Schaefer sure Mayweather-Canelo fight will top 2 million PPV buys

By Chris Williams: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer feels confident now after seeing early returns that last Saturday’s Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight card will top 2 million pay-per-view guys according to ESPN’s Dan Rafael. If it breaks 2 million, it’ll top the all-time cash mark set by Mayweather vs. Oscar De La Hoya in 2007.

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Mayweather Jr. dislocates left arm in Canelo fight

floyd0001By Miguel Alejandro Lopez: From a boxing purist’s standpoint, Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0) simply outpointed Canelo Alvarez (42-1) in their fight last September 14, labelled as “The One”. From jabs to feints to lateral movements, Mayweather exhibited Olympic style boxing at its best. For the general mainstream viewers however, this tactical chess-match style of fighting can really be a challenge to the attention span, especially if one has to sit thru 12 rounds of monotonous activity in the boxing ring with no knockdowns and furious exchanges.

The unbeaten Mayweather explains why he wasn’t able to give the kind of fight excitement that the paying public is looking for:

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Floyd Mayweather’s win over Canelo proves he’s the best ever

floyd6544By Paul Walsh; At the end of the final bell I couldn’t help but smile, “he’s done it again” I thought to myself.  Floyd Mayweather Jr. made Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, who is arguably the second best pound for pound fighter in the world look extremely average.  Make no mistake Canelo is an exceptional fighter but Mayweather is a league of his own

At times it was nothing more than a glorified sparring season, a very well paid sparring session for the man they call money.  The fight went exactly how I anticipated, Mayweather was too fast, too slick, too cute and too quick which Canelo simply did not have any answer to.  Right from the first bell Mayweather showed how sharp he is and that the age factor was not going to play a part.  In fact you would think that Floyd was the younger man based on the way he fought.

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Canelo can’t catch Floyd Mayweather

canelo846By Hector Sanchez: Let’s get the record straight.  The sweet science will usually always prevail when it is against a slower opponent.    Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Saul “El Canelo” Alvarez” admitted to ESPN after defeat “He is a fast fighter, more so when he is hitting lightly.  His punches are not powerful, so it makes them faster.”  That in itself is something we already knew, and now Canelo has seen it first hand.  But what everyone has forgotten to mention is that most Floyd Mayweather Jr. opponents are not only cherry picked, but this time he went to the ultimate level of choosing someone that he knew he had no chance of losing to, unless Canelo got lucky like Marquez did against Pacquiao. 

In his latest opponent, the Mayweather clan made it sure that the so-called best would go against the inexperienced and younger Canelo with every advantage possible.  That is shameless for a fighter who everyone is brain washed into thinking is the best.

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Seaching for Canelo’s offensive strategy

canelo978by J.R. Leon: As the boxing world watched on September 14th, 2013, Floyd Mayweather’s victory over Saul “Canelo” Alvarez was no real surprise. Floyd Mayweather was expected to win the fight against the younger opponent, and the Las Vegas’ betting lines, plus all the boxing experts(besides Teddy Atlas) had Floyd winning the fight by either a unanimous decision (which I had it by) or by a late stoppage. Floyd won the fight via a majority decision, which was ridiculous, but the simple truth is that he won.

The general consensus was that Floyd’s speed, defense and ring experience would prove to be too much for the up and coming Mexican superstar to handle, and that’s exactly how the fight unfolded. Floyd’s impeccable performance over Alvarez and his complete dominance of Robert Guerrero on May 4, 2013 should solidify him as Ring Magazine’s “Fighter of the Year”, the same award he won in 2007 after defeating Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton.

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Mayweather Jr. beats Canelo: Does Alvarez need a new trainer?

canelo544By Gerardo Granados: Congratulations to Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s), the undisputed pound for pound number one boxer in the World. Floyd executed a perfect fight plan in beaten WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-1-1, 30 KO’s) by a 12 round majority decision last night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Meanwhile, Canelo and his corner were clueless on what to do. Was it due the young lion inexperience? Maybe he was unable to execute the blue print. Maybe it was because of his lack of speed and mobility to match Floyd´s. Maybe he failed to adjust and just tried to do the very same thing round after round. Maybe his major weakness was his corner. Or could it be that Mayweather´s ring smarts were simply too much for him and his corner to handle.

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Mayweather’s win over Canelo shouldn’t have been a unanimous decision

canelo993By Jonathan Marerwa: Has boxing really come to a point whereby a complete overhaul needs to be undertaken to the whole entire system for the sport to survive. It is fast becoming a growing trend that boxing fans and pugilists alike have to discuss about the judges’ score cards after every bout. In my own opinion Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather schooled a young hungry lion in Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last night and for one judge to even score it a draw was beyond my imagination.

I had Mayweather with a landslide victory of 10 of the 12 rounds and that was me being generous. Mayweather made the unified champ at light middleweight look like an amateur last night. Needless to say, Canelo was an undefeated fighter who most pundits predicted could have pulled off an upset and taken Mayweather ‘s precious ‘0’ before the fight.

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Canelo: Mayweather’s punches were not powerful; just fast

canelo84By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-1-1, 30 KO’s) says he wasn’t bothered by the power of unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) in his 12 round majority decision loss to him last night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Canelo wound up on the losing end of the scores 114-114, 116-112 and 117-111. The 114-114 score from judge C.J. Ross has got to be one of the most laughable scores you’ll ever see in the sport.

Canelo said to ESPN Deportes “He is a fast fighter, more so when he’s hitting lightly. His punches are not powerful, so it makes them faster. It didn’t let me do the work that I thought I needed and we didn’t know how to counter that.”

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Mayweather destroys De La Hoya’s blueprint

floyd8323By Eric Thomas: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) really did a number on WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-1-1, 30 KO’s) in beating him by a 12 round majority decision last night in Las Vegas, Nevada. Once again Mayweather beat a fighter that was using Oscar De La Hoya’s blueprint that he created in how to beat Mayweather.

The blueprint is largely centered upon the theory that if you jab Mayweather enough, you can beat him. Thus far, it’s failed five times with De La Hoya, Robert Guerrero, Shane Mosley, Victor Ortiz and Canelo all losing while attempting the strategy.

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Canelo might have done better at 172 lbs. against Mayweather

canelo95By Dan Ambrose: If you want to point to the single factor for why WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-1-1, 30 KO’s) was so badly beaten by the undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) last night in Las Vegas, Nevada, you might want to look at the fact that Canelo only came into the fight with a 15 pound weight advantage over Mayweather by rehydrating to 165 lbs. after making the 152 lb. catch-weight last Friday night.

Canelo was a much different animal in his last fight when he came in at a hulking 172 lbs. for his win over Austin Trout last April. If you don’t believe that those 7 pounds didn’t make a difference then you’re kidding yourself. A light heavyweight-sized Canelo vs. a super middleweight-sized Canelo are two dramatically different things. There was no way for Canelo to squash Mayweather with his size last night like he’d been doing against the other welterweights he’d been beating because Canelo didn’t have enough size.

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