By Chris Williams: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KO’s) is already a huge 12-1 underdog in some betting circles for his May 4th fight against WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Despite this, Guerrero isn’t bothered by being a big underdog since he sees the numbers narrowing as the fight gets closer and more is seen of him in training camp by the betting establishment.
Guerrero said to Bay Area radio station KNBR 680 They throw the odds out there and they start changing as the weeks go on. People start seeing what’s going on in the camps, how fighters are looking, how we’re training, how everything is going, then the odds start to change and they’re going to start changing here pretty soon.”
The numbers may go down but they might also increase depending on how good Mayweather Jr. looks in his training video on Showtime/CBS. They’ll be having a fight preview series similar to the 24/7 series that Mayweather made famous on HBO, but they’ll be titled differently.
Guerrero wants boxing fans to bet on him because he sees Mayweather as a fighter that has lost a couple of steps and can’t fight at a high enough level to beat him. Mayweather has aged, but I think he’s still looking more than good enough to beat Guerrero.
Mayweather did get hit a lot in his last fight against Miguel Cotto last year in May, but that was partly be design because Mayweather honestly seems to have changed his fighting style on purpose to make himself a more exciting fighter like his protégé WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner.
Mayweather no doubt has seen all the attention that Broner has received by using elements of Mayweather’s fighting style but taking more chances and bringing a lot more aggression to it. Mayweather is doing what Broner is doing now and that’s staying in the pocket and beating his opponents in a toe-to-toe manner. Guerrero is pretty good at fighting this way as well, but I think he’s going to come up short against Mayweather.
If anything I believe the betting odds will increase rather than narrowing because Guerrero is just too slow of hand, and he doesn’t have the power to be fighting at a high level at 147. Sure, he beat a rusty and out of shape Andre Berto, and an unproven Selcuk Aydin, but but those guys aren’t truly the best welterweight right now. The names have changed and the top guys are Devon Alexander, Kell Brook, Keith Thurman, Tim Bradley in addition to Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
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