Floyd v Canelo - this Septmeber?

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Just a few days removed from welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s dismantling of interim titleholder Robert Guerrero on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told ESPN.com on Thursday that he already is working on Mayweather's next fight.

Schaefer said he is hopeful of finalizing a fight between Mayweather, the pound-for-pound king, and unified junior middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, a match that looms as one of the biggest

"I am working on the fight," Schaefer said. "I'm crunching the numbers. You should see my calculator -- it's red-hot. I am working on a lot of fights, but this is my No. 1 priority."

Schaefer, who promotes Alvarez and works with the 36-year-old Mayweather (44-0, 26 KOs) on a fight-by-fight basis -- but has promoted all seven of his fights since 2007 -- wants to make the fight.

"This is something I am pursuing and I am having conversations with both sides," Schaefer said. "Canelo wants the fight and Floyd has never turned down an opponent."

When Mayweather announced in December that he would fight on May 4, he also said he would fight twice in 2013 with the second date, Sept. 14, back at the MGM Grand. It's an ideal date to face Alvarez, one of Mexico's biggest stars, because it is the weekend of Mexican Independence Day, a traditional weekend for a major fight involving a top Mexican fighter. Mayweather's fights against Victor Ortiz (2011) and Juan Manuel Marquez (2009) were on the same weekend.

Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KOs), 22, cemented his status as the top 154-pounder in the world on April 20 when he outpointed Austin Trout to unify two world titles in front of a sold-out crowd of 39,247 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.

Mayweather has not fought twice in a four-month span since 2003, but reiterated at the news conference after beating Guerrero that he planned to return quickly.

"We're going to be back in September," Mayweather said.

Mayweather has been on talk shows this week also saying he would fight again in September.

The fight would be the second of Mayweather's 30-month deal with Showtime/CBS for up to six fights, which he signed earlier this year after leaving longtime TV home HBO.

One of the key stumbling blocks to making a Mayweather-Alvarez fight, however, will be settling on the weight. Mayweather is the welterweight champion -- 147 pounds -- who has twice won junior middleweight belts but never has weighed more than 151 pounds for either of those 154-pound maximum fights. Alvarez is a big junior middleweight and has said he was not interested in negotiating a catchweight that would require him to fight at a weight lower than 154.

Whomever Mayweather fights in September, Schaefer said he needed to get the fight finalized in the next few weeks in order to launch the promotion properly.

Alvarez initially was supposed to fight Trout on the Mayweather-Guerrero undercard as long as he had a signed deal from Mayweather promising him the next fight, provided he beat Trout and Mayweather beat Guerrero. Mayweather, however, declined to sign the deal and Alvarez-Trout was instead moved to its own card on April 20 and did big business.

horizontalhero wrote:

azania wrote:

Strongback wrote:

azania wrote:New Ring? Like New Labour? Same crap different clothes?

That list is a nonsense. He was fighting stiffs and w@nkers who trained in the boozer.

Again demonstrating a complete lack of knowledge. The Ring magazine changed owner and is now seriously compromised.


Everybody is wrong except Az. No kid you're the one marching out of step kid but you don't seem to notice.

You're also a woeful troll, you copy all of Trussy lines except you don't have the septics sense of humour.

Deary me. I have seen Louis fight. He doesn't look great. I saw the Schmelling KO and Max was holding the ropes giving Joe some free hits. He missed many and those he landed couldn't put him away until the cumulative effect of unanswered punches took its toll. Watch it for yourself. Max holding the top rope with one hand, looking to the canvas and free hits for Louis. Louis missed many punches.

One of those punches cracked Schmelling vertebra , so if nothing else, he could definitely punch!

So what? Hit a guy at the right place then things may happen. You don't have to be the biggest ever puncher to do that.

Shavers is probably a heavier hitter than Louis. I doubt he broke many vertebrae.Some boxers kill others with punches.......

azania wrote:

Strongback wrote:

azania wrote:New Ring? Like New Labour? Same crap different clothes?

That list is a nonsense. He was fighting stiffs and w@nkers who trained in the boozer.

Again demonstrating a complete lack of knowledge. The Ring magazine changed owner and is now seriously compromised.


Everybody is wrong except Az. No kid you're the one marching out of step kid but you don't seem to notice.

You're also a woeful troll, you copy all of Trussy lines except you don't have the septics sense of humour.

Deary me. I have seen Louis fight. He doesn't look great. I saw the Schmelling KO and Max was holding the ropes giving Joe some free hits. He missed many and those he landed couldn't put him away until the cumulative effect of unanswered punches took its toll. Watch it for yourself. Max holding the top rope with one hand, looking to the canvas and free hits for Louis. Louis missed many punches.

WUM.......or the biggest idiot I have ever seen in a forum.


As I said every credible organisation and publisher knows sh!t and Az can see defects nobody else can.

You're a gbish!te son. With 17000 odd posts its clear you've got no life and spend your days trolling a boxing forum.

Silly boy.

What constitutes "best puncher"? You still haven't answered it.

Go back and put pins in your Haye doll. Pr@t.

I put it all in a post, learn to read.

What does it feel like to be seen as the biggest clown on 606?

People on this board are too polite, you get a fools pardon.

What an idiot you are. I like the comment from Johnny Paycheck!

If Tyo=son hit someone with 17 unanswered punches they would still be trying to wake him up today. That is seriously stupid. I like how they elevate the bums he fought each month.

I repeat, those bums wouldn't last past 3 against Haye. And it wouldn't take 17 punches for Haye to end it. Just one would do.

That's why Tyson is rated above Louis by every reference out there.

You know nothing about boxing, you have learned nothing although you spend your whole life on this site you sad unt. You're a loser and nothing but a silly little attention seeker.

Get a few of your own lines will you instead of copying all of Truss'. Pretty sad copying another poster word for word ad nauseam.

Right lads you both need a pint and a good rest. So have sex have a beer and if you arent asleep in 5 minutes i'm going to put thatchers poster on your ceiling

You are both great representatives of 606v2, well done.

What would TopHat say if he heard you two arguing like this?

Champagne_Socialist wrote:What would TopHat say if he heard you two arguing like this?

he'd say **** the guardian

I'd imagine tophat would wonder why the noncy lefties didn't stop pussyfooting around and say what they really think.