Canelo would have to fight Sergio Martinez at 160, says adviser Lewkowicz

martinez544By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) says he’s considering a bout on September 14th against one of the following opponents: Sergio Martinez, Alfredo Angulo or Miguel Cotto. According to Steve Kim, Canelo would have to move to 160 if he plans on fighting Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez (50-2-2, 28 KO’s), at least that’s what Martinez’s adviser Sampson Lewkowicz is saying.

Would Canelo be interested in moving up six pounds to face someone slightly bigger than him in Sergio Martinez or would Canelo flat out say no, that he prefers to fight guys in his own weight class or smaller? It’s unknown, but what is known is that Canelo has fought an awful lot of fighters in the division below him since he picked up the WBC junior middleweight title against welterweight Matthew Hatton in 2011.

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Canelo to use left hooks to try and beat Trout on April 20th

canelo56By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s), who WBA champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) sees as a slightly larger version of Miguel Cotto, plans on using some of Cotto’s ideas to try and beat Trout in their fight on April 20th at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

Specifically, Canelo thinks Trout is vulnerable to left hooks because Cotto was able to land those kinds of shots from time to time early in the fight before Trout adapted to what he was doing and dominated him badly for the last six rounds of the fight.

Canelo said to RingTV “I think it’s [throwing left hook’s] going to be one of the main points as I train for this fight.

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Canelo, Mayweather, Pacquiao all want September 14th date

canelo 07By Dan Ambrose: September 14th looks to be a really busy night with Floyd Mayweather Jr, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Manny Pacquiao all planning on fighting on that date. It’s the Mexican Independence day holiday, and it looks all three huge stars have booked that date and thus far none of them appear to be budging from that date.

Mayweather was the first to put dibs on the date earlier in the year, and Canelo and Pacquiao quickly followed up with their own plans on fighting on that date as well.

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Trout: I want Mayweather after I beat Canelo

trout5423By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) wants to be next in line to face unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Showtime/CBS if or when Trout beats the highly hyped but untested Golden Boy promoted WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) on April 20th in San Antonio, Texas.

Trout said to Fighthype.com “I know he’s [Mayweather] got a six-fight deal, and I would love to land on one of those spots. If he wants to make me wait, I’m not opposed to taking on other champions, the people with the belts [at junior middleweight].”

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Trout: Canelo’s going to try and overpower me

trout34By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champ Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) says he already knows what WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) will be attempting to do when they face each other on April 20th at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Trout sees Canelo attempting to blast him out like he’s done against the mostly fodder that Golden Boy Promotions has put in the ring with the young 22-year-old Canelo.

Trout said to Fighthype.com “He is going to try and overpower me, and I feel like I have more than one way to skin a cat.”

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Canelo, Thurman, Broner, Crawford- the Future Faces of Boxing?

thurman74By Lance Lank: Just a couple years ago it seemed that after Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao retired from the sport of boxing that there would be no new stars. That there would be no one that the public would be interested in, let alone pay money to see fight on PPV cards.

The only rising star seemed to be Andre Ward, but having already easily beaten every top contender at 168 and the best at 175 there were no opponents left that might pose the slightest problem to the super middleweight king. That much has stayed true. Sure, Ward can move up to 175 and fight Tavoris Cloud, but that might not seem so good if Cloud gets beat by the ageless wonder Bernard Hopkins this Saturday.

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Is Canelo more popular than he is talented?

alvarez43345By Dan Ambrose: It was interesting recently to see the unproven but HIGHLY popular red-haired Mexican fighter WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) trying to throw his weight around to pressure boxing’s #1 fighter Floyd Mayweather Jr. into fighting him in September.

It was kind of an odd thing because Canelo, a Golden Boy Promoted fighter, has gotten used to having things his own way due to his huge popularity among Mexican boxing fans.

But the thing is Canelo hasn’t proven himself to be in the same class as Mayweather or even some of the top fighters, and it just seems like Canelo is someone that is getting to the top of the sport more based on his popularity with his diehard Mexican fans than on what he’s actually done in the ring. What has Canelo done during his career?

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Malignaggi: Trout is going to be a tricky opponent for Canelo

trout35By Dan Ambrose: Paulie Malignaggi doesn’t know who to pick in the April 20th match-up between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Malignaggi sees it a fight that can go either way, but he’s especially concerned about it going badly for the flat-footed Canelo.

Malignaggi said to hustleboss.com “It’s a tricky fight for Canelo. It’s not going to be easy.”

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Trout wishes his fight with Canelo was still on the May 4th Mayweather-Guerrero card

trout2By Dan Ambrose: This past week, WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) chose to pull a self-defeating move this past week in deciding not to fight on the May 4th due to Floyd Mayweather Jr. failing to sign a contract to fight him in September. Instead, Canelo will be moving his unification fight against WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) to the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on April 20th.

The move was done because Canelo didn’t want to help Mayweather if he wasn’t going to get the mega fight with Mayweather in return. Trout wasn’t too happen with his fight with Canelo being pulled from the Mayweather card because he realizes how much attention the fight would have received had it stayed on that date.

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Canelo: Mayweather doesn’t want to fight me

alvarez5By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) tried and failed to exert pressure on Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) to get him to agree to a fight in September in exchange for Canelo agreeing to fight on his May 4th undercard.

Mayweather didn’t want to sign the contract to fight Canelo, and because of this Canelo pulled out of the card and will be fighting on separate date on April 20th against Austin Trout in San Antonio, Texas.

“I have no need for Mayweather to impose conditions because I can have my own fans…the truth is he does not want to fight me.”

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