(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Raymundo Roman: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (43-1-1, 31 KOs) will be facing the Cuban Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KOs) this Saturday night in a cathweight fight of 155 lb. in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This is a fight that many boxing fans are waiting for because is a 50/50 fight that could go either way and this is good for boxing because lately at the elite level the fighters are match carefully not risking future paydays or fights, on this one you have to give Canelo a lot of credit because he could have taken a soft fight and wait for Cotto or a big fight with low risk and high reward, but he choose to gave the fans what they want.