Jeff Mayweather: Canelo’s too flat-footed to beat Floyd Jr.

By Dan Ambrose: Jeff Mayweather, the uncle of undefeated boxing star Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s), feels that he has a big advantage over the younger, bigger and stronger WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) in their fight on September 14th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Jeff sees the 22-year-old Canelo as being too stationary of a fighter, too plodding to be able to beat a fighter like Floyd Jr.

Jeff said to thaboxingvoice.com, “Canelo’s very strong, he’s young, but Floyd’s too smart for him, and he’s [Canelo] too flat-footed. If Floyd goes back to the old Floyd, it’s going to be an easy, easy fight. He [Canelo’ has the same chance as anyone else has, a puncher’s chance.”

Jeff hit it right on the head in summing up Canelo’s talent and limitations as a fighter. Canelo is as strong horse and can hit like a ton of bricks, but he needs his feet to be set for him to punch like that, and he doesn’t move well or punch on the run.

Canelo also doesn’t throw more than one or two brief flurries in each round. He’s like Adrien Broner in that respect in that Canelo needs to take long breathers after expending energy with his little flurries. This will allow Mayweather Jr. to immediately fire on him with combinations while Canelo is trying to catch his breath.

Canelo needs these rest breaks just like Broner does, and he fights in the same flat-footed manner as him. If you look at Canelo’s physique, it’s almost identical to Broner’s, only that Canelo is a lot heavier at 172 compared to the 146 pound Broner.

All Mayweather Jr. has to do to win is use movement, a quick jab and fast combinations and he’ll easily beat Canelo. Mayweather Jr. just needs to make sure he doesn’t stand in front of Canelo because that’s what the wide-bodied Canelo needs him to do I order for him to have a chance to win the fight.