By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. doesn’t see WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez as having a chance to beat his son Floyd Mayweather Jr. on September 14th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather Sr. believes that the young 22-year-old Canelo is missing the main ingredients to beat Floyd Jr – speed, ring mobility and experience. Due to those missing ingredients not being there, Mayweather Sr. sees Canelo losing every round to his Floyd Jr. when they face each other at the MGM Grand on Showtime pay per view.
Mayweathe Sr. told Hustleboss.com “I don’t think he [Canelo] has the experience, the speed, the mobility. He’s definitely not as good as Floyd. When you add those things up you come up with shutout…all those fights he had was in Mexico.”
Canelo is considered to be a fighter with good hand speed, but I don’t agree with that. Canelo isn’t that fast, and that’s why he doesn’t get a lot of knockouts from one punch. His opponents can see the punches coming and that’s why they’re able to take his shots. Canelo definitely doesn’t move well around the ring, and I rate him behind Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. with his ability to move.
It’s true that Canelo has fought the vast majority of his fights during his career in Mexico against less than stellar opposition. Of his 43 fights during his career, Canelo has fought 36 of them in Mexico. His seven fights in the United States has come against the following opposition: Shane Mosley, Matthew Hatton, Alfonso Gomez, Jose Miguel Cotto, Josesito Lopez, Austin Trout, and Carlos Baldomir. Those aren’t really top fighters with the exception Trout, who Canelo fought in San Antonio, Texas in a fight that the World Boxing Council used open scoring.
Mayweather Sr. isn’t happy that Floyd Jr. agreed to the 152 lb. catch-weight to fight Canelo, because he thinks that Canelo should have been able to come down from 154 to take the fight so that it would be a halfway catch-weight.
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