Canelo-Trout

(Photo credit: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: Given how controversial tonight’s 12 round unanimous decision win was for WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) over WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s), I think it’s best that there be an immediate rematch in a neutral venue outside of Texas with a completely new set of judges this time.

Tonight’s result is too controversial and you can see that by reading the comment section and the internet forums. Canelo can’t move on from this fight without being followed by his tainted win, which will follow him like the scent of a smelly skunk. Boxing fans won’t forget Canelo’s bogus win and he’ll be seen by a lot of fans a fake if he doesn’t fight Trout again to clear up the controversy.

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(Tom Casino/SHOWTIME) By Scott Gilfoid: I just saw tonight’s fight and I’ve got to say that WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) got royally screwed over by the judges in Texas in losing a 12 round unanimous decision to WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) at the Alamodome in San Antonio.

I know there’s a saying that you have to consider a visiting fighter four rounds down at the start of the fight against a home fighter, and there was never more true than tonight with Trout getting jobbed in Texas. I thought Trout clearly out-boxed Canelo and won what should have been an easy 12 round unanimous decision.

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(Photo credit: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: In a clear robbery, WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) defeated WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) by a very controversial 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The final judges scores were 115-112, 116-111 and 118-109. The last scores were an absolute crime. I had Trout winning the fight 10 rounds to 2.

Canelo knocked Trout down in the 7th round with a right hand at the start of the round. However, Trout came back to dominate the remainder of the round and the rest of the fight. Trout appeared to sweep rounds eight through twelve to easily win the fight, but of course the fight was held in Texas, so it’s not surprising that Canelo got the win.

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(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Allan Fox: 39,247 boxing fans are in attendance to tonight’s unification bout 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. The arena can hold 70,000 but it was retrofitted to fit 40,000 fans.

The winner of tonight’s fight could end up facing Floyd Mayweather Jr. in September depending on what happens in Mayweather’s fight next month against Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero on May 4th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. There’s going to be a tremendous amount of pressure on the winner of the Mayweather-Guerrero fight to face the Canelo-Trout winner because it’s the logical next fight.

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(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: The team of WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout were reportedly unhappy with the sponginess of the ring mat during the pre-fight inspection for his fight against WBC junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez tonight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. According to LA Times writer Lance Pugmore, they said the canvas was “like running in quicksand.”

Making the canvas spongy is an old trick that the home teams use to slow down a visiting a fighter that moves a lot in order to make him slower so that the flat-footed fighter can catch up to him. So is this was Canelo’s team have done for this fight against Trout? Who knows? But it is clear that Trout is the fighter that depends on movement to win his fights and he IS the visiting fighter for this bout, and Canelo IS the slower, flat-footed fighter that needs the action to be slow in order for him to win the fight.

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(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: Jose “Chepo” Reynoso, the trainer for WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) is predicting a knockout win for his fighter tonight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas in his fight with WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s).

Reynoso told ESPN “We’re going to win by knockout. We’re very confident.”

Having seen how slow Canelo’s fighting style is in his past fights, it’s hard to imagine him stepping it up in a high enough gear to get a stoppage win over an actual junior middleweight like Trout.

Canelo couldn’t knock Shane Mosley, Matthew Hatton and Lovemore Ndou, and he barely stopped Ryan Rhodes in the 12th round. Canelo was struggling against Alfonso Gomez and seemed stuck in first gear. Canelo doesn’t see capable of putting out a lot energy needed to score a stoppage because he’s too busy conserving energy for some reason.

I can understand why he fights at a slow pace because just looking at how heavily he breaths in between rounds and how red his face gets when he exerts himself, it seems pretty obvious that he doesn’t possess the cardiovascular system to go all out round after round to score a stoppage over a fighter like Trout.

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(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Paul Havey: For so long the best have avoided the best. Prospects have taken the easiest possible route to a title. Champions sign to face opponents that pose very little threat to them. it’s not been a scenario that attracts new fans. but tonight that all changes.

So why is Alvarez vs Trout any different to all the other fights? Risk and competition. It’s not a case of one having a huge talent over the other. No fight is truly 50/50, but this is as close as it gets. It’s a genuine competition. Both fighters are risking a lot. Many champions fight boxers that won’t win. They know it and so do the fans. Both are at the top of their game and a defeat could be handed to either one. This is the kind of fight that will bring new fans to boxing. and if you aren’t excited, you should be.

Trout is coming off a win against Miguel Cotto. We all expected this fight to be Cotto vs Alvarez. Trout threw a spanner in the works and out classed the man ranked 3rd in the ppv rankings. Trout will have confidence right now. he is the more tactical boxer that will have a clear game plan.

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(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: It goes without saying that Golden Boy Promotions wanted no part of matching their “Golden Goose” WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) against unbeaten WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s). Golden Boy wants to make a huge pay per view star out of Canelo and they’ve matched him against weaker opponents to make him look good. Trout could ruin their big plans of making Canelo a Golden egg laying Golden Goose.

The fight was made anyway after Canelo chose to accept the challenge rather than being branded as a ducker by many in the boxing community. However, Trout may end up causing Canelo to regret his decision in fighting him by giving him a one-sided beating and plucking Golden Boy’s Golden Goose in front of a nationwide audience in the U.S on Showtime.

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(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Thomas Cowan: WBA World light middleweight champion Austin Trout faces WBC champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on Saturday at the Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas. Canelo has had 42 fights and is unbeaten but his opponents haven’t been great so there’s a big question mark about his ability to handle world class opponents.

Trout totally out-boxed Miguel Cotto in December who had only been beaten by Antonio Margarito (a defeat he avenged by knockout), Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao so there’s no doubt that Trout is a world class fighter. Canelo’s best opponent is Josesito Lopez, who he destroyed inside 5 rounds. Although Lopez is just a welterweight and I expected Canelo to win, I thought the way he dominated Lopez was very impressive.

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