The super welterweight world championship pay-per-view
showdown between Canelo Alvarez and the undefeated Floyd Mayweather will take
place on Saturday, September 14 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas . In spite of
facing the most important fight of his career, Alvarez displays the
collectedness of a man who is never worried.
Canelo, a redhead with matinee idol looks, is the No. 1 boxing attraction in Mexico. He is on the cusp of
joining the same club as Mexican boxing legends like Carlos Zarate, Julio Cesar
Chavez Sr., Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales.
What’s at stake? A victory over Mayweather would cement
Canelo’s legacy as one of the all-time greats in Mexican boxing history.
Alvarez received advice from fellow Mexican boxer and
mentor, Oscar De La Hoya, who lost to Mayweather in 2007, could give Alvarez
the edge to defeat Mayweather. “Floyd is a different kind of fighter and this
is a different kind of fight,” Alvarez said. “For every fight there’s a game
plan. But that game plan can go out the window in the first round. So you have
to have a Plan B and a Plan C. And that is what we’ll work on.”
“For one thing, youth is on his side,” De La Hoya said of
the 23-year-old Canelo, who hails from Guadalajara ,
Jalisco , Mexico
