By Dan Ambrose: If you saw Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer at yesterday’s weigh-in with WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather Jr., you’d think that Schaefer was ready to break out the pom poms and start cheerleading after Canelo made the 152 lb. catch-weight. Schaefer was all over Canelo, praising him for simply doing his job by coming in at the agreed upon weight.
Schaefer says likes how calm Canelo was at the weigh-in where he showed little emotion during the whole event other than smiling once at Mayweather during the stare down, and getting upset when Mayweather suggested that he hold one side of the WBC’s newly created solid gold junior middleweight belt while Mayweather held the other side.
Schaefer told RingTV “There is a calmness in him. When he walked out, he had a smile on his face and was looking around like, ‘Hey, this is my night.’ You see a guy who is determined to make history on Saturday night. I mean, you saw that, right on the dot, he weighed 152. And he didn’t look like he had to lose a lot of weight….he’s not getting carried away by the magnitude of the event or the opponent.”
Is Schaefer kidding? Canelo looked terrible when he first walked out. You saw how Canelo immediately sat down when he first got out there. Canelo looked physically weak at that moment, and definitely not happy. Schaefer is saying that Canelo didn’t look like he’d lost a lot of weight. That’s hilarious. You can see how much weight Canelo lost simply by looking how huge Canelo was during the first All Access program.
Canelo looked like a light heavyweight in training for a bout against someone like Sergey Kovalev rather than a welterweight like Mayweather. Canelo looked like he lost at least 20-25 pounds of water weight in draining down to get to the 152 lb. catch-weight. It’s sad that Schaefer wasn’t able to see how drained Canelo looked, because Schaefer won’t have that as excuse for later on tonight after Mayweather gives the red-haired fighter a major whipping in front of the entire world.
As far as Canelo being calm and not showing much emotion, that’s standard for Canelo. He doesn’t show much emotion. He’s one of those guys with a flat affect much of the time, and you don’t get a sense whether he’s happy or sad. But that doesn’t mean anything. Canelo can be totally calm tonight and it’s not going to change anything. It’s just looked weird when the fight is getting way out of hand with him getting dominated and he’s still looking calm, as he’s got the fight in the bag when in reality he’s losing every round.
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