Canelo is going to make GGG pay for his trash talking says De La Hoya

By Boxing News - 08/12/2018 - Comments

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By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya says Saul Canelo Alvarez is planning on making Gennady Golovkin pay for his trash talking that he’s been doing about him calling him the dirtiest fighter that he’s ever fought before.

De La Hoya says Canelo, 27, is going to make adjustments to Golovkin’s straight ahead style of fighting like he did in the first fight, and if he’s unable to cut off the ring on him, then it’s his problem. In other words, Canelo is going to use movement against Golovkin like he did in their fight last year on September 16 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

De La Hoya says Canelo reminds him of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Sugar Ray Leonard with the way he fights. Those guys, however, were much faster in terms of hand speed and ring movement. Canelo is slower, heavier and he throws a lot more body shots than either of those guys did during their successful boxing careers.

“Obviously, Triple G has his opinions, but I tell you one thing, Canelo is going to make him pay,” De La Hoya said to Villian Fy. ”There’s been a lot of talk back and forth. That’s really annoying now. I believe both guys are going to come out in the first round and try and knock each other’s heads off. I strongly believe it’s going to be a continuation of the first fight,” De La Hoya added.

It’s doubtful that Canelo will stand stationary long enough for GGG to have a chance to knock him out in the rematch on September 15 on HBO pay-per-view at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Canelo has lost the element of surprise after him making the only adjustment that he could come up with by using movement against GGG for the first fight.

If Canelo goes back to the same game plan as he used last time, Golovkin will likely be ready to cut off the ring quickly to force him into a fight. Unless Canelo has another option to negate GGG’s pressure, then it’s going to be a problem for him. Canelo showed that he could make an adjustment by moving, but he can’t come out with the same style for the rematch without the potential that GGG will be ready for that game plan this time.

Golovkin is angry at Canelo for testing positive twice for clenbuterol last February and he doesn’t believe him when he says he tested positive due to him having ingested contaminated beef in Mexico. What makes Canelo’s excuse harder to believe is how muscular looking his body looked for the fight against Golovkin. Before that fight, Canelo had never looked like a sculptured bodybuilder in his previous fights. It was only in the Golovkin fight that his body looked incredibly vascular all of a sudden. It looks bad that Canelo tested positive for clenbuterol in training for the canceled May 5 rematch.

”The adjustments obviously, Triple G doesn’t make them,” De La Hoya said. ”He has one style of fighting in coming forward.”

Golovkin actually spent most of the fight against Canelo standing on the outside, boxing him rather than coming forward. To be sure, Golovkin did come forward most of the time in the fight, but that’s because Canelo wasn’t willing to stand and fight. He was being very evasive in fighting defensively rather than trying to brawl.

”Canelo is a fighter is very versatile, kind of like Floyd Mayweather, kind of like Sugar Ray Leonard, like the very best fighters that know how to adjust to that one style of coming forward,” De La Hoya said.

Canelo seems to be influenced more by Mayweather’s fighting style than he does with Leonard, who was more of a fighter known for his shoeshine combinations during his prime. Canelo doesn’t throw a lot of sustained combinations. He tends to throw one or two shots, and then he ducks and or rolls with the shots that his opponents throw at him. The style of fighting that Canelo has problems with is the Golovkin and Mayweather style in which he has to deal with a lot of jabs. Canelo was helpless against GGG and Mayweather most of the time in those fights to land his counter punchers, because both guys were mostly throwing jabs at him. Canelo couldn’t counter them when they were throwing jabs due this arms not being long enough to reach them when he would attempt to return fire with a counter.

”That’s exactly what Canelo did in the first fight,” De La Hoya said in continuing to say that Canelo was fighting like Mayweather and Leonard against GGG in the first fight. ”But the way he’s looking at camp and the way that he adjusts in coming forward and throwing a lot of power punches, I strongly believe someone is going down,” De La Hoya said.

If Canelo is training to fight like Mayweather and Leonard, then it’s going to be another fight involving a lot of movement by Alvarez. Hopefully for the boxing public, Canelo doesn’t use movement like he did he last time because he boxing public wants to see him stand and fight GGG this time. The fans want to get their money’s worth in the rematch because the first fight was really disappointing for them. Both fighters owe it to the boxing fans to stand and make it exciting by brawling. The fans saw a terrible fight last September. If Canelo was fighting like Mayweather, as De La Hoya maintains, then it was the worst of Mayweather like the one we saw against Andre Berto and Conor McGregor in which he bored the boxing fans with his lackluster performances. Canelo has got to do a lot better than that if he wants to make it interesting for the boxing fans.

”If Golovkin doesn’t know how to cut off the ring, and doesn’t know how to fight someone that boxes, then then that’s his problem,” De La Hoya said in what appears to be him priming the public for another marathon of movement from Alvarez in the rematch. ”Canelo is going to go out there and win. But I’ll tell you one thing; Canelo wants to knock him out because of all the trash talking that has been going on back and forth. I’m looking forward to September 16th. We have the number one pay-per-view fighter in boxing in Canelo Alvarez,” De La Hoya said.

If Canelo wants to knockout GGG in the rematch, then he needs to make sure he fights in a different manner than he did in the first fight because his movement really spoiled it for the fans. Canelo has got to stand and trade to make Golovkin pay because he won’t pay if Alvarez is on the run for 12 rounds. If De La Hoya wants the fan interest to be there for a third Canelo-GGG fight, then Canelo is going to need to put in more of an effort in standing and trading in the rematch on September 15. Using movement isn’t going to make it interest for the fans. Canelo has to be more aggressive in the second half of the fight, even if it doesn’t workout. At least the fans will want to see a third fight.

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