By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) is a decent champion and he’s done a great job of beating the welterweights that Golden Boy Promotions has lined him up with for him to win the World Boxing Council 154 pound title and hold onto it for an entire year, but if Golden Boy goes ahead and matches him up against WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) on May 4th, then I see Alvarez losing badly and getting exposed in the process. Alvarez is too flat-footed, slow and stamina-plagued to beat a fighter in Trout’s class.
Alvarez, 22, is kind of in a bad position right now to where he kind of has to fight Trout to avoid looking bad in the eyes of boxing fans. The plan was that he was supposed to fight the winner of the Miguel Cotto vs. Trout battle, at least that’s what the idea was.
I guess Trout wasn’t supposed or Golden Boy didn’t think he was. You could see it in Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer’s eyes that he wasn’t exactly over-joyed when he was talking about the prospects of Trout fighting Alvarez.
Trout himself said he wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t get the fight with Canelo because he says that Canelo is Golden Boy’s “Golden Goose” and he doesn’t see them wanting to put Canelo in a risky fight against him. But we’ll see real soon because Golden Boy is going to have to make a decision on who will be facing Alvarez in the coming weeks in order to market the fight properly before May 4th.
If Alvarez chooses not to fight Trout and ends up fighting another welterweight or worse, another old fighter, it’s going to make Alvarez look bad in the eyes of a lot of boxing fans. Golden Boy president Oscar De La Hoya says that his promotional company are trying to change boxing one fight at a time to make it better, but if that’s what De La Hoya considers improving the sport then I’m not interested in seeing the new era.
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