(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Allan Fox: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is going to have to put the idea of him fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr. completely out of his mind because Mayweather Jr. dropped a pretty big hint yesterday at his media day that he doesn’t have any interest in fighting the 154 lb. Canelo in the future.
Mayweather said “Floyd Mayweather is closer to 40 then he is 21. No fighter can give me an ultimatum. So I wish him…”
This seems pretty clear that Mayweather won’t be fighting Canelo no matter what happens this Saturday night. Mayweather seems to be hinting that he’s too old to be fighting Canelo and he also is pointing out that he didn’t like the ultimatum that Canelo gave him recently when Mayweather was hoping that he would fight on his undercard on May 4th. Canelo said he would only do it if Mayweather would agree to fight him in September.
That didn’t go over too well with the much more accomplished Mayweather because it came across like Canelo was putting himself on the same level as him despite Canelo still not having proven himself as being anywhere close to Mayweather in terms of what he’s accomplished in the ring and as far as pay per view. Canelo still hasn’t headlined his own PPV card and he plans on doing that in September.
Recently, Mayweather said that he and Canelo are fighting in different divisions and that he’s closer to being a 140 pounder than he is 154 pounder. What this means is that if Canelo wanted to fight Mayweather, he would likely have to move down to 147 and fight him at that weight for the fight to happen. The question is can Canelo still get down to 147 without draining himself?
I think he could somehow make the weight, but I doubt that he would handle it well. Mayweather would have an advantage over him. Canelo would likely rehydrate back up to 160+ by the time the fight started, so Mayweather would still be fighting a guy that is essentially a middleweight or super middleweight.
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