By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0, 30 KO’s) has been confirmed for May 4th on the Floyd Mayweather Jr. undercard at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to Steve Kim. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer says Canelo will be on the Mayweather pay per view card, which could mean that we might be seeing a fight between Mayweather and Canelo in September.
Canelo had previously said that the only way he’d fight on Mayweather’s May 4th fight card is if he agrees to fight him in September. If that is the case then it’s likely a fight that is a guaranteed one regardless of what happens to Canelo in his fight on May 4th.
Alvarez could be facing WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout. That’s going to be a really tough fight for Canelo if he takes it because he’s a pretty one-dimensional fighter, and Trout is good at exposing those types. Canelo will have to find another gear if he wants to clearly beat Trout because the way he’s been fighting recently it won’t happen.
Trout would school the Canelo that beat 40-year-old Shane Mosley and light welterweight Josesito Lopez. Canelo is too flat-footed, and he’ll have to improve if he wants to beat Trout. It’s going to be tough because at 22, Canelo is probably as fast as he’s ever going to be, and that’s not fast enough to beat a guy like Trout.
What Golden Boy Promotions doesn’t want is to see Canelo get beaten or being given a controversial 12 round decision over Trout because it’ll really kill a lot of the interest in a Canelo vs. Mayweather Jr. fight by the fans that see the May 4th card. Canelo has to not only beat Trout on May 4th, he has to beat him in an impressive fashion and that may not be possible for Canelo to do either. He’s too slow, too flat footed and too limited to beat Trout.
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