By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is really working hard in making his fighter WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez sound than he actually is in reality. Schaefer is now saying that Shane Mosley thinks Canelo is the fastest fighter he’s ever been in with.
Schaefer said this to mlive.com “You ask Shane Mosley who is the fastest guy he ever fought, he’s going to say Canelo. His speed is vastly underrated, Shane said. And you saw a month ago, Canelo out-boxed the boxer in Austin Trout.”
I’ve seen Mosley’s fights between a young Oscar De La Hoya, his fight against Manny Pacquiao as well as his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2010, and I have to say that all three of those fighters were much faster against Mosley than Canelo was in his win over Mosley last year. It’s not even close.
Pacquiao and Mayweather are so much faster, and De La Hoya is probably still faster than Canelo to this day. I find it hard to believe that Mosley thinks Canelo is faster than those guys because that just doesn’t make sense.
It makes you wonder if Mosley was just saying positive stuff about Canelo because he felt that’s what Schaefer wanted to hear. Schaefer should know himself how much faster De La Hoya, Mayweather and Pacquiao were and are just by looking at the Youtube videos of those fights.
I don’t rate Canelo as being a fast fighter. He wasn’t as fast as Trout, and he’s definitely not as fast as Erislandy Lara. I see Caneo as being faster than Alfredo Angulo, but that’s not saying much because Angulo is incredibly slow. Vanes Martirosyan is probably even faster than Canelo as well.
It just makes me wonder what Schaefer is thinking by talking about Canelo as being a fast fighter. That’s not what the guy is. Canelo is just heavy for the junior middleweight weight class, and given the fact that he fights a lot of welterweights for some reason, that gives him even more of a weight advantage over his opponents.
With Golden Boy Promotions pulling up welterweights for Canelo to fight time after time, he does well with his weight advantage.
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