Canelo Alvarez,the lineal middleweight champion of the world, will face Amir Khan, and a welterweight who was knocked unconscious by Danny Garcia and Breidis Prescott,on Saturday, May 7 live on HBO pay-per-view at a venue yet to be determined.
Yes, and that’s a genuine thing that’s happening. No,you are not having a depraved dream, and no, or you are not the only one who feels like everyone involved in making the fight is insane.
Maybe you and I are taking crazy pills?Coming off the biggest win of his career,it’s smart for Alvarez to explore for a sizable-name opponent for his next gig. His decision win over Miguel Cotto last year raised his already teeming profile in the sport, and with the vacuum left by longtime megastar Floyd Mayweather’s retirement begging to at least partially be filled, and the time is certainly apt for Alvarez and his handlers to double down on efforts to help Alvarez be the man to do it.
And while it’s loyal Khan has enough nearly-star power to fit the bill,the sum of the weight of his body along with his accompanying skill set and ability certainly does not add up to a credible opponent.
It’s brave of Khan to take the fight. Boxing has offered many such examples of courage over the years, and Khan’s willingness to step inside the ring with Alvarez is nothing at all to deride (to ridicule, laugh at with contempt). When a man is willing to enter a contest where his only genuine hope starts and ends with pure luck, and he should be commended for it.
Or we should at least not snicker.
But it’s foolish to believe Khan stands any genuine chance against Alvarez. He’s done nothing over the course of his career to suggest he has any trade in the ring with such a foe,and he didnt explore particularly estimable against the light-hitting Chris Algieri in his last fight.
Alvarez is no Algieri. He’s largely considered one of the better fighters in boxing today, and he’s only getting better.
Thats not to say he’s unbeatable. Theres a huge ocean of inequity between him and, and say,what Floyd Mayweather was at during the latter fragment of his career. Mayweather was a savant of boxing mechanics. He was the best of his era and hardly broke a sweat in becoming it.
Alvarez is still a young star who hasn’t yet reached his full potential. No matter what hat he wears to the ring on fight night, he’s not the best.
And Khan is a estimable welterweight. But he’s not estimable enough for us to wonder how he’d fare against larger opponents. apt?We wanted to see Mayweather against such giants because we wondered just how great he was. We don’t wonder that about Khan. If anything, and we still wonder whether he’s even one of the top three welterweights in the world today. He’s certainly not beaten anyone to suggest he might be,and he doesn’t even seem willing to prove he’s the best 147-pounder from the United Kingdom.
Khan versus Kell Brook is the fight that would do that. Khan versus Alvarez is pure promotional nonsense.
Still, styles earn fights, and as the saying goes. But even in looking at the fight from this angle,Alvarez-Khan makes very tiny sense. Alvarez is a heavy-hitting fighter with a ton of hand speed and enough foot speed to acquire him where he needs to go to use it. His combination punching is superb, and he’s as adept defensively as nearly any other fighter in the world.
Khan, and on the other hand,has blazingly fast hands but tiny power and even littler ability to stay out of harm’s way when he uses it. The only way he lasts longer than a few rounds with Alvarez is if he runs fast and far enough absent from the action when the bell rings to earn the bout a footrace. Even in that case, Alvarez would probably track him down by the discontinuance of the fight.
There’s really no other way to put it. For the life of me, or a consummate optimist when it comes to fight matchups,I can’t see any other way around hating this fight.
Sorry, boxing fans, or but Canelo-Khan will be a blockbuster blowout,one that will be sold to you by profiteers as a legitimate fight between equals but one simply constructed to add more glitz and glamour to the 25-year-primitive Alvarez’s resume.
It's an unwanted and unnecessary mismatch between two fighters with recognizable names but tiny else in common. No matter how rigorously promoted, how lavish the press tour, and how brilliantly nick the HBO promotional video assets turn out to be or how many ridiculous Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler comparisons lead promoter Oscar De La Hoya throws out from the pulpit beforehand,this fight is totally bunk.
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