By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya is reporting that the unification bout between WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) and WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) could be off the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero May 4th card. Instead, the Canelo-Trout fight could be taking place on April 20th in San Antonio, Texas.
De La Hoya said on his twitter “Canelo vs. Trout possibly heading to San Antonio, April 20.”
Well, this is better than having Canelo duck Trout altogether, I guess. What De La Hoya isn’t say is the reason why Canelo won’t be fighting on the Mayweather-Guerrero card on May 4th, and that reason is because Canelo was trying to make a deal with Mayweather to where Canelo would fight on his undercard on May 4th for him to agree to fighting Canelo on September 14th.
The problem is Canelo doesn’t quite have the cache yet to pull off a move like this given that Canelo is still a totally unproven fighter in the junior middleweight. He’s a belt holder, but he’s still kind of a prospect at this stage because he still hasn’t faced the best fighters at 154.
Canelo has been facing pumped up welterweights and light welterweights and pas their best junior middleweights, but no one of quality yet.
That’s the problem Canelo, and of course Mayweather wasn’t going to cave in on Canelo’s deal. I’m surprised Canelo even tried this move because he just doesn’t have the experience or the popularity to be dictating to the #1 fighter in boxing.
It’s too soon and we still don’t know if Canelo is just a bunch of a hype because he still faced a top fighter for you to believe in him. All you can say is he’s done a great job of beating the smaller guys that have been moving up in weight to face him.
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