By Edward Chaykovsky
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26KOs) thinks the public is giving a little too much hype to career accomplishments of WBC/WBA junior middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (42-0-1, 30KOs). They collide this Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Mayweather says most of Canelo's big victories came against boxers who were over the hill or undersized, and his first world title was vacant when the Mexican star captured it with a win over Matthew Hatton.
"What's so crazy is I didn't fight Shane Mosley when he was 40; I fought him when he came off one of his biggest victory. People seem to forget that. I never fought nobody for a vacant belt. Everybody I fought, I fought a champion, a guy that was a champion. These are the things that I did in the sport. Like I said before, it's not my fault. It's about timing and it's about having the right team. That's what I got. I got the right team," Mayweather said.
Leonard Ellerbe, CEO of Mayweather Promotions, agrees with Floyd's views.
"He's fought some decent competition thus far, but fighting Floyd Mayweather is like night and day. Floyd, with all due respect, Austin Trout, in my eyes, he was the best fighter that he's fought to date. Floyd Mayweather is head and shoulders above a guy like Austin Trout. I think [on] Saturday night the young man, he will be in for a rude awakening," Ellerbe said.
