By Dan Ambrose: The tickets for the April 20th unification bout between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) will be going on sale this Monday, March 11th. This is the fight to determine who the best fighter is at 154, and it’s one of those bouts that you don’t want to miss because we could see a real surprise in this fight with someone getting badly exposed.
Canelo, 22, badly wants to avenge the loss of his brother Rigoberto Alvarez, who Trout easily beat by a lopsided 12 round by the scores of 119-108, 119-108 and 119-108.
Rigoberto has the same kind of fighting style as Canelo except that he’s a bigger version at 5’11” compared to 5’9”. It was too easy for Trout, as he picked Rigoberto apart in easily out-boxing him.
Rigoberto desperately tried to fight out of the southpaw stance to take Trout’s southpaw advantage away from him, but it no use. Trout was simply the better athlete and he easily schooled Rigoberto. You have to imagine that if Trout could do that against a bigger, more versatile Canelo-like fighter then it’s pretty clear that Trout is going to do the same thing with Canelo on April 20th.
Canelo told RingTV “This is more than personal. He beat my brother and I’m very proud that this is happening. So I really, really want this fight. I’m not just coming to have a fight, I’m not coming just to play around. Like I said, this is personal for me.”
That’s going to make Trout’s job even easier because Canelo will be fighting with anger instead of intelligence, and he’s going to get picked apart by Trout.
Canelo is going to try and overpower Trout, and Trout already knows he’s going to do this because he’s seen Canelo’s previous fights. Canelo tries to overpower everyone, and he’s gotten away doing this because Golden Boy has matched him up against so many smaller guys at welterweight and light welterweight, as well as a bunch past their prime fighters.
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