY fight the winner of the Mayweather-Cotto fight, which also takes place on May 5th in the same MGM venue in Las Vegas, because it’ll look bad for Alvarez if he’s seen facing two consecutive fighters that were coming off of losses at the time they fought him. Mosley was beaten in his last fight by Manny Pacquiao last May by a lopsided 12 round decision, and yet Alvarez is still fighting Mosley.

Strangely enough, Mosley wasn’t ranked in the top 15 when Alvarez signed to fight him but now Mosley is ranked at #3 by the WBC. That’s kind of crazy given that Mosley hasn’t won a fight in three years and has lost two out of his last three fights with his other non-loss being a controversial 12 round draw with Sergio Mora in September 2010 in a fight that a lot of boxing fans saw Mosley losing. However, Alvarez will take heat from fans if he faces the loser of the Mayweather-Cotto fight instead of someone that’s actually winning fights. He’s probably not going to get a chance at the loser because if it’s Mayweather, he’ll be looking to fight Cotto immediately in a rematch. And if it’s Cotto that loses, he’s likely going to be put back on a soft diet of weaker opponents like the ones he’s been facing since he got beaten by Pacquiao in 2009.



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