By Dan Ambrose: Paulie Malignaggi doesn’t know who to pick in the April 20th match-up 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) at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Malignaggi sees it a fight that can go either way, but he’s especially concerned about it going badly for the flat-footed Canelo.
Malignaggi said to hustleboss.com “It’s a tricky fight for Canelo. It’s not going to be easy.”
The way that Malignaggi said this was as if Canelo is going to be deep, deep trouble when he steps inside the ring with the slick southpaw Trout. Since Malignaggi is working for Showtime as an analyst, he’s not going to come out and just say what he feels about Canelo about to be exposed big time by Trout, so he’s kind of tip-toeing around and dropping huge hints about what he does likely feel will happen to the 22-year-old Canelo when he gets in the ring with the slick, long-armed Trout.
It kind of goes without saying that Canelo has had things pretty easy with his career due to the soft match-making done for him by Golden Boy Promotions since they started promoting him. Oscar De La Hoya and Richard Schaefer have done a spectacular job of putting Canelo in with older, smaller and stationary fighters that Canelo could succeed against. With Trout, didn’t want this fight at all.
This is Canelo’s decision to fight Trout, and we’re going to see why it’s not a good idea for fighters that have been spoon fed to try and take themselves off the spoon feeding when Canelo faces Trout next month in San Antonio.
Obviously, Schaefer and De La Hoya know what they have in Canelo because that’s why they’ve matching him against guys like Alfono Gomez, Josesito Lopez, Carlos Baldomir, Lovemore N’dou, Jose Miguel Cotto, Kermit Cintron instead of guys like Trout, Erislandy Lara and Vanes Martirsyan.
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