By Edward Chaykovsky
Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya expects Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26KOs) to accept the fight with WBC/WBA 154-pound champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (42-0-1, 30KOs). He says Canelo will be a lot tougher to beat than Mayweather's last opponent, mandatory challenger Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero, who lost a lopsided decision on May 4th in Las Vegas.
"Saul is ready, motivated, and he wants that fight. No doubt, he wants to fight Mayweather. He is a fighter who is learning and growing, he is becoming more intelligent, stronger, very fast. I know that Mayweather wants the fight, he'll take the fight. Something tells me he wants to fight him. Mayweather is not on his way out, and we saw that against Guerrero - but Canelo is not Guerrero," De La Hoya told Hoy Los Angeles.
"Nobody is invincible. No fighter retires undefeated. That's life, it is impossible. Even the best in the world has to lose."
