[colinthfc]

Alvarez lost his September opponent, but still needs the big breakout bout. The obvious name for the ambition here has is Cotto. I would love to see Cotto on the Alvarez undercard against someone he would look good against in build up to a mega December/January bout. Carlos Quintana would be low risk for Alvarez in order to tick over whilst awaiting Cotto

Trout is even a level below again in marketability and would think James Kirkland would make him fight and then set him up in the queue behind Alvarez.

 

[BoxingAnalyst]

Colin, this should be in the world boxing forum pal.

 

[colinthfc]

Colin, this should be in the world boxing forum pal.

Oh. Hopefully the mods will move it. I have not yet gone into the World Forum as I assumed it was like the General on ESB.

 

[BoxingAnalyst]

Oh. Hopefully the mods will move it. I have not yet gone into the World Forum as I assumed it was like the General on ESB.

No mate, the same people that post on the British post on the World Forum, It's not like shitty ESB marra.

 

[Lilo]

They're shamelessly avoiding Lara.

 

[BoxingAnalyst]

Alvarez lost his September opponent, but still needs the big breakout bout. The obvious name for the ambition here has is Cotto. I would love to see Cotto on the Alvarez undercard against someone he would look good against in build up to a mega December/January bout. Carlos Quintana would be low risk for Alvarez in order to tick over whilst awaiting Cotto

Trout is even a level below again in marketability and would think James Kirkland would make him fight and then set him up in the queue behind Alvarez.

I think they might just wait until Kirkland is available, like you say Trout is hard to market and they don't want Canelo in with a slick operator like Lara.

 

[BoxingAnalyst]

They're shamelessly avoiding Lara.

Yep, I don't know why though, I think Canelo wins, If Golden Girl are so confident in him then make the fight.

 

[Scotty]

Going head to head with Chavez Jr on PPV is nonsense. Let him fight someone like Gabriel Rosado then do the PPV with Cotto.

 

[dftaylor]

Yep, I don't know why though, I think Canelo wins, If Golden Girl are so confident in him then make the fight.

My suspicion would be Alvarez would look bad even in winning. Lara's a solid fighter but he makes for ugly fights. The pair are economical with their output we'd likely watch more posing than punching. Also, Lara hasn't actually won a significant fight yet. He arguably lost to Molina, lost a dodgy decision to Paul Williams in a close fight, but he's not really shown anything special at the top level.

So he's high risk and very little reward at the moment.

 

[BoxingAnalyst]

My suspicion would be Alvarez would look bad even in winning. Lara's a solid fighter but he makes for ugly fights. The pair are economical with their output we'd likely watch more posing than punching. Also, Lara hasn't actually won a significant fight yet. He arguably lost to Molina, lost a dodgy decision to Paul Williams in a close fight, but he's not really shown anything special at the top level.

So he's high risk and very little reward at the moment.

You thought Lara/Williams was close? and I had Molina beating Lara by a few.

 

[Scotty]

To really stick it to Arum, I wouldn't put it past Oscar putting the gloves on again for the PPV...

 

[Chatty]

Matiroysan would be a decent opponent until they wait for the inevitable Mayweather fight but Vanes seems reluctant to step up

 

[dftaylor]

You thought Lara/Williams was close? and I had Molina beating Lara by a few.

I thought Lara took the fight by a couple of rounds. Williams was never getting outclassed, more that Lara was landing better shots. But it's not like Lara slaughtered Williams round after round. I thought Martinez won the first bout with Williams more convincingly than Lara did his. But Paul always got a lot of credit for industry over quality.

The point remains, on paper and in the ring, Lara is yet to convincingly beat a top level opponent to make him a viable opponent for Alvarez.

 

[Scotty]

Matiroysan would be a decent opponent until they wait for the inevitable Mayweather fight but Vanes seems reluctant to step up

He has to be the most protected fighter in boxing. Beaten no one and shat the nest rather than fight Angulo. I see he has another softie lined up in 2 weeks on the Donaire card.

 

[Chatty]

He has to be the most protected fighter in boxing. Beaten no one and shat the nest rather than fight Angulo. I see he has another softie lined up in 2 weeks on the Donaire card.

Yep, he is getting wasted though. His am record is pretty awesome, went to the Olympics and beat Tim Bradley, Austin Trout and Andre Berto. he has actually showed some good qualities as a pro as well but he just hasn't fought anyone of note so its hard to really see how good he is. he really needs to step up soon, he has been pro for 7 years

 

[DonBoxer]

He could just plow through the undefeated Middleweight prospects. There is an infinite number of them.