The aforementioned Canelo Alvarez and his promoter – Oscar De La Hoya – on Wednesday played host to a conference call promoting Alvarez’s fight against junior middleweight champion Liam Smith (23-0-1, 13 KOs) of England on September 17 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas (on HBO pay-per-view). That’s one of them that’s not really hard to see.
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The same Mexican fans that made him a superstar are now calling him out over what appears to be a blatant duck from Gennady Golovkin. He went the wrong way about it. Last year, 31,000 fans attended Alvarez’s knockout win against James Kirkland at Minute Maid Park in Houston.
“If he was open and honest about it, people would have understood”.
Golden Boy can try and do damage control by coming up with an excuse of some kind such as Canelo being injured, but I don’t know if that’s going to work.
Gabriel Rosado vs. Willie Monroe, Jr.is the co-feature, with the undercard also showcasing Diego De La Hoya vs. Luis Orlando Del Valle, and a fight with unbeaten Jospeh Diaz. “I think the question is going to be “when” he out-sells the Pacquiao ticket sales at the arena”.
“I would love to fight Manny Pacquiao but that’s looking ahead and disrespectful to Liam Smith”. “Right now, they’re talking about negotiations … they’re making things up”. “Well, I mean, look, it would be very impressive”.
No, because I’m not gonna kid the public like Canelo and say “yeah I’ll fight GGG” because that’s where he let himself down because he said, ‘Yes I’ll fight you now.’ But when I beat Canelo I’m still only a 154 pounder.
“Golovkin is going to be no exception – he’s going to fight him, but when he’s ready to go up to 160”. For the time, I’m a 154 and not big enough for 160 at the moment.
“I have the same hunger and passion that I had in the beginning of my career”, said Angulo, a fan favorite who Saturday will take on countryman Freddy Hernandez in the super middleweight semi-main event at Honda Center (on Spike). I can make 155 and I can even do 156. I don’t know how De La Hoya will be able to continue to use that line with a straight face if Canelo gets beaten by Smith, because it will be clear at that point that he’s not the replacement.
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Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) and De La Hoya found themselves still defending the decision to have Alvarez gave up his middleweight title rather than meet middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin this fall.
