How does Canelo expect Mayweather to fight him after pulling out of his May 4th fight card?

IMG_1793By Chris Williams: In a sign of total arrogance, WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) wants Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) to fight him later on this year on the Mexican holiday on September 14th. Canelo wants that fight badly because it would bring him huge money, and big time fame overnight.

It would be a fight that could turn Canelo into a pay-per-view star just as the Oscar De La Hoya vs. Mayweather fight turned Mayweather into a PPV star from that point forward. Unfortunately for Canelo, he made a major miscalculation recently by pulling out of Mayweather’s May 4th fight card after his attempts at pressuring him for a September 14th fight failed to work.

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Canelo: Mayweather is who I want next

IMG_1734(Photo credit: Sumio Yamada) By Dan Ambrose: The 172 lb. WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) is still calling out 147 lb. welterweight Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) for him to face him on September 14th, which is the Mexican Independence Day. Mayweather fights at right at 147-150 for his fights, sow why should be fight a guy like Canelo who comes into his fights weighing over 170 lbs?

If Mayweather were to take that fight he’d be out-weighed by 25 lbs. Some of Canelo’s boxing fans think 25 pounds is nothing that Mayweather should take the fight anyway if he’s a courageous fighter.

Canelo said to the LA Times “How many times do I have to say it? Mayweather is who I want.”

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Schaefer: No decisions on Canelo’s next fight until after Mayweather-Guerrero fight

canelo6By Chris Williams: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer says he won’t be making any decisions about the next fight for WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez until after the May 4th fight between WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, according to Steve Kim.

The most likely next opponent for Canelo’s next fight is Miguel Cotto in September. Schaefer mentioned that Cotto is a possibility, but he wants to wait for the Mayweather-Guerrero fight outcome so that he can make a stab at trying to get Mayweather or Guerrero to fight Canelo next.

Getting Guerrero to take the fight with Canelo would be easy because Guerrero would take the fight in a second.

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Canelo’s controversial win over Trout will make a Mayweather fight more difficult to make

007 AlamoDome_+StephanieTrapp_KR6A4698(Photo credit: Stephanie Trapp/SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: With that WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) was given a questionable 12 round unanimous over WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) tonight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, I think it might make it extremely difficult for Canelo and his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions to set up a fight between the 22-year-old orange-haired Canelo and Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The reason being is that Canelo needed to win the fight beyond question and he failed to do that tonight. The win is tainted in the minds of many fans. The main exceptions seem to be Canelo’s preexisting fans, who will back him through thick and thin.

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Trout-Canelo preview: Mexican idol puts Mayweather superfight on the line against rising star Trout

canelo9By Peter Wells (twitter- @boxingpeter): Since shocking almost everyone in the Madison Square Garden last December, Austin Trout’s life has changed drastically. He may not have reached the super-stardom of Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao, but in upsetting Puerto Rican superhero Miguel Cotto, Austin is now in the position where he calls the shots.

Trout took his opportunity in the limelight to shout out Golden Boy’s new Golden Boy, Canelo Alvarez, a fight GBP did not want their superstar to take. But Canelo wanted to show to fans why he is unlike other fighters who tell the press they’ll fight who their promoters put in front of them. Canelo took the bait, backing up his claims that he wishes to fight the best and setting up a Light Middleweight superfight on Saturday 20th April.

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Guerrero’s dad: Mayweather regrets accepting the fight with “The Ghost”

mayweather77By Chris Williams: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero’s dad thinks he smells fear coming from Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his father Floyd Sr. and his uncle Roger Mayweather and he thinks Mayweather Jr. is now regretting having accepted the fight against the 29-year-old Guerrero.

Guerrero’s dad said: “I think they have a little regret taking it [the fight with Guerrero]. That’s why they’re talking a lot of smack; that’s why he’s got his dad in his corner now; that’ why he’s got two guys [in his corner]; him and his uncle now against me because they know what’s coming. Guerrero’s coming at him. Mayweather’s a great fighter but he talks all big. The word is out that he was in protective custody.

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Mayweather: Guerrero is a dumbass; his pressure won’t work against me

mayweather6By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) sees Robert Guerrero’s game plan in how to beat him with pressure is simplistic one and feels it won’t work. Guerrero is going to be using the same method that’s been tried against Mayweather by numerous fighters in the past without success, and Mayweather doesn’t understand why Guerrero doesn’t have something else he can use because the pressure isn’t going to work.

Mayweather said: “43 had a game plan. ‘We’re going to keep pressure on Mayweather.’ It’s not going to work. The game plan is to just come in and get your payday, you f*****g dumbass.”

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Guerrero: I’m going to beat Mayweather down and he’s going to run

guerrero111By Allan Fox: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KO’s) expects to give Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) a terrible beating on May 4th in their fight in Las Vegas, Nevada. Guerrero says he sees Mayweather running from him, but that it won’t help him because he’s going to get to him with pressure and then give him a terrible beating.

Guerrero said “I know fight night I’ll be ready to go, but it’s my time now. I’m going to finish him or if I don’t, he’s going to take a beating throughout the fight. [I’m going to] beat him down, put that pressure and put it on him. We ain’t here to him fun; we ain’t here to enjoy ourselves. I know Floyd’s going to bring a big ring and he’s going to run like a chicken with no head. I got to spar in a big ring. Anytime I fight someone it’s been the worst beating of their life. It’s just the way I roll.”

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Mayweather hints he won’t be fighting Canelo in the future

Canelo_KR6A1547(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Allan Fox: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is going to have to put the idea of him fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr. completely out of his mind because Mayweather Jr. dropped a pretty big hint yesterday at his media day that he doesn’t have any interest in fighting the 154 lb. Canelo in the future.

Mayweather said “Floyd Mayweather is closer to 40 then he is 21. No fighter can give me an ultimatum. So I wish him…”

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