By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions seems to be bummed out that Floyd Mayweather Jr. won’t fight one of De La Hoya’s Golden Boy stable fighters in WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s), so now De La Hoya is saying the reason why Mayweather doesn’t want to is because he’s afraid of fighting Canelo.
De La Hoya told esnewsreporting.com “Unfortunately, Floyd didn’t want to sign a contract in advance to fight Canelo. So ask yourself this: Is Floyd scared to fight Canelo? I think he is…in order to beat Mayweather you don’t need to be a strong fighter; you need to be a smart fighter, which Canelo is.”
By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) figures that the sparring that he’s done in his life with his brother Rigoberto Alvarez (27-4, 20 KO’s) has helped him with fighting southpaws like WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s), according to Steve Kim. 
By Allan Fox: #1 WBC junior middleweight contender Erislandy Lara (17-1-2, 11 KO’s) has his sights set on fighting the winner of the April 20th unification bout between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and WBA champion Austin Trout. Lara also wants to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. is possible.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) may be from Mexico and WBA champ Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) from the United States, but Canelo will very much be considered the house fighter when he steps inside the ring on April 20th to face Trout at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
(PHOTO CREDIT: Gene Blevins – Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions) By Dan Ambrose: Showing a big hint of favoritism to his young fighter WBC junior middleweight Saul “Canelo Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) at today’s media workout to promote Canelo’s fight with WBA 154 lb. champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) this month on April 20th at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya said “Canelo is on the fight path and April 20th is going to show is if he’s able to make that jump.”
By Dan Ambrose: WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (26-0, 23 KO’s) is ready to face the winner of the April 20th unification bout between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and WBA champ Austin Trout, and he’s willing to move down to 154 to take the fight, according to Dan Rafael. Golovkin’s manager Tom Loeffler says Golovkin wants that fight and he also wants to face WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez in a unification bout in 2013 if he’s open to accepting the fight. 
By Allan Fox: There are three weeks to go before the April 20th fight between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBA champ Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) and already 31,500 tickets have been sold for the fight. Mike Battah of Battah Promotions is expecting 12,000 tickets to be sold by the time the fight takes place at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. 
By Dan Ambrose: Jeff Mayweather believes that WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) is in a tough situation facing the much more popular and big time money maker WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) next month on April 20th at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. 
By Mark Havey: People have been quick to denounce the credibility of WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s place in the top echelon of boxing. Some fans have rightly stated that many of his opponents had no right being in the ring with him, or no right being in a ring at all. I can’t deny this, no one can. But the man affectionately known as Canelo by his native Mexico can only beat what’s in front of him.