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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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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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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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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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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