By Ryan Burton
Floyd Mayweather Sr., father and trainer of retired pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr., feels WBC middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) is being mistreated by the World Boxing Council with their order that forces him into a fight with IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs).
Canelo captured the title last month with a twelve round unanimous decision over Miguel Cotto at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
In a very rare move, the WBC ordered their champion to face a boxer who is currently the world champion of three rival sanctioning bodies. The two sides reached a deal where Canelo and Golovkin can take interim fights, but they must face each other in the fall. If Canelo withdraws from the agreement to face GGG next year, he will lose his title and Golovkin will be named champion.
If the fight happens right now, Mayweather Sr. would pick Golovkin to win based one experience. Golovkin is an Olypic silver medal winner with a very decorated amateur career. But Canelo is younger, more experienced as a pro and faced the better level of opponents.
"I think right now, I don't think he'd beat Golovkin right now, not at this moment. I think they are trying to push Alvarez to fight Golovkin right now and I don't think that's fair. I don't think that's fair because he just won the title. I don't that's fair to force him to fight Golovkin," Mayweather explained to BoxingScene.com.
At the same time, Mayweather Sr. would not rule out the possibility of Canelo getting an upset win, because he doesn't consider Golovkin to be a very good fighter.
"I'm not going to say he can't win now because he's young. Golovkin is not really fast at all. I have seen him fight one of those boys [Willie Monroe Jr]. Yeah, he is not no good fighter. Triple G is not no good fighter at all. I’m going to be honest with you - I can see, but I don't know for sure, but I can see [the possibility of Canelo] pulling it off," Mayweather Sr. said.
