Canelo Alvarez

By Dan Ambrose: Roger Mayweather, the uncle and trainer for Floyd Mayweather Jr., doesn’t believe that WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) will be able to crush Mayweather Jr. with his big weight advantage of 20 pounds for this fight. Roger doesn’t think weight wins fights. He thinks intelligence and skills win, and he sees Floyd Jr. as being way above the 22-year-old Canelo in those departments.

Roger said to hustlehoss.com “That’s somebody that they think can beat Floyd. It’s just somebody they believe can beat Floyd…Weight don’t win fights anyways. Weight won’t win this one either… He ain’t no beast like they say he is.”

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By Jerrod Green: Okay first off I do not want to come off as a Floyd Mayweather Jr. fanatic who doesn’t care about anyone or anything else in the sport of boxing. However I find it quite insane at the amount of hate Floyd gets. First off the man has been undefeated for 17 years. He has fought world class champions and contenders of all sorts, but somehow it is overlooked.

Take Oscar De la Hoya, Shane Mosley, Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto and Juan Manuel Marquez for example. For some odd reason Manny always gets more credit for fighting them even though Mayweather fought 3 of them first and arguably say he looked better doing it, but that is of opinion depending on you ask.

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By Jerrod Green: I’ve come to the conclusion that some people are never happy and will never be satisfied. It ‘s like people complain just to complain. The September 14th fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) and WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) is great fight for the sport of boxing.

I like both fighters. Floyd is a legend and Canelo a young and strong charismatic Mexican champ. Both fighters are undefeated and you have the best at 147 fighting the best at 154, but some people are still complaining. You here stuff like “Canelo had to drop 2 pounds” or “Mayweather is still not fighting Manny Pacquiao.”

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By Juan dela Cruz: Floyd Mayweather Jr is known to say something but having a different meaning. It might be his smokescreen to hide something, but whatever, it is not good for a person of his stature. If we could remember, when Pac-Floyd fight started to brew up among sport fans and writers, Floyd said all Manny Pacquiao has to do is to step up on the plate and call his name.

After Pacquiao called him out, Floyd then made several ridiculous demands that stalled the dream fight, and we already knew what happened after then. There was also an instance during the Floyd-Ortiz pre-fight conference when Floyd said that after Victor, Pacquiao will be next, of which, Floyd denied having said that the next day despite the fact that Floyd made such statement in front of a crowd and boxing scribes who were in attendance at that time.

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By Steven Angulo: WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez contains several advantages over the pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. with pounds being the most hyped one, but advantages that are overlooked from the perspective of Mayweather fans who view Canelo as a basic fighter are in for a rude awakening.

Alvarez) holds skills in categories Floyd is a stranger to, beginning with the world’s famous Mexican liver shot, which is the best in boxing hands down. The left hook to the body is delivered after Canelo pulls his head back slipping the straight right and delivers the rib cracking blow. This will be a key punch for Canelo since Floyd throws so many straight rights which were his game plans for Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero and specifically Victor Ortiz.

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By M.V.Medrano: I have read a few articles on this sight about this topic and it amazes me how in both the articles and comments section followers of the sport refuse to cover the basic facts about the September 14th fight between WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Before you bash the article, read the whole thing.

This is a much more intriguing fight then followers are giving it credit for. On one hand you have Floyd who has won every fight he has taken against many big names in the sport. Many names have been used to describe the fighters that he has faced, old, small, hyped as well as completely dodging others. This point can be argued both ways and has been many times. This simple fact remains that he is undefeated and has many followers in the sport and out. He is also paid very well for the legacy he has built.

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By Robert Elmore: “This will be Floyd’s Mayweather’s toughest challenge”. The media has been trying to sell that album for the last 15 years. I say 15 because it took Floyd two years before he got a chance to fight for the title. The few people that have bought the album have been very disappointed.

Fans have wanted lose so badly that they continuously buy the album hoping that something would be different. Some are still have the first copy and will hold on to it until Floyd loses or retires. The album first came out in 1998, when Floyd took on the Ring magazines number one ranked fighter at feather weight and WBC champ Genaro Hernandez. It has been flopping ever since.

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By Dan Ambrose: The late great trainer Emanuel Steward saw flaws in Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s game in watching his fight against Shane Mosley last year in May while Steward was working with HBO. Steward felt that Canelo didn’t fight for the full three minutes of every round and saw him taking way too many rest breaks and letting his opponents land shots.

Steward said this about Canelo: “His biggest weaknesses are he fights in spurts. There’s not much consistency in the way he fights…he doesn’t box a lot.”

Not much has changed in Canelo’s game since his win over Mosley. He still fights in spurts and he still isn’t consistent enough. He was able to blow out light welterweight [140 pounder] Josesito Lopez last September in four rounds, but this is someone that Golden Boy Promotions found at light welterweight for Canelo, and he never stood a chance Canelo had huge weight and strength advantage and beat him on size alone.

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