Canelo Alvarez and the Mexican consumer power in boxing

alvarez343By By Hector Gonzalez: Canelo Alvarez dropped out of the Mayweather vs Guerrero card after Mayweather refused to sign an agreement that Mayweather and Alvarez would fight in September during Mexican Independence day if it is that both fighters are to win their designated matches on Cinco de Mayo.

Canelo than drops out of the card and reschedules his bout with Austin Trout to April 20th stating that he is not going to he help Mayweather sell PPV sales if Mayweather is not helping him. All I could say is good for him. My support for Canelo Alvarez’s decision is not necessarily based on skill or accomplishments in the ring, but more importantly, it’s based on consumer power and in the case of Canelo Alvarez and the Mexican boxing community they have much clout. Enough so that Canelo and other Mexican fighters should be dictating more of their terms.

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Cotto: Canelo can beat Trout if he brings his power

alvarez4334By Allan Fox: Miguel Cotto believes WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) has a good chance of beating WBA champion Austin Trout on April 20th in their unification bout. Cotto is pretty familiar already with what the 27-year-old southpaw Trout brings to the table after having been beaten by him by a 12 round unanimous decision last December by the scores of 117-111, 117-111 and 119-109.

Trout didn’t overpower Cotto, but instead used movement, a steady jab and plenty of speedy shots to keep the shorter Cotto on the outside unable to land his big power shots.

Cotto said to RingTV “If Canelo brings his strength, I could see him winning, but it is going to be a tough, tough fight.”

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Trout a risky fight for Canelo

alvarez675By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) Canelo gave himself a self-inflicted wound this week by choosing to pull out of the May 4th fight card headlined by Floyd Mayweather Jr. to fight WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout on regular non-PPV Showtime on April 20th at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

It was a bad decision by Canelo because he didn’t hurt Mayweather very much with that move because Mayweather is already guaranteed $30 million per fight by Showtime/CBS as part of his contract.

Canelo hurt himself by pulling out of the card because he’s still facing Trout, and that’s a fight that Canelo very well may lose. But here’s the kicker, Canelo won’t receive nearly as much publicity than he would have had he fought on the Mayweather card. Talk about your dumb moves.

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Canelo will lose media exposure by pulling out of Mayweather’s May 4th card

canelo74By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) figured he wasn’t going to help Floyd Mayweather Jr. make his May 4th fight card a huge success after Mayweather refused to sign for a September fight with him, so Canelo pulled out of the undercard and will face WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s).

Was this a smart move by Canelo to pay Mayweather back pulling out of the card? No, it was actually kind of a dense move by Canelo because Mayweather is going to fight him eventually, but Canelo tried to push it, like he was the one calling the shots.

Obviously, he’s not because he’s still totally unproven after having faced pretty much exclusively weak opponents during his 8-year pro career.

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Floyd’s decisions: Some are never happy

mayweather4565By Robert Elmore: Saul Alvarez recent demands that Floyd sign a contract to fight him in September or he would not be on the May 4th undercard made me laugh. What is even more laughable is that boxing fans (mainly Mayweather haters) seem to flip flop at every turn. When the idea of Canelo fighting Floyd came up, it was “Who has Canelo fought? What has he done to get a shot at Floyd”?

Floyd not signing is very smart. For one, this shows that he’s not looking past Robert Guerrero. Two, this forces Canelo to fight someone legitimate in his own division (WBA champ Austin Trout). But now, some are saying Floyd is scared of Canelo. Either Canelo hasn’t fought anybody or Floyd is scared. Which one is it?

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Schaefer: Mayweather has no problems fighting Canelo

canelo222By Chris Williams: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer says Floyd Mayweather Jr. DOES have interest in facing WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in the future, but he’s just not interested in signing a contract to fight him right now with an important bout against Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero looming ahead on May 4th. Mayweather wants to focus 100% on that fight and then see where he’s afterwards.

Schaefer said to Yahoo Sports News “Floyd told us he didn’t have a problem fighting Canelo, but he wasn’t going to sign anything now. He said ‘All of my focus is on Guerrero,’ and I’m not signing anything to fight anybody until after that fight is over.’”

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Trout may need a KO to beat Canelo on April 20th

trout3By Dan Ambrose: One of the negative aspects of the fight between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and WBA Champ Austin Trout being moved from the May 4th fight card in Las Vegas, Nevada to the Astrodome in San Antonio, Texas on April 20th is that Trout may need a knockout to ensure he wins the fight.

The Astrodome has a seating capacity of 72,000, and I expect that they could have a crowd of 30,000+ Canelo fans that will be cheering for everything he does in the fight while ignoring everything that Trout does.

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Trout: Canelo isn’t going to make it to a Mayweather fight

alvarez324By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) doesn’t much care that he and WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) won’t be fighting on the May 4th undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero fight due to Mayweather failing to sign a contract to fight Canelo on September 14th.

Trout saw that fight as still not happening even if Mayweather did agree to fight Canelo because Trout sees himself beating Canelo when they fight on April 20th at the Astrodome in San Antonio, Texas.

Trout said to RingTV “That’s alright [Trout and Canelo not fighting on May 4th], because he [Canelo] still won’t make it to Mayweather. He will not make it to Floyd Mayweather because he’s going to lose to me.”

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Canelo may be replaced by Santa Cruz or Angulo on May 4th card

angulo453By Allan Fox: The co-main event on the May 4th fightcard took a hit today with the news that WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez pulling out of the card after failing to get an agreement from WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. to fight him on September 14th.

In place of Canelo in the main event, Golden Boy is reportedly thinking of adding either super bantamweight Leo Santa Cruz (23-0-1, 13 KO’s) or junior middleweight Alfredo Angulo (22-2, 18 KO’s). Both are Mexican, and it would interest the Mexican fans celebrating the Cinco de Mayo holiday during the weekend of the Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero pay-per-view fight card.

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Trout: Canelo’s handlers didn’t want him to fight me

trout8By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) says WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s handlers [read: Richard Schaefer, Oscar De La Hoya, More!] didn’t want him to fight him because of the high risk involved for Canelo.

Trout says he’s happy the 22-year-old Canelo agreed to fight him, but he’s going to prove that Canelo’s handlers were right in their wishes to keep Canelo far, far away from him.

Canelo and Trout will be fighting on April 20th at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

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