By Dan Ambrose: Showtime head of Sports Stephen Espinosa is optimistic that a mega pay per fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez can get made for September 14th on Showtime/CBS on the Mexican Independence Day holiday. Both Mayweather and Canelo are interested in the fight, so all that needs to take place in the negotiations for money, weight.
Espinosa said to ESPN’s Dan Rafael “I’m cautiously optimistic. There’s a lot of negotiating left to do, but often the biggest hurdle is convincing one fighter or the other to take the fight. That hurdle has been cleared. I truly believe Mayweather wants Canelo and that Canelo wants Mayweather, and that’s half the battle.”
By Dan Ambrose: WBC president Jose Sulaiman wants WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) to wait until next year before he faces unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) in a mega fight. Sulaiman, who is really fond of the orange-haired Mexican fighter, doesn’t think he’s ready to beat the 36-year-old Mayweather right now, but if he waits until Mayweather is 37, Sulaiman thinks he’ll have a better chance at beating him. 
By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Robert Garcia doesn’t see any point in Floyd Mayweather Jr. fighting the much heavier WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez at 154 because he sees that as being too much of an advantage for Canelo because he’s so much heavier than Mayweather and stronger than him. 
By Dan Ambrose: It’s pretty clear that Showtime would love for WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) to fight the heavier WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alavarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) in his next fight on September 14th on pay per view. 
By Robert Elmore: Let’s face it; when you’re on top the criticism will come. Everybody will have something to say about what the top person needs to do to secure his legacy or be mentioned in the same conversations as those who came before him.
By Dan Ambrose: If Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) decides he wants to fight WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) then he can forget all about having the fight take place at welterweight for his 147 lb. WBC title, and he can also forget about the fight taking place at a catchweight of 150 lbs. to meet halfway, because Canelo can’t go before 154, says his promoter Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions. 
By Allan Fox: WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. said he’s not sure who he’ll fight in September, but he’s not ruling out a fight with WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, a fighter that many boxing fans want to see Mayweather fight.
By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia sees WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is being too big in terms of weight to be facing WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the near future.
(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Dan Ambrose: At Saturday’s post-fight press conference following his gem of a 12 round unanimous decision victory over Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (31-2-1, 18 KO’s) in Las Vegas, Nevada, WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) shutdown talk of him stepping up in weight to face the heavier and younger WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) by saying he’s going to meet with his team plus his father Floyd Mayweather Sr. to decide on what’s the best direction to take for his September 14th fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Robert Elmore: When Floyd Mayweather took on Oscar De La Hoya in 2007, Floyd had to concede everything in order to make the mega fight happen. The weight, gloves, ring size, and purse where all stacked in the Golden Boy’s favor. Mayweather didn’t complain one bit. He understood that in order to crossover and become pay per view king, he would have to put his pride aside to end up where he is today.