Abel Sanchez: Khan can beat Canelo if he stays focused

sanchez77By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez thinks it’s quite possible that the lighter, weaker Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) could pull off an upset in his fight against WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) on May 7.

Sanchez thinks that the heavier Canelo will likely be sluggish and slow from having put on a ton of weight after rehydrating from having made the 155lb catch-weight the day before their fight. Sanchez believes that as long as Khan doesn’t try and fight Canelo toe-to-toe, he’s got the hand speed and talent to potentially beat the Mexican fighter.

Sanchez thinks Khan is too talented for Canelo to be able to just run over like many boxing fans think. The only thing that Sanchez doesn’t know is if Khan will listen to his trainer Virgil Hunter, and stick to the game plan for the fight.

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Golovkin on Canelo’s 155lbs demand “This is not respect to boxing!”

golovkin#236By Tim Fletcher: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) says he thinks that WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) is disrespecting the sport of boxing with his demands for a catch-weight of 155lbs when defending his WBC middleweight title.

Golovkin feels that Canelo is more than ready to fight at the full weight for the middleweight division without the need of a catch-weight handicap of 155lbs. Golovkin sees it totally disrespectful for the 25-year-old Canelo asking to fight at a catch-weight.

There’s talk that Canelo will give Golovkin a take it or leave it offer regarding the 155lb catch-weight that he’s been fighting at. If Golovkin wants the fight against him, he might need to agree to a catch-weight of 155lbs.

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Mayweather talks Canelo-Khan fight

floyd5By Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Jr. is on the fence when it comes to picking the winner for the May 7 fight between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Amir Khan. While Mayweather feels that the 25-year-old Canelo has improved since he gave him his first and only defeat of his career in September 2013, he notes that Khan has been on a winning streak recently.

Mayweather says that Khan walks around at 165lbs. That’s not too far off from the weight that Canelo will be coming into this fight at unless he balloons up to the 180s. That’s always possible, but many boxing fans think he’ll come in between 170 to 175.

Canelo has won his last four fights since his loss to Mayweather. Canelo has beaten Alfredo Angulo, Erislandy Lara, James Kirkland and Miguel Cotto. Mayweather evidently was impressed with Canelo’s wins over Angulo, Kirkland and Cotto.

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Khan: I would have fought Mayweather for free

khan545By Tim Fletcher: Amir “King” Khan surprised fans this week when he revealed that he wanted a mega-fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. so badly that he would have taken the fight for free if the superstar had given him the green light.

Khan, 29, just wanted the opportunity to display his boxing skills against Mayweather so that he could have proven finally that he was the better fighter. Whether a fight like that could ever have taken place under those conditions is extremely doubtful.

You hear fighters say all the time that they would fight for free against a certain fighter, but I don’t think the networks, sanctioning bodies and the state commissions would give the green light to a Mayweather-Khan fight if only Mayweather was going to get paid.

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The Best Boxing Can Offer?

1-CANELO ALVAREZ 05By The Commissioner: The date is May 1st 2015, the stage is set for the most anticipated fight of all time. The ‘fight of the century’, the fight of all fights, the fight that has dominated sports media for near on a decade. Floyd Mayweather Jr, Pretty Boy Floyd, Money Mayweather finally squares off against the people’s champion; Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino Whirlwind, whom to many observers, is Floyd’s kryptonite.

Fast forward to May 3rd 2015 and social media is awash with negative opinion regarding the supposed ‘Fight of the Century’, many labeling it boring and devoid of any real engagement. The bout came to a predictable ending, at least to the unbiased eye, one uninfluenced by matters of the heart and solely based on logical thinking. Personally, I had always believed that Mayweather was too skilled a boxer to be beaten, or even troubled by Manny but I still tuned in, more to see if Pac-Man could be prove me wrong rather than to see Mayweather prove me right.

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Khan: Canelo better not be looking towards Golovkin fight

khan200By Tim Fletcher: Amir Khan says it would be a big mistake if WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is looking past him towards a bigger fight against IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in September. Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) and Canelo (46-1-1, 32 KOs) will be meeting up in three months from now on May 7 on HBO pay-per-view from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Canelo is supposed to be using the Khan fight as an interim title defense before facing his mandatory challenger Golovkin in September. That’s what the WBC has given Canelo permission to do. Whether Canelo will actually take the fight against Golovkin is another situation altogether.

Khan might not need to worry about Canelo looking past him towards the Golovkin fight, because the chances are that Canelo doesn’t have intention of taking on the tough Kazakhstan fighter anyway.

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Mayweather says Canelo not cherry-picking by facing Khan

Floyd MayweatherBy Allan Fox: As far as Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. is concerned, WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) isn’t cherry-picking by selecting a welterweight from two divisions below his own weight class to fight in Amir “King” Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) on May 7.

Mayweather doesn’t see that as cherry-picking on Canelo’s part, even though the Mexican fighter could wind up with a 20 pound weight advantage on the night of the fight on HBO pay-per-view. Mayweather sees it as a fair match-up for Canelo. Mayweather says that since fight fans wouldn’t say it’s cherry-picking for IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin to face him at middleweight, then the same fans shouldn’t get on Canelo’s case for fighting a guy from the 147lb division in 29-year-old Khan.

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Mayweather says he could stop Canelo-Khan if he fought Danny Garcia

floyd111By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Jr. thinks that he could effectively cause the May 7 fight between WBC middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Amir Khan to grind to a crashing halt if he were to come out of retirement and sign up WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia for a fight on the same date and stage the fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Canelo-Khan fight will be televised on HBO Championship Boxing and taking place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. If Mayweather were to come back for a fight against Danny Garcia on the same date as Canelo vs. Khan, it would likely be televised on Showtime if Mayweather were to renew his contract with the network.

However, I’m not sure that Mayweather-Garcia would be a big enough fight to take significant business from Canelo-Khan. The problem is Mayweather burned a lot of his bridges with his overpriced fight against Manny Pacquiao last year in May.

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Khan: Floyd was too scared to fight me

khan100By Allan Fox: Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) says he was left with no other choice but to move up to the middleweight division to face WBC 160lb champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) because no one wanted to fight him in the welterweight division. Khan says Floyd Mayweather Jr. was too afraid to fight him, and Manny Pacquiao and Danny Garcia didn’t want the fight either.

Khan says he only wanted the big fights, which is why he had to move up to middleweight to fight Canelo t a catch-weight of 155lbs on May 7 on HBO pay-per-view.

Khan might be right about Mayweather being afraid of taking the fight. When you see Mayweather taking on lesser fighters than Khan in Andre Berto, Robert Guerrero and Marcos Maidana [x 2], what are you left to think? Khan would have given Mayweather a bigger payday than those three fighters, and Showtime likely would have given the green light to the fight.

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Chavez Jr: Canelo is going to catch Khan with an overhand shot

chavez524By Tim Fletcher: WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is the bigger and stronger guy, and will wind up hurting Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) in their fight on May 7, according to former WBC 160lb champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. He thinks that Canelo is too big for Khan, who will be moving up in weight from the 147lb division to face Canelo at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on HBO pay-per-view.

Chavez Jr. thinks that Canelo should have picked out a middleweight to fight rather than a fighter pooled from the welterweight division in 29-year-old Khan. Chavez Jr. does think that Khan has good hand speed and stamina. However, he’s going to be giving up so much size that it’s going to make it all but impossible for him to win the fight.

“I don’t have anything against it [Canelo-Khan], but as the middleweight champion of the world, everyone knows Amir Khan isn’t a middleweight,”

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