By Jeff Aranow: If Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya’s predictions come true, the May 7 fight between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Amir Khan will be bringing in twice the pay-per-view numbers on HBO than last November’s fight between Canelo and Miguel Cotto.
Canelo-Cotto brought in 900,000 PPV buys on HBO, which were very good numbers and made Golden Boy happy.
By Daniel Arissol: On May 7th in the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas, Nevada the boxing world casts its eyes over the WBC middleweight showdown between the champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and challenger Amir ‘King’ Khan. When this match up was first announced eyebrows were raised at the prospect of a welterweight fighter moving up two weight divisions to take on one of the most explosive and dominant middleweights of the current era.
Canelo himself has moved up the weights but now, as an established middleweight, holds the world boxing council’s prestigious green strap and looks determined to cement his place as a superstar of the sport.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC heavyweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) has what many boxing fans see as the perfect opponent for him to showcase his skills against in Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) for their fight on May 7 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Canelo is bigger, stronger and younger than Khan. The belief by many fans is Canelo will simply wall though Khan’s lighter punches in the early rounds until he eventually lands something hard enough to stop him. If Khan gets hurt, he won’t be able to keep the stronger Canelo off of him to survive the round.
By Dan Ambrose: Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) says he’s having no problems putting on muscle weight and developing his punching power for his May 7 fight against Saul Canelo Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) in their catch-weight fight at 155lb.
Khan says that Canelo will feel every punch he hits him with, and he thinks he’s going to be able to hurt the 25-year-old with his new punching power. Khan says he’s the more talented fighter than Canelo and he can’t wait to show the boxing world that when he gets the slower, flat-footed Canelo in the ring in their HBO pay-per-view televised fight from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s excitable promoter Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions believes that the upcoming fight between Canelo and Amir “King” Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) on May 7 will determine who the Number 1 fighter will be in the sport of boxing.
De La Hoya already sees the 25-year-old Canelo as the top fighter in the sport, but he now thinks Khan has the chance to take the number one position from the Mexican super star if he beats them in their fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s extremely doubtful that Khan will be seen as the number one fighter in the sport even if he knocks Canelo out in the first minute of the 1st round on May 7.
Khan doesn’t have the huge built in fan base that Canelo has in the United States, and there will continue to be doubts about Khan until he faces arguably better fighters than Canelo like Gennady Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs at 160.
(Photo credit: Golden Boy Promotions) By Jeff Aranow: After studying WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s past fights with the help of trainer Virgil Hunter, Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) knows exactly what he needs to do to beat the 25-year-old Canelo in their fight on May 7 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Khan sees a slow, flat-footed fighter in Canelo that he can exploit with hand and foot speed and make him look really bad. Khan and Hunter both watched how a smaller Floyd Mayweather Jr. was able to take the heavier Canelo to school in 2013 and tie him in knots mentally to the point where Canelo didn’t know what to do inside the ring.
By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout believes that WBC 160lb champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) will definitely not be fighting WBC interim middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) later this year if Canelo gets past his May 7 fight against Britain’s Amir “King” Khan (31-3, 19 KOs).
Trout thinks that instead of Canelo fighting Golovkin, he’ll look to face the likes of David Lemieux or Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin.
Trout believes that the 29-year-old Khan will beat Canelo, but he’s not sure whether the judges will give the decision to Khan.
By Dan Ambrose: Last Saturday night, WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Amir Khan met with HBO’s Max Kellerman in his Face Off special to hype their May 7 fight on HBO pay-per-view from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Canelo brought his manager Eddy Reynoso, and Khan had his trainer Virgil Hunter with him.
What was interesting about the special was how Canelo denied rehydrating to 180lbs for any of his fights in the past. Canelo also said that he’s come in at 170 at times in the past for some of his fights, but that’s it.
By Dan Ambrose: Boxing fans can get a preview of the May 7 clash between WBC middleweight champion Saul Canelo Alvarez vs. Amir Khan tonight on HBO starting at 11:15 p.m. ET/PT. Canelo-Khan will be facing off on Max Kellerman’s Face off special. The fighters and Kellerman will be discussing their May 7 fight on HBO PPV.
Kellerman will be asking the questions and looking to find out what makes these two fighters tick. Kellerman is a decent host when focusing on the fights, but hopefully he doesn’t steer away from the fight into stuff about the fighters’ lives because it sometimes gets boring watching Kellerman ask pointless questions that don’t add to the fights. It can get pretty boring listening to the questions Kellerman asks. He needs a better producer that can go over the questions he asks the fighters so that the dull drama stuff gets filtered out.
By Dan Ambrose: Amir Khan is expecting to beat the 25-year-old Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on May 7, take his WBC middleweight title, and then move forward with the win to much bigger fights in the near future.
Khan, 29, believes that beating Canelo in this fight will take his career to the next level towards becoming a superstar. Khan has beaten three times in his career against fighters that he shouldn’t have lost to in Breidis Prescott, Danny Garcia and Lamont Peterson.