Trout: I’ve fought against fighters with Canelo’s style my whole life

By Boxing News - 04/18/2013 - Comments

Trout_KR6A1178(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) feels very at home fighting WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) this Saturday night because he’s fought a lot of guys with the same identical style throughout his whole life, so he knows what to expect from the 22-year-old Canelo.

Trout grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico and he’s fought lots of Mexican fighters with the Canelo style of fighting. Trout doesn’t believe that Canelo has fought too many guys with his style of fighting and that’s going to be the difference in this fight.

Trout said to ESPN about his recent win over Miguel Cotto: “I was good practice [for Canelo]. I’ve fought [Canelo’s] style of fight my whole life, being from Las Cruces, New Mexico, and fighting in this area. I’m not sure that he’s fought my style. The formula is the same.”

Canelo is a younger and slightly bigger version of Cotto. The power is basically the same between the two fighters. Canelo is no stronger than Cotto and his jab isn’t any better either. The only differences between the two are the younger age and the slightly bigger size for Canelo, and that’s probably not going to be enough for Canelo to beat Trout on Saturday.

Cotto has faster feet than Canelo and is able to move around the ring at a slightly faster pace. You can probably make a strong argument that Cotto is offensively superior to Canelo.

Trout is correct about Canelo not having fought against anyone with his style of fighting. There’s no one on Canelo’s entire resume that is anything like Trout at all.

Look at the guys that Canelo has faced and you tell me if they’re similar: Carlos Baldomir, Matthew Hatton, Alfonso Gomez, Shane Mosley, Luciano Leonel Cuello, Ryan Rhodes, Lanardo Tyner, Brian Camechis, Josesito Lopez, and Kermit Cintron.

There’s simply no one on Canelo’s resume that is even kind of like Trout and that’s going to be a problem for the young Canelo. He’s got a ton of confidence built on the backs of largely 2nd and 3rd tier opposition.

Cintron, Mosley and Baldomir were good fighters in their primes, but by the time that Canelo got to them they were way, way, way past their primes. Even in their primes, they weren’t like Trout at all.



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