Mosley: Canelo shouldn’t be in the ring with me

By Boxing News - 05/03/2012 - Comments

Image: Mosley: Canelo shouldn't be in the ring with me(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Allan Fox: Despite having little success in the ring in the past three years, 40-year-old Shane Mosley (46-7-1, 39 KO’s) thinks WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s) messed up by electing to fight him rather than some other safer target.

On Saturday, Mosley will be challenging the 21-year-old Alvarez on the same card as Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Miguel Cotto in an HBO pay per view bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mosley said this about the fight with Alvarez at the final press conference “Caneo is a good young fighter, but he probably shouldn’t be in the ring with me. It should have been somebody else. Hopefully, he can learn from it, learn from this fight and become a better fighter.”

Mosley sees flaws in Alvarez’s game and feels he can take advantage of those flaws. Alvarez sees Mosley as a scalp to add to his resume. It’s one of those fights where you can’t really count out Mosley because if he’s even got 75% of what he once had, it would be more than enough to beat Alvarez. Golden Boy Promotions has been protecting Alvarez, and for good reason because he can be out-boxed, as we saw in his fight against Alfonso Gomez.

Alvarez can also be hurt, which we saw when he was stunned by a furious early assault by Jose Miguel Cotto. Alvarez hasn’t faced any real quality fighters since he picked up the World Boxing Council title. He’s got the title, but it’s one of those weird situations where he has a title, but he’s still being treated like an up and coming fighter by being put in with beatable softer opposition rather than truly quality fighters capable of giving Alvarez a real test.

Mosley has had problems pulling the trigger with his punches in the last couple of years, and you got to figure that will continue to be the case on Saturday unless he can find recapture some of his dormant skills that he’s not shown in the last few years.



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